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- 3y ago
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- 3y ago
Thanks for your input. I believe being constantly in an an anxiety state, worrying and having your mind race with obsessive thoughts trying to convince you some physiological issue is causing the problem just overloads your mind. I think the cognitive issues and the brain fog are just a result of fatigue and exhaustion. Iv found some comfort in just accepting the uncertainty. I know it’s very unlikely I’m losing my mind but I have to accept that I can’t be 100% certain and I can’t do anything about that. Somehow that has eased the severity a bit.
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- 3y ago
Yes. I’ve been experiencing this for almost 3 years, and it got somewhat better last year but then my harm OCD hit and now I’m all over the place, full of extreme brain fog. I fear what if I act on my thoughts because I’m so full of brain fog, or what if I don’t love my family. Im not sure where my brain fog is coming from exactly but I think it may be coming from my depersonalization/derealization.
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- 3y ago
I also thought I had a brain tumor last year because of it, and I went to the ER and got a CT scan; everything was normal though.
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- 18w ago
Yes, my main fear is losing control either by going crazy, forgetting who I am, or developing a problem with my brain. My ocd bothered me all day today and at the end of the day, I had a hard time pinpointing exactly what I was obsessing over today. That started me down a spiral that something must be wrong with my brain to not remember exactly what I was thinking. It’s a hard thing to accept uncertainty to.
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- 21w ago
So I've had OCD since I was a child. Like really young. The first intrusive thought I can remember was when I was 5. It just keeps getting worse and lately they've been making me physically ill or throwing me into extreme panic attacks again ( ones where I can't move my body ) the other night I thought God was trying to kill me because I was thinking about ending myself from OCD+ life issues but in reality I was just having a panic attack😭😭it affects me daily. It gets a little better with therapy but I don't see therapy coming into my life any time soon and I'm not even sure if I would want to go (for multiple reasons). To wrap this up if you have severe ocd can you tell me what it's like?? I don't want to label anything without proper research and hearing others perspectives. Thank you!! <3 (My profile says all of my subtypes if that helps any)
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- 21w ago
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
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- 15w ago
My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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