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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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- 16w 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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- 25w ago
I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
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- 21w ago
I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but when I learned more about it, I never related to anything more. A little back story: when I was younger, there were a couple of youth suicides in my area and the schools felt the need to have someone come in and talk about suicide. Well the person they had come in did a horrible job teaching it and basically made it seem like the smallest negative emotion or feeling or change in behavior made you suicidal. This ended up scaring me so much that I got horrid anxiety. Fast forward to now, Everytime I feel anxiety and panic, I fear I'm going to kill myself. Everytime I feel down and depressed, I fear I'll end it all. I'm scared to be around anything sharp because the "What if" I hurt myself comes into my mind. There are always intrusive thoughts at almost every point of the day. And it's not only for me. Everytime I hear someone being negative, I fear they will be suicidal. I know in my heart that none of this is true but it's terrifying me that it's stuck around so much that it makes me scared that maybe it is true. I've had a lot of death in my family in the past year and a half and a lot of other family drama that I'd never had before that is now also bringing up existential intrusive thoughts. And I'd never questioned anything about life before but now I get the "why is life like this?" and "does anything we do matter?" and I hate it. I don't want to think like that. I just want to go through life being able to handle things normally again. It terrifies me even right now going "what if you give up?"
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- 19w 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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