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Trying to rationalize/analyze /compare are functions of cumpolsion that make it worse. The fear isn't about the obssesion but the obssesion about obssesion that I'll never have piece of mind, or that I will always notice this. I carried a script in my pocket with the words "I'll never have piece of mind" And kept glenci g at it every hour or so. This way OCD learned that there is no way to know if I will be calm or not so why fight it? Additionally carrying an index card with "I'll never have piece of mind from this" in your pocket cuts the urgency to Analyze/compare/try figuring it out because it's already solved. I already solved the Hyperawernes by saying I'll never get quiet and it's closed in my pocket so OCD learned to stop sending you signals. Sure enough it will find something else
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OCD and checking emotions. It can get very confusing. Additionally since this that involves the body you can try body meditations Google mind body excersises. Something crazy I did was I placed a spoon of peanut butter in my mouth and basically you can't be scared and discusted at the same time so I kept the penqut butter in there untill it was discussing. You should Google introspective exposure. Try closing one side of your nose and not the other
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Sounds like you need some books. I suggest reading up on OCD and ACT is you haven’t already.
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ACT? I think I’m fairly well versed in OCD since I’ve been diagnosed and am seeing a therapist but I don’t know about ACT.
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Moe5 yes, wow, amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever talked to anyone who has experienced this exactly. Thank you so much for your suggestion! It absolutely is the fear plus comparison of “I felt fine before but never will again” or “how am I feeling now”?
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Hey there everyone, first I would like to say I am very grateful for every single one of you on this platform and it feels so much better knowing that I can be heard. I’ve been hyperaware of my swallowing for 1-2 month. I feel like I have so much saliva in my mouth and I have to swallow and swallow. I feel the urge to swallow even I don’t NOTHING in my mouth, so I just swallow air. This has been really overwhelming and I feel like I can be so easily latched to other body part of my part. For example, I was conscious about my blinking and breathing for a few days, and now I get so anxious when I heard a weird sound my ears make after each sentence I speak. Is this somatic ocd or health concern ocd? I am so helpless and having a hard time to shift my attention. Does anyone have any suggestions or just words of encouragement would really help me at this moment. I REALLY appreciate your help. 💗🙏 Thank you !
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- 22w
So my OCD has been bad lately. I’ve been ruminating and obsessing over my sexuality again. And it just keeps getting worse. I hate it so much. I try to sit with the discomfort but then my ocd does the backdoor spike. And the groinal response is what keeps me looped. It SUCKS. I am not attracted to men, but my OCD is trying SO hard to convince me that I am. There have been days where I’m just so mentally exhausted that I “accept” what my ocd tells me and I just walk around a hollow, lethargic shell. But then I rethink it and I feel better. It feels like I can only find my TRUE self when I tire my nervous system out enough that it literally breaks down and has me suicidal and hopeless. And then accepting my OCD’s “truth” (that I’m attracted to men) feels like a burden and a chore. I woke up today from an OCD dream, tried to go back to sleep, and my stomach kept cramping bc I was so anxious and ruminating over my intrusive thoughts. I’m starting to doubt it being OCD anymore. My brain is too tired to fight and cry about it anymore.
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- 17w
I have intrusive thoughts all the time. I married the wrong woman, she’s not right for me, I don’t feel right with her, I’m going to fail at work, I’m going to lose my job, what if I can’t sleep at night, I can’t sleep at night, what if my surgery doesn’t work, what will people think of me, I’m a failure, I let people down, I’m a horrible father, my son hates me, do I or don’t I drink coffee, what if I eat the wrong foods, there’s something wrong with me physically all the time, etc, etc, etc. It’s extremely annoying and exhausting. I just can’t wait to go to bed at night and try to fall asleep to shut off my brain.
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