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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
Yeah totally. Thanks so much for sharing, I really appreciate your response. Have a great day!
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- 6y ago
Yea I know that what I said has flaws in logic (it was for a school assignment lol), just trying to offer another way of viewing things
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- 6y ago
For me whenever I thought about death and the uncertainty of what happens in the afterlife I would panic and start thinking what if this is all a dream.. thinking of scenarios from the matrix .. it’s ridiculous what the OCD mind will do. I totally understand the need to feel in control and I think OCD has a lot to do with feeling out of control. For example I was OCD free for 3 years (my first scare was obsessions with being sick with any and every disease I would google all day and compare my symptoms- I also had MRIS and saw specialists) I just had a son who’s 2 months- I had high blood pressure and they had to induce me which ultimately made me feel Totally out of control and terrified and my son came 3 weeks early! I ended up having harm thoughts that sent me into full panic mode. I’m on Prozac again and getting better each day but I’m constantly convincing myself that it is ocd and checking my thoughts- I feel you! What works for me is exercise, nature, being around loved ones, Netflix, meditation, Prozac and therapy. Unfortunately I feel ocd you have to face your triggers and keep yourself busy.
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- 6y ago
I made a poem about free will once, it was called the paradox of choice. It talked about how people are told they can do whatever they want with their life, you choose your job, you pick your poisons, but you don’t pick your desires. Essentially, while it’s true that you don’t have the ability to chose what you like and dislike, you do have the choice in how you will act on your passions. So while you don’t have complete “free will,” you do have it in the sense that you choose how you act, similar to how we get intrusives thoughts that we don’t choose, but we have the ability to decide on how we respond to these thoughts (I wrote the poem before I was diagnosed with ocd, then later found some good parallels)
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- 6y ago
@MichaelK Although I may disagree with the idea that we don’t get to choose what we like and dislike (we definitely have the power to change those things as well), I appreciate you trying to help. Have a great day.
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- 17w ago
Where do I begin with this…….. so my OCD has been around since childhood and has had many themes over the years. I only realised I have it just over 2 years ago. I’ve tried many things to help it not be such a monster and thought I had a good grip on it for a length of time until now! Some of my strategies have been acceptance, change of perception of thoughts and sometimes on hard days just telling myself that no matter what, I have to be brave and go out and live life. In the last few months I’ve developed none OCD related anxiety as well and so have been looking at ways to help with that. Sunday morning I was just casually scrolling TikTok and a video only about 30 seconds long or so comes up, seemingly a therapist of some kind, straight away the video began something like “you cannot replace a thought with another thought” along the lines of “you can’t THINK your way out anxiety” I don’t know the full context of the video it wasn’t long enough, I don’t know who the therapist was I didn’t look but now purely because of that one sentence my OCD has gripped onto it so badly and is trying to tear down some of my strategies because I have used changing my thought patterns a lot to help me, self compassion etc but now because of that video I’m struggling! I’m not looking for answers but I am just really upset and it feels like I’m in an impossible grip of OCD again
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- 16w ago
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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- 12w 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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