Please help, i feel so trigerred right now. I was on facebook watching some short videos about mental health and one of them was saying that loneliness is bad for you and can cause depression, etc. I have an obsession/fear of loneliness and this triggered me really badly. Also, in the comments of a video about psych wards, people were talking about their traumatic experiences with psych wards. I also searched on the internet and saw the headlines of many articles abt psych wards. Now i am horrified and seriously freaking out. What if i never get better, what if i am sui*idal?? I was also trigerred by a quote that said to be honest with your therapist. One of my obsessions concerns lying and a fear of lying to myself/others. It is also linked to my suicide obsession. So now im completely panicked

I suggest you contacc your therapist.

In reality, you have fear of dying so it's the exact contrary of suicidal people

I had same fear before, watch symptoms on internet can be really trigger for people struggle with anxiety...

Hi Solaris, i am sorry to hear about what you are going through:( Definitely run all this by your therapist…in the meantime, know that you are not alone:)…i know that OCD can be very overwhelming, but please never give up…ive had a very difficult time myself these past few years and have suffered from a lot of what you described above…i used to regularly “deal” with things and ideas that bothered me by looking up those topics on wikipedia and putting them into context…i knew that wik was safer than searching up things on places like facebook or google (since you do not know what you will find on those platforms and can end up reading/seeing an endless amount of triggering content) but unfortunately wiki too eventually became too dangerous of a place to read about triggering topics…i had to learn this the hard way on more than one occasion until i finally understood that as much as “dealing with” certain triggering topics by exposing myself to them on wiki used to help me get rid of the anxiety, the reality was that i was doing more harm than good…this was because i not only was putting way more negative things into my head than were there in the first place (since each wiki article has links to other articles, which can make the triggering content endless), but i was also “exposing” myself to triggering content in a harmful manner since it was not being done under the guidance and supervision of an OCD therapist…i say all this because it seems that you just went through something ive experienced many times before, that is, that you started off watching one thing to learn about (or “deal with”) a difficult topic but it eventually led you to put way more into your mind than you had been prepared for…that still happens to me sometimes, but i usually try to stay off of facebook and i am very careful about what i look up on google and wikipedia…honestly, i am a very curious person so it is hard to not look up so much information like i used to do…but ive learned how important it is to protect my mind from further harm which comes from looking things up…so if i am curious about a topic, i try to ask someone else to look it up on their phone for me…if i am really bothered by a specific topic or by something i see or hear or read about, i do my best not to do any further research about that topic and instead sit in the anxiety that it has brought me…if i cant get past it then i sometimes pray to God to ask Him to cast out the negative thoughts/ideas/images from my mind…this has helped me a lot, though getting professional help from a therapist is what i still need to do…i hope that you can as well:)