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I have suicidal ocd how I face these thoughts?
I have suicidal thoughts everyone told that yuh have to face your fears.I can't understand how I can face my suicidal fears.
I have suicidal thoughts everyone told that yuh have to face your fears.I can't understand how I can face my suicidal fears.
Yes, mainly from suicidal OCD also. My obsessions center on fear of harming or killing myself.
Yeah It helps me.
Hi! Something that has helped me is to answer these thoughts with "maybe, i don't know" and coming up with other statements that do not engage with the thought, just feeling the emotions, the fear and anxiety, and just practicing being uncertain and not knowing. It is really hard, the key is also to not engage in compulsions you do to relieve that anxiety you get from the thoughts, breaking the obsession compulsion cycle. Again it is very hard but you will see that you can sit with those emotions and you have the strength to get those intrusive thoughts and not engage. I would recommend you go through ERP therapy if you can.
Thank yuh so much I am really depressed .searching for ocd from google makes me more anxious.You mean to say that whatever bad thoughts come into my brain whether I'm feeling uncomfortable and stressed I don't react on these thoughts am I right?
Just ignore these thoughts?
Just as you said, you don't react to them. Just aknowledge them. Ignoring and avoiding them would be a way of reacting. you just want to see them and feel the emotions without doing compulsions (google searching for example, or trying to avoid the thoughts or any other things you do). This is easier said than done, and I would recommend you ask for some help from professionals, but it is a start!
Are yuh also suffering from ocd?
Then what is your current situation? How you compare your past and current graph of ocd?
I'm about 2 months into NOCD therapy, I has been diagnosed about 11 years ago but started struggling again and did not really know how to do ERP and had not received any specialized OCD therapy. So far I have made great progress and feel much more capable to live with distress and with the thoughts, they dont dissappear but I feel I can tolerate them more and the distress, and Im doing less compulsions, it is possible, but it is haaard to embrace uncertainty. It is a process and requires the work especially between session and there are ups and downs. But it works. This is only my experience, and everyone is different, but I can tell you that there is hope although sometimes it may not feel like it.
So from where yuh start your session. from this platform ?
Can I do this erp myself?
In NOCD! You can call them and get a free 15 minute call to see how they can help and if they take your insurance. https://www.treatmyocd.com/
@Vero G What yuh suggest I do this erp myself or go to any psycologist near me?
If it is possible, I suggest you get some help from a psychologist or a therapist. They are m the ones qualified who know best about treatment and can help with your diagnosis, just make sure to ask if they have experience with OCD and training in ERP! Remember you can also check with NOCD therapists and make a call.
Here are also books and resources from the International OCD Foundation to help you learn more about OCD: https://iocdf.org/books/
If I learn more about ocd then I can stimulate and increase my thoughts??
You can start to understand how the OCD brain works, and then you can work on strategies that help you live a better life with less bothering from your thoughts and compulsions. It is a hard process, but it is possible.
https://www.sheppardpratt.org/news-views/story/how-to-respond-to-unwanted-obsessive-thoughts/ this read may also help
https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/suicidal-ocd-2 quick read about suicidal OCD :)
I hope this helps!
Before you started your therapy what is the rate of anxiety and what is the anxiety rate after sessions of ocd?When these thoughts come into your mind? how you differntiate before and present situation.
Before therapy I had already had some form of therapy when diagnosed, although not as specialized. But my anxiety got to 10/10 in one point. Therapy exposures increase anxiety on purpose so I have also had a lot of anxiety during exposures but it is part of ERP therapy. However in my daily life my anxiety from OCD has greatly decreased to about 4, to tell you a number. I feel much more capable to deal with my OCD and know what to do and how to recognize it. But I am still in treatment. It really does work although it can be tiring, you have to be willing to do the work and it is a constant progress with ups and downs but worth it.
My thoughts are continuosly coming everytime in my mind.sometime my anxiety is less but sometime my anxiety increases why this ?
@sanan I think this is part of it, at least for me! We are human and anxiety can come and go, just as many other emotions.
@Vero G Is it ok to have a anxiety on life problems.ButI have a anxiety due to same thoughts of suicide but I don't wanna do this. would yuh mind to gimeh some important techniques how to treat this. ERP works if we expose. For example someone suffering from dirty anxiety ocd. A person thought that he has many germs on hand and he washes his hand everytime . To treat this therapist suggest ERP and told them don't wash your hands this is the treatment right? But What I can do in my case If my mind told me to hang on fan for exaMple how I apply ERP on this ?
so i have ocd but this is the main theme ive been dealing with for the last few months, im obsessed with my mortality and i feel trapped by the reality of death. i dont really believe in an afterlife which makes it scarier, not that i dont wanna my brain literally just wont let me. but i have daily panic attacks thinking about death all day, its honestly the toughest thing ive ever dealt with. does anybody have any tips on how they manage this if they have ever dealt with it? not looking for reassurance, just some non compulsive ways to kind of lessen the grip of the fear.
I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…
I’m not suicidal by any means, I had a thought one time when I was going through some stuff and ever since then I wake up every morning and think about it all day I have thoughts like “did I mean that?” “Did I want that?” “Am I gonna think this all day” “would I really do that” and literally it’s to the point it’s driving me nutssss please tell me I’m not alone and please tell me how you got through this, I started antidepressants about 6 days ago it’s called Effexor for the mean time I need some advice
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