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- 6y
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- 6y
oh and also, a huge part of the cure to get rid of it is to correct your self image. she did that a lot with me too, and that was basically what did the most. if yoy have crappy self esteem, your anxiety levels rise a lot. its like the mouse and the lion. a mouse is very low on the food chain, knows its small and is in danger and therefore, its heart beats faster and its always on the look out. a lion knows it has no natural predators, and therefore you’ll see lions just sunbathing on the savannah. but if us people with ocd see ourselves as mice when we’re lions, it makes sense we’re so scared
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- 6y
literally. but its hard with all the uncertainty. like i dont want to be a freak or a murderer. i dont want the "snapping scenario". i want my old life back. and whats even worse is that ocd tries to convince you that you enjoy that shit. like are you fucking kidding my life is being destroyed by this. no i dont fucking like these thoughts. FUCK OCD. EXPOSE YOURSELF TO YOUR FEARS. IF WE WERE ALL WHAT OUR OCD TELLS US WE ARE WE SHOULDVE KNOWN BY KNOW INSTEAD OF CONSTANTLY LOOKING FOR PROOF
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- 6y
its actually totally true! i used to go to metacognitivetherapy, and back then i kind of thought i was goingthere because i had overthinking problems (i did also) but in reality it was still some kind og obsessive overthinkinh/ruminating in the pure-o sense, and i never once realised that what i felt there was also anxiety (i only thought my extreme panic attacks counted as anxiety) and basically, my therapist used different methods to trick me into not doing shit or thinking about it. literally, the essence of metacognitive therapy is “just dont think about it” like the bad advice your friends without anxiety give you. but damn, its true. and i never realised that it was what she did to me. basically, she just gradually taught me not to think about the stuff i did, and so my problems were gone!
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- 6y
metacognitive therapy is like a two year education i think, so it takes a specialist yeah
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- 6y
but fixinh your self esteem doesnt always require a therapist
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- 6y
you can start out by questioning the beliefs you have about yourself
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- 6y
Ugh @anna banana I always had a feeling that fixing my self-esteem would help things. I just really do not know how. I guess that’s what a therapist is for. Are there specific ones that practice metacognitive therapy? Like CBT specialists or?
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- 25w
I’ve noticed that I’m somewhat happier also ignoring my thoughts than I am instead of doing compulsions (I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired atp) but I’ve heard you’re technically supposed to do erp rather than pushing under the rug. But idk if I have a thought I just refuse to think about it again and im fine even if I want to do compulsions
- Date posted
- 21w
I cannot for the life of me stop ruminating or checking how I feel about thoughts or focusing on thoughts or creating more thoughts. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I want to scream. I try not to ruminate about the thoughts, but trying not to just makes me think about them more. I try not to check, but somehow, I still check. I want to let a thought sit in the background, but the more I try not to focus on it, the more I end up focusing on it. I don’t want the thought to expand because that feels like engaging with it, but I can’t just stop it from expanding. It feels impossible. People keep saying I’m in control of my compulsions, and maybe that’s true for the physical ones. But when it comes to the mental compulsions, I swear I have no control. It feels like I’m missing something that everyone else seems to have, like there’s some tool they’re using that I don’t have. Controlling mental compulsions has never felt possible for me. I’m starting to fear them. And every time someone says I’m in control and can just choose not to do them, I end up beating myself up even more when they happen. Or when I *choose* I guess. I don’t know anymore. If this is my fault, if I’m responsible for this, then what does that make me? I feel like a monster. I am at my wits’ end. How am I supposed to control mental compulsions when it feels like they control me? I freak out when they happen. They don’t bring me relief, they just make me panic. I want it to stop so bad.
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- Date posted
- 17w
Does anyone else experience a moment of clarity where you feel strong relief that the intrusive thought isn’t true, only to then immediately start questioning if you’ve only convinced yourself that because you don’t want the thought to be true? I’m pretty confident it would take some crazy mental gymnastics to actually successfully convince myself I didn’t do something that I deep down knew I did, but every time I resist the compulsions and try to sit with the uncertainty or tell myself to think about what is logical, I usually briefly know that this probably didn’t happen but am unable to move on out of fear I’m just in denial and have convinced myself of that.
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