Does anyone else experience that your thoughts get more intense and worse when you get home from work/school etc? Like when im working im kinda distracted but as soon as I get home the ocd brain wakes up and terrorize me
Ive noticed this one this pandemic too due to home quarantine. It feels like it worsen during these times since I am most likely alone in the room. It just feels different when we are outside dealing with people, we tend to forget our worries.
Yes absolutely, I will be fine all day but as soon as I’m home and can relax my brain says NOPE think again buddy.
Yes, actually I do labor and quite a bit of driving for work, so like while I’m working with labor I’m kinda distracted but when I’m driving for a while like more than 30 minutes I start obsessing
It actually makes perfect sense! When you are out, you are "distracted" in an absolutely positive way, by your friends, environment, experiences; etc! But when you are home; you are like in a "zone without stimulations" so you have a lot of time to think, to check, to ruminate etc! You have less exciting thing to do! Try to find something that really excite you/ that you really enjoy that can you do when you are at hotel! It can be an hobby, like reading, painting, dancing etc and whenever you feel like you are thinking too much; you start doing that thing! :)
Yes, especially since I have ROCD and my husband is a trigger. It is worse though when I am alone at home.
Dose anyone else experience that your OCD calms down and goes to the back of your mind during- feels almost safe and unaware of it but as soon as it's over and youve calmed down all the intrusive thoughts come rushing back 10x worse? I've had really awful panic attacks because of it the past two nights and it's exhausting I haven't been with another person in over a year because of how bad it was after and not being able to explain it properly to partners "no I'm not crying because of you" "no you didn't do anything wrong" I feel insane- like I'll never be able to have a normal functioning sexual time alone or with others do to it the compulsions that come with it are exhausting it's like the need to cleanse myself of filth like I'm disgusting and horrible until there's no traces I did anything in the first place I'm just so tired dose anyone have any tips of how to work through this- or at least be able to enjoy myself without crying afterwords? I have no idea what subtype this would even entail? I'm going to go with contamination I guess ?
Does anyone Else’s ocd flare up bad when in stressful life situations? I was doing amazing and now that I’m having some drama with my life it seems to have come back with a vengeance. Anyone else?
Does anyone else's OCD get worse when you haven't slept well? I haven't been sleeping well since this weekend and my OCD and anxiety is just making me feel super down. Does anyone else have this problem?
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