Coconut lover
- Date posted
- 3y
Tyran Tyran
- Date posted
- 3y
Recovery is possible! There’s a part of your brain the produces anxiety when a problem is detected. There’s also a part of your brain that calms you down when the problem is solved. The reason you feel the urge to check the local is because the part of your brain that calms you down is still agitated( because it thinks there still might be a problem even thought there isn’t) you have to train that part of the brain by not responding to the anxiety it produces( not checking the local) this of course isn’t easy, so start small by seeing how long you can go without checking the local or anything that reassures you. Learn to sit with the anxiety and discomfort. By doing this, you’re essentially telling your brain to relax because you’ve got everything under control. Although the anxiety and discomfort will increase for sometime as you ignore it but it will eventually subside as you refuse to give in to its demands. This happened for me🙂 it works 😁
Coconut loverCoconut lover
- Date posted
- 3y
Thank you! You’re completely right
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Kammy
- Date posted
- 22w
This is draining
I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
I’llbeokay
- Date posted
- 16w
OCD harm tw
Honestly ocd has been so tough these past months, like I wake up in the morning thinking I accidentally hurt my whole family and just don’t remember. And I start to question so much. And freak out thinking that I did. If anyone can relate I would love to hear from you ;) and any things that may helped you
Anonymous
- Date posted
- 13w
Ocd
I had a horrible thought and it was my own thought. I feel awful. Also my heart is racing all the time
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