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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- Date posted
- 25w
Anybody have hit and run ocd?
Haven’t drove by myself for a month now. Ive gone through this before.. any advice or tips that can help
moon0270
- Date posted
- 22w
Makes me feel like a horrible person
That's what OCD feels like. Especially the constant questioning and doubt and the more you do it, the more you doubt yourself and it ends up leaving you open for other 'attacks'. I left the house today with my mom to run errands and things were fine, like my intrusive thoughts weren't bothering me that much in the beginning though they're constant in the background. Then when we stopped to get a drink from this store before leaving, I got more anxious because there were lots of kids around (it's afternoon here and i guess school was coming out). Kids were walking around in school uniform and I just told myself to keep looking away because i knew that my intrusive thoughts were going to flare up. Obviously that just made it worse and I just wanted to run away and crawl into a hole or something. Then a few minutes passed and then my brain said what if you were leering at the kids or looking at them inappropriately. And then my brain kept telling me that I wanted to or must have filmed one of them even though it's not something I want to do and know deep down that I didn't do it and don't want to. Ever. I just felt so disgusted with myself, I had to stop myself from crying on the way home. I hate this disease and I hate that its made its home in my head.
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Anonymous
- Date posted
- 21w
Ocd Driving
Does anyone have hit and run ocd ? Or possibly causing an accident by crossing the middle line and a vechile going into a ditch ?
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