Rohan123
- Date posted
- 3y
NicaNica
- Date posted
- 3y
Maybe you are, maybe you aren’t. That’s life in a nutshell—if you’re one to believe in fate.
Rohan123Rohan123
- Date posted
- 3y
No like afterlife life. I don’t believe in it but like still. My ocd is like maybe there is one
AnonymousAnonymous
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- Staff
- Date posted
- 3y
Often people with OCD will say that if they stop paying attention or engaging with their thoughts or compulsions they feel like it is irresponsible or that something may get "missed". I think this may be what you are saying? Are you doing ERP with a specialist? They can help you to identify the best ERP exercises to address this.
Rohan123Rohan123
- Date posted
- 3y
No I don’t have a therapist. I just feel like I’m doing something not right
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Anonymousssssss
- Date posted
- 25w
Do you have to do erp?
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
Mika05
- Date posted
- 24w
Worried about not being anxious?
These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
My journey
- Date posted
- 8w
Magical thinking
i don’t want to do my compulsions. I feel like if I don’t somebody will get hurt, sick or die. It’s a very scary thought to feel like if I don’t do my compulsions it will be my fault even though it isn’t & nor will it happen. I know it’s magical thinking & my thoughts are not true nor will they come true. it’s just im so tired of doing these compulsions. im so tired of feeling like I can stop something bad happening if I don’t step on this or touch this 4 times. it even got me believing that if I do something I want to do & love, something bad will happen. I just want to be able to live & feel like I use to. I hate ocd. how can I calm this down so I can be able to navigate in my own life?
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