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- lashes
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- 2y ago
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- Mark DorryMark Dorry
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Heyy... grip that chance and do ERP while it is easy now
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- Zoë_84Zoë_84
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I think that is a great idea!
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- lasheslashes
- Date posted
- 2y ago
That’s actually a good idea thanks!
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- NrseKrisNrseKris
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- 2y ago
I feel like this has happened to me over the years it seems like I go thru periods where it’s intense but then it kinda calms down for a while idk
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- lasheslashes
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- 2y ago
Yess exactly! I don’t understand why it happens but it just does, but hey I’ll enjoy it while it lasts haha
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- Zoë_84Zoë_84
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I moved to China for a year, the second I stepped out of the plane my OCD had been so much better. I suffer, amongst other themes, from P and ZOCD and in China I tought kids English and had pets again, something I could not dream of back at home. That was 2008. At age 13 I went on holiday without my parents for the first time, OCD had been gone for the time I had been at the language camp. So changes made it better for a while. Unfortunately it caught up with me again in China, but I over did it. Uni, teaching jobs and a sick stray I picked up, who needed to see the vet regularly. I had just stressed myself out.
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- lasheslashes
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- 2y ago
Maybe it’s because of the change your mind is occupied on something else? It’s really interesting how that happens
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- Zoë_84Zoë_84
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- 2y ago
@lashes I had been far away from my family. I think my mother and how she raised us had a big effect on my mental health.
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- SilentVoiceSilentVoice
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- 2y ago
It's a trap! Don't worry everything is fine don't give in to the feeling of I'm faking it you're not it's just not around the corner and your brain is questioning that too! You are doubting your own self for not being anxious so don't go with the flow I mean take it easy but don't let it take away your happiness be happy enjoy the moments coz ocd just wants us to give up on everything that makes us happy don't fall into the hellhole it's all gr8 life's gr8! God bless
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- kctgkctg
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- 2y ago
I think ocd is connected to our life status, or at least most of us. For me it has gotten worse now when I have a job that I hate, I don’t have a lot of friends and left a relationship a few months ago. Now when summer is around the corner and I’ve started to do things that make me happy I feel like ocd is easier to handle!
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- Zoë_84Zoë_84
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I had two breaks from OCD since late 2005, when it hadn't even been present in the background. One lasted 30 minutes in my 20s and one 5 minutes in my 30s, both mini vacations had been pure bliss and both happened, when I had been around friends... As I don't have any close friends anymore, I need to find another way to get some mini vacations...
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- Sarah🕊
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I’m so confused right now. I feel really calm about my intrusive thoughts and I feel calm overall. I can still get moments of feeling uneasy but overall I’m calmer. Yesterday was really difficult. Does that mean I don’t have OCD? I just don’t get this. Even today I was scared with the thought of what If I’m lying about my intrusive thoughts and my experience with OCD and I’m really just a crazy person.....and then later today when I felt calmer I was like omg what if I really don’t have OCD and I really I’m just making it up. I feel so calm right now. I’m kind of guessing maybe because I talked to my mom about my some intrusive thoughts have and have had in the past and I was worried about telling her but she understood and so I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders. Is it possible to suddenly feel ok?
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- RG123
- Date posted
- 2y ago
OCD Turns Off?
Does anyone else feel like they’re OCD turns off for a couple days? Like you go through an intense period of having intrusive thoughts and feeling the need to confess and then you only start to get thoughts here and there? And you try to keep yourself from having the thoughts but you’re not sure if it’s avoidance? Like I have felt sooo much better the last couple of days, especially in the morning, I live for those times of quiet in my head. But I still haven’t been able to accept myself for the things I might have done, like I can’t accept myself still because of my OCD. This probably sounds a little jumbled but I would like to think someone can relate lol
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- Lalilolou
- Date posted
- 2y ago
For OCD newbies/veterans
I had never really had OCD symptoms like this a few months ago. I had struggled a little bit with anxiety and had always had a fear of uncertainty but I’ve never felt a 24/7 pain anxiety, guilt and fear like this. I was pretty happy😭 Have others had this experience as well? Did it just show up randomly from one intrusive thought that you couldn’t brush off? Is it possible to get back to how you were before or will I have to “manage” for the rest of my life?
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