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yeah, i guessed so too.. probably a lot of self-medication. i'm an addict too and for me it's always been self-medication anyway.. a way to shut off, relax or handle my anxiety. i was an alcoholic at first too, then it became prescription drugs.. was a "quick solution" at first but now i have to battle both that and the ocd, which just makes things harder. i don't know if any of you are getting help for your ocd or not.. but if you do, does the addiction get in the way of help for you? or do they see that it's a "side-effect"?
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Yup no one cares about ocd it's all about the addiction but they go together!
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I have no scientific evidence, but I would say slightly above average
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No I have ocd and I'm an alcoholic unfortunately... helps me get through the day . Ocd and addiction is common
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Hey I drink daily too! lol. what does alcohol help you with the most daily?
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I feel normal like myself without all the intrusive thoughts in my head which causes bad anxiety and depersonalization for me
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May I ask about what your intrusive thoughts are?
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Sexual intrusive thoughts.... hocd
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have you ever experimented with the same sex before
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Have I? Never. But the addiction and ocd are correlated I like to say if I didn't have these thoughts I'd never drink again in my life but Ik that's never going to happen
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Easbrink I know if i tried anything else I'd become an addict so I stick to beer it helps me
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yeah, that's one of the most stupid decision i've ever made.. and now it's also in the way of getting help, since everything's about the addiction only and they don't seem interested in anything else. super frustrating.. but the battle continues ;p
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Alcohol makes me worse but weed makes me calm. But I don't like self medicating because I'm already medicated but lately...
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@bob999 i know.. it seemed so helpful in the beginning but it definitely just made things worse. super happy you got through it tho, that's awesome :) i'm fighting for help right now too and are very determined to get through this.. but the problem is that there's not much help to get here in sweden, they don't seem to have a clue about what they are doing. it can get super frustrating and it even can feel a bit hopeless sometimes but i'm really trying to see the light at the end and just keep moving towards it :)
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@chell i also use cannabis, but that's just straight up medication for me.. since it pretty much helps all my conditions (i also have ptsd and crohns disease).. and because of that and everything i know about cannabis i don't really see that as a drug (even tho it still is in sweden since it's not legal). just wish they would atleast make it medical in sweden so i didn't have to be classified as a criminal just cuz i'd rather smoke a joint per day instead of eating 6-10 pills per day and all the side-effects that comes with that.. but we're moving in the right direction atleast :p don't really know where you live.. but is it legal there?
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Hi I’m new to the community and I have such weird ocd tendencies I was curious to see if anyone else has so I’m just going to list them in no specific order: 1. My brain goes “I hope” every time I think of something bad happening. Like “I hope that pedestrian gets hit by a car” or “I hope a demon snatches me under the bed right now.” 2. I have dermatillomania mostly on my arms, chest, face, and shoulders. If I have a bunch of open wounds on my body, I make myself feel “cleaner” by doing an everything shave in the shower. Conversely, if I’m having a period of mostly healed skin, I like to leave my body hair growing out for a couple days as a way to gloat to myself how “clean” I am even without shaving. 3. After my whole life living with these symptoms, most of them I’m able to brush off. But this next one still shakes me and disturbs me to my core every time it happens and it’s picturing sex acts with people I would NEVER want to do sex acts with. My earliest memory of this is when I was a little kid, as young as 5 years old, I had an image in mind of what I thought God looked like. Every time I would imagine God, I would automatically imagine him naked and I would shove my head under the pillow and shut my eyes tightly and try to make the image go away because I thought I was being blasphemous by imagining such a thing. 4. This one is relatively new, the past year or two, but cutting my own bangs. The only reason I consider it an ocd tendency and not just self sufficiency is because I SUCK at it and botch it every time!!! But I keep trying to find the perfect parting that contours to all the existing cowlicks and kinks in my hair and try to carve out my “natural bangs.” I convince myself a hairdresser is just not familiar enough with my hair growth patterns to give me what I want. This one is particularly embarrassing because it’s like I’m wearing my mental illness on my face. I have been wearing a headband for the past year to try and hide it but it doesn’t stop me from cutting it again because I am so insistent to get it right. I always regret it after. 5. I don’t know if this one is ocd but I suspect it might be and it’s that I rarely ever am not drinking water. If I finish a glass I’m filling up another one. Sometimes it will be a different beverage like coffee or matcha but I almost always am sipping compulsively on something. I use the bathroom about once every hour and 3-4 each night. That’s all I can think of for now but I wanted to share some atypical traits to see if anyone relates! This isn’t by any means all of my ocd tendencies unfortunately:/ just the ones I’ve never heard anyone else share before!
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Does anyone know if weed helps ocd symptoms?
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I see a lot of “general” advice on here from people who have conquered their OCD, and i dont often find that advice helpful. How do i identify compulsion when OCD is bad? Its a whirlwind. Nothing makes sense. I’m pretty sure i have something in addition to OCD but modern science is not good enough yet to let me know. At times like this I need medication. I am weening off Zoloft to try Clomipramine or maybe Vyvanse. I’ve been on Zoloft for 6+ years so decreasing is causing quite an uptick in symptoms. I feel very impulsive lately, i say and post things i dont mean to and it causes interpersonal issues and doesn’t represent who i really am. Is it impulsion or compulsion? I’ve asked this before and only got textbook answers, not personal anecdotes (what im looking for). What does ADHD and RSD feel like? I think i have both ADHD and OCD, even though scientific models show these having opposite activity in the same areas of the brain, leading one to wonder: how can someone have both conditions simultaneously? Science contradicts this but also acknowledges a large population of people who have comorbid OCD and ADHD.
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