- Date posted
- 3y
Ocd being loud
What to do when ocd becomes too loud?
What to do when ocd becomes too loud?
When this happens to me, and it did earlier, I started cleaning my house, doing dishes, sweeping and mopping, dusting, staying busy helps so much. I even put on gospel music as I’m doing those things, and it literally pulled me out of my ruminations today. If you aren’t a Christian that’s ok, put on music you like and do something that will engage your mind and body, I promise it helps so much. I find if I sit around my thoughts run away to bad, scary places. You can do it, I promise.
What helps me, is focusing on my five senses. More specifically, I get my pen, and my paper, and I write out my favorite noun to see further describing why I love that noun. Then I move on to all of my other senses to write my favorite noun about that specific sense, and why I love that noun. Doing this over the years has helped me redirect my triggers, or any impulses, or intrusive thoughts that come with them. What I am about to say does not apply to all of my triggers: some triggers of mine are impractical, and unrealistic to have, so going through this little writing process helps me cognitively disengage the trigger by focusing on things that are practical allowing me to realign with the day I wanted to have before the sensory overload. Hope this helps.
Practice mindfulness, smile, and let the thoughts be there even if they’re loud. Altering your behavior for OCD only makes it worse.
distract yourself calm yourself down meditation mindfulness anything to calm you down!
Cry and take a nap. Lol or I scream it out with some really loud music.
If your OCD had a voice, what would it say most often? And how would you love to answer back?
Another way to describe it is a loss of ability to let uncomfortable thoughts flow through our minds. It's like a fire alarm going off in our heads and an urgency to work out what these thoughts mean and what we can do about them and it's the exact reason why going to talk therapy is the worst thing that someone with OCD can do.
My ocd them has gotten worse and I’m trying my hardest to not look for reassurance. Why does my mind play these tricks on me that I’m saying my thoughts out loud????? I’m trying my hardest to ignore it but it’s making me depressed. When I’m ignoring it my brain will go to “everybody will talk about you” “you said something bad” “you said it out loud and when you’ll live a terrible life”. I don’t know what to do anymore
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