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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.
OCD related to yelling something inappropriate in public? Lately I’ve been having intense OCD and subsequent anxiety that I’m going to say something extremely inappropriate to a stranger when I’m in public, either when I walk past them or drive past them. A lot of times it’s related to horribly intrusive thoughts that make me extremely uncomfortable and anxious. For example I’m afraid I’ll yell something racist, or homophobic, or shame someone based on their looks, or something misogynistic etc. I am none of these things, I’m actively against all of them. But I keep having these intrusive thoughts pop into my head and then I obsess that I will, or already have blurted them out to a stranger or group of strangers. Then I obsess about “well, if I would never say that, but if I had of I would definitely know, I wouldn’t just forget. but what if I did say it and what if I did actually just forget that I said it. Or what if I have Tourette’s syndrome but I just don’t know it and I actually have been blurting these things out?” Gosh it’s exhausting, 15 years of ocd and it seems like there’s no end in sight.
How does OCD get in the way of living your life? What are some things you can do to drop the worries?
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