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- 3y
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- 3y
Yes. All the time. It gets so bad I’ll stay up for 4+ hours compulsively praying and pushing the thought away. I found a book, TV, and counting backwards if you’re trying to sleep helps me a ton. Maybe even try some music or an audiobook, even ASMR can calm your nerves. Goodluck ❤️❤️
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- 3y
Thank you! My compulsion is pretty much searching ocd post on Instagram it kind of calms me down. The intrusive thought I have is saying that I like one of my girl friends and it really triggers me because I’m in a happy loving relationship and I really don’t want anything with my friend, recently I imagined what it would be like if she got married and I’d actually be so happy for her! So why is my ocd saying this? It’s really distressing, but I got so used to feeling triggered when I’m reminded of her that It’s hard to stay calm with the anxiety that has been there for awhile
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- 3y
@Canelito1 I am not the greatest person to tell you advice but I can relate to you and tell you what I do to avoid these thoughts. I’ll have thoughts about a co-worker or my best friend or even just random people I’ll talk to like “what if I kissed her/him”, “what if they touch me”, “what if this, what if that” and then I’ll get an extreme anxiety over it becahse I’m also in a loving relationship and don’t want anything to do with anyone else. Like right now I’m freaking praying this TB test on my arm doesn’t react and my heart rate is racing and I’m seeking reassurance. Just know these are all thoughts and the more you push them away the harder they’ll come back. Keep yourself busy, don’t worry about these thoughts because you said so yourself you would never act on them, take your medication, drink some cold water, maybe take a shower/bath and ease your mind the best you can maybe even play a game! OCD attacks the people you love most and care about and even appears in dreams. I’m still struggling to this day about a dream I had years ago thinking “is that how I really feel?!” It’s hard, really freaking hard and it’s so easy to tell you to do this when I sometimes don’t even follow my own advice, but this is the joy of having OCD. Accept the thought, try to move on from it because in the end you know in your heart you’ll never react on it.
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- 3y
@KAD.98 My anxiety just creates different case scenarios, and it also triggers me darn ocd, but I know I really wouldn’t react on it because I really love my partner, sometimes I think maybe it’s not the thought I have right now that’s the problem, it might be something else because these past months I’ve had so many different thoughts related to ROCD, and each time I pick on things from the past to try to relive the thoughts, it’s been really hard, thank you so much for your words! I feel less alone, I hope I can get better I unfortunately I don’t take meds, I actually haven’t been diagnosed for ocd but I realized about two years ago that I had harm ocd, I eventually got tired of the thoughts and don’t trigger me but I definitely still get them, it took a long time tho
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- 25w
I’ve been stuck in this cycle for the last month or two and am not sure how to get out of it. Basically, I will work on ignoring the thoughts and not responding or engaging plus limiting/completely eliminating compulsions. After a week or two of constant work, the amount of intrusive thoughts in a day goes down. The anxiety each thought causes also goes down with some, but not all, thoughts passing without notice like they would for a normal person. The thoughts that do stick cause anxiety and make me want to ruminate or do other compulsions but I make sure to limit them. After a bit, I’m in a pretty good head space. This is usually when it goes down hill. I’ll start to question if I even have ocd because some of the thoughts (once again not all) pass without notice. The difficulty resisting compulsions goes down and so does the anxiety, only increasing the questioning. I spend a while questioning if I’ve ever had ocd in the first place and then something sets me off or the questioning itself becomes a trigger and I get stuck back into the same ocd cycle with constant rumination, anxiety, and other compulsions. This lasts for a week or two before I know I need to stop and try and work hard to get back to ignoring the thoughts. And the cycle just restarts over and over again. Does anyone have any tips to stop this from happening? It’s really harming my recovery as every few weeks I dive back into the same negative place I was.
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- 23w
This is a repost, only because the last post had no responses lol. Please if you have any advice share. I’ve been trying hard to sit with the feeling of anxiety. Actually that’s the problem, recently I’ve been trying to sit with the thought (and I’m able to for a few hours or until the next morning) and then my anxiety comes back so strong and it’s like I need to clean everything off. I see images of gross laundry getting on everything or my hand and then I need to clean everything off to un contaminate it. Sometimes the thought happens later at night so I just sleep through and the next morning I will wake up with intense anxiety about contamination. That happened yesterday and I had to clean everything off and since then I’ve been traumatized so I’ve been doing compulsions like avoiding the bathroom and being around people so I know I couldn’t have done anything wrong. Actually recently my biggest compulsion has been recording every time I get up to go eat, etc so that I know I couldn’t have done anything. Any advice or help???
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- 18w
Ive been struggling with the fear that if i am suicidal or something and ive been having like fears or intrusive thoughts of jumping off or losing control and acting on these thoughts and i dont know if this is just some very bad case of anxiety? Im always thinking about it trying to prove it wrong in my head and its gotten to a point where its effecting my sleep, i use chat gpt. I know deep down i dont wanna do any of it, i mean the very thought makes me panic quick so idk i just want to forget all these thoughts and i was wondering if anyone goes through this as well?
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