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- 3y
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I put to much emphasis on it and torture myself with these thought rather than just accepting them and learning to live with them I’ve been seeing my specialists for about a week now and I’ve learned some new things but I keep up with the what ifs and the counter thoughts when people reassure me I’m okay because I keep thinking to myself they don’t know what’s going inside my head there not me they don’t feel what I feel and they just want to say that to say that and it scares me a similar thought like this happened to me two years ago and it crippled me even more then it did this time but I got over it after two months and I was fine for two years and now I’m back with the same thing and it sucks because I should of stuck with my meds and treatment but I figured I was fine and didn’t need it anymore and here we are again it just sucks I need to get out of this feeling
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- 3y
Is it more of a fear rather than a want? because I feel as if it will happen one day I keep asking people for reassurance that I won’t
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Im going through the exact same thing right now, but we will get through it. A few days ago I woke up after severe stress episodes and I just felt out of touch with everything. Reality emotions and then I thought about harming myself and my anxiety sky rocketed. Im now in a state where I don’t know what to think, everytime i talk to people I just feel so out of touch and like it’s not really happening. I have a few good hours but the rest are bad and when I’m in these episodes I just want to sleep and cry. My anxiety initially started a few months ago but I’m happy to say I start therapy tommarow. I’m trying to keep up hope because i know I’m not completely gone, I still feel happy at times. When I go through these episodes I completely forget about the happiness and I feel this heavy stress on my head. My head feels like it’s going to explode and my body feels so weak. Today I managed to get up and eat which was hard for me and I sat under the sun. It was peaceful and gave me hope, please have hope. I know it’s hard but please don’t give up.
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- 3y
It makes me feel better to know someone understands and can relate to my situation I feel pretty much the same as you also Im really happy that your starting therapy it will help a lot we will get better and we will laugh about these things one day because right now it feels so real but we’re gonna reflect on how this made us stronger mentally and we will be able to help others going through this as well we’ve hit a small bump in the road but we’re getting back up and continuing with our journey it’s a process and we take it one day at a time
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@Zach C we will, I think that’s the thing that gives me most hope. It’s just so weird rn because when I have harm ocd I think of shutting down and I don’t think about others around me which makes me feel guilty. Like my mom and stuff, I feel like I should think about them instead of myself to feel better. I definitely agree that it’s a journey & if you need someone to reach out to I’m here ! 💕 are you starting therapy as well?
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I'm also afraid il loose control its horrible I get u but I have suffered with this for many years and still haven't went insane I just have pure terror in my body 24.7 it's awful im sorry your going trough this 💔
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I understand the feeling of wanting the thoughts to go away. I get thoughts about harming my family members and it’s extremely scary for me. I just want the thoughts to go away and feel happy. Some days my thoughts completely consume me and they take over and it’s terrifying. I use medication to cope but sometimes it feels like even that’s not enough. Glad to know someone else is going through a similar thing. It makes me feel not so alone.
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- 3y
this is literally EXACTLY what i’m going through right now and it really helped me knowing i’m not alone. it’s so scary and i just want to go back to my normal self too
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- 3y
I have been there. I get it. Go through ERP for this. Seriously, it changes things
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- 25w
I don’t even know where to start because there’s so much going on in my head and it feels like there’s so much evidence for every thought. Like my ocd feels like it doesn’t just have one specific theme it’s honestly every theme and it just switches throughout the day depending on the thoughts I have. This started all about a month ago, this whole ocd flare up. I’ve been diagnosed with ocd for about 3 years now and looking back on my childhood, I feel like I’ve had it for probably my entire life. My grandpa just recently died back in February and I feel like this whole ocd spiral is a result of dealing with grief especially because it didn’t even hit me for the whole month of April for some reason and things felt “normal”. But since this ocd flare up has started I’ve been constantly reviewing and revisiting my past, all my childhood memories and so many of them are terrifying which is weird because I never had a traumatic event hppen to me as a child. I feel like it’s always been “self-inflicted” trauma if that makes sense? My mind is telling me so many things related to so many topics like maybe I liked my family member as a kid and have just hid it to fit in with society? That my anxiety as a kid has caught up with me and I’m turning into a psychopath? That I’ve always been a creep and enjoyed looking at peoples privates or chests, etc but just ignored or allowed the thought this whole time. Also before this whole flare up I remember always feeling on autopilot and not really alive like everything I did I just felt numb about it. Which aids my ocd to tell me that these feelings are real and the thoughts are true and that I’m “waking up” or realizing or something. I haven’t felt such intense anxiety and distress since I was a kid and I didn’t even understand my own thoughts. It’s like I’m either hyper aware or totally unaware of what’s going on around me and it gets me thinking about my existence, personality, what my role in life is and like genuinely what I’m even doing in the moment like what’s the reason behind everything. I’m constantly questioning my intentions because I don’t know if they’re true or not and it’s like my ocd doesn’t even allow me to consider the thought it just jumps to conclusion. Like telling me I’m guilty before proven innocent. It honestly feels like so much at once to even simply call it ocd or anxiety because it feels like a crisis and any moment I could spiral and breakdown completely. Going to school everyday feeling like anytbing could trigger a panic attack at any moment makes me feel like I can’t be left alone with my thoughts. And like overall since I got down this rabbit hole, my first obsession was harm to myself, then it was harm to others specifically my family, then it was being a pervert or pedo, or being attracted or someone or something I shouldn’t be, which then makes me question my existence and who I am along with also being hyper aware of my facial movements like my eyebrows, nose, etc. Like why does ocd have to involve itself in every aspect of my life? It feels like there’s always something wrong that I need to fix.
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- 25w
I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…
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- 23w
I know I keep talking about This but I’m too tired :( I’m really struggling and I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like I might be the only person who experiences this in the way I do. It’s gotten so bad that during intimacy or self-pleasure, I feel like I’m acting on a thought — like my body is moving because of it. It’s terrifying and deeply hurtful. The moment it happens, I immediately panic, try to rewind everything in my head, and ruminate to figure out what I was thinking at that exact second… but I can never remember. That makes it even worse. feel so lost and hopeless, like I’ll never be able to heal or move on from this. People tell me “it’s just OCD,” but it doesn’t feel like OCD to me. It feels like I’m the exception — like no one else truly experiences it like this, especially the part where it feels like I physically responded to a thought. I know people say “others go through this too,” but my mind keeps saying, “not like this, not this specific thing.”Sometimes I just wish I could go back and relive those moments so I could be sure what happened, but I know that’s not possible. I feel so stuck in guilt and doubt that I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m scared I’m a bad person and that I’ll always feel this way. I’ll never be free or be the same again everyday I live with deep depression
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