Not during the effects but after it wears off, my anxiety and depression spike, especially after two repeated days, i feel so strange :/
Yes, this is a known consequence of over drinking. Anxiety and OCD tend to spike pretty significantly after a heavy bout of drinking. People like us, with OCD, need to keep the drinking to responsible levels or cut it off completely.
Hi there jorgem1AO. Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant and is linked to increases in symptoms of OCD, anxiety, depression, and a range of other mental health disorders. This is caused by both direct and indirect physiological causes (e.g., reducing the amount of dopamine floating around in your brain), as well as psychosocial stressors (e.g., saying something under the influence you regret later). In general, we recommend avoiding drinking if you are struggling with mental health concerns.
Yes. Alcohol gets rid of my intrusive thoughts while I’m tipsy/drunk and I feel so normal but the next few days it spikes it
Yes alcohol increases my social anxiety and I don't think it's helping my OCD either. I've decided to completely stop drinking (I don't drink all that much tbh but it has made things worse recently). I've got some work socials this week where I'd normally drink alcohol, but I'm going to avoid it all together. I'm hoping this will have the added effect of showing myself I can be self-disciplined, which I also need to be to successfully not give into my OCD thinking. I also hope it will help in other ways - tiredness, low grade hangover, low mood after drinking - OCD is gonna love all of these.
im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.
Does anyone have harm OCD related to recent events? Like events that just happened or happened not long ago? I feel like my OCD is trying to find something bad/immoral I could have done in nearly every situation that I am experiencing, for example “Did you just do that?”. And I constantly want to check, ask people for reassurance, try to find a logic answer by going it though in my head,… It’s many different themes but all related to doing sth bad/immoral (e.g., touching someone inappropriately, pushing someone in front of a vehicle, putting something in a drink/food). Does anyone have the same? Or the other thing that I experienced recently is that I did something (a rather unimportant action, not harming anyone) and I go over and over it and ask myself “why did you do that? What does that say about you? Are you actually a weird person?” It feels like I draw “false conclusions” from a real event… I don’t know if that’s OCD though or not. Just wondering if anyone has experienced the same. Good luck to you all! We’re not alone in this! 😊
Has anyone ever just felt weird? It’s hard to explain but I just feel weird lately. I usually suffer with harm OCD and I feel like lately I’m not reacting to things I normally would. There’s certain things that will trigger me a little but then other times (like over the last few days) it’s like I feel nothing. I’ll get thoughts and because I don’t feel the physical sensation in my chest or get very emotional like I normally would it’s weird to me. Does this mean I’m liking the thoughts now? Or like I’m comfortable with those actions happening? I’m so confused. Has anyone ever gone through this?
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