Issues breathing

I found out that what I thought was just bad breathing issues is definitely something called “somatic OCD”. I’ve heard the term before but didn’t realize what it was. Even though I know now deep down that I can breath just fine but I’m just obsessing over it I still can’t stop having bad anxiety about it and feeling like I’m suffocating. It’s the worst feeling constantly feeling like I’m going to hyperventilate and pass out. If anyone who struggles with the same thing has any advice I’d really appreciate it!

Somatic OCD

Monii

Date posted: 2y ago

Omg this exactly what it happening to me since March I felt short of breath and since that time I keep obsessing about breathing I take deep breath to make sure I feel the air down my throat :/ I keep thinking any minute I will stop breathing and sofocate and pass out I don’t know what to do is like I wrote your post this is me I did erp and it worked between april and may now I’m Jun my baby was sick and my grandma died so this triggered me again my health ocd this thoughts and sensation are bad this is one of the hardest one for me :(

Uphamia

Date posted: 2y ago

I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this too, it’s truly hard one to cope with, especially since one of my ways of coping is meditation where you focus on your breathing but if I focus on my breathing than I panic about it, so I have to try and find new coping mechanisms. I think the most frustrating part for me is that even though I know deep down that it’s not a breathing issue but an OCD issue and that if I actually couldn’t breathe properly I would’ve actually passed out by now lol but even knowing all of that those uncomfortable feelings still don’t go away and it’s so frustrating triggers my panic attacks (I have panic disorder and ocd and they often feed off each other).

Monii

Date posted: 2y ago

@Uphamia Yes agree even knowing the feeling don’t go away because is something we don’t have control of is a disease a disorder we don’t have control of our thoughts Rational thinking or logically thinking don’t work with ocd is like a broken machine ocd is hard and grab what we value the most to trigger us

JaeJae20

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 23w ago

Panic attack advice

Yall these panic attacks are getting FOUL. please give some good advice. The ocd brain in me be telling me I’m dying and bout to head to the Gates of Heaven. Helpppp

madalyndicie...

Date posted: 11w ago

hello everyone 🤍

i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.

Iceberg Climber

Date posted: 10w ago

Rolling Anxiety Attacks with OCD?

Does anyone have any experience with this? I wake up early with severe, severe anxiety and nothing seems to help. I try embracing the anxiety, breathing, and exercising. But these things only seem to help a little. Fortunately, I do think the length of the attacks are getting shorter (mainly because I'm still trying my best to live normally in spite of them), but they are still lasting a good 5-6 hours. They are quite debilitating. Does anyone have any advice for dealing with these? I've read much about potential solutions (being okay with the anxiety), but I was looking for some personal antecdotes. Thank you

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