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AnonymousOCD23AnonymousOCD23
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I need this tattooed on my forehead
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Lets go together
CaliforniadreaminCaliforniadr...
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Can I come to 😅 I needed to see this today
AnonymousAnonymous
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I'm in! Lol
dalaradalara
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😅
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@Californiadreamin Np
Leah🤍🧸Leah🤍🧸
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Same lmao
OCD_LemmonaideOCD_Lemmonaide
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Honestly, I am going to write this out and post it somewhere. This is awesome.
AnonymousAnonymous
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Thanks so much. We got this!
DarkyDarky
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That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm going to make a poster of this.
OCD_LemmonaideOCD_Lemmonaide
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@NOCD Therapist - Stacy Q. I bookmarked this post. I hope to make use of this for the rest of my life! Thank you so much, friendly reminder that the community needs therapists like you. ❤️
applepiesapplepies
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OCD is so good at lying that it'll make you believe that you don't even have OCD.
Sunny4Sunny4
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It feels so strong, this belief! And even harder when it attaches to 'real life things' like relationships and life decisions.
D.KD.K
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Thank you so much for sharing this! I'm in the process of trying to detach from the whole myth of thoughts and feelings meaning something. I'm so glad I saw this 💜 I'm in a much better place now than I was 3 months ago
ijaija
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Ive been overthinking the whole day so I rly needed this. Thank you so much.
pacpac
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Numbers 4, 5 and 8… I’m just so tired of living this way. I don’t know how long I can keep feeling like this
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Thank you, God bless
AmyyAmyy
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U explained it very well..... this truly helps me a lot 🙂 thanks for posting this dear.
terzitaterzita
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Love it.been tampering with my meditation cause I been on them for nearly 4yrs and in these year I have gained so much weight, so decide to decrease meds and my intrusive thoughts and feelings are returning, so I been a little lost and confused..but reading this has made me understand ocd again..thank u
Destiny5678Destiny5678
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I literally needed this so bad rn
jimbo51jimbo51
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Im learning all this...albeit slowly
dalaradalara
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Thanks
Spring05Spring05
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Love this. Feelings= truth is one that i am struggling with sometimes.
Dj-is-livingDj-is-living
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This way of feeling and thinking in contact anxiety has began to attack my relationship and my home that I love. It’s been going on almost a month now and everyday I think, I don’t know if I can live like this. I don’t want to lose the life i built for myself. I was perfectly happy last month. I don’t know what’s real phases in life or things to run from anymore. I’m so scared I don’t want anything to change I just want to feel like me again.
AnonymousAnonymous
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Thanks for this Stacey
AnonymousAnonymous
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Thank you!
gomgom
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How do you not believe ocd lies even when I know it is a lie?
CatraCatra
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I have a question. How can a thought just “be?” Isn’t there such a thing as bad thoughts? Like a bigotted or mean thought? Shouldn’t we recognize them and try to fix whatever is causing us to think that way?
AnonymousAnonymous
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I think there are bad thoughts but when the thoughts are above your control or they keep popping in without you initiating them and you keep trying to fight them then it's not your fault
AnonymousAnonymous
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I think the difference is when you have OCD you often have ego dystonic thoughts- meaning these thoughts pop into your head that go against your values. In fact these thoughts are the opposite of what you would want to do and causes significant internal conflict when they arise. These are the thoughts we don't want to recognize as having meaning. In and of themselves all thoughts are just "thoughts" meaning they are not "actions". Many people with OCD believe that just thinking something is the equivalent of doing something- which isn't true.
ArielAvR12ArielAvR12
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Dont understand 7 i dont confront with though but i steel go out hang with with friend what is avoidance on clinical way?
OCD_LemmonaideOCD_Lemmonaide
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I think it’s a typo and should be read as “Avoidance will not make it go away.”
OCD_LemmonaideOCD_Lemmonaide
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Oh wait I take that back, the lie that OCD tells us is that “Avoidance will make it go away.”
bluefire2235bluefire2235
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I feel the same way.🤦🏾♀️
mirbrachmirbrach
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It’s been so many years, that I have been ruminating and it feels so real and awful.
AnonymousAnonymous
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This is so hard. When you are in the throws of a OCD battle it feels so real and hard to remember that it is a faulty alarm system. Check out this video, it helps me to understand why rumination is a compulsion-https://youtu.be/a-QR_1KoJ80
Chris RChris R
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This is so true! It convinces you if you don’t do the things aka rituals then “something bad” will happen and it’s not true!! Perfection and having everything under control is the way OCD makes you a prisoner in your body. 😢
AnonymousAnonymous
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Hello is there anyone with religious OCD like me mine is becoming severe and i feel like am going crazy i just feel like the worst person on earth and I've lost my sense of self and even the core values i stood for as a person
Brett2147Brett2147
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I do not, but probably like all compulsions, it's the OCD messing with you. You are NOT the worst person on Earth. The OCD is prohibiting you from recognizing the good in your heart. Keep marching forwatd
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Mooooni Mooooni
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@Monitica I’ve been struggling so much. I struggle with contamination OCD whereas I’m afraid I’ll catch HIV/stds. Getting it and/or infecting someone. I’m always paranoid I’ll touch blood or get accidentally poked by a syringe. I take photos of surfaces or anywhere I step into as a form of reassurance. I stopped myself from being sexually active but I had a situation the other night and had oral sex and my partners genital area felt kind of bumpy and was freaking out. I feel so helpless. I’m Im crying and so scared I caught something. I know it’s the wanting of reassurance. Im trying to look at this as an exposure. I hate that I’m ruminating and thinking the worst. This is so exhausting. Does anyone else go through this??
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AnonymousAnonymous
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This sounds a lot like real-event/false memory themed OCD. Check out these resources-https://youtu.be/fNxlpotyLRshttps://youtu.be/np_iHpbW76o
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