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- 6y ago
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I've been dealing with HOCD for a while now, but things have been rough for my fiance and I this year. We've moved, switched jobs, planned our wedding, and dealt with no less than 4 major health events in our family. I feel like I was processing stuff well but today was our first calm day in months and it felt like everything came crashing down on me. I've been feeling immense guilt and confusion. I wasn't able to sleep at all last night.
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- 6y ago
Thank you. It's hard because I want to talk about it but due to the usually sexual and disturbing nature it's super hard for me to talk about my problems openly. I'm constantly afraid I'm going to drive off my friends and loved ones.
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- 6y ago
I have done ERP in the past and at first it helped. But over time the effectiveness had diminishing returns. I haven't tried with this latest obession.
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- 6y ago
I totally understand, you're probably feeling very shocked at this new theme but it's very common and it's still just OCD finding ways to be creative. The same ERP skills can be applied to every theme. You know OCD is rearing its head again, you can fight it the same way you did before! It's great that you have supportive friends and family. Maybe it's best to only share with others that understand and are familiar with ocd and how it affects the brain. Sometimes people with good intentions can cause triggers or be unhelpful even if they don't mean to.
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- 6y ago
What’s been going on, friend?:(
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- 6y ago
Oh gosh, I’m so sorry to hear that. I have HOCD as well so I totally get you there. You’ve got so much that you’ve been dealing with, you have to be nice to yourself and give yourself a break. Relapses are inevitable and you have to accept that there will be bad days. But it sounds like you’ve been doing so well, I know you will get through this setback.
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- 6y ago
Remember OCD will morph into new themes and it feels like for each new one we have to analyze it and figure it out, but it's all just OCD affecting something new. Have you done ERP for hocd before?
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- 6y ago
I presume your fiancé understands your struggles with ocd. Opening up to her might be so relieving and help you move towards recovery. Also I would try to begin some erp for this new theme
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- 5y ago
I’m so sorry:( that a lot of life change happening all at once, it must be overwhelming. First of all, you can totally talk about whatever your obsessions are here cause we are a group of people who understand. You are not an anomaly. You are okay, and you can make it- for sure until Monday. Hold on!! No matter what, everything will always be okay.
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- 22w ago
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- 20w ago
Where do I begin with this…….. so my OCD has been around since childhood and has had many themes over the years. I only realised I have it just over 2 years ago. I’ve tried many things to help it not be such a monster and thought I had a good grip on it for a length of time until now! Some of my strategies have been acceptance, change of perception of thoughts and sometimes on hard days just telling myself that no matter what, I have to be brave and go out and live life. In the last few months I’ve developed none OCD related anxiety as well and so have been looking at ways to help with that. Sunday morning I was just casually scrolling TikTok and a video only about 30 seconds long or so comes up, seemingly a therapist of some kind, straight away the video began something like “you cannot replace a thought with another thought” along the lines of “you can’t THINK your way out anxiety” I don’t know the full context of the video it wasn’t long enough, I don’t know who the therapist was I didn’t look but now purely because of that one sentence my OCD has gripped onto it so badly and is trying to tear down some of my strategies because I have used changing my thought patterns a lot to help me, self compassion etc but now because of that video I’m struggling! I’m not looking for answers but I am just really upset and it feels like I’m in an impossible grip of OCD again
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