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Are you diagnosed with OCD? Are you receiving treatment?
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Haven’t received treatment at all. I know I need to get help but don’t know how to go about it without using money…
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@7710 ❤️ If you can see a psychiatrist I'd recommend that. If you really want see one then your best bet is the book Freedom From Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Jonathan Grayson. It will outline how you can make your own recovery plan. I wrote a post earlier called "How to get better." where I made some pointers how to get started with this journey if you wanna take a look at that.
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@yup_its_ocd I tried reading books.. nothing worked.. I think I need to talk to someone other than my friend who causes me anxiety.
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@7710 ❤️ They book has the standard formula for how to do ERP, which is how you resolve OCD symptoms. Any IOCDF recommend therapist will be doing something similar if not the same. The only reason I mentioned it was because it seemed money was an issue for you, but I absolutely recommend an OCD specialist. Good luck!
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@yup_its_ocd I just want to be happy.. that’s all I know I want! I am so tired of never being able to relax at all. I am not happy with my life at all! I hate it! I am tired about worrying over things non stop.
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@7710 ❤️ I was like this and my journey has only started to turn around thanks to ERP and medication. Without it I wouldn't be alive.
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@yup_its_ocd Right now… all I wanna do is yell at my partner… 😢 I can’t sleep… I’m angry he is going away to hang out with his friend until Sunday while it makes me feel like he just wants to get away from me…
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@yup_its_ocd Since we live we my family we never have any peace at all anymore.
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@yup_its_ocd I want him to have a break but.. I that it was only one night… so I was upset a bit when I heard two when I thought it was one.. I don’t wanna control him but it upsets me… not living on our own is causing us problems.
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@yup_its_ocd I tell him a lot that I am unhappy about our living situation and how it is causing problems in the relationship! I am frustrated bc I feel like he doesn’t take me seriously on it!
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@yup_its_ocd It’s making me sad angry and confused with him… my depression doesn’t help either!
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@yup_its_ocd I want us both to get better jobs so we can leave and finally live on our own… that’s all I want… i want to have a place that we can go back home too… 😢
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I just feel like therapy isn’t working… like I get to talk about myself and understand myself… but I’m already incredibly self aware. My therapist thought I was like 5 years older than I am… and she gives me such basic strategies that do absolutely nothing for me. And a psychiatrist prescribed me with Zoloft… but I don’t know if T want to take medication. I’m scared of side effects… and I’m scared of getting better… I’m scared of letting my guard down. I know it will make me less cautious which makes me less likely to push myself to perfection like I currently do, which I can’t have happen. Every time I talk to my mom about it, she’s always like “Let’s talk about this some other time, I’m busy with other things”, and then never remembers. But in the rare moments we do talk about it, she treats it like I’m signing up to be a drug addict. I also feel very guilty for spending so much of my parents’ money- therapy… medication… etc… and also the idea of my being unlovable is so deeply engraved in my brain… I genuinely, truly believe it. No therapy or medication can fix it. I can’t change my mind. My therapist tells me my misophonia is not a “deal-breaker” and that someone would be lucky to have me as a partner… but then why hasn’t anyone ever liked me? My own FAMILY can’t stand me. How do I believe something I know isn’t true? That’s even harder to accept than me being unlovable. I can’t see someone loving me. And it is so incredibly exhausting to seek love,e I know I cannot have. My sister says, “It will get better with age…” It has only ever gotten worse. To the point I don’t want to get better. It has reached the severity where I feel more safe and successful with anxiety. My past 3 birthdays have been me wishing for therapy. And now I have therpay- and medication, the potential key… and I refuse? Am I too deep in? I cant get out, it’s too late. How did absolutely no one notice how much I had and have been hurting? Why did no one listen to my cries or worries? I feel really depressed and hopeless right now. It takes so much effort to get up every day… I’m so tired.
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Lately I just feel like I’m on the verge of losing it and I don’t know why. I feel so uncomfortable in my own body. Physically and mentally. Not due to insecurity but just that something isn’t right… I never feel good, I’m always fatigued, my head hurts all the time, but my blood work comes back fine so doctor’s will do nothing. I have anxiety and panic attacks and recently I guess depression since I’m always down. I have relationship OCD so my partner deals with me not being sure of him constantly and it breaks my heart. I don’t want to leave him because he’s great but half the time my brain is telling me he isn’t the one. I keep counting as well, constantly counting every letter in every word and every word in every sentence… it just feels like I’m gonna go insane one of these days and I’m scared. When I talk to someone about this, they have no clue what to tell me or how to help. Am I alone in feeling this way??
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