Do the urges ever go away I feel like any second I'm going to cave into these intrusive urges trying to convince me I have to do these things. Does anyone have any advice or can share from there experience. 🥺
Urges are the worst because it feels like I should be doing what my urge is telling me to do but I just focus on something else or get moving , stretching for some reason helps
Hope you’re doing alright. I know it’s tough, I’ve been there plenty of times. Still have many challenges ahead of me I’m sure. Remember ocd is kind of built around guilt, the more you cling onto the thoughts the more guilty you feel and the more the thought lingers in your head. Remember it’s ocd, not you. The subtype about ocd could be anything, but mostly it latches onto your bigger fears which is why it makes life so tough. My advice, remember this is ocd not you, from there you can learn to isolate you from the ocd. And then work on building confidence in yourself, that way when the ocd does come back you can just laugh at it instead of being swept away
Yes, the urges do go away go with what you want okay? If you don’t wanna do something you don’t need to do it. Do you feel pressured? Are your thoughts telling you to do it or is someone telling you to and what are they convincing you about like what’s the situation here? And I have some advice! :D try to distract yourself and do something you like or love to do spend time with the people you trust and have some family time and start some conversations to distract you these urges start to ease when you tell yourself you don’t need to do these things or even talk to me about it! :D I have more to say but I will wait for your response just know YOU DON’T NEED TO FEEL PRESSURED ITS YOUR HEAD TELLING YOU AND CONVINCING YOU OF THESE THINGS ITS OKAY! <3
@MyalinH I feel ashamed to even say what the urges are to... 🥺 but let's just say my subtype is harm ocd towards myself or others 🥺
@nattieee aw it’s okay if your uncomfortable talking about it you truly don’t need to. so I am guessing these things you think of trigger you to do things to yourself or others and if that’s the case just know those thoughts aren’t good or healthy and it’s not good to think this way tho it’s okay to think the way your thinking at the moment don’t harm yourself or others even tho you have that trigger to try to avoid the things that trigger you luv:(
or you can even talk to the ones you trust about it :D
Yup. God I freaking hate them. I went to go give my little brother my aunt's dog and I purposely put them on the side of them because I was going to put the dog on them but then my mind was like haha you want to put it SPECIFICALLY IN A CERTAIN AREA and it was like giving me an urge to do that and do something else which I won't do but my freaking god I hate these urges. They scare the living heck out of me but it REALLY feels like I "want" to do them. Like I'm ok with it and I feel so alone in it :( Its like I really have to hold myself back not to do things (which I won't trust me) but its a feeling like that. Idk its a really scary one and honestly I don't even want to continue trying in life if thats all my mind will do towards people. Also because of that my mind instantly snapped to my early days of POCD where I was carrying a baby and had an urge I believe ? I honestly don't even know but its like well look at how easy you could've done those things maybe in the past you actually acted upon the intrusive thoughts with the baby but you didn't see it as anything bad because of your reckless behavior and moved on so you don't know if you've done it or not. Idk these urges are kind of scaring me again haha It just feels like I want to act on them and theres little nothing and hell not even myself to stop me :( Hope everyone is having a great day !
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