- Username
- mrlnasw
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I went to therapy (which didn’t help much in my case since I’m a psychology major and already knew everything they were telling me). But I really learned how to talk to myself. If I would get a weird feeling, I wouldn’t google it and I would just tell myself that if it was something bad, I would be feeling a lot worse than I was. And honestly, even if it is something bad...there’s nothing I can do about it. Things happen.??♀️ It’s good to keep yourself distracted as well. I find myself to be less stressed about my illness anxiety disorder (that’s the name for it, they don’t call it hypochondria anymore) when I’m busy and doing things.
First time about a week last time about 1.5 months
But dont focus on how long it lasts! Just do what you did before everything and let it be there no matter how annoying IT WONT KILL YA!
Yeah it is, honestly the best erp for that is focus on it even more until u literally forget about it!
Set a timer and every hour focus on ur breathing for 10 minutes
I had this issue too. A doctor once told me that if something is bothersome and it gets worse and worse then that’s a reason to get it checked. Otherwise small issues usually go away on their own and no need to be hyper aware. Also, someone told me that If you fear having whatever disease it is, fearing it won’t make it go away. Might as well not worry. That helped me get over the anxiety of every pain and odd feeling.
I had a bad case of the whole breathing ocd... i felt like i never has a satisfying breath and its all i thought about so i took deep breaths every 5 seconds to get the satisfaction. Honestly it just went away on its own. I forgot about it because it didnt bother me anymore i would get reminders about it but they wouldnt stick thankfully cause i remember how annoying and frustrating it was
It didnt really make me sad or depressed it was mostly just anxiety cause it was so annoying i was scared it was gonna last forever
@milio how long did it last for you?
Thank you!! It’s just frustrating because it’s so preoccupying, but I’m trying!
Thank you so for all your help!! I really appreciate it!
I actually beat it!
@kalk9 how?!
@kalk9 yeah, I’m a nurse so I know how it goes lol. I know exactly what’s going on with me, sometimes it’s just hard for me to stop the thoughts
Hi, new here to NOCD 👋🏼 I have struggled with what I now know as somatic OCD for the last 3 1/2 years, when it comes to breathing & taking deep breaths. I have noticed that I spend 98% of my day, thinking about it & paying attention to it. I know it’s a normal bodily function but I get the urge to take deep breaths every couple of mins. When I don’t get “a full deep breath”, it sends me into a panic & the intrusive thoughts start.. “what if I never get a deep breath again” “there is nothing I can do to make myself get that full deep breath” “if I don’t get a deep breath, you must not be able to breathe” - sometimes these thoughts & moments totally take over & I find myself spiraling. I feel like all my walls are closing in & my heart starts racing. The panic usually lasts a couple of mins if that but it feels like forever. I’m much better at handling and working through it now than I was 3 years ago, but I still have bad moments & sometimes bad days. At times, I’m able to talk myself through it & I don’t let it take over but other times, it feels uncontrollable. NOCD has been helpful so far, it’s comforting knowing I’m not alone. I’m just wondering if anyone else deals with this type of OCD? Have you found anything to be helpful to deal with it? Thanks in advance.
Sometimes I feel absolutely fine, then the next few moments I’m gasping for air and it feels like it won’t fill my lungs no matter how hard I try. Sometimes it comes on so suddenly without me consciously thinking about it so I’m having a really hard time differentiating between what’s physically happening and what’s caused by somatic OCD. I wonder at times if it’s a mix of both, but either way it’s a terrible feeling and makes me feel dizzy, weak and anxious. I want to break this cycle so badly but I don’t know how to tackle it. Breathing should be such an easy, mundane thing but now it takes everything in me just to make it through each episode.
Hi I'm new here, I have been suffering from somatic breathing ocd for like a month now but has gotten so much worse since like 2 days ago my chest hurts everyday bc I be so focused on my breathing I feel like I can't switch back to automatic anym until unless I'm asleep the thought of breathing is always running constantly in the back of my mind when I'm distracting myself or when it gets worse its the only thing I can focus on. I literally feel like gasping for air too. I'm scared I might damage my automatic breathing system or something like that. Im lost as to what to do I feel like I'm beyond fixable.
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