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I’m tired
How do you get up and live life after you had an ocd episode? I need to clean but all I want to do is hide and sleep.
How do you get up and live life after you had an ocd episode? I need to clean but all I want to do is hide and sleep.
Start with one thing at a time, for example, if you need to clean maybe start with putting dishes in the dishwasher, just that one task, then little by little start doing your other things. It also can help to put on some music in the background or a funny show that you can listen to while you clean. I know it seems hard to do anything productive when your OCD makes you feel so sad but it will make it better to do activities and focus your attention on that activity rather than ruminating about OCD and intrusive thoughts
It is so difficult to live with a mental illness. The exhaustion can feel so overwhelming at times. Take it day by day and step by step. Give yourself permission to just be. It's okay if you need more time than others to rest and recharge. Everyone is different- give yourself self-compassion. You can only do what you can only do- and this may look different from day to day and that's okay. Try not to compare your journey to anyone else's. You and you alone know what your path has looked like.
@NOCD Therapist - Stacy Q. Thank you! I know it’s not my post, but I needed to hear this too!
I had a full on OCD episode and I have a cleaning type of OCD heavy but my RoCD had me shook for 3 months and during that time I was stressed because I wasn't cleaning as I should and I had a lot of blame in me. It was a rough patch for sure. I got back to it after my medical reaction to the medication subsided. I went back to being me. I still have my old OCD which is intrusive but I'm not feeling 51/50 anymore. Hang in there. Your not alone in this.
Donc your ocd episodes last 3 months?
@amel I was on the medication for three months it caused me to have high blood pressure and my OCD really took off into the RocD.
@amel My OCD has been around since I can remember. All my siblings have it and so does my mom and dad.
@Wexel OK because mine comes like waves of 3/4 months.
@amel Have you gotten your seratonin levels checked during your strongest episodes? My psychiatrist is working on a testing regiment for me because she thinks I might have a seratonin issue.
Each night I go to bed determined to stop compulsions and start beating this disorder. Then I wake up and it smacks me in the face first thing and I’m doing a compulsion before I know it. I told my therapist that I would try to handle it like we do in session, but I’ve already failed. It seems like I can’t bring ERP into my “real” life.
I shouldn’t have done this (trigger trigger trigger!!) So about a month ago..maybe I watched this video (as a compulsion to prove to myself) The video was called “interview with a p3d0” And basically it was what it says, I watched or more like listened to half of it…after I was disgusted by the person, but now all I can think of is every little thing I do, I feel as if tho I’m monitoring every thought/moment and feeling I have it’s torturous and I hate it..I feel disgusting, the person in the video has empathy and sympathy and had those feelings yk, I can’t explain it you’d have to watch the video yourself but please don’t it will ruin your journey…I feel more hopeless then before, my OCD is telling me so many things trying to convince me things that Ik aren’t true, I’m just really scared I don’t want to be that person I want to be a good cousin and person to my family, I’m sick of my head and myself, I’m so tired that sometimes I can’t even think straight, my head is always in pain and idek how to help myself..compulsions have been becoming more and more exhausting… I need advice or even someone to relate to, I understand I shouldn’t have done what I did but idk how to forget it.. I had made this post already but when someone replied I couldn’t see it for some reason so I’m uploading it again
I never heard about people with OCD who have messy living conditions. Maybe this is why it took so long to accept my diagnosis. Although I really dont like how OCD is percieved at by the majority of people, I feel like Im weird or something because I dont fit into that stereotype. I understand that a lot of people with OCD have this issue, but why do I feel so different? If anybody else has/had this belief, what helps with feeling more comfortable? Everytime my mom points out my room, and how its messy- Its like I feel so lazy and useless. So then I often plan out everything I was going to do, step by step, always having a reasoning behind everything, because logic always comforts me. When I start tidying up my room, I go full out (Sheets, Laundry, Clorox, Candles, Vaccuming, Then I start going through the guinea pigs cage to rearranging all of their stuff) Yet always somewhere after doing a few things, I start feeling disgusting and almost shameful of myself. 99% of the time I end up laying on my floor sobbing, noting every little thing about my room. How my furiniture doesnt match, how i would rather have solid floor like hardwood or vinyl instead of the carpet, usually things i cant change… and then barely anything gets done in my room. I start to have a meltdown and often dont take care of myself even more afterwards. A piece of me feels like my thoughts are just me being a spoiled brat and wanting everything i dont have- meanwhile others dont even have a roof over their head. The other piece of me is just tired, just emotionally exaughsted. Please comment any thoughts or recomendations to maybe improve motovation and attitude towards doing long tasks.
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