The hardest thing I’m dealing with in in my recovery is, sometimes I feel I have no choice but to blink or breathe when it enters my awareness. I’ve been told this is a compulsion. The thing is, how would one not do this compulsion?
Blinking and breathing are things we do without thinking. If you are doing this things in response to an anxious thought then it could be.
@hellopeople Yeah without thinking but the whole theme of sensorimotor ocd is that you’re aware of bodily functions that were previously done without thinking
Hi. I too have this problem. I can’t think of nothing else but my breathing. I can’t seem to get a deep breath
I keep thinking my body isn’t breathing right when I feel my heart palpitate. Then it makes me focus on getting enough air and it makes me panic. That panic makes my heart palpitations worse and then I just spiral. I don’t want to constantly freak out over my heart palpitations. It’s too the point where I feel like I’m going to throw up it scares me that much.
I just want to feel like normal it doesn’t help when nicotine has helped curb my anxiety but then tries to add to my heart palpitations if I had too much. I feel so stuck and not normal, almost unreal.
