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?
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
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
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.
I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
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