- Date posted
- 2y ago
vaping??
can vaping even zero nicotine make ocd symptoms worse??
can vaping even zero nicotine make ocd symptoms worse??
From experience dude, I think you may be over thinkin it. It all really depends on the person tho. If it had nic it maybe would effect it.
I really had no difference with it and without. It didn’t really effect me at all.
I literally use one every day and I feel like it does !!!!!!!!!!!!
@Anonymous I’d say it definitely does for me too
Nicotine 100% can. Cigs especially. Zero nicotine (if it is completely free of nicotine) shouldn’t cause an increase in symptoms but even one puff of a nicotine one could. It makes your heart beat faster and confuses your brain into thinking it’s anxiety. Therefore makes it worse. I’ve been told many times how Nicotine can cause anxiety. Zero nicotine I don’t believe it does. Maybe if your panicking about the use of the vape (i used to) then it can make symptoms worse but not usually the actual vape. All the best 🤍
I want to beat OCD because I have seen and felt the benefits of clearing my brain from unnecessary, pointless, thoughts. OCD is like 0 calorie food. It’s pointless. No nutrition or benefits come from my obsessions or compulsions. I don’t care to have answers to everything anymore. I catch myself just trying to stress myself out so that I have some worry to feed on. But like I said, it’s a 0 calorie food. I get nothing from it but wasted time and energy. My brain feels more spacious when I’m not consumed by OCD. I’m present. My personality has room to be herself without making space for bullshit. I tell myself now that worry is poison. I think Willie Nelson was the person I got that quote from? Anyways, that imagery of worries being poison for the mind has been transformative for me. I’m evolving. 💖 Thanks NOCD community.
This is kind of a weird question, but I recently increased my SSRI dosage and have experienced tremendous relief. It has quieted my intrusive thoughts so much and my compulsions are no longer as all-consuming. However, I don’t want to be on this high of a dosage forever and know that medication alone shouldn’t be my only fix. I’m seeing a new psychiatrist on Wednesday and am wondering if the recent decrease in frequency of my symptoms will be a bar to my getting ocd treatment? In other words, if in this present moment I’m doing better, but up until a few days ago my compulsions were taking up pretty much every moment of my waking day, will I still be classified as having ocd? I start getting worried when I feel better that I don’t actually have ocd and just use it as a defense mechanism to avoid consequences of my actions/I’m secretly a terrible person
I have HOCD and ROCD and it makes me wanna puke all day I live with my husband
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