- Date posted
- 2y
Having a bad hocd relapse
Idk how I should react to the thoughts anymore it all just feels too real. I'm having more feelings, anxiety and urges than thoughts so it's really difficult to cope.
Idk how I should react to the thoughts anymore it all just feels too real. I'm having more feelings, anxiety and urges than thoughts so it's really difficult to cope.
i understand the pain :( the best way to deal is accept the feelings are there but not allowing them to control you. do not perform any compulsions or checking. do something to focus your mind on something else, i know its hard with OCD especially since your brain makes it to be something 24/7 but still, do yourself a favor and give yourself a deserved mental relaxation break.
Yeah it happens have u tried using humor?
Yeah I've tried every response, excercise, music, maybe maybe not etc nothing works bro
Then your doing some form of reinsurance bro like yeah some form or r u still trying to like figure it out in your brain ? Also is any other obsessions kicking in as well at the same time ??
My obsessions switch all over the place once Hocd doesn't have the hook I have random other obsessions I stress about but hocd is the worst one and yes I still try to figure it out because if I don't I feel like idk who I am and that's what scares me the most being someone I'm not. I just want to return to how my life was before.
@NeverGiveUp Yeah my brain is starting to. Do the same but yeah u gotta stop trying ik how hard it is I deal with it all day but trust me you will feel discomfort but trust me it will never get better if u keep trying to figure it out but yeah my ocd wants to attach it feel to a new theme but remember it doesn't matter what theme it is it's all ocd u have to work with it the same way as everything
@Jack-o-lantern True the theme doesn't matter and all OCD is treated the same it's just extremely difficult when its a theme that causes urges, loss of attraction, low sex drive and loss of identity. Ima try not figureing it out and delaying my compulsions for now.
@NeverGiveUp Ohh ik it sucks bro but once u stop you'll be better
Like I can’t think straight. This is making me doubt everything I’ve thought about myself and even makes me feel like I like the thoughts when I know I don’t. Like I would be less anxious at a time while I still have the thoughts and my mind would go “oh so you like it you must be gay” or the other one where I’m not anxious and I think of my attraction for girls that I’ve had my whole life and my mind goes “see now you’re not into them you’re gay” like it’s so stupid but so effective. I clearly remember being into girls my whole life but my mind is making me believe that all these attractions and feelings for women were all fake or “a thing of the past”. But I can still get aroused by women but I have this weird anxiety going on which brings these sensations/feelings and it’s so weird. Today I’ve spent my whole day thinking about it like I’ve been doing for 5 months now. I know that this aint normal but my mind just won’t let me live in peace. I never cared about my sexuality cuz I simply liked women my whole life but now my sexuality is a fundamental philosophy. I hate this.
I don’t know what to do anymore, this started nearly a year ago and caused so much stress and panic attacks over the thought of loosing my boyfriend. Now it just feels real and that he always liked girls and suppressed it (but like the boys i always liked in the past were real feelings they had to be and with my boyfriend i love him) but i haven’t got much anxiety now feels like i want the thoughts and that they don’t bother me even tho they used to, this seems to happen every time i get a lil better, idk just feels so true and that’s what i acc want with no stress, just a lil scared.
so right now my HOCD feels EXTREMELY LOUD AND STRONG, ive been trying nonstop today stating how im allowing to feel all the thoughts and feelings and let them be here for as long as they want and not figure it out, engage with it, just allowing it to be here all day long if it wants, and it has, but the EXTREME hyperfocus is there and it feels so real and feels so loud and strong that im focusing on it and trying to move on to others but cant. Ive been trying say only once that"Its just my OCD, these thoguths feelings, sensations and doubts are not me, im going to allow it to stay here as long as it can" but that doesnt work, its like as if im full of shit and i know it. ive been trying to just saying"oh well" or "cool" not caring, but im still hyperfocus on it, wtf?
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