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- 6y
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- 6y
Yes, when I’m tired, OCD flares up:/
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- 6y
I’m so sorry:( I’ve been in that place many times before. If you can tolerate caffeine, maybe bring some green tea or something with you. It has a little caffeine and a little natural brain boosting power:) If you’re too anxious for caffeine, try having scheduled grounding sessions (30secs-1min each) every 5-10 mins during your test to bring the anxiety down enough to refocus your energy on the questions.
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- 6y
Triggers me too, and Im afraid I’ll loose contact to the real World, and end up crazy. - But Im not, Its just a trigger❤️
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- 6y
Ugh I hate it :( I have a test this morning and I feel a bunch of panic attacks coming on already
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Thank you , I can’t tolerate it very well tho.... what else can I do to calm down?
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- 6y
Do you know how to do grounding? Finding 5 things by sight, then smell, then hearing, etc...focusing only on that one sense at a time. Ik that a lot of ppl say that focusing on your breathing and trying to breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7, then out for 8 helps. I’ve tried that and it doesn’t really help me bc I’ve got asthma and it reminds me of how I have to work/focus to breathe while having an attack, so if you have any lung problems I’d say to prob nix that idea. Another good one is to have something textured to rub, like a fidget toy, or tracing the stitching on your clothes if appropriate (like the sides of jeans). It sometimes helps bring me “out” of my mind.
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- 6y
Yes! Noise triggers me. Especially noise made by my dog because my OCD/false memories (I think they’re false, but then don’t think so, part of it isn’t) and every time I hear her I think back of the memory and want to kill myself because I can’t deal with the guilt anymore. The BEST PART is she is one of those small dogs that NEVER SHUTS UP. Plus she’s old. So she is barking at anyone and everything, and when she sleeps constantly making grunting noises, she follows me around. It does WONDERS for my OCD. Most days I just lock myself in my room ????
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- 20w
There are times my harm ocd has me convinced that my feelings of self harm or suicide and harm are real and that any moment I could commit the act on myself or my family. Is there anyone who can chime in on this. I feel like all the time I want to leave run away or avoid my family because of these thoughts. Like I shouldn’t be around my children and I don’t trust myself.
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- 14w
i’m back in a cycle of having harm related OCD thoughts and feelings and urges and i get these episodes where it’s like i’m disassociating and feel like i’m about to snap and go crazy violent. does anyone else experience this? i need help
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- 11w
i had thoughts of “planning” to harm my boyfriend. we have a trip coming up and my intrusive thoughts were telling me “nobody will know if you harm him all the way over there”, then my mind started rambling on like “everyone will know-“ and so on and so forth, it actually made me feel like i was contemplating on doing something and now it feels like im turning evil ): has anyone had thoughts like this?
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