- Username
- K-M
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Blegh
Rumination central right now.
- Username
- KillianKillian
- User type
- NOCD Alumni
- Date posted
- 2y ago
I’m sorry you’re dealing with this—mental compulsions can be tricky to tackle. These 2 articles have helped me a lot with rumination: https://drmichaeljgreenberg.com/rumination-is-a-compulsion-not-an-obsession-and-that-means-you-have-to-stop/ https://drmichaeljgreenberg.com/how-to-stop-ruminating/ Try to take it one step at a time. You can’t know exactly how you will handle something in the future, so the only way out is to acknowledge that reality and choose to go about your life anyway. It doesn’t have to feel pleasant or easy, and it may feel hard to stop, but the key is practice. Sometimes behavior precedes feeling—we have to choose to stop ruminating first, before the feeling of relief can come. I’m wishing you the best💜
- Username
- K-MK-M
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@Killian Thank you!
- Username
- OCDMMOCDMM
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Same!! I’m sorry. I’m just crying over it, it’s so bad for me right now, too.
- Username
- K-MK-M
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@OCDMM I’m sorry too. I was tearing up too. It’s just painful. I am literally thinking all the way into ten years from now what I’ll do about handling a specific sup type. So annoying.
- Username
- OCDMMOCDMM
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@K-M I’m always living in the future and never in the present, it sucks.
- Username
- K-MK-M
- Date posted
- 2y ago
@OCDMM It really does. I try to say acceptance statements and they’re helpful, but then I seem to go straight back.
- Username
- Cassie - AdvocateCassie - Adv...
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Aww rumination is the worst. I hate it. Something that has helped me is a form of mindfulness where I try to notice every time I start to spiral and label it as rumination. Then I try to refocus on something I value. It's a practice and it will likely take a lot of refocuses at first to stay refocused, but the practice of noticing and labeling rumination has helped me. I also agree with the comment below about thinking about mental compulsions. It can also help to respond with non-engagement responses to your ruminative worries, like "maybe that will happen, maybe not, but I am choosing to try to move on and do something I value instead of ruminating." Sending support!
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- Zrianna
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I can’t stop feeling like maybe I’m just trash. And when I’m not ruminating, it’s been pretty alright the past few days in that sense.. I feel like “why do I not care that I can potentially be such a shitty person????” When I do care. A lot. To the point I’ve been on one thing for months. But then again I’m on one thing for months.. then it feels like the next something is even worse and I’m onto that thing for the next few months. I go back and fourth from them for months. And it makes me wonder that what if I keep getting into these scenarios because I’m just fucking shit and I want to be here I am meant to be trash I’m lying to my own self about who I am truly. It starts all over again. Though it never really stops. It’s always there. It’s just hard tonight.
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- kthompson
- Date posted
- 1y ago
being perceived is painful
for me, i ruminate like crazy. all day, every day. 24/7 my mind is reflecting, worrying, criticizing. it’s to the point where when i meet someone new and introduce myself, i am immediately in my head thinking of all the reasons they hate me and why. i’ll literally convince myself i’m a loser or a horrible person and no one likes me. it’ll send myself into anxiety or depression spirals sometimes. but it’s literally. all. in. my. head. im recently diagnosed, and i feel like my lifelong anxiety makes so much sense now. but now i’m sooooo aware of intrusive thoughts or when my ocd is spiking. it’s exhausting.
- Username
- drea.a
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Many thoughts
Hello everyone it’s my birthday and I can’t stop ruminating, haha, I’m not sure why I feel sad if everything is going I guess pretty well. I keep ruminating and overthinking about this one person and stuff, we cleared things about how we feel and it made me and them feel happy but my brain keeps telling me I’m not good enough for them and that things won’t go well or something, I really hate having these thoughts because I know I should be alright but it’s all making me sad.
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