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I’m not sure honestly, I guess it’s always been in my nature to find answers so like growing up id spend hours online. It wasn’t any different when it came to HOCD so like I knew something was off and once I found out that this was an actual condition, i read sooo many articles, listened to podcasts, watched all of Christie’s and Aly Greyhounds videos and once it stuck in my head that every single thought that I’ve been thinking even the ones doubting my actual ocd, were thoughts that people suffering ocd has thought, I kind of just started to separate the thoughts from my normal ones. Chrissie talks about whenever she felt her ocd creeping in, there were patterns. Once I started to notice my own patterns I could start to stop the thoughts (I would make myself laugh really loud in my head whenever I’d start to have a bad thought) (it usually was louder than the thoughts and helped just to cut them off before they started. I’d get anxious in my chest and throat area, I’d spend hours doing research, etc. so whenever I notice these thoughts and actions I could step back and be like hey that’s my anxiety and ocd talking, let’s do or think about something else. (Sorry I hoped that helped, I’m all over the place)
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Basically 1. Name it 2. Notice your patterns 3. Reroute your brain whenever you can feel your patterns happening
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Just know you aren't ur OCD
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It's like a different person ocd
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like a person u hate,not u
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Sorry it wasn’t suppose to be a trigger warning!!!
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But exactly, I HATE when my ocd thoughts pop in because it’s like my happy bubbly self just totally shuts off and I’m just sitting there feeling like I’m drowning, I get so depressed but the only thing that brings me back to being myself is knowing that it’s ocd making me feel like that. Some days are really hard don’t get me wrong but they’ve gotten so much better after knowing that they’re not MY thoughts, they’re a disorder that I’ve always suffered with but was diagnosed with
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Exactly what helped you to personify the OCD and as a demon to be eradicated? That would probably help me a lot, to be perfectly honest...
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Thank you!
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Hi everyone, my name is Kendal and I am new here, although I do not believe I am new to OCD in the SLIGHTEST. Im about to leave my 20s behind and begin a new chapter of my life. Everyone says your 30s are suppose to be the best right? I am proud of myself for making a huge step forward, before the beginning of this new chapter. I’ve been experiencing symptoms of OCD for as long as I can remember. These feelings, thoughts, compulsions have been existing with me since middle school. They’ve manifested in many many different ways throughout the years, and continue to evolve as I get older. I’ve experienced emetophobia, obsessive thoughts about passing out or getting sick in front of people, contamination OCD, white coat syndrome and the newest culprit… Harm OCD. In middle school, it was extremely hard to understand WHY I felt the way I felt, and experienced the intense anxieties that I did. Over the years I kind of just put up with these thoughts and feelings of uneasiness.. and thought it was just regular ol’ anxiety. Recently the harm OCD came through, triggered by a traumatic event. Lemme tell ya… if you’ve ever experienced harm OCD… I am terribly sorry. It’s absolutely horrifying. It scared me so badly, to the point of actually seeking professional help. During that extreme anxiety inducing time, I was also terrified to tell a professional what was happening to me. I started with telling my husband first. What a RELIEF! I learned that telling someone made me feel so much better so I thought, man… I wonder what telling a professional would do for me? RELIEF!!!!! She helped me realize that yes this is a very very real thing people experience daily. She’s suggested therapy to pair with medication. I’ve given the medication about a year to do its thanggg and goodness, what a difference. I wish I got help earlier but hindsight is 20/20. This is me, now ready to implement therapy. I’m ready to gain a better understanding, collect coping skills and chat with people who have had similar experiences. Thinking you’re alone in OCD is incredibly isolating and scary. I am happy to finally realize I am not alone.
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I am newly diagnosed with OCD as a 33 year old female I was fat oses with bipolar at 15 and never really identified with it much and totally relate to ocd. I wish i would have known long ago so I could have gotten treatment earlier. Now that I know and am aware and can see what’s off and what are compulsions and my insatiable need for reassurance it’s so overwhelming- it feels like my mind is a prison and attacks me with a new pure o quest as soon as I wake up I’m optimistic I’ll be able to get better but it just feels like it’s time sucking and joy stealing disorder I know I’m not alone here I feel like a crazy person replaying and replaying things I want to know if you can relate or if you have been at this for a while and actually feel like you are breaking free from this Thanks for the read
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Hi! I have just recently been diagnosed with OCD and it’s come as kind of a shocker to me. My friends aren’t that surprised (most of them are psych majors lol) but my parents/family are very skeptical and have been telling me that it’s just anxiety. I was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and severe depression when I was 14. I’ve had hydroxyzine NPR since then and I’ve tried lexapro and propanalyl (both made me feel like i was going crazy) and then was misdiagnosed as having bipolar 1 (hypomania). I finally have found a therapist that specializes in OCD and we did the assessment and concluded that my anxiety/depression has stemmed from it. Most likely I have experienced my OCD symptoms since I was 11 (when my anxiety first appeared) and I am now 21. I mostly have obsessions, but I do have a few compulsions. Most of them relate to my personal space or social settings. I have a good amount of driving anxiety as well and I have a set route for every single place that I drive to regularly. I have a set morning routine that I am only comfortable with being disturbed when I have had ample time to prepare myself for a change. This new diagnosis and learning what it is and what the different types are has kind of uprooted my social life and drastically decreased my mental health. I guess I’m here to try to find some balance and some people who actually understand what it’s like to feel like there’s something wrong with your brain and no way to “fix” it. I’ve tried talking to my friends/bf/family and none of them truly understand or could even begin to imagine what it’s like inside my head. I’m just trying to find my bearings and feel the ground under my feet, but I don’t exactly know where to start.
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