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- 6y
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- 6y
I know how you feel. Your thoughts do not define you. Instead of reassuring yourself, just try and let the thoughts slide by. Even think about the thoughts more often and eventually it will cause you to think about it less. I know it sounds weird but it does help. Supressing the thoughts make you think about it more. Good luck. Hopefully you can get a good therapist that knows how to treat ocd, if thats the formal diagnosis. Helpful tip: If it is OCD, and the therapist thinks the treatment should be about finding the root of the problem from your child (etc...), move on and find an OCD therapist that specializes in CBT/ERP. OCD should be treated by a disorder itself and with the proper exposures to your fears, you’ll lead a normal and good life.
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- 6y
yes! I have HOCD/ROCD and it feels so real! it feels like I want the thoughts even though I don’t. it really sucks
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- 6y
Thank you for replying. It is hard, it’s like I have no idea what is in my head but I do know I don’t want it there. But then, I doubt that like what if I do want it. Its just so confusing.
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- 6y
I recommend going in and getting diagnosed. Medication can calm your brain down and if you do have OCD, there is great ERP therapists out there. Trust me, you are not alone. I’ve dealt with OCD for 10 plus years. It can be good. It can be bad. But that’s life. Go get treatment and enjoy life. If you do have OCD, you can live a completely normal life :) ....Thoughts are just that. Thoughts. If you can learn not to have emotion behind your thoughts and let them pass through your head like a train not stopping at a train station. The OCD loves to “stick” called sticky thinking. OCD wants that train to slow down but let it pass. Treatment can help u with this. Everyone, including people without OCD, have all the thoughts we have. Their brains function in a way that doesn’t cause them to stick on the thought.
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- 6y
Good luck!
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- 6y
Thank you for the reply! Did you have intrusive thoughts when dealing with your OCD? I’ve never dealt with this before, but I have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression. I always felt like it was more than anxiety, though.
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- 6y
Yes. All the time. There’s so many different genres of OCD. I’m dealing with harm OCD now. Basically the thoughts are harming anyone and everyone. With a glass, pen, golf club, car. Lol you name it. It’s very difficult at times but honestly the ERP is to face your fears. Retrain the brain that you are in control of your actions. You are not in control of your thoughts. It’s a myth one can control their thoughts. The key is to controlling the reaction to the thought...I’ve had all kinds of intrusive thoughts, not just harmful. Sexual, responsibility for others, magical thinking. It’s all based around obessive thinking. What are some of your thoughts?
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- 2y
@Dan21 How are you doing now?
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- 6y
The ones I’m dealing with are sexual intrusive thoughts. I have gotten in touch with an OCD specialist and will be making an appointment soon. Usually I am able to cope and just tell myself it’s not me it’s a chemical imbalance, it’s fear and anxiety. But sometimes after a thought I just feel everything get slow and I start panicking. It’s been difficult and makes me question my own identity and reality
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- 6y
Thank you! All this has made me feel much better. I’m hopeful that I will be strong enough to beat this!
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- 20w
I can't live with OCD anymore. It's ruining my life. I feel like I'm being constantly bullied in my own mind all day everyday. I don't know if what I think and feel is ever real or normal or okay, what is me and what is the OCD thoughts. I don't know if any of my experiences are normal. I'm exhausted from picking apart every single conversation I ever have with anyone until I'm strung out by a vague and ambiguous feeling of guilt. I'm tired of feeling like I'm a bad person and feeling scared all the time and not knowing why and having my brain spin me out on an endless spiralling train of thoughts that never goes anywhere and just makes me feel disconnected from everything and everyone around me. I don't know what I feel and if what I feel is normal or if anything I am doing is real and actually me or if I'm 'losing my mind.' I don't even know if this makes any sense. I get into these states of mind where every thought in my head and everything I feel and perceive makes me question my own sanity. I don't know if anyone likes me because I have absolutely no concept of what I am actually like. I feel completely lost and confused CONSTANTLY.
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- 17w
i’m a new user on this app, I downloaded it just cause I was curious, I don’t really know if I have OCD. Because in school all I learned about OCD is things being out of place and having it to be perfect almost like perfectionism, but I’ve just recently realized there’s a whole kind of different types of OCD, some things I struggle with daily is a fear of bad things happening or almost like an impending doom of when is it gonna happen? I’m always in my head thinking feels like I’m having multiple conversations at once. Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like I’m having a conversation with myself. I have horrendous anxiety about everything and anything talking to people being around people. It just feels like it consumes my everyday life and I don’t know what to do. I can’t clearly remember anything from my childhood and some things I feel like I may be imagining I just don’t really feel like a person. I’m always thinking the worst in my relationship over analyzing and stressing out thinking of scenarios or thinking, my boyfriend‘s cheating on me. It almost all feels out of my control.
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- 16w
I think when people are saying OCD is egodystonic is really triggering me and I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I’m going through a really bad relapse and right now I’m trying to figure out if my thoughts are truly egodystonic, like I how do I know I won’t act on them, how can I trust my emotions and everything. I feel really confused and I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore or how I carry on with life because it’s so long and I’m so unsure of everything that’s going on in my head. Like how do I know that this is OCD and true desires/urges. I’m so confused.
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