- Username
- Cody
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I don’t know a good title honestly… “Help”?
I have a compulsion that’s 50% difficult for the mental disorder side of things, and the other 50% of the problem is my pride being involved. I used to obsess over having a strong willed mind, and would constantly test myself in various ways. I didn’t know it then, but these various ways were all compulsions I was doing.. feeding the monster that I now know is called ocd. I started getting the intrusive thoughts of how long I could stand holding my breath, and would even almost pass out sometimes from either doing it too much.. or for doing it too long. I have a fear of suffocation, so I get a sense of accomplishment when I can hold it for the limits that i set before doing so… but I feel absolutely weak and almost even worthless when I try and fail to reach my limits. I feel myself give in, and that’s just not the cloth from which I was cut so I try again and again and again until I finally reach my target.Up until that point my adrenaline starts going, and I feel my heart beating out of my chest while I try to hold it for however long the intrusive thought says. Lately it’s been 2 minutes. I’ve been doing so well in ignoring the intrusive thoughts and not giving in to the compulsion lately, but back when I was doing this regularly I would usually go for 2 minutes. It’s been a few months since the last time I did this I think, so I have no idea if I could even go that long now, and the fear of trying and not being able to do it… feeling the way I never want to feel again, that’s got my anxiety through the roof. I need help, serious help.. but NOCD doesn’t accept my insurance and no other therapists in my area seem to know enough about ocd to truly get me through it the way that I’m failing to do for myself. I don’t know how to explain this any better than this: I’m losing my mind. I can’t stop the intrusive thoughts from making me feel like I made a promise to God and then I end up in positions like I’m in now **where I finally make a real promise** and now can’t fall back on the “well, it was just an intrusive thought” excuse. Now I’ve truly made a promise to God, and I fear the ocd lies have now become a reality. Even without ocd, my pride is still there. How do I cope with the fact that I might not be able to hold my breath for 2 minutes and how would that same pride that keeps me and ocd attached not bring us back together? You can see why this is so frustrating. The people reading this far probably are because they feel the same way. Life isn’t supposed to be like this, and there should be therapy given to ANY kind of insurance… as the people who suffer from this demonic disorder come from every walk of life. My life is ruined, and nobody is helping me stop this. I’m losing my mind, and that’s all I had left. This would be laced with swear words but im afraid it would get taken down. I want to atleast be able to say that I posted this cry for help. I tried