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- 2y
I’m tired of OCD
Don’t y’all ever do everything that’s in your hands? Exercise, got to therapy, eat healthy, go for a walk, etc etc and your obsessions just don’t go away, they just scream louder 💔
Don’t y’all ever do everything that’s in your hands? Exercise, got to therapy, eat healthy, go for a walk, etc etc and your obsessions just don’t go away, they just scream louder 💔
You gotta find something that works too stop that. For me, when I really wanna quiet my mind, I grab one of my transformers and I will transform them over and over and just space out.
yes, it's also what I've been experiencing 😞
You’re not directly dealing with OCD that’s why. A lot of these are good for your overall mental health but don’t necessarily target your mental illness. They’ll provide some ease and maybe a distraction for a while but they aren’t helping you confront your fear or exposing you to it. ERP & ACT will. NOCD have links to workbooks you can do at home on their website… they go through ERP and themes but you should try to get some therapy with an OCD specialist who does ERP.
You have to directly work on getting better with OCD through ERP therapy and a HUGE part of that is not seeking reassurance, not ruminating, not checking, not doing compulsions, and not avoiding. You can drink green tea multiple times a day and meditate and work out every single day and go to Sarah but if you’re not doing what truly needs to be done then you’re not going to get better or you’ll only see small progress, honestly.
@Nica Go to therapy*
Sucks!!!!!!
I hate how ocd targets everything I love to do. Walking, excercising, gym… I used to love those things. It was my therapy. It were the things I could escape my thinking. Now those are the things i get stuck in my head. Why? It makes me sad. Sorry not so positive today.
Having ocd is so incredibly exhausting and depressing- my mom and dad argued with me for over an hour talking about how im a pain to be around, go in too many loops, and ruin everything and everyones mood… this conversation started with me saying im stressed out because of school and that i dont want to go because im exhausted- and idk if this is like ocd directly but it takes me like 2 hours to get ready in the morning because i need to look PERFECT and the same everyday literally 😭 and that process feels so exhausting every morning at 6am but i will NOT go to school without going through with it- i will literally be crying and shaking and wanting to go home the minute i get to school if even a single strand of my hair is not perfectly straightened or any blemishes or flaws are showing- and i cant even walk to school or anything bc im scared the humidity will mess with my hair and everything- and it just really affects my life? And yeah its freaking exhausting. And i have two more years of highschool and I dont know if im going to make it 😭i get super stressed over grades too because i need them to be extraordinary otherwise its a fail. Nothing below 95%. And thats also tiring! 😁 and my mom told me today “medication IS NOTTTT AND OPTION!!!” Like oh okay so im just cooked 😭 and therapy isnt really helping me at all- i feel like what im being told is so basic and generic and it doesn’t help me when im in a huge ocd episode- which is often… and what i hate most is like my mom says “don’t come to me with your problems after 6pm…” im sorry i cant schedule my feelings 😭 im so tired
I’m trying to do ERP therapy, but I keep thinking my subtype of ocd is the worst there ever is. I tried going on a walk tonight and the adrenaline in my body along with the shakes and the burning in my chest got so overwhelming. I felt like I was just about to lay down in the gutter along the sidewalk. I’m not trying to be super negative. I just don’t know what to do anymore. If it’s not one thing it’s another and I just wanna cry so bad and I want it to go away but it won’t I almost feel like I have to call a crisis line or something even right now while I’m writing this I’m crying so bad. I can’t enjoy a single thing. I joined a support group tonight, but I just feel like I feel so bad for everyone because of how awful it is. I know what I’m writing right now doesn’t make a lot of sense but I just don’t know what to do anymore. Part of me wants to quit ERP therapy so bad cause I don’t think it’s gonna ever help. if anyone has any advice or suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated.
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