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Please hang in there. You are not alone. We are all here for you. Please please remember, there are better days ahead. Are you in therapy or reading any good self help books? Or on meds?
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There are so many good books you could buy. I am about to start reading a good book for OCD. It is called "The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD". I'm also going to call my dr to up my dosage of my meds. I strongly encourage you to try reading and working through all of this with a good book at least. And see about getting into a regular dr to try a good med. Please, remember you are not alone. Take it one day at a time. One moment at a time. There are better days ahead.
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No I’ve tried to contact people for therapy they either didn’t get back to me , to expensive , or too far and I do not have any books
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Hi. I’m sorry you’re going through this. I used to have this worry, too. It’s really hard! The best thing you can do right now is exposure! I played this iPhone game once called Mystery Room where a character had DID, maybe try that as exposure. You could work your way up to watching a movie like Sybil or Split. Trust me, OCD is VERY treatable. I thought I would never get over my Harm OCD, and after a lot of dedicated exposure, it went away easily. You’ll get through this. Also I’m sorry your family and friends don’t support you as much as you’d like, but everyone on this app is always here for you! You’re going to make it to 21 and beyond, okay? I believe in you!
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Thanks you guys . It’s just these thoughts are really getting to me . I feel like a crazy person . I’m afraid that oneday I will truly lose myself it’s very sad and terrifying
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I’m afraid that I will somehow manifest the illness if I didn’t have the anxiety
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I came across a video that was talking about a theory and it was something me and my friend were talking about 2 years ago and were tweaking about and i was explaining it to my girlfriend just now and them i started to get anxiety about stuff not being real and my world isn’t what it seems to be and that there stuff out there and then i started to have religious OCD and then it went to how Im scared of the world being fake or suffering from a mental illness like schizophrenia or something and stuff and I’ve been having OCD about my girlfriend being a government agent or that government agents are watching me cause I’m scared of schizophrenia and thinking like them i don’t think i actually think it i kinda just go to my girlfriend isn’t a government agent which scares me into thinking i was thinking she was or gonna think she is or idk if i just saying that to bot seem insane or something but like idk if i truly believe that i doubt it i don’t believe it any other time and then i started getting stress i might hurt or maybe kill her and it scares me cause shes my everything and I’m scared of losing her idk guys I’m getting stressed hella and I’m scared of myself and my OCD I’m genuinely tired of it like anyone can ask my girlfriend and she’ll say i cant go 5 mins without ticcing (from ocd) or asking for reassurance like that life is real and thats shes real and I’m real and nothings wrongs and stuff, i probably sounds crazy lmaoo maybe and the sucky thing is i don’t have a therapist or a thingy going on for me cause i don’t have a job and or insurance let alone.
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My ocd has been flaring up lately I’ve noticed some things that I don’t know if it’s ocd or something else whenever I seen someone like drugged or sick or just not “normal” I feel like or get scared that’s gonna end up being me? Does that make sense or then after a few minutes I feel like I’m them I don’t know exactly how to explain it I feel like I’m gonna start acting crazy or like I act weird or like them ? Idk exactly how to explain it and I have such a drop in my stomach thinking of it because it makes me feel insane, I haven’t had such an ocd episode so it’s getting hard again and making me feel insane specially because I don’t know how to explain this that I feel, I feel so scared rn can someone please comment on this?
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i’m trying to not let the thoughts bother me but it’s just so stressful. even me typing that feels like i’m lying when i know i’m not. i’m scared because even my therapist tells me that it’s just ocd, but in the back of my mind i slightly don’t believe her, and its making me scared that i AM like those people and im gonna act on something. sometimes in social moments i get a quick thought of me being an outcast because im like those people who are sick in the head and act on that stuff, and it just makes me feel like i truly am gonna eventually act on something. another thing that bothered me is earlier my mom yelled at me for not doing school work (it was well deserved im really slacking on it) and i had like no reaction to her screaming. it had me thinking what if i have no empathy etc etc, and what if i get mad that she yelled at me and i do something involving those thoughts. how do i TRULY know it’s ocd? like i try to remind myself and be like “dude, your therapist said it’s ocd, she isn’t wrong” but the back of my mind is like “she is wrong, it’s not ocd and she just happened to misdiagnose you. you are gonna act on those thoughts and it’s your fate”. please someone respond if you read all of this, im really struggling
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