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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’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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My ocd them has gotten worse and I’m trying my hardest to not look for reassurance. Why does my mind play these tricks on me that I’m saying my thoughts out loud????? I’m trying my hardest to ignore it but it’s making me depressed. When I’m ignoring it my brain will go to “everybody will talk about you” “you said something bad” “you said it out loud and when you’ll live a terrible life”. I don’t know what to do anymore
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- 14w
Hi guys! I had really bad harm ocd about 2 years ago and I went through therapy and eventually got really good at handling it when it would pop up. The other day, I was scrolling on TikTok and came across a girl talking about a guy who was presenting a lot of schizophrenic symptoms but no one paid attention and got him help, he was having a lot of delusions, hallucinating, thinking everyone was out to get him, thought he was Jesus and his dad was the president and ended up doing horrific things. The day after that, I was dealing with some work drama and had the thought of “what if all my coworkers are against me and trying to get me fired”. That really stressed me out, cause I don’t normally think about them like that and I went down a rabbit hole of thinking that was the beginning of me developing schizophrenia, ended up googling stuff all night, taking tests, crying and seeking reassurance. I had a thought the other day “your dad is the president”, this one didn’t stress me out as bad as I knew it was just the video I had seen and it was an intrusive thought about it, and I also didn’t believe it. Today I was with some friends and I got a prize at a place we went and it said “lonely” on it. I do have my moments of feeling lonely and this week has been specifically trying so I had a thought like “oh someone’s out to get me cause I got this”. I know this isn’t logical and it wouldn’t make sense to just randomly get it if someone was truly after me and it was just a stupid prize at a random place, anyone could’ve gotten it. Im just struggling a lot with schizophrenic OCD and thinking I’m in the pre stages of it. In my good moments, I don’t think I am at all and it was all just sparked from the video I watched but in my bad moments, these thoughts feel real!! They really stress me out and make me feel like I’m going to lose my mind causing me to lose my job/ end up in a psych hospital/ never live a normal life/ end up alone, never see me my loved ones/ hurt my loved ones. I just want to feel normal and not like I’m about to lose my mind and everything I care about. Please help!!! Anyone else going through something similar and can help me get through this!
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