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I went through this! It's really scary and overwhelming. It made me feel very panicky all of the time. One of my biggest fears was losing my mind as well - so I was hyperaware and was looking for signs everywhere. It's exhausting! This is an article I love because it describes ways to respond to intrusive thoughts: https://www.sheppardpratt.org/news-views/story/how-to-respond-to-unwanted-obsessive-thoughts/. These are tools I use to help myself be present when OCD is trying to distract me! Have you ever done any therapy for OCD?
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@rye00 - I'm so glad to hear you're in therapy! I know how every day can be so different. My biggest advice is practice and consistency with exposures and techniques - it made the world's difference for me!
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- 2y
Yes!!! I constantly feel like my brain is overloading with thoughts, it’s exhausting. Any small thing can trigger a bunch of thoughts in my head.
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Hey 👋 😌 I know I’m super late to this but I recently started experiencing this quite a lot especially when I’m under a lot of stress and tired and in the quiet or if there’s white noise around and the example you gave I relate to it so much and I even went on Reddit to see if someone else was experiencing this and someone made a post about it and most of the comments were “oh that’s not normal if it’s not your own voice you’re probably developing something” and it just made me feel more anxious :/ were you able to overcome this and what helped if you did ?
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- 21w
I don't know what to do anymore, the fear of psychosis and schizophrenia is so bad in so hyper aware of everything I hear and everything I see, I've always had eye floaters now I convince myself that it's really me hallucinating, I've always had tinnitus but now I'm convinced it means I'm going to go crazy soon, I can't sit in quiet because all I'm focusing on is what I'm hearing, and searching for any sounds I can't distinguish, when there's background noise I get so anxious if I think I heard something but im not sure I did or I'm just anxious, I'm terrified I'll start having delusions and sometimes my brain confuses some sounds for other sounds for example say I'm hyper focused and I breathe and my nose makes a whistling sound my mind interprets it as a scream and I freak out thinking I'm hallucinating only to focus closer and realize it's my own breathing, earlier I was so anxious that I couldnt tell if I had an intrusive thought or heard something, I don't know how to make it stop, I've been through this theme before I just forgot how hard it was I'm having a panic attack please help
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My mind just starts racing with thoughts all day. I overthink aswell so I just tend to sit in the thoughts and can’t escape. I mostly have thoughts that tell me I don’t like the things I do like snowboarding or backpacking or if I even if I love my girlfriend. Deep down I know I do but then I start getting worried that the more I think these things the more they come true. Then I have tons and tons of more thoughts throughout the day and it just feels like I’m constantly having anxiety and constantly battling my brain over things that don’t even make sense. I’m only 17 and this is extremely hard and I feel like I’m wasting these teenage years. I don’t know what to do or where to go. I’ve picked up reading my bible and praying more but the thoughts persist please help.
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- 19w
My ocd gets so loud in the silence and right before bed when there’s no distractions. I always struggled with anxiety since my teens and guided meditation used to help… until OCD. First time trying guided meditation with OCD I had an intrusive thought of “what if you actually lose control and can’t follow these instructions?” And got even more anxious 🫠🫠🫠 had to stop, and haven’t tried to meditate ever since. Just curious to know. Sometimes I feel like I have the worst type of OCD. It will latch onto anything to make me anxious!
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