does anyone else find that as your ocd symptoms get less often it’s like triggers get way worse. like you don’t have constant thoughts but to compensate when u do get triggered bad it’s like really bad anxiety and way more difficult
I wonder what you’re thinking in the moment: when that happens to me it’s like “oh yes the anxiety is getting better I must be healing” and then when I get a triggering intrusive thought it feels worse, not because it’s worse than what I have dealt with before, but because I have this type of thought in a fraction of a second after, “oh here we go again maybe this is the start of a new episode” or something of the sort which triggers worse anxiety.
@Scoobertdoobert That’s interesting for me it’s more distressing because it’s caught me off guard, if thoughts are constant when i get triggered it’s not overwhelming because i’m already being bombarded 24/7 but when it eases up it’s like i’ve put down my psychological shield abit and don’t feel so prepared to deal w it
@Roccoxx555 on top of that if i spiral i defo think “oh here we go again”, so annoying haha
@Roccoxx555 Yup I think that plays into it too, like it’s such a stark difference between the feeling of calm and then the sudden hurricane.
@Scoobertdoobert it’s so difficult it takes like 3 hours for me to properly calm down again but at least i get more breaks ish
Literally for two weeks I felt like I was in a better mind frame literally like I had a whole two weeks of feeling like myself but the minute I was triggered everything felt ten times worse
@Habu yes i was kind of similar and it’s ranked up my avoidance because i don’t want it to happen again now because i felt better when i wasn’t triggered although just gotta keep exsposing
Maybe the fear of OCD episodes is something to confront in ERP.
@Anonymous yes i’m going to try do imaginary exposures of me having an episode but tbh it’s mostly still the content that scares me
Yea me too, i feel like it’s never get better
@JüsTAn0nÿm0uš it’s really confusing but keep up hope, i think what will be useful is doing imaginary exsposures of you getting triggered so your more prepared when it happens
I feel this too. I'm very careful about what I look at now
@MushroomStew it’s good to get triggered even though it physically hurts haha, if we don’t respond then the anxiety can come down (not matter how long it takes, it eventually passes ) i think it is just super scary especially when you’re not expecting it but with practice it will get easier !
I was actually was told not to do as much erp because my grandma had passed away, so it was quite a shock to me despite the fact that she did pass away those two weeks I had gotten some god given strength like out of nowhere, eventhough I was told not do erp I was confronted with natural exposure so for example I have a fear of death so I was actually there when she passed at that time it didn’t effect me but now omds literally I’m getting visuals, nightmares the whole lot
@Habu why were u told to do less erp? ocd can rank up when you’re stressed too, the death of a loved one can be very overwhelming, this may explain why you’re finding it harder to deal with
Does anyone Else’s ocd flare up bad when in stressful life situations? I was doing amazing and now that I’m having some drama with my life it seems to have come back with a vengeance. Anyone else?
Does anyone else ever feel like they don’t feel “bad enough” to have OCD, or that they don’t feel “the right way” for it? Or like they’re just saying they have OCD as an excuse? Because i was so much better for like 3 weeks now and now im on my period and i started doubting again. So because of that im scared that i was feeling to good and that my fear is actually true.
Anyone else just have days where they feel more calm and don’t have as many intrusive thoughts? But then later at night time it just comes back so you only had relief even for a little bit 😞😞 I feel like even when I’m not having my OCD send me intrusive thoughts, I always have a feeling in my stomach that something is wrong/off or a sense of doom. I always just feel on edge and anxious as if my mind is always preparing itself for the next horrifying intrusive thought to torment me with ugh 🫠
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