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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
My compulsions have been super bad lately and I’m not even having bad intrusive thoughts as much as I did last month, yet my compulsions are extremely worse.
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- 5y ago
They interfere with my daily life
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- 5y ago
Mine are mainly internal, like mental review/rumination, mental rituals, prayer, etc. I’ve been making a concerted effort to not do them but I’m falling back into them as of late :\ I am quicker to catch myself in the midst of a compulsion, though, which is good lol.
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- 5y ago
Research for me...hours of googling in case my ‘false memory’ ocd turns out to be true
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- 5y ago
Then taking photos of my google results. It’s exhausting.
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- 5y ago
Constant worry and ruminating, intrusive thoughts ?
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- 43w ago
Ruminating, taking innaporaite glance (related to pocd and younger kids :[ to check how it makes me feel and reacting to whatmy thoughts are saying like that , and trying to go down rabbit holes disproving that I'm like that over and over
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- 17w ago
At times, my intrusive thoughts get so intense that all I can do is lay frozen in my bed and hope I fall asleep, and usually I do even if I'm not tired. My brain just wears me out and I wanna escape through sleep. (Sadly it doesn't work all the time)
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- 9w ago
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
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- 7w ago
OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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