i can’t stop acting on my thoughts like if i have a thought i need to do a compulsion to shake it or to feel safe anyone have any tips to completely stop it’s become a habit and i’m so stressed about it
Take it one step at a time. You need to breathe first. Then journey all those worries and fears onto paper. That helps slow your mind down. Doing a cold water dunk in the bathtub for 5 mins will shock you back to reality. It will force you to focus on something else. Then set your worry on a timer. This is hard but it does work. Set a time for you to worry, like at 11AM for 15 minutes. Tell yourself that you’ve worried enough for tonight. You will worry again tomorrow at that time. It lets your brain take a break cause your not forcing yourself to stop. But your allowing it to worry, just not at this moment.
@Brooklyn_99 thank you so much i appreciate this so much💓💓
@Keira.Flynn2204 Your so welcome. It allows you to steal some mental control back.
I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!
I have the thought of what if I lose control and do something out of my control like scream for no reason or yelling in a store or just blurting stuff out that’s not in my control and it causes so much anxiety and causes me to feel weird. I always think I’m on the edge of losing control of myself and it’s exhausting living like this. Any tips?
I cannot for the life of me stop ruminating or checking how I feel about thoughts or focusing on thoughts or creating more thoughts. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I want to scream. I try not to ruminate about the thoughts, but trying not to just makes me think about them more. I try not to check, but somehow, I still check. I want to let a thought sit in the background, but the more I try not to focus on it, the more I end up focusing on it. I don’t want the thought to expand because that feels like engaging with it, but I can’t just stop it from expanding. It feels impossible. People keep saying I’m in control of my compulsions, and maybe that’s true for the physical ones. But when it comes to the mental compulsions, I swear I have no control. It feels like I’m missing something that everyone else seems to have, like there’s some tool they’re using that I don’t have. Controlling mental compulsions has never felt possible for me. I’m starting to fear them. And every time someone says I’m in control and can just choose not to do them, I end up beating myself up even more when they happen. Or when I *choose* I guess. I don’t know anymore. If this is my fault, if I’m responsible for this, then what does that make me? I feel like a monster. I am at my wits’ end. How am I supposed to control mental compulsions when it feels like they control me? I freak out when they happen. They don’t bring me relief, they just make me panic. I want it to stop so bad.
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