Feeling overwhelmed

I am in the middle of a family crisis and also embarking on ERP. I have been asked to keep a fear diary for my next session but my head is all over the place and OCD has almost disappeared. I still get the odd intrusive thought but it's about not having OCD and not the theme that had been tormenting me for the last month's)years. Is it normal for OCD to step back when you have a very 'real' problem that is consuming all of your waking hours? This is causing me to feel an OCD fraud and I'm almost getting OCD about not being affected by my usual theme during this family crisis. Any advice?

Isabel Davis

Date posted: 2y ago

Yup your mind is hyper focusing on something else. This is normal.

lesley68

Date posted: 2y ago

Thank you for your reply.

MSR72

Date posted: 2y ago

The head being all over the place is exactly why writing things down would be helpful. It gives structure to thought. OCD is the mind trying to problem solve, so it makes sense that it could briefly stop if something more urgent was happening. My advice is to write things down. You will be surprised how cathartic being able to dump all the toxic garbage on a page can be. Then you can analyze it or throw it away. Both are valuable.

lesley68

Date posted: 2y ago

Thank you for your reply

Eliane

Date posted: 25w ago

Confused

I have a question My OCD has felt almost invisible the past few weeks and now that is starting to stress me out a lot. Right now I am at a point in my treatement where I was asked if I would like to take medication. I told my therapist this week that I would like to try the medication based on how miserable I feel in during OCD flare ups. But now my brain always tells me that I only go throught this treatement etc. to seek attention and that I am just dramatic and should be ashamed of myself for wanting to take this medication. So now I am doubting if I should take the medication or not. Any advice?

Anonymous 25#

Date posted: 21w ago

Weird ?

Has anyone ever just felt weird? It’s hard to explain but I just feel weird lately. I usually suffer with harm OCD and I feel like lately I’m not reacting to things I normally would. There’s certain things that will trigger me a little but then other times (like over the last few days) it’s like I feel nothing. I’ll get thoughts and because I don’t feel the physical sensation in my chest or get very emotional like I normally would it’s weird to me. Does this mean I’m liking the thoughts now? Or like I’m comfortable with those actions happening? I’m so confused. Has anyone ever gone through this?

Mika05

Date posted: 15w ago

Worried about not being anxious?

These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.

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