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Does anyone with OCD abstain from alcohol or anything that alters your present state for fear their thoughts will manifest? Anyone avoid being vulnerable for that reason as well
Does anyone with OCD abstain from alcohol or anything that alters your present state for fear their thoughts will manifest? Anyone avoid being vulnerable for that reason as well
I seem to be okay with mild to moderate drinking, but if I get drunk my OCD gets majorly triggered and it takes a while to get back to normal. I think it is best for me to avoid it all together.
I quit drinking a month ago because the day after drinking I was having terrible OCD triggers (I have health related themes). I also knew I was drinking to avoid some of the OCD feelings so I was using it for the wrong reasons.
Not for those reasons, no. I just don’t like the taste of most alcoholic beverages.
I do. Ill have a beer occasionally because I really like the taste of a good craft beer. But even that I want to quit. It doesn’t help me in the least bit mentally and I get a headache after like one beer. I’m 28 and my college days are over lol. Im a lot more comfortable in my own skin and don’t need liquid courage. It’s just not fun anymore tbh. I started drinking when I was like 15 and always thought sobriety was kinda dorky. But now I realize I was just insecure. Sobriety is a great way to live more intentionally and in the present. And you just feel healthy, like you aren’t posing your body and mind. I mean it’s your one life and body, gotta treat it with respect
I noticed drinking makes me feel anxious idk if it’s ocd related though
absolutely! i do have other factors for not consuming alcohol but that is definitely one reason!!!
I drank occasionally with my friends and I didn’t mind it, but I don’t anymore bc I’m on medication. I’ve never been drunk before but I have smoked cannabis and I hated being intoxicated, so I’m assuming alcohol would have a similar effect too.
Yes exactly that’s why I will never black out. Which is probably for the best!
Yes! Never drank or used drugs, but I get really scared to do it bc I'm afraid I'll do something terrible.
I quit drinking during the pandemic because I realized 1.) I only enjoyed drinking socially 2.) I enjoyed being active and not feeling run down when I worked out after imbibing and 3.) I was in more control of my ocd and depression. It’s a personal choice and it’s becoming a lot easier to go out and find zero alcohol options now a days so I haven’t looked back. On the odd occasion (maybe 1/2 times a year) I’ll actually have 1 complete drink like my anniversary or holidays. But usually I can’t finish a full glass because I don’t have the desire to any more.
Lady thought: I’m also on medication and that too had helped me steer clear
@luveytwizzles **last thought
Yep!
Yes quit drinking! I’ll occasionally have one or two but it has become a trigger for me in sense where it just exacerbates everything making it not worth it :)
It makes me anxious thinking about having a drink with my significant other due to my Harm OCD. If I do drink, I try to not get drunk because I need to be in control. I won’t get black out drunk at all. I’m going to actually quit drinking since I’m going to start medication again and want to be healthier. I completely understand why you would avoid it. It’s the OCD making you question your character.
If there was a possibility of curing your ocd, would you be willing to enter an altered state of consciousness? This can be done through breathing meditations, polyvagal therapy and psilocybin mushroom use in a professional and guided setting. It may be a very negative and intense experience and feel worse than any exposure you've ever done for ocd, but if done right, you'll come out ocd free. Would any of you be interested in that?
Hey, I have been dealing with ocd for a while now and it has gotten to the point where every little decision could impact my whole life or something bad could happen. For example, ordering a coffee. If I pick 1st option on the menu, "you'll be a murder, evil, murdered." 2nd I would be okay. 3rd, " You'll be a pe*o, priest so you can't get married." (Not even catholic btw. Used to have obsession over it) It's tied to numbers and decisions. To the point it affects anything I do. It is tiring.
I’m curious if anyone else has ever had this. This is my specific theme in regards to my OCD that has been prevalent in my life since 2022. Quick back story: went to a party college for 4.5 years and had a blast, got as drunk as I wanted on weekends and never once felt bad about it. Then, hangovers got worse and I started partying too much. After graduation, I told myself that it’d be a really cool goal to get to the point where I could go out and just have 4 beers. Enough to enjoy myself, not enough to make me hungover. Well, this simple healthy goal turned into a massive obsession. Now, if I go over my limit of 4-5 beers/drinks, two things happen: 1. I give up and binge drink bc I might as well if I’m already over my limit. 2. The next day even if I’m super hungover, unless I can’t bc of work scheduling, I will perform a check where I drink 4 beers and see if I can still get drunk off of those. If I can get drunk, then I feel normal. If I am not as drunk, then this cycle continues. I worry about becoming an alcoholic all the time bc at this point in my life I am very active in my social scene, and alcohol is very much present. While I certainly do not have any family history of alcoholism nor the personality or drive to become one, I still fear that I might one day despite knowing I won’t. I also worry about raising my drinking tolerance by continuing to feed this obsession/compulsion loop. It’s slightly affected my personality and confidence. I’m aware it’s irrational and the solution is to simply cut back as anyone would and go out less frequently, or drink less frequently when I’m out. And yet, my other obsession with alcohol is experiencing the painful withdrawals that alcoholics experience when they stop drinking!! Despite never having experienced those withdrawals when I’ve not drank on a given night. So, it’s a weird one. Thinking the ERP is just going to be not performing those checks. If I’ve reached my limit and am not as drunk, okay. Alcohol absorption is affected by a lot. No need to check my tolerance nor go overboard since I’m not as drunk. We’ll see. I’m on Zoloft too which has helped a ton with other symptoms but this theme is making it less effective and I need to get control of it now.
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