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Make a hierarchy from one to ten of exposures that would make you the least to most anxious. For example: watching a movie where someone uses a knife might be a 1, using a knife near a family member might be a 10. Then slowly work your way up the hierarchy. If you need some good shows/movies for exposure, I used the following: End of the Fucking World, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, The Act, Dead to Me, and Bones. You’ve got this, dude!
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I struggle with this one at times, you aren’t alone, but it’s awful. ERP and ACT have really helped me, but I still find my Harm OCD waxes and wanes. When it “returns” I start to question my sanity and feel terrified that I am going to lose control, but I try to talk back to it. Kind of like, “yeah, OCD, I hear you, I may or may not go crazy today, but for right now I’m going grocery shopping and you can come along for the ride.” I find when I approach it that way, rather than “oh no, there is that thought again” it helps diminish its power.
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Hi! I overcame Harm OCD with ERP therapy. I can give you more info if you want :)
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Please, thanks!
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I’m new to treatment and only realized I have OCD a few months ago. I went through a tough and abusive marriage and ended up getting divorced. I had my first panic attack several years ago and ended up needing to go on Lexapro. This helped me significantly and allowed me to leave my partner. Several years later and I decided to stop Lexapro because I thought I was good to go. I’m in a very healthy relationship, have a great job, friends/family, go to the gym and have a wonderful life. It’s been about a year off the meds and I’ve had some panic, but I’ve been able to manage it. For some reason, the last three weeks has been really difficult for me. I have different spirals and different thought processes: what if I’m schizophrenic? What if I have a deeper mental disorder? What if I hurt someone? What if I need to leave my partner? What if I end up becoming so depressed that I end up hurting myself? My brain just goes from one what if to the next and once I conquer one, the next one pops up with even more intensity. I started taking NAC and inositol and I’m taking saffron during the day because I really don’t wanna go on back on medication but sometimes my thoughts scare me and I’m convinced that I’m not gonna get better and I know that’s just the OCD loop, but I’m wondering if this resonates with anyone else!
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i haven’t been diagnosed with ocd but I have anxiety about harming other people/family members and it’s like urges and im scared I actually want to do it? I don’t think I’ve ever been violent as a kid (im 21 now) and the intrusive thoughts don’t go away so im just stuck all day everyday for the past few weeks just thinking and being scared about it and im having all these weird emotions like being irritated and angry I don’t want to hurt people I don’t think idk why my mind is making me think I do I’ve had intrusive thoughts before that I could brush away sure it took like a day or two but this one is different it doesn’t go away and leaves me with the worst fear imaginable and nothing I look up that should be giving me relief is giving me relief + I feel like im not in control of my body and that im just gonna lose it and act on these thoughts it’s just all on a loop and im not sure how im supposed to live the rest of my life when im in constant fear of my self
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I’m not suicidal by any means, I had a thought one time when I was going through some stuff and ever since then I wake up every morning and think about it all day I have thoughts like “did I mean that?” “Did I want that?” “Am I gonna think this all day” “would I really do that” and literally it’s to the point it’s driving me nutssss please tell me I’m not alone and please tell me how you got through this, I started antidepressants about 6 days ago it’s called Effexor for the mean time I need some advice
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