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- 2y
How to stop being afraid of
How to stop being afraid of Being Arrested.. And thrown in jail? And never being able to prove my Innocence?
How to stop being afraid of Being Arrested.. And thrown in jail? And never being able to prove my Innocence?
If the anticipatory dread of reading it is making you anxious- consider doing so sooner rather than later. If the erp sessions was really intense from writing it out, give yourself a break and permission to do something you enjoy as a reward and a calming tool. If you are too anxious to do that try breathing and mindfulness - I like this one: https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/5-4-3-2-1-countdown-to-make-anxiety-blast-off đ
Wonderful thank you so much.... Can I ask you one connected thing please? When doing the worse case scenario script... I have to read it 10 minutes a day repeating it What should I be doing when I get the fear and anxiety?
ERP therapy to help you manage the fears.
@Erin P Exactly this!
I started the ERP Today it was to write out the worse case scenario but I am so jacked up after the ERP session today What would you recommend ladies? I have to read it next few days Any tips?
Feel and accept it. For me just feeling it doesnât work. But when I accept it could happen and feel the feelings they do go down and it gets easier each time. Itâs hard but you can do it. Sending you strength.
Thank you Erin... I'm ready to do this :)
@donnocd You got this.
Your brain is trying to protect you. Thatâs why the anxiety feels so real but itâs a false sense of danger. Intrusive thoughts canât hurt you and youâre in no physical danger and no one else is either. Itâs a false alarm. Your brain is on lock good news you can get it off lock you have to learn how to put all this power you put into the ruminations and anxiety into other productive activities then you can accomplish amazing things.
Fear will kill you you canât fear anymore you canât be scared you need to show your brain irrelevance and show your brain Youâre not scared. Itâs a false alarm youâre perceiving a false threat. ďżź Once youâre able to change your relationship with your thoughts, thatâs when your healing will begin and once youâre able to say youâre not scared, youâll begin to heal.
Jacked up in a bad way Feeling very anxious that's been hours now
I have had the same false memory/instrusive image of me doing something horrible to someone when I was 12 and they were younger. It is a memory based on a real event. I truly donât know if itâs real or not but obviously, the more I think about it the more I think itâs true. This has led my mind to become slightly paranoid. I worry that if this horrible image in my head is true then one day the person I might have hurt will come and k*ll me. Iâm really scared I feel like I wonât feel better as long as this âmemoryâ is in my head. Does anyone have advice?
How do u stop worrying about if ur going to prison if u tell ur therapist about ur ocd or real event ocd ive told a therapist before about it but i dont know if how im feeling is rational like what i keep imagining her judging me finding me weird then calling the police and the police saying infront of everyone what happened and then me being locked up for the rest of my life .?????
UPDATE: ive reduced my posts to once per day in hopes of trying to overcome this... but right now... i genuinely feel so horrible and anxious that i need to post... (For context, in the past, I have been catfished by a man pretending to be a woman, had a minor on a dating app who lied about her age and i unknowingly flirted with her because I assumed she was 18+ and her bio said so, and sent a n00d to a "woman" online who now I suspect of being a catfish... this is the reason why I'm so scared of whether or not I unknowingly explicitly chatted wjth a minor... i know that this is all my fault, but still...) Its making me feel like I cant remember things properly... making me think i unknowingly explicitly chatted with a minor online or being catfished by a man or kid... making me question every woman Ive ever been flirted with or explicitly chatted with... intrusive thoughts of me "explicitly cybering with a minor or a man" and of me going to jail because my worst fear of "unknowingly cybering with a minor(s), or being catfished by one" coming true... im genuinely depressed... and I feel so alone... uncertainty has brought me nothing but hell... and theres no getting out... it feels like im waiting every day for my intrusive thoughts and fears to be proven right, and ending up with me going to jail... I have never felt more alone... I just keep getting intrusive thoughts that one day, when I become famous or get my dream job, im going to get a future moment of any girl I explicitly cybered with in the past, saying... "Hey, I was a minor when we cybered and while you didnt know, im going to get you arrested or cancelled." Or that im gonna get catfished by a dude pretending to be a woman online... Im genuinely scared of the future... and this is honestly why I dont want to be famous or an influencer... Because not only do i fear someone will "expose" me for my POCD and my Real Events OCD, but im also scared about this entire situation...
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