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Blank mind
Does anyone else experience mind blankness? It’s like I’m a robot. I’m talking but I don’t feel in control. Fuzzy brain/feel disconnected from reality and myself.
Does anyone else experience mind blankness? It’s like I’m a robot. I’m talking but I don’t feel in control. Fuzzy brain/feel disconnected from reality and myself.
Yes I feel this when I’m in between an OCD flare up and clarity. When the distress decreases, I feel so fuzzy and far away from reality, like I’m physically here but mentally I’m gone.
@Yourmindislyingtoyou Is there anything that helped with the fog? Even temporarily?
@mtvick Exercise and water, but it’s hard to have the motivation for the exercise.
@Yourmindislyingtoyou Agreed. Thanks so much I’ve been looking for anything to help!
Yes. Which is completely understandable during the ongoing struggle of OCD. Mentally and probably also physically you’re tired and exhausted from the compulsions or trying to resist the compulsions you’re doing. Experiencing Derealisation/depersonalisation and brain fog with ocd is normal and expected. I know it’s hard and feels spooky, hopeless and horrible. I’m right there with you. But don’t give up <3
yes! It gets better when you stop trying to fight it. Welcome to fog and the emptiness, don’t fear it because understand that it IS temporary
@Anonymous Is there anything you do to help the dog?
Thank you for this <3 I’ve been having these symptoms for nine months and at this point I’ve accepted it won’t go away for a while
Yep, and then you feel like you want your intrusive thoughts and still feel this way. It's the worst but it does get better.
Yes this is where I am now like the intrusive thought is in the background and there’s no point in ruminating anymore because I know there’s nothing there it’s just blank but with anxiety attached it feels so scary I feel like I don’t know what to do with myself
Why is this illness so cruel, I consider myself a good and moral person, OCD makes me feel like I’m some kind of a monster capable of awful things
Yes what’s helped me is redirecting to the present - if you keep practicing that your body and mind will connect again (slowly, but you will feel like you have a clearer mind). Also; when you think you aren’t ruminating you most likely still are. So again going back to redirecting to the present.. I know it’s harder said than done but you got this keep going and don’t fight it just let it be
@Anonymous Thank you so much. I’ve been looking for tips for this for so long I really appreciate you
@mtvick I’m so happy to help- it’s really been helping for me. To redirect my thoughts and no matter how easy it is to start ruminating reminding myself “don’t go there” come back here in the now and then slowly your brain will start to get used to being in the present
Yeah you are right I think I’m constantly ruminating even sub consciously it’s been so long now it’s habitual. I know I should just trust who I am and not listen to the negative voices. The problem I have is the intrusive thought is tied into a real event! The thoughts not real but it’s tied into an event where I felt anxious after so of course my OCD had a field day with that throwing up scenarios as to why I was anxious
@sazMar Yes me too - I have real event ocd, I think how untried to snap out of my sub conscious rumination was by closing my eyes and thinking of a really happy memory or event that happened and kept replaying different memories in my life that made me so happy and something really positive, I told myself 3 things i was super grateful for, then I noticed the loud thoughts started to get lower, then once I noticed my brain started to slowly go back to the real event or the rumination I would tell myself “redirect” consistently which caused me to continue to stay in the present and to stop letting me go back to the rumination. You will still go back to ruminating but once you catch yourself and stick to the present by redirecting, you will get better at redirecting and your ocd will get quieter.. I hope this helps but so far this has helped me tremendously
@sazMar Mines like that too! Mine was triggered by an event and it convinced me that my ruminations are real
@mtvick So hard to get rid of when tied in with a real event, you know its a thought it was just something to explain the anxiety it’s not real but you end up in a battle with yourself
Yeah I do keep trying to think of other things I’m hopeful at some point something will click and I can start living again
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?
My allergies are probably to blame mostly but I keep feeling like I got brain fog and it’s hard to concentrate. My ocd says what if you loose control and don’t know where your at and can’t concentrate and complete and task. I feel like I got alot going on trying my side gigs etc and working. Not feeling the best today.
Hi everyone, I haven’t posted in a while—about 6 months—but I’m really struggling and need some help or advice. I thought I had healed from all of this, or at least I was doing so much better. I have never felt this before but it feels like I’m slipping back into something I can’t control. Right now, it feels like I’m stuck in a bad reality. It’s like I’m trapped with my dad in one reality, and I’m trying to get back to the other where I’m with my family, but I can’t. It’s so hard to explain, but everything around me feels unreal, and my mind keeps telling me I’m stuck. It feels so real, and I don’t know how to get out of it. It’s like I’ve been transported to another world, and I can’t break free. nd now I’m scared I’ll never come back to the “good” reality I had before. and I genuinely believe this. I’ve been struggling with these thoughts about spiritual realms, the devil, and spiritual warfare. My dad has always talked about these things, and he’s gone through psychosis before. He’s also had a history of doing a lot of drugs, and now I’m terrified that I might end up like him. I fear that I’m somehow becoming like him, trapped in that same mental space he’s been in. He talks about spiritual stuff that scares me, and I can’t shake the thought that I might be losing myself the same way he did. I know this might sound weird, but I feel like I’m getting closer to that line, and I don’t know how to stop it. I keep feeling like I’ll never come back to the way things were, like I’ll always be stuck in this distorted reality. I’m afraid of losing myself, especially in my faith. I believe in God, but my thoughts and fears about all of this are making it hard to feel connected to Him. I feel so distant from God right now, and it’s hard to see how this can change. Has anyone else experienced something like this—feeling like you’re trapped between realities, afraid of becoming someone you don’t want to be, or struggling with fears like this? How did you cope? I just need some hope that I can get through this and come back to a better place. I’m scared, and I feel like I can’t escape this. Any advice would really mean a lot right now.
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