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Your brain is hung up on wanting certainty/familiarity about how bodies look or feel, but it’s the focus on it that is creating/amplifying the uncertainty in the first place. If you weren’t thinking about it so much, the thought would simply be a passing one. Humans do look weird! And theoretically bodies could have evolved in any other number of ways in nature but they evolved the way they did. And now we have them at this stage. It’s okay that life seems random and unexplainable and absurd sometimes. Because it is! But the more you try to figure out why, the more absurd it’s going to seem. The spiral will just go and go and go. Accept that bodies are weird and that you can’t quite explain why that is. Rather than going down deeper into the spiral (hands are weird, and feet are weird, and that person looks weird, etc) stop and sit with that anxiety. Say to yourself “yeah, it is weird. Oh well.” And then refocus on something else. Let the anxiety naturally dissipate.
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- 6y
Hey I also have been through this. Both responding with fear to my own body, e.g “what the hell are my hands doing here?!”, and to other people “since when have I been a human being?!”. I have found that combining ERP at home but also in public spaces to be very effective. At home I might stare in a mirror or look at my hands. Also flicking through photo albums or Facebook profiles also gets the triggers going. So I just keep doing that till my brain gets bored. Likewise, sitting at a cafe or some other public space and just watching people discretely has been really useful. The occasional small talk with the cafe owner or whatever also doesn’t hurt to increase the triggers a little more.
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And there’s probably nothing you can do or think to make yourself feel 100% certain that won’t happen. But you can stop trying to figure out a solution that doesn’t exist and choose to live your life taking that risk instead.
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Thank you so much
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I needed this
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@oggyshooy thank you so much . I feel like I’m losing my mind a little . But this really helped to know that this might just be ocd and I really appreciate it
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- 6y
Not “might”... “is”! 100% no doubt about it. I understand first hand how difficult it is to believe that sometimes. The most paradoxical thing is that if you don’t want to be bothered by these thoughts, you must allow yourself to just believe it is true and accept it... practice that over and over again in dedicated ERP sessions and try to gradually implement those skills also in your day to day life (eg in cafes and so on) Good luck and do not lose hope!! It is 100% in your power to get through it and you know the therapies that will get you there... just go and practice!
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- 6y
It’s just a scary makes me feel like oneday I’ll be afraid of humans all together or like start hurting people
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- 6y
Thank you ?
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- 24w
First-time poster in the community here, but I had something really eating at me. I’m not sure if it’s an OCD symptom or not, but I feel like my brain has developed a coping mechanism over the years, and honestly, it bothers me daily that I can’t control it. I’ve been seen as a pretty smart person by my peers, and I can be smart, but I keep getting a reaction to thinking too much. I’ve noticed that on most days, I simply can’t think. I’m not talking like “I have so many solutions to this question”, but instead, it’s more like “I don’t know the answer, and if I try to find it I’ll be wrong” or simply I can’t recall the information. However, I’ll get these waves of what I call “kickstarts” where, all of a sudden, everything is so clear to me. I feel everything that I’m numb to, and at first, I’m glad to finally feel capable. But later that day, often several days that week, the fog is lifted and all of the terrible thoughts start to flow in. I’m in a loving relationship, and she’s given me no reason to second guess, but thoughts of her finding someone better than me always show, and thoughts that I’m not good enough, with thoughts that I can’t get to shut up long enough for me to do anything even remotely productive. I believe that paired with my depressive habits, OCD has really kicked my a** for my entire life, and the mental fog that has developed as a coping mechanism bothers me just as much, even causing obsessive thoughts that I am a poser, or a fraud, of a person. Thank you guys, if you read this long-winded rant, I just had to tell someone that it was bothering me before it exploded.
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- 16w
In the last few days I have managed to drastically reduce compulsions. I have made good progress but the brain fog that I may be a bad person and that the world and my interactions aren’t real still persists. Any tips to address this? I’m not reacting to any of it which is uncomfortable.
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- 11w
Is there something wrong with me if I’m not disgusted by my intrusive thoughts anymore like the disgust feeling has been gone for months now and why are my thoughts feel like they’re literally so close happening inside my brain why can I lowkey physically feel the images of that makes sense,Why do I get adrenaline why do I get a weird tingle my lips sometimes make an awkward like position when I get the thoughts it’s like I’m having a glitch idek which thought is intentional which one is intrusive but there bad thoughts and I don’t want them to be the truth about me but I literally cannot get myself to just feel relaxed even if they’re present like I actually get genuine headaches and feel uneasy for hours after having intrusive thoughts and I hate how it’s always the same kinda thoughts and sensations feelings etc around those thoughts out of nowhere when I’m just chilling they come in before when I had it is be like okay ew weird thought now I’m like what if I actually like this and I’m in denial uGHHH HATE MY BRAIN
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