Katarinagabriella
- Date posted
- 2y
Ocd relapse
Does anybody feel like OCD randomly disappears and then comes back? Like as if you can’t picture your life with OCD one second then the next it takes over your whole life?
Curtis CsakCurtis Csak
- Date posted
- 2y
Like you remember you have OCD and then it keeps hitting you?
reezwellreezwell
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y
dealing with this in smaller increments. anxiety drops to a low level, i feel fine then ocd hits me like a train for a couple of days. it's insane
sazMarsazMar
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- 2y
I’ve not had an episode in 5 years, thought I was well rid then bang out of nowhere anxiety struck and my overthinking mind came up with random scenarios and before I know it I’m down the rabbit hole!
jaylee07jaylee07
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- 2y
Exactly a couple of months ago i even laughed about it too myself like dam i could never think thoughts like that again tf was wrong with me
Katarinagabriella Katarinagabr...
- Date posted
- 2y
@jaylee07 How do you deal with it ?
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 2y
@Unknown 1 - Im not im a wreck nobody understands i feel like the walls are closing in on me like theres no way out im not dealing with it at all I’ve went threw 2 times before and the thoughts kinda just stopped cause i didnt pay any mind too them after a month and some weeks so they stopped but now im in a full blown ocd meltdown one thought about stabbing myself and the harm ocd came back its killing im dying
Katarinagabriella Katarinagabr...
- Date posted
- 2y
@jaylee07 Have you had it just randomly come up?
alyssa90alyssa90
- Date posted
- 2y
Yes
Katarinagabriella Katarinagabr...
- Date posted
- 2y
@alyssa90 How do you deal with it?
sazMarsazMar
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- 2y
Yup I honestly thought how does that even happen clearly I forgot how anxiety takes over rational thinking
jaylee07jaylee07
- Date posted
- 2y
Got done exercising walked threw kitchen seen the knifes my mom just washed and i thought what if i stab myself now its 2 weeks later im suicidal depressed not sleeping not eating just getting drunk all day im purposely trting to get sick so i can go too the regular hospital and not the mental ward i just wanna go back to normal like so badd
sazMarsazMar
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- 2y
I’m so sorry you feel this way, we have to hang in there we’ve got better before we can do it again
Katarinagabriella Katarinagabr...
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- 2y
@sazMar How long do your phases usually last?
sazMarsazMar
- Date posted
- 2y
In the past about 6 months I can’t remember how it ends but I just know I can look on past spikes and know they weren’t real
Katarinagabriella Katarinagabr...
- Date posted
- 2y
@sazMar Do you ever get trapped back in the cycle for long periods of time?
sazMarsazMar
- Date posted
- 2y
Never with the same thought, it’s always something new. I can go years between thoughts. And I always think it will never happen again
Katarinagabriella Katarinagabr...
- Date posted
- 2y
@sazMar Mine are always the same and always come back
sazMarsazMar
- Date posted
- 2y
I guess it’s different for everyone! Mine are always triggered by real events so I think that’s why mine change. It also makes them harder to overcome as they get caught up in something that actually happened so hard to separate
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- 15w
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