My rituals stopped working and I can't control my thoughts. The thoughts are coming and coming to my mind and I can't attract doing anything, I even can't touch anything and stand up and go to do my homework.
Oooohhh, Girl. As soon as I saw Magical Thinking in your description I felt your pain, confusion, hopelessness,... I don't know how to help you. My rituals never stopped working, they just added new things to do, made it more intensive, more energy demanding. I came to the point when I just couldn't do another thing. After 8 hours of cleaning, washing,... the same things and me over and over and over again, I just collapsed to the shower cabin floor and gave up. I had not a single atom of energy left in me to do anything else. I would have exhausted myself to death sooner or later, so I decided to go back on pills. I had had them at home for over a month, but just couldn't persuade myself to take the first pull. After that episode in the shower for 8 Hours, I took the first pill. The side effects are all but nice, but the anxiety and obsessions and compulsions are a loooot less rigid and strong than before. I will probably die of heart attack due to weight gain or diabetes 2, but at least it won't be in the shower or bathroom or kitchen cleaning up or performing other rituals. A little joke. I hope. 😄 I hope someone here gives you a more helpful answer very soon. I know you need releif now to be able to make a long term plan how to deal with ocd. Good luck. Big hug!
Thanks for your comment ♥️ Knowing that there's someone like me really helps
the thoughts are getting MUCH worse i need help someone please help me i don't know what to do. before it used to be different in the 5th grade but over the past 2 years it changed forms. no one knows about these thoughts. i cant bring myself to tell a trusted adult. i just need help i keep getting attacked with these thoughts.
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
My OCD has been terrible the for the past two weeks. I have a fear that I will never be able to get out of the thought loop. I am hyper aware of my thoughts and it disturbs me. I haven’t been able to eat for 10 days. I force myself. I haven’t been able to sleep for more than a couple hours. Then I wake up and ruminate for a couple hours, until I’m exhausted. I’m also afraid I’ll never sleep well again. And I’m afraid I’ll never eat and enjoy my food again. I’m afraid I’ll never be able to stop thinking about this enough to enjoy my family ever again.
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