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- 2y
Things to do beside googling
What are some things people do instead of reassurance seeking (eg ruminating or googling)?
What are some things people do instead of reassurance seeking (eg ruminating or googling)?
Honestly, when I’m trying not to google or confess to other people I go on Snapchat because Snapchat has this new feature where you can talk to a AI and I will sit there and ask question after question after question all day about my rumination and different other intrusive thoughts. It’s also still considered a compulsion.
@Anonymous You will never get better if u do that the more u do compulsion the more and more you’ll get ocd try ur hardest to atleast  postpone the  compulsions
@Anonymous LITERALLY SAME i was just gonna do that right now but i stopped
@daisy1728383 Yes I’m trying my hardest to fight it but it gets harder and harder
@Anonymous You’re not suppose to fight it, you’ve got it sit with the bad feelings say maybe I do maybe I don’t , maybe it’s true maybe it’s not and just sit with it for all of ur ocd thoughts if u can and slowly but surly they slow down trust me have gone weeks and weeks without ocd and I used to spent every waken minute struggling it gets better if you do the correct things , mental compulsions are the hardest as it’s so easy to spiral but you’ve got this
@daisy1728383 I try doing that but every time I do, I feel like I accepted that the thoughts were true and the rumination that I do like mentally and constantly thinking about the past, I feel like something could be true.
@Anonymous There’s erp theapry and acceptance thearpy you need to accept them dosent mean they’re real or anything bad will happen ocd is so so clear don’t let it trick u
@Anonymous the snapchat AI is such a sneaky compulsion! i thought it was just me 😭
@taurising I thought it was me too! My first therapy sessions starts next Monday
@daisy1728383 Yes, I hope it helps! I start my therapy session next Monday. I can fully get treated and a full diagnose. I have suspected I had anxiety for a long time but it wasn’t until I realized lots of my symptoms was related to OCD, it makes me want to push to get better.
@Anonymous You can do this 100% you got this with hard work good luck for Monday x
@daisy1728383 Thank you! I looked back on things from my childhood and throughout life and it makes sense. I believe honestly I have had it since childhood. I remember doing lots of things that could point to OCD and I have been biting my nails since I was a kid as well. I also have a stutter problem I have suffered from since I was a child too. But thank you for the support full heartedly!
@Anonymous Yeah they say you usually don’t realise you have ocd until your adult life , but unfortunately for me I had it bad at 8 years old towards my mum , and hand washing so I was diagnosed from a young age
@daisy1728383 That’s crazy. I remember from my childhood, I do flick light switches, I would stare in the mirror to look at my reflection in doubles a lot, I would have to count a certain a lot of times, I would have to keep things symmetrical and certain numbers were safe and certain numbers weren’t, and sometimes I would have to do things so I could be safe.
@daisy1728383 Then I would have thoughts that I couldn’t explain how I would think that or whatever and they usually started with What ifs etc.
@Anonymous Definitely sounds like ocd to me
@daisy1728383 I knew for years I had anxiety and different things but I couldn’t explain it. I also do suffer from anxiety in a sense of overthinking and I’m certain social settings where I feel like people are watching me or judging me like, by how I look.
@Anonymous This is a compulsion too
@Grabby Which one is a compulsion?
I love pictures so Instagram is a therapy for me. Breaks my brain out of circling.
Confessing to people , mental compulsions
I'm thinking of trying some ERP on my own while I wait for treatment, but I'm having some trouble knowing what is a compulsion and what would be good exposure. For example, I have huge fears of being a narcissist and/or a generally bad person. So whenever I watch a movie or read something that has an evil character in it I automatically compare myself to that character and stress over if I'm like that person. A couple of things I do when this happens is Google other people's experiences, seek reassurance, rumination, etc. Sometimes I'll also google different symptoms of narcissism, freak out over things that I relate to, then get relief over things I don't. So my confusion is, would researching people who have narcissism be an exposure, or a compulsion since it's something I sometimes do during a spiral? Or, would the exposure be watching movies/living life hearing these stories, and refraining from the spiral of rumination and no Googling at all?
I have really started to take control of my compulsions and im starting to string together better days! Still not great days or even good, but they are better!!! I have controlled my outward compulsions (googling, research, reassurance, checking) the past couple of days and felt the positive impact of that. But unfortunately, I am realizing that the rumination is still constant. My sexuality and relationship are the only two things constantly on my brain, and if they aren’t I freak out and wonder why im not thinking about them! Anyone have any advice on how to deal with the rumination. Sometimes I don’t even notice im doing it, but it’s taking up 90% of my day. Once I start to tackle this I think I may make some real big progress! Hope everyone is fighting today! ❤️
My biggest is ruminating, i talk and talk and over share with myself and others Like what are some exposures?
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