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Compulsions
Does anyone ever have compulsions that backfire ? I was testing myself and it seems like I want the thoughts !!
Does anyone ever have compulsions that backfire ? I was testing myself and it seems like I want the thoughts !!
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@Ciara306 That is so thoughtful of you thank you you so much !! I really appreciate your advice and I will try to take care of myself better !! Bless you š©·
@Ciara306 Im sorry you went through that š„ŗ this disorder is so traumatizing ⦠Iāve heard that delaying your compulsions is quite effective and works well.. Iāll have to try it more ⦠thank you so much girl
I know Iāve seen some of your other posts and we seem to align to some degree with this. Very few of my compulsions lead to relief. And they never will, because thatās the entire issue. Example - I seem to automatically want to look at any attractive person (male or female) and ask ādo I find them attractiveā ādo I want to kiss them?ā Iām doing this because my brain sees my theme as danger, so tries to bring it into my attention. If itās a guy, my brain goes BANG, proof. If itās a female, my brain goes BANG, itās not strong enough, itās proof! Iām yet to find a compulsions that genuinely brought me sustained relief. Most of the time, itās 30 seconds of relief or simply just leads to more questions.
@gp I would say my reassurance compulsions relieve me so much (ofc temporarily) but the compulsions where I check myself and see how I react to hypothetical scenarios get me more .. but yes, my brain does that too !!! Today I got triggered because I was imagining myself in a relationship with a girl and it didnāt give me anxiety!! I had a vision of it in my brain and it didnāt give me an uneasy feeling or anything ⦠that situation is what made me post this ..
@Mia Mia Yep sounds about right. Again ⦠our ocd brains will try and find evidence one way or another. :(
Happen to me yesterday, and the groinal response kicked in š
Does anyone else find that their compulsions actually make their OCD/obsession worse? I donāt mean in the obvious way, like that it strengthens the OCD cycle, I mean in the way that when I perform my compulsions, they make my anxiety so much worse in the moment. My main compulsions are ruminating, arguing with my thoughts, and memory reviewing, but they all just end up giving me more intrusive thoughts/questions, making my anxiety more intense, and making me think my intrusive thoughts are real. Iāve always read that you perform compulsions because they bring you relief, and I suppose for me, they more make me feel like Iām working towards āsolving the issueā or āanswering my questionā, so then is that my version of āreliefā? In reality, it just makes my anxiety worse because the more I ruminate/memory review, the more jumbled together and foggy my thoughts/memories become, which in turn makes me think that if I ruminate/memory review just a little more, Iāll be able to āpush through that fogā and find my answer, which then also causes me anxiety because my brain feels foggy and hence makes completing my compulsions/figuring out my obsession impossible (which I guess is good because Iām not supposed to complete my compulsions). All of this is making me believe that I donāt have OCD and that my intrusive thoughts are true and thatās why I canāt shake them and thatās why I feel the need to figure them out and why I feel so foggy⦠Or is this just meta OCD playing itās devious tricks on me? Has anyone else experienced this or is this not OCD and I should be concerned that my obsession is true?
This is probably related to ocd, I donāt know. Iāve had obsessions about doing bad prayers. It has led to me doing some as tests I think or actually doing them. It got so complicated that I decided āI will do any prayer good or bad that comes into my head,ā and I basically started constantly doing every bad prayer I could think of, thinking of why Iād want it, etc. I feel crappy, because I believe I meant some of them, which I wasnāt supposed to care about when doing this. It makes me feel like a bad person. This could be erp too, I donāt know, but I basically just compulsively let my mind go to the absolute worst places it has been and can go with no filter
Why did the compulsion/test people told me I did felt very wanted in the moment. But then I regret it now and afterwards. Still a compulsion, correct? It just didn't feel like a compulsion, but then again I don't know what those feel like
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