- Date posted
- 2y
SOCD / EXISTENTIAL OCD
Hi I’ve been struggling with these thoughts for about a year now. It started with suicidal ocd, I used to be really scared of it, now my brain added another theme which is existential OCD, I’ve got very often this questions even when I’m doing something really basic like moving a glass from a place to another or completing another tasks I’ve got this question coming up “ why I’m even bothering to do it anyway we all gonna die at some point, why should we even bother to do anything if we all gonna die in the end” which puts me in a really really depressing mood, now I’m not sure if this questions are based OCD or if it’s a symptom of depression ? Honestly I don’t identify myself as a depressed person, I only been diagnosed with anxiety last year after I suffered many years of it, after I understood it … I don’t feel I struggle with it anymore I finally thought I’ll start enjoying my life then these weird and terrifying questions started to pop up in my head on a daily basis. Now my actual question is…I know exposure and prevention therapy helps with this disorder but I feel other themes have loads of examples, could someone give me some examples of exposures in suicidal and existantial ocd ?