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Yes, I experience that as well. Isolation is helpful for regrouping sometimes, but prolonged withdrawal from loved ones, etc., can only hurt.....
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well its in danish but i think they made a translated english version as well (im not too sure) but otherwise you could use that automatic translation thing google does. anyways the website is called neurocoaching.dk
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Yes i totally agree. ? I just got so overwhelmed with the urges and thoughts that I was going to hurt someone I didn't know how to deal with it so i isolated myself now it's just become so difficult to go back to normal life. I only recently discovered its harm ocd I'm suffering with, before that I had no clue what the thoughts and urges were. Although I haven't been diagnosed yet I know for sure that's what I'm suffering with. Just need to drag myself out of this it's so difficult though to be around certain people. It breaks my heart?
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theres a danish website that specializes in treating mental issues, and they base a lot of their work on this analogy; you put all of your stresses in a cup, right? lets say ocd fills it up like you would fill up a glass of water. its not nice, no, but managable. you still function to a fair degree. if something really stressful happens on top of that, maybe multiple stressful events at the same time, the cup completely overflows and you end up succumbing to severe anxiety and you burn out. acute stress. but if you were a mentally healthy person before, one who had dealth with their past traumas, someone with great confidence and self esteem who didnt worry all the time, there would be enough room in the cup for these big stressful events when they happen, and you would have a breakdown and burn out.
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wouldnt have a breakdown***^^^
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Thank you for your reply, that sounds interesting! I'm interested in checking that out, willing to try anything at the moment what's the website called?
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Thank you so much ❤️ I will check that out now ? hope you are well. Can I ask please? What kind of ocd do you suffer with?
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Thank you so much ❤️ I will check that out now ? hope you are well. Can I ask please? What kind of ocd do you suffer with?
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sure! its like a mix of things, but mainly existential ocd mixed with suicidal ocd (together it makes a crippling fear of getting a depression, of losing myself, of not being happy and content, the future). along with the ocd ive also grown to become really socially anxious, so that too. and then i get a fuckton of panic attacks related to a fear of throwing up. and generally im just too damn worried. how about you?
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- 22w
I'm wondering if this is a common OCD experience: does anyone else find that when you have idle time, your mind just spirals into endless rumination on negative "what ifs" & intrusive thoughts? It's been happening to me for the past three years, which coincides with starting a really high-stress job. Weekends used to be my time to relax, but now I dread weekends...I only feel relief when I'm sleeping because it's the only time my mind seems to quiet down. It's honestly so depressing to lose that enjoyment. Does anyone else relate to this, and if so, what helps you cope?
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Hey fellow OCD warriors! Wanted to ask if anyone else’s OCD tends to latch onto change and catastrophize with all kinds of worst-case scenarios. There’s a lot going on in my life, and even though they are all exciting things that I truly want and am happy about, I’ve had moments of deep fear at so much change happening and even a sadness that I can only think is a kind of grief of entering a new stage of life/a new me and leaving the old one behind. I am in my mid-20s and a lot of this centers around nostalgia and fear and intrusive thoughts of changes like my parents getting older, myself aging, friendships growing apart leading to loneliness, etc. I know I need to treat it as any other OCD flare-up and do ERP, but it also feels different than other OCD themes because I feel blue and like existentially sad. Even as a young kid, I always hated change and the thought of growing up (even if exciting things were happening) - like I cried when I turned 10 because I was leaving the single digits behind forever! 🤦♀️ I feel like I’m preemptively mourning things like losing my parents or my health even though I am healthy and my parents are too. I don’t want to waste the time I have ruminating about the future. I haven’t heard this kind of theme mentioned a lot so just wanted to see if any others could relate.
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- 16w
I don’t even know where to start because there’s so much going on in my head and it feels like there’s so much evidence for every thought. Like my ocd feels like it doesn’t just have one specific theme it’s honestly every theme and it just switches throughout the day depending on the thoughts I have. This started all about a month ago, this whole ocd flare up. I’ve been diagnosed with ocd for about 3 years now and looking back on my childhood, I feel like I’ve had it for probably my entire life. My grandpa just recently died back in February and I feel like this whole ocd spiral is a result of dealing with grief especially because it didn’t even hit me for the whole month of April for some reason and things felt “normal”. But since this ocd flare up has started I’ve been constantly reviewing and revisiting my past, all my childhood memories and so many of them are terrifying which is weird because I never had a traumatic event hppen to me as a child. I feel like it’s always been “self-inflicted” trauma if that makes sense? My mind is telling me so many things related to so many topics like maybe I liked my family member as a kid and have just hid it to fit in with society? That my anxiety as a kid has caught up with me and I’m turning into a psychopath? That I’ve always been a creep and enjoyed looking at peoples privates or chests, etc but just ignored or allowed the thought this whole time. Also before this whole flare up I remember always feeling on autopilot and not really alive like everything I did I just felt numb about it. Which aids my ocd to tell me that these feelings are real and the thoughts are true and that I’m “waking up” or realizing or something. I haven’t felt such intense anxiety and distress since I was a kid and I didn’t even understand my own thoughts. It’s like I’m either hyper aware or totally unaware of what’s going on around me and it gets me thinking about my existence, personality, what my role in life is and like genuinely what I’m even doing in the moment like what’s the reason behind everything. I’m constantly questioning my intentions because I don’t know if they’re true or not and it’s like my ocd doesn’t even allow me to consider the thought it just jumps to conclusion. Like telling me I’m guilty before proven innocent. It honestly feels like so much at once to even simply call it ocd or anxiety because it feels like a crisis and any moment I could spiral and breakdown completely. Going to school everyday feeling like anytbing could trigger a panic attack at any moment makes me feel like I can’t be left alone with my thoughts. And like overall since I got down this rabbit hole, my first obsession was harm to myself, then it was harm to others specifically my family, then it was being a pervert or pedo, or being attracted or someone or something I shouldn’t be, which then makes me question my existence and who I am along with also being hyper aware of my facial movements like my eyebrows, nose, etc. Like why does ocd have to involve itself in every aspect of my life? It feels like there’s always something wrong that I need to fix.
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