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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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My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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