- Date posted
- 2y
What is stopping me?
Feel really hopeless and a failure with this stuff. 36 yo man. First intrusive thought that stuck bad (25 ROCD). After 6 months of obsessing, turned into SOOCD. Suffered ever since. What does it feel like? - instant zero ability to find drive, joy, libido, happiness. Replaced by one overwhelming obsessive subject. - feels like 24/7 anxiety in the same way you’d feel if you had to do something you really didn’t want to do? - feels like I don’t believe it’s OCD, despite being diagnosed. Like my brain doesn’t believe it or won’t? - feels like everything is turned into ‘evidence’ to prove the obsession true. - feels like I’m lying to myself. In denial. That I want it. That it’s true. - feels like I don’t know who I am anymore. Or what I even want. It’s like pre-obsession me (normal) and post obsession me. My psych tells me treatment is: - identify the compulsions physical and mental (mostly mental) and I’ve done that. - identify triggers, ideas that bring on all the negative feelings. I’ve done that. - acknowledge the thoughts/feelings as they come, treat them as noise, create distance between them, and don’t engage with them further. REALLY STRUGGLING - purposefully use the triggers to get you to the point of negative feelings and don’t engage. HAVENT STARTED Why do I not believe this is OCD? Why is my brain believing the obsession? Why is my brain using everything as evidence to prove the obsession true? Why can’t I find the motivation to take the leap of faith into full treatment? :/