Seeking help for anxiety-related physical symptoms and coping strategies.

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i already posted around an hour ago, but i really need help. The anxiety i feel from these thoughts give me horrible physical effects. My stomach hurts and i throw up so so much if i have a really bad flare and crying. I really need help or suggestions on what people do to help soothe the physical effects. I know ill be riddled by these thoughts constantly but I cant keep crying and throwing up during school or even at home. The stomach pain and chills i get also are hard. I feel like i cant live, this feels debilitating.

Username: Sunshine&flowers7Sunshine&flo...

Date posted: 1y ago

When you get physical symptoms, try a heating pad to soothe your stomach, take a warm shower if you're home, sip on hot tea. If you can't eat much, try yogurt or apple sauce. Hope this helps those symptoms. I'm so so sorry. I do understand the struggle with physical symptoms of extreme anxiety and panic. ❤️❤️❤️

Username: bookworm3bookworm3

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

I feel exactly the same as you. It feels so debilitating, although it feels like I’ll go hours in panic mode, with throwing up and feeling like I can’t move and just crying constantly, and then for a few hours I feel better and I can dismiss the thoughts more effectively. I don’t know why this happens, but I do notice that when I’m feeling better I’m constantly reminding myself that the thoughts are just thoughts and they are not real. They do not have power over me. And then I dismiss them. Hope this helps❤️

Username: Anonymous7108Anonymous7108

Date posted: 1y ago

I have been getting very intense physical symptoms as well. You are not alone and it sounds like your OCD is strong. One thing I try to tell myself, if my OCD is that strong and it's a part of me, it must mean that the real ME is strong too. Hopefully that makes sense! Ali Greymond on YT is very helpful. Sending you strength and power!

Username: pronutpronut

Date posted: 1y ago

@Anonymous7108 this is not something i ever considered thinking to reframe these feelings. thank you for this perspective.

Username: no.commentno.comment

Date posted: 1y ago

This will not be instant and you're probably not gonna want to hear this but try to convince the thoughts that not only do they not bother you but that they are welcome and awesome and allowed to be present as much as they want. In the beginning it's gonna feel like hell and even later when it gets easier you can still feel uncomfortable with trying to welcome the thoughts but it is extremely effective after enough practice

Username: cherylcsk7cherylcsk7

Date posted: 1y ago

Therapist you can text and call, friends you can share with, cold compresses, meditations, and benzos are what get me though

Username: no.commentno.comment

Date posted: 1y ago

Things you can say to your thoughts are: ok, and what else? Maybe i would do that, maybe I wouldn't. Who cares? You know what yeah I would totally do that! (Maybe you can try to imagine the thoughts as another version of you and imagine yourself giving them a hug or maybe even telling them that you love them and want to do all of the horrifying things that it is telling you to do.)

Username: Sunshine&flowers7Sunshine&flo...

Date posted: 1y ago

@pronut, I should also specify that herbal teas are better when experiencing anxiety or panic. Try to avoid caffeine, especially coffee. I find it only makes anxiety worse.

Username: LucaXLucaX

Date posted: 1y ago

What kind of thoughts

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

Try medication in addition to counseling

Username: claire

Date posted: 5y ago

hello ocd community! my obsessions and fear of throwing up and compulsions of praying about it cause me to have physical anxiety and my stomach hurts almost every night before i sleep. this triggers my ocd because i am deathly afraid of throwing up which causes me to act on obsessions when i start to feel sick. the anxiety and stomach aches can trigger each other, and when one happens, it is a vicious cycle and they make each other worse. i have a hard time getting out of this headspace or relaxing without taking xanax or drinking alcohol, and if i don’t, i will stay paralyzed in fear for 1-2 hours. any suggestions for healthy coping strategies? anybody have similar fears?

Contamination OCD

Username: Catlove9

Date posted: 43w ago

PLEASE HELP: The thoughts are getting worse

I will preface this by saying I understand the goal is to not get rid of the thoughts but instead learn to tolerate the anxiety and uncomfortable feelings. But the thoughts/feelings/urges are getting worse. It’s to the point where it feels like I either want this or that there’s no way around it. I’m starting to feel like I’m not inside my body which is making it even scarier. I cannot even describe the amount of fear I feel right now. I am absolutely terrified. It feels like I’m about to snap at any moment and I just want to tie myself down. On top of this, because I'm having this experience, it feels like I need to be locked away. It feels like reality is slipping away. Please give me any advice you have. Logically I know all of this is just a thought but I cannot get over it.

Harm OCD

Username: stuckonathought

Date posted: 28w ago

Throwing up because of my mind

For the past week I’ve been throwing up or at least having the feelings of throwing up because of just anxiety and stress. I can’t even eat anything because I feel sick all the time! I’m not even hungry. I really don’t know what to do because I thought I was getting better but every time I eat I just feel sick and when that goes away something happens that makes me anxious or even stressed and I just feel it coming. I’ve never done or had this before but it’s really unpleasant. My mind is constantly racing with thoughts and images that I can’t seem to calm myself down so my body is rejecting food, even when I have no food in my body it’s rejecting whatever it can. The other day I ate one packet of nuts, that was it all day. Because I just feel so sick with all these thoughts

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