does anyone ever feel like your compulsions start again after having really good days even if there aren’t obsessions that trigger compulsions? but then i give into the compulsions and the obsessions start
The brain has its habits I guess, there's also so called "backdoor spikes" of OCD that people talk about in the community ' OCD kinda trying again after not being active or whatever
Most likely due to the habitual relationship of obsession/compulsion. It doesn’t have to be obsession first, it could be a accidental compulsion or at least subconscious one and then it triggers the brain.
Yes. It happens to me a lot now that I've started ERP. It's incredibly annoying and makes it exhausting. But I try to remember even a small step (sometimes disrupting my compulsion) is a step in the direction I'm aiming for
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
Does anyone else ever feel like they don’t feel “bad enough” to have OCD, or that they don’t feel “the right way” for it? Or like they’re just saying they have OCD as an excuse? Because i was so much better for like 3 weeks now and now im on my period and i started doubting again. So because of that im scared that i was feeling to good and that my fear is actually true.
So I was doing good for about 5 months. I was going to therapy, practicing the skills, and for about the past month, I fell into a depression funk. The last week, however, has been a week of really loud OCD. I am in a constant state of anxiety and find myself doing compulsions. I'm wondering if anyone has experienced what I'm about to describe. I'm considering taking myself to the hospital, but my little boy's birthday party is this weekend and I don't want to miss it: I keep having this bad feeling like I actually want to do the bad things in my mind. I know OCD intrusive thoughts can tell you "I want to" but this just seems different - maybe it's OCD trying to come at me a new way. It's not like thoughts telling me "I want" it's like even when I tell myself I don't want to do the bad stuff, there's this nagging feeling telling me I really want to. I'm scared.
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