FernandoV
- Date posted
- 6y
FernandoVFernandoV
- Date posted
- 6y
That is precisely the "secret" to recovery, friend. Do NOTHING. When you leave the waters alone, they calm down on their own. When you are panicking, if you literally sit and wait without mental compulsions, just observing the pain, it will still be painful and it will grow but it will come a point where when it reaches its max will start do dwindle and you are going to feel a lot of peace. Anxiety cannot kill you - how you respond to it might.
tiburmontiburmon
- Date posted
- 6y
Oof. I have to admit I do this, like search around on the net and see if other people do the same sht I do because if I don't, I think my thoughts are actually true, and that this isn't OCD. But if I didn't realize that it was actually OCD, I would not have learned of how I should have tackled my worries, i.e. I wouldn't have learned about ERP. I guess, to some extent, these questions are helpful, but when done repetitively that's when it becomes a form of reassurance seeking and compulsion
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 6y
I feel though like asking if anyone else does something can also be a form of community seeking. Like ocd can be so lonely and I have no one else to talk to about it and I just want to know if people can relate.
ZanderZander
- Date posted
- 6y
Here to support this message. Reassurance seeking is a cunning foe.
ANGEL xANGEL x
- Date posted
- 6y
I definitely do this! But it’s just nice to know you’re not alone
FernandoVFernandoV
- Date posted
- 6y
When you ask once, that is support. When you ask more than once in different ways - that's a compulsion.
ANGEL xANGEL x
- Date posted
- 6y
Very true. You’ve made me realise that now! It’s so hard to sit and not find a way to deal with your overwhelming fear though :(
ANGEL xANGEL x
- Date posted
- 6y
Very true and helpful words!!! Please let me know any other tips you have. Especially when it’s based on real events.
TqhTqh
- Date posted
- 6y
I don’t know how to explain it, but I’ll try. I see faces and shapes in random places or patterns, like when you see shapes in clouds, but I find them everywhere, I believe it’s called pareidolia. The sh*tty part, is that if I’m currently obsessing with let’s say death, my mind tricks me into seeing skulls, or when I was struggling with scrupulosity, I saw crosses, or the face of Jesus even on the pattern of bathroom tiles, or shadows or stains. I don’t know if that makes sense lol, but it really really sucks.
Muddyrabbit1Muddyrabbit1
- Date posted
- 3y
Thank you so much for posting about your experience with pareidolia. I’m going through an extreme flare up of OCD, and my pareidolia has become out of hand. I suffer from an extreme fear of schizophrenia, and pareidolia was my OCD’s way of tricking me into believing I was hallucinating. I was not. It’s really common for OCD brains to make connections and habitually notice things until it’s all we see. For me, I can’t look anywhere without pareidolia popping up, but that’s because it’s become a compulsive thing to check that it’s pareidolia and not a hallucination, so I’ve basically invested hours into training my brain to be supper good at seeing Pareidolias.
TqhTqh
- Date posted
- 6y
I have asked this type of questions in the past, but only cause I have a form of ocd (or at least I hope it’s also a part of ocd), that I’ve never heard of before. And actually when I post them, no one seems to relate with it ?
ANGEL xANGEL x
- Date posted
- 6y
What form of ocd is that tqh?
ANGEL xANGEL x
- Date posted
- 6y
Wow I’ve never heard of that! It sounds super difficult though, I can imagine how stressful that is every day :( hope you find help x
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