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Severe ocd
Anyone with severe ocd? I don’t know how much longer I can go on.
Anyone with severe ocd? I don’t know how much longer I can go on.
One of the best resources out there, beyond NOCD services, is Nathan Peterson on YouTube You can also try watching a video on exposure hierarchy explaining small steps to overcoming OCD fears
@A23 Thanks so much I’ve watched his videos. Maybe a bit obsessively. The thing is I want to make a hierarchy but there’s so much to it. I don’t know where to start.
@longdays1234 Therapy in a Nutshell on YouTube has an exposure hierarchy video I believe
@A23 Thankyou
You will get better and it will be more free, trust me I’ve been there it’s bad but you’ve taken the first step to getting help which is therapy so good on you. Try yt videos and try to understand it more, it may relieve it a little before you start therapy
@Anonymous Thankyou so much. I just don’t know how much more I can take. I feel almost disabled.
@longdays1234 Likewise however talking and using this app will slowly help, it’ll be so rewarding when your more free from OCD, stick with it
Yes, it was really bad for many years. I had it pop up as a little kid when my mom noticed I was doing physical compulsions and then she realized OCD passed onto my from my dad’s side of the family that has it.
I experience severe OCD. Some days are better than others. Medicine (like SSRI’s) can also help, I don’t know if you have considered that.
@Anonymous Hi I have a phobia of medication. I was prescribed Prozac but can’t bring myself to take it everyday is a struggle though. I literally can’t walk out of a room without difficulty.
@longdays1234 You said you are starting therapy soon, talk with the therapist about this phobia. Medicine can be scary yes but it can also work wonders.
I had severe in past, now it is weak...
@drak4 Mine takes up every single second of everyday. Everything is a compulsion. From the way I walk to the way I leave a room put on clothes etc. I don’t know where to start on helping myself.
@longdays1234 first you must know, that you CAN helped yourself...that you are nor powerless... HOPE ans courage can came from knowledge, that many people recovered with use of therapy ans you can also...that you can start with right therapy...do you have therapist or do some therapy?... my "risining from a death" was because of ACT therapy...before this therapy I cried every day and avoided work and had OCD all day...with knowing that I CAN overcame and live full life despite OCD as ACT taught me I slowly started to take courageous steps toward life...i didnt avoided work or loved ones...first it was hard really I had to have courage and push myself and be able to bear a pain of uncertainity...I stopped my compulsive rumination and OCD research...I accepted intrusive thought and that I can recover... with that it slowly became better and better... there were many falls in process and recovery was up and down, not a straight line...but definitevly my OCD is no longer severe...
@drak4 I’m glad to hear you got better. I actually start therapy a week Tuesday. I’m so nervous but I have to start somewhere. I’m so ready to try and live again.
@longdays1234 It will help. Ocd is treatable... with ERP...you can also add CBT, ACT and MCT and it will help a lot
Just hang in there! Stay strong! It does get better! Sending love!
I’m so scared I’ll be stuck in this forever soo soo scared
So, as of one hour ago today I am officially diagnosed with severe contamination ocd. I don't know how to process this, my moms crying, my therapist is moving to Uruguay and won't be able to continue our therapy, what in actual hell do I do. What am I doing. I don't know how to process this. The issue isn't just that I have it- it's that it's severe, not mild, not moderate, permanent. Incurable. I want a cure so bad, I want a magical pill to make it go away and it simply does not exist. Feel free to message me eith advice for newly diagnosed ocd'ers, I definitely could use it. Have a lovely day everyone ♡
(Long post warning) Hi, I’ve been struggling with severe OCD for six years now. it started in 2019 with my theme being getting sick/emetophobia. it devastated my life. I almost didn’t graduate high school from it. I remember washing my hands for three hours one day until they were nearly bloody while crying and asking why I could not stop doing it. I remember id have to write and rewrite sentences when I did my English homework and that’s why I nearly failed that class. I remember how I would spend up to thirty minutes to an hour pacing the halls of my apartment while my mom was asleep until I neutralized the thoughts about throwing up and I could finally go to bed. I don’t know when it happened, but my theme switched. Sometimes in late 2020 or early 2021, it switched to POCD. It started with a single thought, and I focused on it and it’s been my theme since then for four years. It has been absolutely destroying me. I feel so disgusted and lost and just tired. My compulsions are severe now. I thought they were bad before, but now they’re ten times worse. I can’t eat, drink, change my clothes, walk, or even do things on my phone normally. I’ve developed so many mental compulsions that it’s so intricate and complicated yet at the same time I’ve done them so much that they’ve become normal. An example I have is if im putting on a shirt and I have a “bad” thought, I have to take it off and put it back on two more times (that’ll make it 3 times I put the shirt back on - odd numbers are my safe number). I have to have a good thought on the third time otherwise I have to take it off and put it on two more times to make it five times I put on that shirt. If not that then I just put on a different shirt because the original is now tainted with my bad thought. I can’t open apps on my phone. It’s with the numbers again. If I open TikTok once while having a bad thought - I have to close it and open it two more times and so on. Sometimes I do it up to 30 times. So I just don’t do things usually. I don’t turn on the TV because I know I’ll redo it. I don’t open a book or grab it off my shelf because I’ll have to repeat the action. I can’t even lay in bed without getting up and redoing it even if im exhausted. I just feel so helpless. I don’t know what to do. I feel disgusting and even now my minds screaming at me that I am dirty and what I think is true. I just wish I was free of this, I wish I could just live my life. I’ve wasted hours and days because of my compulsions. I mask it so well around my friends. I don’t do them in front of anyone or I’ve learned to hide it well. But when im back home alone, it goes haywire. I just want to live again.
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