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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
I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…
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 ♡
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