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I’m so sorry. I know it can be so rough to deal with so many thoughts at once. ❤️
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I haven’t tried ERP as of yet but am slowly working on that. Thank you all so much for your advice and kind words. I will focus on my breathing and try not to dwell in my thoughts. OCD isn’t easy, I forgot how hard the bad days can be because I have been doing well before this small set back. You all are so strong❤️
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Are you trying ERP?
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Focus on your breathing and try to take deep breaths until your body feels less tense, also try to write down how you feel and let it out
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Perfect love cast out all fear you receive salvation as a gift is nothing you could do in your life to have learned that just give thanks to God and let him deal with everything else when you decide you're going to trust him that religious OCD should diminish. I understand your fears of going crazy but I truly believe that people that are worried about all this stuff will never act on any of it I've been dealing mostly over 10 years with the same fear I pray that helps me but we have to just understand that our brain is just so active think about the dreams we have their weird everyday we have to stop thinking that other people don't think crazy things like we do because they're fine they're just not holding on to the thoughts they letting them go my doctor has been giving me Klonopins for my anxiety and it helps I only take it when I'm really overwhelmed but I do try to Hands-On with my anxiety firsthand my OCD came from the anxiety I truly believe that but you just have to let yourself have the thought and then just trust it just a thought and let it go I personally have a fear of knives the big ones and I expose myself to them because I know I would never hurt anybody but it still makes me cry because I don't want to think this stuff and I don't want to be around anyone I feel like can't defend themselves it's going to be an elderly person a little kid which breaks my heart because I love people and I love babies scared to death to hold little babies because of these terrible images I don't care what this thread says and they can report my comment I truly believe that we're all dealing with these things and it is coming from the enemy none of us to truly dangerous these all tricks and lies from the enemy because we have such big loving hearts people that have crazy and evil they don't think about the fears and feel bad I'm worried about all of this stuff like we do and try to protect everybody they have no emotion they don't care they have no feeling and they do it they don't set the years going to this so even if my comments he's up for just a moment I hope it does comfort you. You're not going to lose your mind.just remember God loves you he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world listen to me start reading your Bible get yourself into a church you need good support around you. Everything's going to be okay. Go to a therapist once a week it will help.
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Thank you so so much. You don’t know how much this means to me. I trust in God so much. It has been the only thing I think that gets me through. It does get hard sometimes but I know I can’t fight this. You give such amazing advice. It shows how strong and brave you are?. Thank you for taking the time to write to me, you are so kind. I will use your really good advice.I will get through and I know you will too. God bless you and your kind soul?
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- 20w
I’ve never been diagnosed with OCD, but I relate so much to what people here are going through. I used to think it was just anxiety, and I felt like I could handle that. But lately I’ve been spiraling—constantly afraid that what I’m feeling is something worse, like psychosis or losing control of my mind. I feel so detached and scared, and I just want peace again. I have anxiety doing the smallest things, like the thought of waking up everyday and even eating give me straight up panic. I am afraid all the time, it’s paralyzing. And a lot of people say someone with psychosis wouldn’t worry that they’re in it, but then I convince myself I’ve been in it this whole time, and haven’t known, and that maybe I’ve been doing weird stuff. Idk. I also get really scared of labels. Even the idea of OCD makes me feel like I’ll never get better or like I’ll be stuck like this forever. I just want to be okay. If anyone has felt this way—confused, overwhelmed, or scared of what’s happening in their mind—I’d really appreciate any support or encouragement.
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- 20w
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…
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- Date posted
- 17w
Hi guys! I had really bad harm ocd about 2 years ago and I went through therapy and eventually got really good at handling it when it would pop up. The other day, I was scrolling on TikTok and came across a girl talking about a guy who was presenting a lot of schizophrenic symptoms but no one paid attention and got him help, he was having a lot of delusions, hallucinating, thinking everyone was out to get him, thought he was Jesus and his dad was the president and ended up doing horrific things. The day after that, I was dealing with some work drama and had the thought of “what if all my coworkers are against me and trying to get me fired”. That really stressed me out, cause I don’t normally think about them like that and I went down a rabbit hole of thinking that was the beginning of me developing schizophrenia, ended up googling stuff all night, taking tests, crying and seeking reassurance. I had a thought the other day “your dad is the president”, this one didn’t stress me out as bad as I knew it was just the video I had seen and it was an intrusive thought about it, and I also didn’t believe it. Today I was with some friends and I got a prize at a place we went and it said “lonely” on it. I do have my moments of feeling lonely and this week has been specifically trying so I had a thought like “oh someone’s out to get me cause I got this”. I know this isn’t logical and it wouldn’t make sense to just randomly get it if someone was truly after me and it was just a stupid prize at a random place, anyone could’ve gotten it. Im just struggling a lot with schizophrenic OCD and thinking I’m in the pre stages of it. In my good moments, I don’t think I am at all and it was all just sparked from the video I watched but in my bad moments, these thoughts feel real!! They really stress me out and make me feel like I’m going to lose my mind causing me to lose my job/ end up in a psych hospital/ never live a normal life/ end up alone, never see me my loved ones/ hurt my loved ones. I just want to feel normal and not like I’m about to lose my mind and everything I care about. Please help!!! Anyone else going through something similar and can help me get through this!
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