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- 6y
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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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- 6y
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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- 6y
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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- 6y
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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- 25w
I don’t have an official OCD diagnosis, but I will be asking my doctor tomorrow if I can get referred to a psychiatrist to get an official diagnosis. The way I came to the conclusion that what I’m dealing with is OCD is because a month ago I just started having the most horrible disturbing intrusive thoughts that go against all my values and beliefs and attacking the stuff/people I care about the most. Mind you, I have never had anything like this happen in my life. I feel that I have always been someone with a peaceful mind and one of the worst intrusive thoughts I can ever remember having before this happened, was “what happens if I cut my finger right now” while I was cutting fruit. That’s pretty much it. After this whole horrible intrusive thought spiral started happening I was so scared because I have never had such awful intrusive thoughts like this that were the complete opposite of me, it just quite literally started out of NOWHERE, and that’s what was so scary and terrifying. It was like my whole life got turned upside down because of this and I’ve been mainly isolating in my room, feeling so much anxiety and dread and guilt/shame. I get four of the same thoughts and one intrusive image repeating over and over again even if I would not try to think about them, and it caused me so much distress and anxiety that I would be so anxious and cry everyday just thinking how I could ever possibly think such horrible intrusive thoughts like that. It’s caused me insomnia which I’ve never dealt with before and I went three days in a row without being able to sleep no matter how hard I tried (even while taking melatonin). Other days I struggle so much to fall asleep due to the intrusive thoughts being much more present at nighttime, and even when taking melatonin that doesn’t do anything because of my mind being so active and having so much anxiety. Is this what they call an OCD flare up? After constantly looking up all the symptoms of ocd (the more and lesser known ones alike), I noticed there were some symptoms of it that I displayed in childhood when the ocd could’ve been more dormant or mild you could say (skin picking), because once again I have never had such horrible intrusive thoughts like this out of nowhere and constantly repeating in my mind that felt like they were out of my control. I noticed that these intrusive thoughts started on the second day of my menstruation when I was in a lot of pain and was feeling very emotional/stressed. One of the things I’ve heard a lot is that during the menstruation cycle is when ocd flares can happen more often due to the increase in hormones during that time, and I wonder if that’s what happened to me? I’m also overall such a big over thinker and have been for as long as I can remember. I also have had anxiety and depression since middle school as well. Any insight would be very much appreciated 😭
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- 22w
I know I am going a bit cuckoo because my period is coming up, but lately it feels like every intrusive thought I have, I *like* it. Like I genuinely feel like I like it, and then I immediately panic because I start checking. Mentally, emotionally, whatever it is. And I know that is a compulsion. I *know* that. But it feels so real that I cannot stop myself. Every single time I check, it still feels like I like the thought, and it is driving me absolutely insane. It is especially the POCD thoughts. They feel so real. I feel like something is going on mentally, like some kind of confusion or glitch, because I swear I was not like this before. I would have intrusive thoughts, and they would feel real, but not *this* real. And I do not even know if this is normal. I know OCD is **supposed** to feel convincing. That is the whole thing. But I have never experienced it to this extreme. I have never gotten the same thought so many times and still felt like, “Oh my God, I did enjoy it,” even after checking a million times. It is like no matter how many times I check, it feels like I liked it. Especially during intimacy :( and it is making me lose it. Then I start thinking, “Well, I am in distress, so maybe that is proof it is not actually me.” But right after, I am like, “What if I am only panicking because I care about what society thinks and not because I actually have morals?” And then I spiral again, wondering if maybe I just care about how I am seen rather than who I am. I am panicking so much no today. I had to take my Xanax today for the first time in two months, and I needed three separate doses. I really need some support right now.
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- 16w
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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