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Drowning in pocd
Literally drowning in intrusive thoughts and it’s making me more and more suicidal I can’t believe something like this would happen to me. I hate myself so much
Literally drowning in intrusive thoughts and it’s making me more and more suicidal I can’t believe something like this would happen to me. I hate myself so much
I hear you 100%, I'm suffering from the same situation, It's unbelievable I never would have guessed in a million years.
I totally understand you. Same thing happened to me. If it wasn't for the grace of God in Jesus... the seal of His spirit within me and the anchor of His word... I don't know where I'd be. Be strong and courageous guys. This is a battle, but it shall pass. Seek ERP therapy and do the work. Medication through a psychjatrist might greatly help also; believe it or not!
Praying for you. There really is hope. Therapy helps. I take vitamins and supplements and they help too. God is good and we have him to rely on through this journey. I can relate with some pretty rough patches where I just sat there and wondered why me.
I hear you, I've been suffering for almost 2 years straight. I've had some troubles with my mental health as a younger man I struggled a bit, but nothing close to this. This is an absolute mind bending, life altering experience. I knew pain but not like this. This is a fierce demon we're up against. I wish the best for all of those affected by OCD and other illnesses, God bless you all.
I know it is so scary. You are not alone. It is so hard to get better and times like these it seems so hard to feel like it is worth it but you will come out on the other side. There is a light at the end of tunnel. I have been there i promise. You have to take today, and try again tomorrow. It can get so tiresome, but it is worth it. All there is to life is happiness and that is what we fight for. You are on this app because a part of you belives u will get better. You want to get better and being on this app is a huge step towards that. I feel like I am drowning right now but I made a promise to myself. I am going to try and leave this world better than it was before. That is all there is to life. And other people deserve that. Your family and friends deserve to have you in your life. It is a privilege to know u as a person even if you don’t see it. Everyone is beautiful even if they feel like they are not. I don’t care about your thoughts, I don’t care about your actions. They could be the worst thing possible and I don’t care. U r here for a reason, lead with that. You are wonderful I can tell. Keep on going
Thank you for all the words of encouragement I’m literally miserable I cry all day and all night because I just want these thoughts to go away I just wanna be normal again .. and be myself again every day I wake up wishing I was dead because I know the repetitive thoughts I have it’s so bad and it’s so hard
I’m so sorry you’re going through this. Please know that you’re not alone
I believe in God and I know he loves me and will help me through my darkest times.
I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but when I learned more about it, I never related to anything more. A little back story: when I was younger, there were a couple of youth suicides in my area and the schools felt the need to have someone come in and talk about suicide. Well the person they had come in did a horrible job teaching it and basically made it seem like the smallest negative emotion or feeling or change in behavior made you suicidal. This ended up scaring me so much that I got horrid anxiety. Fast forward to now, Everytime I feel anxiety and panic, I fear I'm going to kill myself. Everytime I feel down and depressed, I fear I'll end it all. I'm scared to be around anything sharp because the "What if" I hurt myself comes into my mind. There are always intrusive thoughts at almost every point of the day. And it's not only for me. Everytime I hear someone being negative, I fear they will be suicidal. I know in my heart that none of this is true but it's terrifying me that it's stuck around so much that it makes me scared that maybe it is true. I've had a lot of death in my family in the past year and a half and a lot of other family drama that I'd never had before that is now also bringing up existential intrusive thoughts. And I'd never questioned anything about life before but now I get the "why is life like this?" and "does anything we do matter?" and I hate it. I don't want to think like that. I just want to go through life being able to handle things normally again. It terrifies me even right now going "what if you give up?"
I’m really struggling with something related to me ocd, and I would appreciate kind and supportive advice. If you can’t relate or don’t think anything you have to say would be helpful, I kindly ask pls refrain from commenting this is a really sensitive topic for me. Recently, I’ve noticed a pattern that feels something extremely new and distressing. The first time it happened I remember telling myself before self pleasuring that I am in control no matter what thought comes into my mind because I wanted to prove to myself that these thoughts are just from OCD and I know who I am and an intrusive that came out of no where, and i suddenly felt an intense fear that I was acting on it. In the moment I genuinely felt like I did. And afterword, I panicked and started questioning myself. This SAME FEELING has happened three times in a row each time, the intrusive thought was unwanted and random, and completely against my morals most recently it involved pocd and it feels even worse because it generally felt like I acted on it the thought in the moment while I was self pleasuring the panic doesn’t hit until afterwards when I stop :/ I start thinking that maybe I generally made a mistake and I’m now just realizing that it’s wrong because it generally feels like that :( but when I actually think about it again goes against my morals and values doesn’t make sense it feels incredibly real, and I can’t seem to shake this feeling off that I may have acted on it I’m terrified because I never wanted these thoughts in the first place. And I definitely didn’t choose them. If I had known, I would’ve had these intrusive thoughts I wouldn’t have self pleasured in the first place but it’s extremely hard to convince myself that this may be OCD because I feel like I have no other reason to believe that I didn’t act on it :/
I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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