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What does an OCD episode look like?
What does an OCD episode look like?
For me having anxiety attacks, ruminating, overwhelming guilt (sometimes), excessive worrying. Basically feeling so overwhelmed
They hit different. Sometimes I'll isolate and try to hide from the feelings. No activity, no talking to anyone, no doing anything really. I basically regress back to a cacoon like state. Other times for some reason I'll nervously pace in circles like a dog chasing his tail. I've been doing this ever since I was a kid. I do this when I'm overwhelmed with feelings of shame/guilt. I either avoid or run in circles š
@Insert Clever Username I definitely isolate myself as well. I have extreme difficulty showing vulnerability so I get it.
For me, I get panic attacks and anxiety attacks. They often occur when I process a highly distressing thought, and my brain starts to catastrophise. I can instantly tell when they are going to happen and I can handle them but they are awful, actually had one today š. Isolating is a common thing I do when they happen - and ruminating in silence about whether or not my fear would happen and what that would mean for meā¦
@Bee. I fully relate to this. Had 2 episodes the past two days and they were horrible. Hope you feel better ā¤ļøāš©¹
@v333 Thank you so much, Iām sorry you experienced that too - OCD episodes are the worst⦠Hope you also feel better ā¤ļø
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I asked this question cuz I wasnāt sure if what I was having was an OCD episode. I thought they had to be solely related to doing compulsions, but after relating to all your responses I can definitely consider what I experience as OCD episodes.
Hi!! My names Calista R. Woodbury-Rabon. I recently got married in March of this year. And have been struggling with my severe anxiety disorder since I left my toxic 3 year relationship about a year ago. Over the past several months, I have noticed that I go through phases where: I have a full body āanxiety attackā. Or at least thatās what I call it. For example : when we went to cookout and they told us they were out of the chili for walking tacos. I had a full blown anxiety attack or at least what I thought was an anxiety attack and starting hyperventilating and crying. Therefore, the only solution (in my mind) was that I wouldnāt be able to calm down until I had the walking tacos. Another example : My husband bought me a pajama set that was only recently put out because it was a patriotic item which means that after the summer itād be gone⦠I ended up picking up the wrong size. So that night when I went to put on the Pajamas and realized they were too small I started hyperventilating and crying. All because these $17 pajamas did not fit me and it was no fault of my own. Whenever this happens, I usually end up spiraling and crying and saying a lot at once very quickly. And I usually look crazy and donāt make a lot of sense. Usually after the spiraling is over with Iām very exhausted and usually will cry myself to sleep. My husband more often than not will say stuff like āitās not that big of a deal you can get something else.ā << when it has to do with food etc. OR āwe can just buy another set of pjamas the next time I get paid.ā << in relation to the pajamas in this instance. But honestly no matter what him or anyone else tells me in that moment. All that matters is that I can feel the anxiety in my bones. And I canāt breathe and in that moment my world as I know it has ended. Iāve tried taking online free āquizzesā to find out if I acctually have OCD and theyāve been negative. I also did some research and learned that you can have all the symptoms for a OCD āflare-upā but present no active case of OCD or symptoms. So I guess what Iām trying to find out is if I donāt have āOCDā than Is this out of body experience caused from my āsevere anxiety disorderā diagnosis ? Or just anxiety in general?? Thank you for taking the time to read this even if you also arenāt sure!! Means a lot to me..ā¤ļøāš©¹
I haven't been able to read about experiences similar to mine when it comes to my perfectionism OCD so I was wondering if anyone had any "uncommon" experiences.
Im still searching about pure o ocd while I still look for a specialized therapist so that's why I'm asking the following thing lol Is normal to have months and/or years without an ocd episode? I noticed I had a considerable amount of episodes in all my living years but sometimes they took a year or a bit more than a year to appear, in worse scenarios I noticed the took just months to appear once again Is that normal? Im kinda feeling guilty about it because I notice some people live 24/7 with ocd since they are kids while my thing is more like, episodically, not 24/7 since I was born? My last episode started in August of last year and is still haunting me but I know people had it worsened since their earlier years of life
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