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Mental Compulsions
Do you engage in any of these?
JeniJeni
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Yes! For me it’s planning ahead. Expecting the worst with dwindling hope for the best is an absolutely exhausting way to live! I’m hoping to better myself & not waste so much of my time & energy on the “what ifs”. Most of the time, the worst case scenario will not be the reality & any preparation for the worst will have come at too high a cost.
tacotrucktacotruck
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Wow, I didn’t know most of these. I’m having a hard time identifying my compulsions, and this is super helpful.
MichelleVMichelleV
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I really struggle with memory hoarding, when I have a really positive moment or day. I feel a strong urge to remember every single thing, so I can hold on to the happy feelings when they fade later. A few months ago I went to a concert for one of my favorite artists (whose music touches on his OCD), and when I couldn’t remember every single detail and how I felt, it was hard. My OCD tells me if I don’t remember, it wasn’t valid, and won’t come back. Man this is exhausting.
coryefostercoryefoster
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I totally relate to that. The day after a fun event is really hard for me.
koriconemackoriconemac
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Omg I thought this was just my personality…
gixmogixmo
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@koriconemac Right? These are my “quirky behaviors.”
koriconemackoriconemac
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@gixmo Yes!
AnmacannAnmacann
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ALL of these!!
Ken!Ken!
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Does anyone have any tips to reduce mental compulsions because those are the hardest for me!
tinyspeckstinyspecks
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@Ken! To combat self reassurance, I try to use less reassuring statements instead. Like, if I find myself saying “it’s going to be okay” I can continue with “or maybe it isn’t, there’s no way to know for sure,” and it turns into an in-the-moment exposure
darnlinadarnlina
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@tinyspecks Okay, so I was doing this for a long time to begin with, realizing I did it for my ocd self-treatment long ago. Then, before getting diagnosed with ASD, people would comment on my negative or Murphy’s Law behavior so I was like… ok… maybe I’ll try switching all my ocd thoughts with positive or neutralizing statements when in actuality I was being real with myself and others on situations that literally any possibility is possible and not possible. Some have higher statistical happenings while others are much less probable and that’s how I treated my ocd without knowing at a young age. My ocd has gotten worse as an adult and I think that is combatting people pleasing of what I think people want me to say based on maybe one or two experiences of people not liking how I’ve commented on something in the past. Interesting.
tinyspeckstinyspecks
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@darnlina Wow, that’s really interesting! It’s cool that you kind of knew what to do to combat the thoughts when you were younger, I’m sure with some practice, it’ll get easier now. I struggle with meta-ocd too, so sometimes I find it hard to convince myself that self-reassurance is actually not helping me
darnlinadarnlina
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@tinyspecks Wow, I learn something new every day! This is the first I’ve heard of Meta OCD. I have that, I love trying to solve things and recently realized that me figuring out if what I was doing was a compulsion and then recognizing that THAT was a compulsion in itself. I am hoping so but also here for the long run. My OCD jumps. I solve one, then it drifts to another. I have had every kind of OCD in some sort of variety at least once. Did what I knew worked without help or treatment (mostly obsessed about reading psychology online) and that helped for a moment until i got “taken over” by the next. Rinse. Repeat. There is apparently a lot I do not know about OCD but since it is ruining my quality of life and others, I’m here to do the work. Best of luck to us all. Hoping I don’t hyper focus on Meta OCD but I probably will 😂
tinyspeckstinyspecks
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I do a lot of self-reassurance and planning ahead for worst-case scenarios
Madb Madb
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... all but the prayer one
Ranger_867Ranger_867
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It would be great to read a “do this instead” in addition to these - because I do them all.
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