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Nightmare
Ocd is killing me. I’ve at least calmed my emotions but my mind just won’t stop. One trigger after another. I’m scared of tomorrow that it will start all over again.
Ocd is killing me. I’ve at least calmed my emotions but my mind just won’t stop. One trigger after another. I’m scared of tomorrow that it will start all over again.
Personally I try to shift my perspective a little concerning OCD and realize it will return again probably soon and I try to accept that idea with more of a indifference that way it has less of a tight grip on me and makes it somewhat easier for it to run its course in a little smoother way .
llacerda, I’ve been suffering from anxiety for almost 20 years. I just recently started getting treatment for Pure OCD (Intrusive thoughts) because I just learned that I have it, I just learned what it is. I think the thing that has helped me the most is learning that PURE OCD causes you to have thoughts and convinces your brain that something bad actually happened or something bad will happen. I found a little comfort knowing that all this time my mind was just playing tricks on me, trying to scare me but there’s no merit to my thoughts, they are just deception. Does knowing this information help you at all? I’m just curious because you’ve been dealing with this for 4 years, for me it’s almost been 20 so maybe it’s easier for me to accept this and find a little comfort because of the amount of time? I don’t know. I’m not sure if I learned this information 16 years ago if it would have helped me or not because my anxiety was so bad back then but I hope it helps you, even in the slightest bit.
It’s ironic because the stress that I’ve put on my body from worrying all these years has likely put more strain on me then the things I worry about happening would have caused. By no means am I “cured” of my thoughts but just by researching and learning about PURE OCD, it’s helped me a lot. Nobody should ever give up on you. This is not your fault. You didn’t choose this mental problem. And you will get better.
Take it day by day ❤️ try not to think into the future just live in the moment your in! Just remember your not alone!!
@SurvivingOCD❤️ It’s been 4 years of ups and downs. I’m so tired and my family is about finished w me.
I feel this so hard
@balexan8 I’m so sorry. I hate this.
May I suggest not to review today or preview tomorrow. Rather live in the moment.
Thanks everyone
some days I wake up with so much dread and guilt. It makes it so hard to keep going. I open my eyes and I’m hit with a wave of nausea and terror. I feel ashamed of my compulsions and my OCD. I feel like a monster for my checking compulsions. For momentarily sexualizing things that shouldn’t be sexualized out of anxiety. I’m ashamed of a lot that I give into because of anxiety. Confessing things that are meaningless to my boyfriend. I feel so awful and unworthy of existing and of love. I feel hopeless I don’t want to keep pushing, the more I push the more meta my OCD becomes and the more guilt I feel for this mental illness. The more confusing it becomes to do ERP. If compulsions are a choice, they feel like life or death and it’s driving me insane, I beat myself up so badly over them I’m scared of compulsions, I’m scared of thoughts, I’m scared to be awake, I’m even scared of sleeping because my intrusions and compulsions haunt me there too. I spend my dreams trying to explain or justify my OCD and compulsions to people. I’m exhausted, I want this to stop so badly. My severe OCD isn’t feeling any less severe and it’s been months. I don’t want to keep questioning my every move but I’m so hyperaware of everything I do. I’m so tired. Some days I don’t even have tears to cry with. I’m just so full of despair and shame
My OCD has been terrible the for the past two weeks. I have a fear that I will never be able to get out of the thought loop. I am hyper aware of my thoughts and it disturbs me. I haven’t been able to eat for 10 days. I force myself. I haven’t been able to sleep for more than a couple hours. Then I wake up and ruminate for a couple hours, until I’m exhausted. I’m also afraid I’ll never sleep well again. And I’m afraid I’ll never eat and enjoy my food again. I’m afraid I’ll never be able to stop thinking about this enough to enjoy my family ever again.
I want to rip out my uterus. Only my hormones can make my OCD and ability to manage it go back to square one. I am spiraling *so* hard. I cannot breathe. My PMDD is going crazy. I’m having a panic attack again. I feel so scared. The POCD is going absolutely insane right now. It feels undeniably real, and my mind keeps drifting to those awful thoughts and what feels like exploring them?? but I can’t for the life of me stop some of these compulsions right now. I was trying to watch something to get my mind off of this but ended up getting triggered twice, so my anxiety is a 10 and I can’t seem to calm down. This panic attack is tuned all the way up.
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