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Compulsions
I’m curious to know what everyone’s compulsions are. Some of mine are picking my nails, and my skin
I’m curious to know what everyone’s compulsions are. Some of mine are picking my nails, and my skin
More mental , ruminating , avoiding , reassurance and checking in my head and repeating stuff in my head that I’ve said
A lot of mine are mental compulsions but I also skin pick excessively
Oof. Skin picking, body checking in the mirror, picking apart pictures of my wedding and obsessing over whether I looked “perfect,” avoiding things that could contaminate me, avoiding places where I could picture myself puking, ruminating, checking and double checking for roaches, etc etc etc. I had OCD for 22 years before I found ERP so my compulsions and themes were all over the place! But the good news: I have most of these under control at this point. 😊
Usually my compulsions are always motivated by fear. I feel like a child when I have compulsions. Like for example, my brain convinces me that someone is in my house and I need to open every cabinet and all the shower curtains, and do tons of other crazy things like march instead of walking so that if someone where to shoot at my legs they'd have less of a chance of hitting me. How do I stop it? I am just going about my day and I can see in my head, myself getting attacked or something and so my only option to calm myself down is to do a bunch of random actions that will keep me "safe". Does anyone else experience this? Or convince themselves that they are under Milo Murphys law? That anything bad that can happen to them will, so they need to never do anything that could result in anything bad, and avoid everything? And how do you convince yourself you're not in danger?
I obsess constantly about my hands being dirty and feel like I can actually see the germs and bacteria crawling all over my hands if I can’t wash them as soon as I touch something. It’s really embarrassing since people in my life have noticed this “weird” behavior but it’s a huge problem for me and I don’t know how to make the obsessive thoughts stop.
My boyfriend is staying the weekend at his parents house for his moms birthday and my ocd was quiet for most of the day and then I had the thought of my off has been quiet so I must not actually love my boyfriend which then just kept spiraling. I did resist compulsions to the best of my ability. I think there’s some mental ones I do as well but idk what they are. Anyway how do you guys resist mental compulsions what could some mental compulsions be?
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