Can anxiety cause little muscle twitches. I woke up today and I felt my thumb twitched randomly and I started focusing on that and now my legs seem to twitch every few minutes. I have an extreme fear of brain tumors so I'm panicking really badly. I know it could be anxiety related and that I'm focusing on this but I can't let it go
Yes, anxiety. Sometimes when OCD isn’t around, it manifests in physical
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@auggiec017 Yeah it makes sense it's anxiety driven because it started when I started focusing on it and stressing about the twitches. When I'm distracted it seems to stop. The problem is logical explanations don't work for OCD. But I'm trying my best not to ruminate
@auggiec017 You're absolutely right! Having intrusive thoughts is absolutely horrible but knowing they are ego dystonic and the last thing we would want to happen makes me feel so much better. I know I'm the opposite of my intrusive thoughts.
@auggiec017 Absolutely! I don't know how I used to be able to brush off these thoughts before my OCD flare up. Now I can't imagine not questioning the intrusive thoughts. Which I know is bad but the content of them is so horrifying
@auggiec017 It really is weird. Before I knew this was OCD I thought I had like a dark side or something. But honestly I'm trying really hard to not engage with my intrusive thoughts. I do feel bad for not ruminating about them but overall I feel so much better. Until today when I started engaging with them again and now my anxiety is really high
@auggiec017 We will! I view recovery as a long journey and not a destination point. With each day we can get better!
@auggiec017 No, I'm from a European country
@auggiec017 This was a very nice chat! It's always cool to talk to people who understand these struggles. I hope you also get better and better each day! Have a great rest of your day!
Hi Pija, are you by any chance on SSRI medications (antidepressants)? It can also be a side effect of those. I had it every once in a while but def worsened with the meds.
@hen7 No, I'm not. I'm really considering it though
@Pija I had great results in not too much time. It can take a while to find the right meds though but once you do it can really help! it made ERP 100% more doable for me.
@hen7 I'm so happy for you! I'm going to talk to my therapist about medication
I know I just posted, but can someone please tell me how to stop compulsions and ticks? My OCD is really bad and my compulsions are getting really repetitive and I just I can’t stop them. I’m scared because I keep ticking and doing compulsions and I can’t seem to stop it and it feels like I’m having a seizure but I don’t have epilepsy so I don’t know what that feels like, but all my muscles are tensing and I can’t stop squeezing and tensing up. It’s really really not fun and it feels like I need to be putting a straight jacket or something. I’m scared anyone please.
I went from intrusive thoughts of hurting people, thinking I did horrible things and not remembering it like running people over with my car etc, to my brain trying to convince me I that I had split personality disorder to now health anxiety. The intrusive thoughts weren’t as bad as this. I’ll get physical symptoms like my heart racing, chest pain, can’t swallow. It’s been causing panic attacks but I’m constantly scared I’m dying. If my mole looks like it changed I freak out and think I have cancer. I had to get a stethoscope to listen to my heartbeat to make sure I don’t have an aortic aneurysm to buying a Fitbit to constantly check my pulse. I went to the ER bc I thought I was dying and now I’m paying a 2 thousand dollar bill when they say my heart is fine. It’s just exhausting.
Recently ive been getting very scared to even be angry bc of the horrible thoughts I have and it feels even more real when I'm angry or even annoyed. Rn I was not even super annoyed at my neice but I felt a twinge of annoyance since she went up to my face and was yelling at me while I was resting on the bed and I got this image of doing something bad to her and I felt my hand twitch very little. I got nervous and felt relieved when her dad told her to stop screaming for no reason. I've been hyperfocusing on my bodily reactions (mainly my hands or how I'm feeling like did I just enjoy that? Was I considering???) And I've noticed the small twitches whenever I'm mad or annoyed and it's scaring me so bad! Like do I want to act out? Am I holding back??? I used to not even twitch at all when mad and I felt 100% sure I'll never act out but now it feels like I don't know bc what do these twitches mean?, I do know I don't want to ever act out but it's so scary. Recently whenever I feel angry once the argument is over I cry really bad after I'm alone and I pray so i never want or act out. And when the annoyance passes I also feel so guilty and want to stay away. Im scared these are real urges and i research for many many hours to make sure they arent urges or impulses and i also tend to ask chatgpt or here if the anxiety gets so bad 😕
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