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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
Not everyone is able to understand. That's the hardest part of having OCD: being triggered by the people we love. But if you try to explain to the person who you think to be the most sensible among your beloved ones what's going on in your mind, expecting a certain discretion and gentleness, you could have some kind of comeback. You don't need to tell the obsessions, if you just don't feel like. But some little support can help so much. I'm still very secretive about my rOCD, I'm pretty picky about the people whom I choose to reveal my thoughts to, but sometimes it helps. Keep fighting
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- 5y ago
I'm guessing your grandma, being a grandma, is and elderly lady and therefore comes from a generation who were not made aware of mental illness like we are today. Therefore it's understandable that she may not understand what you are going through as she wont be as familiar and probably less educated with such issues! Ocd is probably one of the most misunderstood mental health concerns aswell. You are not your thoughts you are your values.
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- 5y ago
My personal experience: I've told my mom that I have been always doubting of all my intimate relationships, and she was like 'even with your current bf? ?' and I was like 'omg now she thinks that i'm not happy enough with him' and that triggered me for the whole day. I think that if I told her that's because of rOCD, she would be like 'don't be silly you are not mentally ill you're just too picky' and that would trigger me x38394993. She loves me so much, but she has some certains patterns that prevent her to be open-minded about this topic.
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- 5y ago
First of all, realize that you are not a bad person. OCD obsessions are ego - dystonic, which means that they don't allow with your personal desires for life. There is nothing wrong with you, OCD is about a chemical imbalance in the brain and luckily, it can be treated. You must find an OCD therapist to help you. If you can't afford therapy, there is a youtube channel called "Restored Minds". It is helping me a lot with my recovery from OCD. Watch the videos from the beginning and stay positive. You are not alone, about 3% of the population suffer from this disorder. It can be treated and you will achieve victory!
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- 5y ago
Thank you so much for all the replies, it helped a lot. I’ll keep your words in mind. I think my insurance covers everything so I just have to find an ocd therapist, since my current one isn’t specialised. Thank you again for taking the time to answer me, it really means a lot.
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- 25w ago
I can't do this anymore I feel fucking insane my mind keeps telling me I want to k word people and if feels like my mind is making fucking plans. I'm diagnosed with ocd but I don't even know if it's ocd what if I'm just a terrible fucking person that actually wants to do this. My mind is literally telling me to go buy a weapon and hurt people like I get fucking urges. I can't keep food down and have not for the last few days I feel like I need to go to a mental hospital but I don't want to burden anyone in my family. Like my mind tells me specifically I want to do this but I don't want to but recently ive been having the thought of what if I did do it but I don't want to. I just want it to stop I'm a good person I don't want to hurt anyone at all. But what if one day I actually do want to do something. I can't do this anymore.
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- 25w ago
This is extremely hard for me to say I have danced around it in previous posts but I simply cant hold it in anymore. The guilt that I feel for thinking these thoughts is immesurable and is driving me to want to hurt myself. I'm gonna start from the very beginning it all started when I was put on Fluvoxamine back then I had the bad habit of looking every medication that I was on up and with that I found out that a student with another student had brought a weapon to school and hurt many people with it. (I can't even write the word but I'm sure you know what the thing was) The intrusive thoughts didn't start then for some reason but later when at my school we had a threat of someone who was wanting to do the same thing. But then one morning I got the thought of what if I do that. And then it got worse I would get the thought every day. And then summer came by and I thought I would be fine but it came back when I went to school again this year it got so bad that I had to drop out of school. But for some reason I am still getting the intrusive thoughts and they are even more horrible now with images of me doing it, I get horrible urges, and my mind tells me that I want to do something this terrible. I want people to understand when I say this I don't want to do anything to hurt anyone and never have. I have 0 history of violence to anyone and have been in several situations like that where there was a threat and have felt the fear that comes along with that. I don't understand why these thoughts are there. I feel like I need to put myself into a mental hospital. I never want to hurt anyone and never will.
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- 20w ago
HARM OCD VENT. I feel Terrified. I am so scared that I am going to act on a terrible harm ocd intrusive thought on someone else. The idea, the sensations the urges terrify me because it feels so scarily real. I feel like im a horrible person - a danger and i’m so guilty for having intrusive thoughts. I hate knives, I avoid looking at them in real life, in the kitchen as i’m so terrified that i will do sone thing terrible. I get excited when my boyfriend cones round as i always think he knows about my thoughts so at least he would restrain me if i were to do anything bad. I just feel so scared so guilty. I have this horrible sensation of urge running through my body- currently im on the verge of tears- i feel lost. My ocd has even latched onto pumpkin carving - scared i will do something bad. Now my OCD is just being like “ maybe your avoiding is all fake and your trying to cover your a bad person” “ what if u actually want to “. “ I want to “ “ You arnt actually trying to hard from harmful objects “ its TERRIFYING. please may someone reply - I’m terrified right now its like an intrusive FEELING is in my body. Sorry guys. I NEED reassurance at this point, I don’t know what to do.
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