When the ocd feels real and like it won’t go away the depression is so hard to deal with. I don’t even want to get out of bed. How do people balance this?
You’re not going to feel like it but you MUST take action! Please take my word for it! I felt exactly like you. I lost my quality of life due to OCD, I didn’t want to do anything but distract myself on my phone all day. I didn’t do school, didn’t do my hobbies, didn’t want to hang out with friends, ANYTHING. But I promise you that feelings follow ACTIONS. Even when you don’t feel like it you must do something to get yourself out of your bed and room, because staying there will only lead you lower. Even just the simple act of getting out for a coffee kicks off all sorts of positive chemical reactions in the brain. You don’t have to be perfect, but there is ALWAYS a positive step forward you can take for the better. I highly recommend this self-help resource for managing OCD if you cannot afford an ERP therapist ( https://hope4ocd.com/foursteps.php ) and doing whatever you can to not let yourself succumb to the depressive feelings, take some action and give yourself the chance to feel better!! Here for you. There is so much hope ❤️
@Madison the ERP Ninja Thank you ❤️
Have you tried antidepressants?! I’m on 100mg of sertraline and it is helping. It helps me gain control over my brain when I get intrusive thoughts.
@Anonymous I’m on anti depressants too but they haven’t really helped
i'm so so sorry to hear this is something you are going though:( it sounds really tricky but you are not alone in this fight <3 there is a discord server that's designed for ocd support! i've been apart of it for about 4 months now & absolutely love the community. here's the link if you are interested in joining:) sending love & support your way! stay strong my friend! https://discord.gg/mQxyBmGwhU
So this past week I’ve had a really bad ocd spiral. I can’t stop thinking about death and what happens after. Because of this, I’ve felt no motivation to get out of bed. I don’t know if it’s burnout from school, depression, or just existential ocd. I can’t focus on the present,and I feel like I’m in a dream like state. I went through a similar time a few years ago, and was able to get out of it. Even if I do accept that death is inevitable, how do I get motivation to do anything when I know it won’t matter in the end? Any tips?
I am having a real hard time with meta-ocd and thoughts about feeling depressed and be like this forever. Or the thought I never feel normal again or never feel connected to normal life things and normal people. The intrusive thoughts are here like the whole day and they are all about my mental health. And I obsess about how I feel and what I feel with everything I do. It’s so hard to explain. If someone- a therapist or someone who dealt with this has tips or word of encouragement right now, that would me great. I feel like everything I want to learn myself about ocd and coming to this forum also is a bit compulsive. It is so confusing 🫤
i think i might be struggling with depression. can depression make ocd worse? because lately, my intrusive thoughts have become so intense that even trying to sit with them doesn’t help. i hate that i can’t even go one full day without giving in to a compulsion. the horrible, blasphemous thoughts are so overwhelming that i sometimes feel like giving up and just believing them—not because i actually want to, but because I’m so mentally and emotionally exhausted. what scares me most is that my feelings feel so twisted now… like i’m starting to like or want these cruel thoughts. it’s terrifying because i feel like i’m becoming the kind of person I never wanted to be—a cruel person, even an enemy of God. and i don’t want that at all. i'm just scared i’m changing into someone i’m not.
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