ashcash
- Date posted
- 1y
Non ocd related fun post
What is everyone’s favorite alcoholic drink if you drink and if not what is your favorite kind of juice!? i like beer honestly and good tropical sweet cocktails like lychee martinis!
SimplySimply
- Date posted
- 1y
Red wine 🍷only doctors orders
Wolfram Wolfram
- Date posted
- 1y
Respect to you for making the choice * I have a love hate relationship with my phone 😩
NODA💕NODA💕
- Date posted
- 1y
😂😁. Mee too. Like it has a mind of its own. 😊.
Hayhay Hayhay
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y
I am >21 so probably grape juice
💗Snoopy🌌💗Snoopy🌌
- Date posted
- 1y
I'm newer to alcohol and only drink w family most of the times bc I don't have the confidence to buy a drink alone w my baby face and vertical drivers license. But I had a watermelon margarita (my first margarita ever!) The other day and it was so good. I also don't mind guinness,I mixed some sweet iced coffee (it was a wendy frostccino) with it once and that was super good
Wolfram Wolfram
- Date posted
- 1y
Was a vodka redbull guy but caffeine I feel is bad for my ocd. I had a friend get me toffee vodka and lemonade, it tastes like ice cream 😋 then found out its not vegan so 🤷♂️
NODA💕NODA💕
- Date posted
- 1y
O my dear Invalid. I have been wanting to send you a message, but I hesitated, I didn't know how it would come across. But reading this answer of yours to ashcash, there is just one word, one adjective, that made me go WOW!!!! outloud. I wanted to tell you that you seem to me as the kindest and the most caring, understanding person on NOCD. I can feel your energy and your heart. But today you completely won me over and left me in awe. You are a vegan!!!! Bless you! Me too. Have been for 8 years! It's so nice to seesuch a emotionally intelligent person with such passion to help others, people and animals. I hope your love soon manages to see through your ocd and see what a gem you are. You deserve true love. All the best to you! You made my day. Cheers! 🥂
Wolfram Wolfram
- Date posted
- 1y
@NODA Awwww, made me tear up. Thank you for this. I've been vegan/vegetarian my whole life. Didn't really have a choice as I was raised that way. Was the only vegan in school 😂 Respect to you for mskiothr choice, I always admire that. As for the woman I was in love with, it's out of my control what she thinks. I still love her, but not in love with her. I was at a point where I could compartmentalise feelings on command and faller out of love instantly if I chose to but did some research and found out its really unhealthy. Heartbeak is worth going through. It's actually her birthday today and wished her a good one. As soon as I sent the message I felt immediate stress but dont consider it ocd and did erp. The anxiety went away within 30secs. Erp is amazing. It may come back later but I'll just keep doing erp. I'm glad I made your day and can see your a positive impact on this community too. You made my day too 😊 we all deserve to be better, I just want to help people realise that
NODA💕NODA💕
- Date posted
- 1y
@Invalid I can only wish I were vegan my whole life. It took me way too long to open up my eyes properly and stop pretending and looking at reality through pink glasses. I once saw a freezer truck full of cow corpses without skin hanging in the truck i front of a meat shop, blood still dripping and came home in tears. I never looked back. That was it. Never touched meat again. I became vegetarian. For 10 months. Then one day I wanted to know why those extreme people called vegans don't drink milk, eat honey,... Why not eating meat is not enough for them. Within 15 minutes I turned fully vegan. And have been ever since. And I am proud to say, I will one day go out of this world as a vegan. I agree. It's cool if one is able to turn on and off feelings on command, but is not very healthy in the long run, I suppose. I am sorry her birthday upset you a bit, but good for you, you have it under control. And it is very nice that even though you are not in love with her you still love her and there are no negative feelings like it so often happens. It's a sign of being real adults. Nice knowing you. Kudos for being so warm hearted and supportive. I hope you find a way to distract yourself by doing sth you like that doesn't remind you of your ex love. Have a lovely, relaxing day.
Wolfram Wolfram
- Date posted
- 1y
@NODA Did type a long message but it got wiped 😅 cba to retype but know that it was a nice one You're a kindred soul and hope you have an amazing day too
NODA💕NODA💕
- Date posted
- 1y
@Invalid Thank you. I am sorry it got deleted. I would be happy to read it. I am sure it was a nice one. You are one of the nicest people here if not the nicest. Thank you anyway. 😊. I've been fighting a nasty cold since yesterday. But I'll be fine. I've got my feline doctors around me and they are taking really good care of me. Evrytime I fall asleep and wake up, there is one either lying on my chest or sitting next to me and observing me intensely. What doctors! 😸 Pure love. 😻. One of my cats says bless you every time I sneeze. Of course in cat language. She is so sweet. I took them in and cared for them when they were abandoned and still take care of them, and now when I am not completely ok, they are taking care of me. Wow! 😊. I hope you managed to go through yesterday as unupset as possible. Well, you have us here to unload any monkey sitting on your shoulders. 🙊🐒😊 . Just in case. It's so sad when relationships break up because of ocd. Well , I guess it is not easy to be on either of the two sides. At least people with ocd are never left alone. Even if we lose our families, friends, partners, spouses,...our only true friend and the only one that truly loves us, is still there. Like people who really love us, should bem Have a great day.
NODA💕NODA💕
- Date posted
- 1y
@NODA *should be. We'll at least that is the "crap" ocd feeds us with every chance it gets. 😏. Have a great day.
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mriley♥
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 24w
Fun question! 😊
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mdipierro
- Date posted
- 14w
Alcohol OCD theme
I’m curious if anyone else has ever had this. This is my specific theme in regards to my OCD that has been prevalent in my life since 2022. Quick back story: went to a party college for 4.5 years and had a blast, got as drunk as I wanted on weekends and never once felt bad about it. Then, hangovers got worse and I started partying too much. After graduation, I told myself that it’d be a really cool goal to get to the point where I could go out and just have 4 beers. Enough to enjoy myself, not enough to make me hungover. Well, this simple healthy goal turned into a massive obsession. Now, if I go over my limit of 4-5 beers/drinks, two things happen: 1. I give up and binge drink bc I might as well if I’m already over my limit. 2. The next day even if I’m super hungover, unless I can’t bc of work scheduling, I will perform a check where I drink 4 beers and see if I can still get drunk off of those. If I can get drunk, then I feel normal. If I am not as drunk, then this cycle continues. I worry about becoming an alcoholic all the time bc at this point in my life I am very active in my social scene, and alcohol is very much present. While I certainly do not have any family history of alcoholism nor the personality or drive to become one, I still fear that I might one day despite knowing I won’t. I also worry about raising my drinking tolerance by continuing to feed this obsession/compulsion loop. It’s slightly affected my personality and confidence. I’m aware it’s irrational and the solution is to simply cut back as anyone would and go out less frequently, or drink less frequently when I’m out. And yet, my other obsession with alcohol is experiencing the painful withdrawals that alcoholics experience when they stop drinking!! Despite never having experienced those withdrawals when I’ve not drank on a given night. So, it’s a weird one. Thinking the ERP is just going to be not performing those checks. If I’ve reached my limit and am not as drunk, okay. Alcohol absorption is affected by a lot. No need to check my tolerance nor go overboard since I’m not as drunk. We’ll see. I’m on Zoloft too which has helped a ton with other symptoms but this theme is making it less effective and I need to get control of it now.
Kong Rong
- Date posted
- 11w
Caffeine and Stimulation
How have you all seen caffeine or your level of stimulation impact your ocd? For myself I’ve noticed in general that caffeine reduces my ocd symptoms, but if I take in more than 70 mg at a time I feel anxious and jittery. I’ve also noticed that combining caffeine or stimulation, and a calming exercise at the same time reduces my ocd symptoms a lot while minimizing the anxiety. 2 of these activities for me are what I call 1) sword & Metal and 2) walking while doing mindfulness or breathing simultaneously. Sword and metal is a thing I started doing that stacks lots of skills on top of each other. I wield a sword while blasting heavy metal and stand up really tall and focus on breath and meditation. Sometimes it almost feels like different parts of my brain are going at different speeds when I experience OCD symptoms. Then I remembered that with ADHD different parts of the brain are actually going at different speeds. The frontal cortex is going slower namely. With the experiences I shared above and remembering the brain speed thing, I looked into if it’s a thing for OCD and apparently there’s research around it too, with different parts of the brain of course. Apparently, transcranial stimulation used to be used to address OCD. Anyhow, so my hypothesis based on all this is that if you can speed up the decision making centers of your brain while also calming your nervous system you can rebalance this inconsistent speed issue. Of course ERP is amazing, and I’m not bringing this up as a thought of comparison or replacement. It’s just a guess too. What do yall think?
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