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Can someone please help and reply
i have been so stuck in my head. my thoughts just keep racing and i can’t get out of it. is there any solutions to help this?
i have been so stuck in my head. my thoughts just keep racing and i can’t get out of it. is there any solutions to help this?
Hey you! I totally understand what you mean. Honestly I am going through the same exact thing right now and im setting up to meditate and am on this app to go to the OCD Attack thing. but honestly I think of it this way, a fake alarm is going off in my head and I can choose to get it attention or ignore it and as time passes we always feel better. Remember when you last felt this way and the next day or a few days after you can totally forget it? Remember that!
@Mimi😎 Thank you!!
I recommend to just find something to take your mind off of whatever it is you’re thinking about. Go on a walk, watch a show, play a game, meditate, this can help you get out of your head for a little instead of maybe just sitting around and doing nothing, because trust me that is only gonna make it worse. I hope you feel better and you’ve got this!! ❣️
@myfunnyvalentine thank you!!❤️
I know this is extremely hard and what I’m about to share is going to be hard but I have confidence in you that you can get thru this. A way to knock this out is to say “it’s just OCD” label it. You don’t have to respond to the thought but just label the thought. When I first started therapy and my therapist asked me to try I thought she was off her rocker. I was in distress, ready to go sit in the emergency room as my compulsion to be safe. Those 3 words “it’s just OCD” saved my life! The way to gaining your power back is within you. You must tell yourself that and you have proofed it over and over just in the other direction. Stand up to OCD AND IT WILL BECOME SMALLER AND IT WILL LOSE ITS POWER!
@Rhonni Thank you!!!
Try the Dare app
Find something to do that you love, move your body, listen to your favorite songs, just try to inject joy into your day when you’re out of control spiraling. It’s hard but if you start now and form the habit you’ll be better off in the long run. Don’t let OCD win.
@luveytwizzles Thank you!!
my therapist isnt avaible for a this week and this weeks been hell, cant focus, i keep getting stuck in my thoughts, if i predict something will happen and it doesnt, my brain gets stuck on what if it did and then my obession keeps going, i keep trying to not pay attention or let go of my thoughts but feels like im in a trance when the thoughts come up and feels hard to snap out of it. also since my ocd is to the point of disability (despite social security keeps denying me) i cant go out much and my fears have been getting more and more dehabilitating and i dont know how to properly fix it, i dont know the right way to respond to these thoughts, i dont know how to let go, its just been super rough and demoralizing...
i am a freshman in college and i have always struggled with depression, anxiety, and OCD. i have never received help for my OCD despite being medicated for my other two issues. i have noticed that what most of my panic stems from is my OCD and more specifically my OCD around school. i haven’t been able to get myself up for class for multiple days and im starting to panic about everything im missing and think about every little thing i have to fix. i am so behind that it makes me want to panic and i feel like i cant fix this. i just want my mind to feel normal but it feels like my whole world is falling apart all because i am feeling stuck in school. please help me i just want to feel okay but i dont know how to. i have tried doing all the assignments i can do to catch up but it isn’t enough i still feel so panicked
from the moment i wake up to the time i fall back asleep, my thoughts will not go a second without thinking about the same few topics. every second of every day for the past year i cannot stop thinking about my boyfriend. and no, not like "la dee da he's so cute!" no. it's the same thoughts of debating my feelings for him, convincing myself that im a lesbian but won't admit it to myself, convincing myself that i don't actually love him i just love the idea of a relationship with him. im disgusted with him but im passing it off as just i dont like that single flaw and thats fine. i can't stop. it's a broken record. my head is just a broken record. and for MULTIPLE YEARS pretty much since my ADHD diagnosis in middle school (i'm graduating this year) i haven't stopped thinking about mental health. relating every single thing in my life to the fact im neurodivergent. asking myself over and over if a thought i had or an action i made means im this personality, i have this mental disorder, because i have this traumatic memory that's influencing my choice. all day, every day, every second, multiple years. these thoughts are just constantly in my head. i want it to stop. i'm so tired of it. so absolutely exhausted. it's not even the compulsions or the anxiety, i just want the thoughts to end. all i could ask for, the thing i would give the world for, is to go a day without obsessively thinking these thoughts. to be able to experience a trigger but not be triggered. to be able to kiss my boyfriend goodbye and have my head move on to another topic for thought completely. to be able to hear a mental health topic be mentioned and not have the urge to explain every aspect of that topic, nor think about it for hours on end. be able to see random people on the street and accidentally make eye contact with them but not have to obsessively think of what their life is like, what they think of me, that they know i'm obsessively thinking about them and they hate me for that. i want to be able to see my ex friend around school whom im upset at the way things ended but not obsessively think about her and be disgusted and scared about those thoughts and her every move. i sound like a freak, i sound like i belong in a straitjacket, i know. i hate it too. so fucking much. i'm freaked out by myself, i know that if i were to share these thoughts at a podium i would be reported on the news and likely arrested because everyone around is terrified and will assume i will ever act. but i just want this to stop. i'm so desperately waiting for my next doctors appointment to ask for an up dose on my lexapro.
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