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Ayyup that’s been me as well lmao. I would either imagine myself talking to a therapist about it or imagine being a youtuber talking about the struggles of OCD. ??
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It’s so weird isn’t it! But it works so well. I think it’s a compulsion but sometimes it’s needed when you lose yourself to the thoughts. It’s free therapy lol
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Sorry to tell you but it's a compulsion, basically anything you do that calms you down is a compulsion, you are supposed to calm down without doing anything,i know it's pretty tough
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Bang the thing is im saying this because it's true the best way to treat ocd is to avoid doing anything that calms you down,by exposing yourself to the anxiety from obsessions your brain gets desensitized to them,im trying to help by steering people in the right direction, unfortunately the medicine for that fatal illness is erp which means avoiding compulsions as much as you can
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Yeah unfortunately Starboiklem is right. It’s a compulsion that’s been very hard for me to cut out myself but exposing myself to my anxiety has proven me that eventually it does go away and it does get less intense each time. It takes a while and I’m still having my spikes here and there but it does work. The point is not to “shut the thoughts off”. You can’t really do that lol but you will notice as you allow the anxiety to stay that the thoughts will become less frequent until eventually you barely have them anymore because your mind will get bored of them. Once that begins to happen you will also feel less the need to do those compulsions because they won’t feel as necessary anymore. It’s something I’ve been noticing myself for these past few weeks while doing ERP myself.
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Well happy to know I’m not the only one lol, hope it’s not a compulsion because it’s the only thing keeping me sane right now????
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YESSSSS
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I talk to myself as if I’m in therapy or if I’m with a doctor and it helps
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Idc if it’s a compulsion or not, I feel better from it and it’s how I cope. Ocd is such a tiring thing and to hear that low key pisses me off. Nothing else would make it better or make it stop so it’s not like I have a lot of options on how to shut the thoughts off. That’s like saying to someone they have a fatal illness but they can’t take medicine to get better because they have figure out how to not die. That makes 0 sense to me.
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Compulsions worsen your OCD, that’s a fact, but I think if you aren’t in therapy in the moment and you’re slowly losing your mind then it’s important to remind yourself how you truly feel about the intrusive thoughts. It’s not a long time thing though!! Because it is still a compulsion, we need real professionals to help us out
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Hi everyone. I’ve been doing therapy for about two months now and I would say it’s slowly helping me a lot. I explained to her the breathing techniques and “sitting in the anxiety for a bit” and I feel like those are helping. But then my therapist said “don’t sit in the thought because then you might act on it”. I don’t “sit in the thought” but rather i sit in the anxiety to comdition my brain into thinking it’s not a threat. But ever since yesterday, my therapy appointment, I’ve been really shooken up. Even though I don’t “sit in the thought” I feel like a bad person that she even had to bring it up even though I explained it wrong. I’m so upset I feel like I just took 3000 steps back from my progress and this little thing is really scaring me. Am I a bad person? I don’t want to act on any of my thoughts and it scares me so bad I hate living.
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I’ve started ERP therapy with a really great therapist, and I haven’t gave into my compulsions but I still have anxiety and yesterday my brain was telling me that people were zombies😭 is this normal?
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I’m a bit curious, I’ve come up with many ways to handle them, I don’t have therapy, but how do ya’ll deal with them? Is it normal to come up with other compulsions to kinda just tame them? Or to convince yourself they’re not real? I’ve had different ways of handling them, but most times I get obsessed with the way of handling it or the thought that helps me beat the bad/concerning/thoughts to the point it just stops working and I need to find a more effective thought, compulsion or thing.
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