I want to know if this is something not right. Is there something wrong with me. My mind wants to think about our existence all the time. Almost like depersonalization or derealization. And it makes me feel like I just don’t want to be here. I am seeing a psychiatrist. And on medication. But he’s not specialized in OCD. Is this something I’m not alone with?
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@Anonymous Glad to hear you’ve recovered. Was it through ERP?
You’re not alone! I’m going through something similar! It’s extremely challenging. I’m working on finding a therapist knowledgeable in ERP to help me.
I can even look at my kids and feel weird. Like are they mine, and other things that’s hard to find the words to describe.
@Novalee!93 Sounds like depersonalization/derealization. Have you tried grounding techniques?
@RosemaryFlowers I haven’t tried that. How do you do that?
@RosemaryFlowers And the weird thing is, as soon as I wake up I start thinking about it and it gives me anxiety.
@Novalee!93 Things like meditating, body scans, mindful eating, and also the tapping technique. Look up tapping solution in the App Store if you can. It’s free (some material requires a subscription) and I find it helpful to calm me down.
@Novalee!93 I’m in the same loop currently. I get existential thoughts from the time I wake up until I go to sleep. I just started a new med that has made it much worse than usual which sucks.
This is my first post, so I apologize if the formatting is weird. I experience existential ocd I always struggled as a kid but learned more and more how to manage with school and such forcing me to learn how, now I experience a lot of overwhelming intrusions from when I wake up to when I go to bed (simply because I live and work in the same place it gets cabin feverish) but now more often going out maybe it’s just paranoia, I walk into a place and each person comes with a story immediately, every piece of trash on the floor, every piece of produce, each isle is a brand new way I could get into a life altering situation. I’ve managed well enough but sometimes I just completely lose my original objective and just leave or I’ll wanna leave my house but everything that goes with it and that could happen pops up and I just won’t go. It’s started to become avoidant behavior. Any help or similar stories? I just feel like I’m going crazy but my thoughts are so scattered and immediate it’s hard to break the habit and not spin a story. Thank yall!
Been struggling with existential OCD lately. Very hard to describe the thoughts/feelings, but it is a constant feeling of being stuck in my head. Like what is consciousness and where do I think from? Like I think it’s OCD, maybe it is maybe it isn’t. But if it is, what would be good ERP exercises? Just existing (lol)? And what would be my response prevention? I’m not even sure what mental compulsions I may be doing.
Hey guys so I’m new here and just recently started struggling with some health ocd and thinking I had a brain tumor but it’s taken a turn for the worse and become this existential ocd where I’m questioning quite literally everything in my life, the purpose of being here and stuff. I just started meds yesterday, which is scary for me cause I’ve never been on them before. I keep having thoughts like, why does everything feel like a blur, what’s the meaning of this and I wake up every day with just existential dread. I’ve been having very vivid dreams that make dreaming and reality confusing I also am scared cause I’m dealing with some DP/DR as well. I just wish my life could go back to a few months ago before I knew all of this was possible. I guess I’m just writing this too get it off my chest and see if any of you all have gone through something similar and made it out okay?
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