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Are you on antidepressants? Also, it sounds like it could be depression as well, but I ask about the antidepressants because they are known to have some of those kind of effects on people. I would recommend talking to your therapist about this if you are currently seeing one.
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I always wondered why most of the time I just felt "nothing" when I should be having some sort of emotional response to something. I couldn't even feel bad about not feeling!? I thought it was just me.
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I’ve experienced the same, when a person goes through ocd they emotional numbness, which is normal especially when you feel axioms and sad a lot, I recommend which I am on now, which has helped me because I was going through the same numbness and my emotion are returning it’s a serotonin drug called Paxol
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I believe I spelt that right
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Anxious*
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Hey, I get the same way sometimes. For me, I think it’s just depression.
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Nope! Never been on any anti depressants. Im Strictly against anti depressant. Sure I feel Sad but I’m still able to go to work and eat and laugh. It’s this super weird feeling like I feel like a robot. My brain feels weird. Like one time I was yelling and arguing with my mom I couldn’t get mad. Like I was screaming but I felt empty inside
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Also I really don’t want meds! Please help what do I do!!!
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@Naeun — what resources are you using? I know you’ve been to see a psychiatrist but didn’t want meds. Are you seeing a therapist? Have you bought any books or other resources to help you treat your OCD? I know you don’t support antidepressants but I think you need to take a look at the evidence for them verses your grandfather’s individual experience. Take a look at the worksheet I just posted to 0823’s post about medication fears. I don’t mean to pressure you into doing something you don’t want but SSRIs definitely make the road to recovery MUCH easier and no supplements have been found effective in the same way.
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@worrieddriver hey! I went to my psychiatrist and told her and she said moderate OCD but the place doesn’t specialize in OCD. So I still have to make an appointment at the place with OCD therapist but college started and I don’t have any time! But the past three/four days intrusive thoughts have been super minimal! But sometimes I sit next to a person and I still get super gross horrific thoughts but no anxiety?!! And I said I’ll try meds as my last resort. Side effects are horrible and I’m emotionally scarred about my grandpa. Idk what to do? Can you please also post the worksheet here as well? Can’t find his post
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I ended cancelling my whole visitation at the previous hospital smh! So I have to find another place that does
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I feel different from others, I don’t feel as feminine and I feel like I’ve changed. I’m not sure why I feel this way. I also don’t think my ocd is ocd, it’s just something I told myself to feel better. I know! What if I am what if I’m not, I get it, but I don’t feel like i have a choice in the matter anymore. I have soocd and it’s eaten me alive for years. I woke up out of my sleep and got triggered and here I am. I don’t know what I feel anymore. I always wanted a boyfriend and now It seemed to change. I don’t want a girlfriend, it’s just that I don’t see anything for myself and I feel like I’m hiding. It’s hard to explain. Plus sometimes the way I move or speak makes me feel more masculine and it kills me. Im feeling so lost and alone right now. I know what I want deep down but I feel incapable of having those things because I won’t be able to have feeling. If that makes sense.
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I’m really anxious because I know my ocd is really bad right now so I shouldn’t try to figure it out cause my thinking is a mess but I’ve been having feelings of like I’m not sure if I love him anymore or worrying that I haven’t felt a lot like numb (a lot because ocd has been getting worse and worse) and thinking of like how I’ve been focusing on the negatives and only been looking at him through that lens and analyzing and also feeling like I don’t want this anymore. Basically just like negative thinking in feeling like I’m really scared it’s that it’s I don’t love him cause I don’t want it to be over and the thought of having someone replace him makes me ill. But like it feels like I’m not seeing him how I used to and it makes me upset. Today I was near someone I was like oh this person is cute and then I was thinking that the possibility of meeting someone new sounds exciting and now I’m freaking out because this in combination with feeling like maybe I don’t love him anymore is bad. Also my thoughts keep changing. and like sometimes it feels like I don’t care at all and this has happened but like worst it’s ever been and then other times I’m like I do care I do still feel. I’m just really anxious has anyone else felt this before and it was still ocd? 😭😭
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Why am I not anxious? Like at all anymore? Is it because I'm really avoiding and trying not to think of the consequences that come from possibly being a pdfile? Is the only thing that is worrying me about it is the consequences then does it mean that I really am one? But I never masturbated to the thought of a child and actively seeked it. It came as intrusive thoughts while I was doing it yes I've had them when I see kids yes and I question and check a lot if I'm attracted to them and its just confusing me, I know I'll never do anything to hurt a child and I don't even like the idea of becoming a pdfile then why am I not anxious enough about it? The thoughts are just distressing obsessive I feel disgusting and Id say I still do compulsions but I don't know something just doesn't feel right. I don't feel anything and no real attraction to anyone or anything anymore. I just feel so disgusting and I just want to be normal but then again I pretty much did this to myself. It's weird to me I know there isn't a real indication I'm a pdfile and past experiences pretty much prove that and I've always been attracted to older guys so why is this happening now? Why am I getting these thoughts now especially right after I was trying to fix this sexual obsession/tension I had for older guys. Is my brain just leaving one thing to love and be obsessed about and going to the other? I'm really really just confused. Not anxious just distressed confused and uncomfortable. Like I want to throw up but I don't feel intense anxiety in my chest it feels like maybe I haven't processed what's going on properly. I'm genuinely so confused and I don't want to have this stay in my mind. Sometimes I just miss my ex so much because at the time I've felt something I felt so much things even though I had really bad rocd. I just miss loving people again and being alive again. I'm so scared and confused right now can anyone explain to me what is this? I genuinely just want to understand what I'm feeling or thinking because its not making sense to me
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