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- 7y
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- 7y
I totally understand. Every few months I get a feeling for a change, like rearranging my bedroom and last time I did it, it caused a spike, but I didn’t rearrange the room back I just left it how it is and didn’t let the anxiety/ocd win. Trying out different stuff is fun, especially nail color I think, so don’t let your ocd tell you that you have to go back to the old thing. If you like the accessories or nail colors, keep them! You’re in control of your style ? maybe good exposure could be changing things up more often, too, if you’re comfortable with it. You could get a new accessory and start wearing more often or anything other changes that urge you to change back. Hope you’re doing well!
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- 7y
Thanks! I'll take it in consideration ? my favorite color is pink so I always get my nails that color but I feel like I'm not allowed to wear any other color aside from pink because it's like my signature ? same thing with perfumes I have a hard time choosing which one i like best so I just stick to the same one because Its not like I can wear all of em at once or else that'll smell pretty weird lol and about the accessories sometimes i wanna stop wearing certain ones but I feel forced to keep them even if I probably look over accessorized. Ugh it's so stupid.
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- 7y
It’s not stupid! It’s just the OCD trying to control you. Don’t be so hard on yourself. I have a necklace that I wear everyday, maybe you could do that pick one accessory to wear everyday instead of all of them? You could just try a different shade of pink or making one nail a different color from the rest
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- 7y
The color that I can’t wear is actually pink so when I got a pink scarf for Christmas, it was a real struggle to convince myself that it could be a nice addition to my wardrobe. But to do that, I had to get other pink items to get everything balanced so I bought pink nail polish too (after looking up the product code for the exact colors that my favorite blogger wears). Doing the research before helped me convince myself that it would be okay. But now I only feel okay with that specific shade of light pink on my nails and that specific coral color on my toes. I just feel safe when I do the same thing to avoid the perfect storm of thoughts that comes with something new!!!
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- 7y
Wow I totally understand you! I wanna get my nails white or lilac but I'm afraid I'ma feel like I betrayed pink or something and it's gonna give me anxiety!
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- 7y
Oh yeah definitely! I make sure I wear my hoop earrings everyday lol I agree! I would do my nails different shades of pink when this year first started but it's been months that I've been sticking to my favorite shade of pink which is cotton candy pink. @0823
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- 18w
Hey fellow OCD warriors! Wanted to ask if anyone else’s OCD tends to latch onto change and catastrophize with all kinds of worst-case scenarios. There’s a lot going on in my life, and even though they are all exciting things that I truly want and am happy about, I’ve had moments of deep fear at so much change happening and even a sadness that I can only think is a kind of grief of entering a new stage of life/a new me and leaving the old one behind. I am in my mid-20s and a lot of this centers around nostalgia and fear and intrusive thoughts of changes like my parents getting older, myself aging, friendships growing apart leading to loneliness, etc. I know I need to treat it as any other OCD flare-up and do ERP, but it also feels different than other OCD themes because I feel blue and like existentially sad. Even as a young kid, I always hated change and the thought of growing up (even if exciting things were happening) - like I cried when I turned 10 because I was leaving the single digits behind forever! 🤦♀️ I feel like I’m preemptively mourning things like losing my parents or my health even though I am healthy and my parents are too. I don’t want to waste the time I have ruminating about the future. I haven’t heard this kind of theme mentioned a lot so just wanted to see if any others could relate.
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- 15w
i’ve unfortunately fallen into the cycle of trying to figure out my thoughts and find answers as to why i feel so distressed. this still pertains to the situation regarding changing my room for those reading who have seen my multiple posts over the last few days. i’ve been so distressed and in so much panic about it. i’m also panicking over my other room looking so different from when i left it. it’s been making me feel crazy because to me there’s no reason for my anxiety to latch so hard onto something that seems so minuscule. i was thinking i was having anxiety over change, but it’s like symptoms of ocd too that’s making it really hard for me to let go. SO i started thinking maybe it was perfectionism ocd? i’ve realized over time that i do compulsions to where things have to feel “just right”, but i also do that with any environment i’m in. like it HAS to feel cozy to me and provide me comfort in order for me to feel at ease. and this change is causing me to panic because there’s something wrong that i can’t find an answer to. maybe the different colored carpet? but it’s also more than that it feels like. however, now it’s spreading into other areas of my house where i’ve always been fine in and possibly to just any area i’m in at all. hence why it’s making me feel crazy because there’s no reason for me to be THIS distressed over that as i’ve never really had this problem before. and when i did it would last maybe an hour to a couple of days at most, but this has been going for over 2 weeks with my really bad anxiety being this week. i’m doing a little better, but it’s still hard when i can feel that panic waiting for me to acknowledge and just engulf me in the ocd cycle. i’m also analyzing basically any feeling i have so i just feel off in general and like i’m going insane. i’ve been so hyper focused on how i feel and that will send me spiraling too. multiple themes then start coming in like existential ocd and fear of solipsism. not to mention my harm and contamination ocd that just adds on when i’m this vulnerable. then i worry if no one is real, then no one feels the way i do. or just in general that what if no one feels the way i do. honestly, i think being out of college and in my house with nothing to do is causing me too much time with my thoughts. which is why i’m so distressed about everything that pops into my brain.
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- 14w
i don’t feel like i’m allowed to make decisions because what if i’m doing a compulsion. am i genuinely uncomfortable or just looking to do compulsions yk?
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