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I had the schizophrenia ocd. Hang in there and try to accept the uncertainty. Sense of humor helps too! Bring on the flying elephants!
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It’s your anxiety making you think that you’re hearing things. That’s probably what the doctors are saying. Try to accept whatever you think it is you’re ‘hearing’ and try to make room for it.
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Jo jo .. it’s scary. The docs don’t believe me when I tell them I’m hearing things. . They say it’s my mind .
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Ok
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Anxiety is a nasty nasty thing ! It has made me feel I wanted to actually kill myself or hurt someone else !
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To me it sounds like you’re pushing the anxiety away and not accepting it enough. The more you tell your brain that you’re scared of anxiety, the more of a negative effect it’ll have on you unfortunately. Keep pushing along and let the group know if you have any other questions, there are many people here who can try to help!
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Hey! So ocd in simplest terms is uncontrollable thought suppression. Our obsessions are the thoughts and our compulsions are what we do to suppress them, and as we learned thought suppression is impossible and never works. So try to let the thoughts in as you would any other thought not related to ocd
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@Mikila I have a question. If you say that you’ve been dealing with Pure O for 14 years, that you seek reassurance 8 hours a day, and that you’re knowledgeable regarding letting thoughts/feelings/urges be there, to me this kind of post above seems like you’re seeking reassurance from us in this group. From what I’ve learned during OCD recovery, this is very unhelpful and only feeds the OCD beast unfortunately. It actually seems like you’re very knowledgeable on this topic and I think you probably have a lot more confidence than you realize to fight back against OCD.
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It’s one of the toughest things to just let the thoughts be there but that’s exactly how to get rid of pure o. Let them be in your head with OUT ruminating on then and with OUT trying to make yerself feel better by “figuring it out” eventually your brain will habituate to you not giving in and the thoughts will become less and less important I promise. Also get rid of all caffeine. It takes a few weeks but makes a HUGE difference
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I have the same how are you know ?
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Lately my OCD has been very horrible, it’s been more convincing than ever to the point where I’m genuinely convinced that I like this stuff, when I get a thought, I’ll hear my intrusive thoughts go “oooh, I like that, I’d do that.” and I just don’t freak out nor feel bad, I just feel like I like it even more, and feel like I would do/act on it and like it, and the feeling is strong and it lingers forever? It genuinely feels like I do, and I’m just lying now, i can’t tell if I make these thoughts worse or anything All I remember mostly just being like confused sometimes when these thoughts happen, but since I’m getting strong emotions that I like it, my brain says that means I did and I’m worried about that being true because I don’t understand nor know It’s like I am resisting to like this stuff now, it’s even tougher now than it was before
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I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
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Last year during April I started to experience groinal responses when I looked at kids. I was terrified of what it could mean and decided to attempt two weeks later. The very next day I had those responses I decided to attempt. I didn’t really have the courage to do so at that time but I started experiencing images about disturbing things done to kids and as days went by it got worse. April 16 was the last straw and I couldn’t take it anymore. I ended up in a mental hospital but before I ended up there I had searched up what I was experiencing. That’s when I started to understand that it was OCD. I felt relieved for a few moments until I felt the urge to get more information. I saw lots and lots of things and many comments saying that it wasn’t normal and that people who went through this were disgusting people who shouldn’t be allowed to roam free. That’s when my anxiety and fear became worse and I tried to get rid of it but nothing worked. I shook the entire time I was awake, I didn’t have motivation for anything anymore, I just felt so disgusting. In the end, I’m so glad I ended up in that mental hospital or else I wouldn’t be here with my friends and family. Thank you for reading my story, I’m so glad that I’m not alone
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