- Date posted
- 1y ago
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I hear you and feel this. Just know you are not alone and are loved. Its hard. I was feeling pretty depressed and down today at Church. I sat next to a girl who is 31 and she has 3 kids. She told me she has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease which is attacking every part of her body. Even her muscles are pulling away from her shoulder. She has scar tissue all over her insides and is in constant pain. Everyday is hard for her. I told her about my struggles and she asked what she can do to help me. I started crying for her. My suggestion is call someone who is struggling right now or needs a friend. Try and focus on someone else for a bit. I do this once a day and it helps.
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Yes, call your Dr asap & get stabilized & treatment asap. đâ¤ď¸
- Date posted
- 1y ago
It really is a nightmare but remember they are just passing thoughts and not who you are. There is hope and help you just need to get with the right Dr or therapist and be honest about anything your feeling even if itâs uncomfortable and scary and have them help you figure out whatâs the best treatment plan.
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- Date posted
- 23w ago
I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but when I learned more about it, I never related to anything more. A little back story: when I was younger, there were a couple of youth suicides in my area and the schools felt the need to have someone come in and talk about suicide. Well the person they had come in did a horrible job teaching it and basically made it seem like the smallest negative emotion or feeling or change in behavior made you suicidal. This ended up scaring me so much that I got horrid anxiety. Fast forward to now, Everytime I feel anxiety and panic, I fear I'm going to kill myself. Everytime I feel down and depressed, I fear I'll end it all. I'm scared to be around anything sharp because the "What if" I hurt myself comes into my mind. There are always intrusive thoughts at almost every point of the day. And it's not only for me. Everytime I hear someone being negative, I fear they will be suicidal. I know in my heart that none of this is true but it's terrifying me that it's stuck around so much that it makes me scared that maybe it is true. I've had a lot of death in my family in the past year and a half and a lot of other family drama that I'd never had before that is now also bringing up existential intrusive thoughts. And I'd never questioned anything about life before but now I get the "why is life like this?" and "does anything we do matter?" and I hate it. I don't want to think like that. I just want to go through life being able to handle things normally again. It terrifies me even right now going "what if you give up?"
- Date posted
- 22w ago
So I've had OCD since I was a child. Like really young. The first intrusive thought I can remember was when I was 5. It just keeps getting worse and lately they've been making me physically ill or throwing me into extreme panic attacks again ( ones where I can't move my body ) the other night I thought God was trying to kill me because I was thinking about ending myself from OCD+ life issues but in reality I was just having a panic attackđđit affects me daily. It gets a little better with therapy but I don't see therapy coming into my life any time soon and I'm not even sure if I would want to go (for multiple reasons). To wrap this up if you have severe ocd can you tell me what it's like?? I don't want to label anything without proper research and hearing others perspectives. Thank you!! <3 (My profile says all of my subtypes if that helps any)
- Date posted
- 20w ago
I feel like thereâs no way out of this. everyday iâm anxious and depressed from these thoughts. i feel like i have to constantly question if itâs OCD or not. the panic attacks are insane and i freak out. and a compulsion i have is looking eveything up on the internet when im stressing to know that itâs just my OCD and im not in danger. but looking things up add on to my thoughts and i start thinking âwhat ifâ actual suidcal people think. do others with this theme whenever they do something like if im taking a picture itâll be like âyeah you look happy people will wonder what happened when your goneâ LIKE i DO NOT want to end my life. or even as simple as cleaning my room, âyup keep it clean so when your family goes through your stuffâ then i panic and canât even do anything. those thoughts distress me so bad. iâll sit there and think how good my life is or when im having a good day my thoughts will be like âNOPEEE what if your just saying that to convince yourselfâ it never shuts up and genuinely makes me think i have SI or something. i hope this reaches the right people just to know im not alone. Even when i do get better in the back of my mind itâs always âpeople who want to are the same a day before tooâ im genuinely scared and im scared one day im going to just snap and do it because its âtoo muchâ do i need to go to a mental hospital! i feel insane.
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