I am very bad I used to to do my compulsion a number of time in different days and than i ended it right and i started doing compulsion only on the day they appeared bc if i made them the next day it's wrong and i have to make it in different days and do another compulsion to he right i different days idk how to explain but it's ruling my life i feel tired stuck i feel loney and with no hope please help me i need someone to talk to
Yeah u are really helping find a new perspective how i see things i hope u will find way to deal with all this maybe reducing the compulsion
Totally get it, OCD for sure clouds our judgements and makes doing compulsions a top priority no matter what all we think against it, like in all themes of OCD compulsions are a recurrent thing. So what we need to understand is that compulsions are just a facade, OCD makes us “think” we might get peace finally after completing some compulsions, but sadly it’s the other way around, it’s an endless loop that gets us nowhere. It’s for sure tough, we all deal with it, but how much we resist doing compulsions that much we can make our brain understand we’re still fine even if we don’t engage with any compulsions despite our OCD’s demands. It’s difficult no doubt, but that’s the only way to take back control from such irrational thought processes OCD presents us with! Hope it helps!! :)
Thanks a lot for everything you really made me feel better and understood
@guest1234567 So glad it helped! Remember, it’s all fine, it’s just doing the opposite what OCD demands us to do, and thus gradually avoiding falling into the endless compulsion loops!!
@UH52 I try not to listen to it but it finds a way and i give in to compulsion and then there is no way back until it's done in tue correct way and i am stuck with this to finish the cycle perfectly only this time and then i won't listen to it anymore but i can't leave this one this way bc if i do this means i accept my intrusive thoughts and that's terrible i can't resist this one and ocd is telling me that u have gone so far and done a lot of things hoe can't u do only this one for the last time i am so scared i wanna cry
@guest1234567 I get it, like that’s undoubtedly difficult cause we might think “this time” it might bring a relief, but unfortunately doing it again will only make the neural pathways even more stronger and thus make us feel worse. According to what you have mentioned I believe there is also some cognitive bias, it’s know as the “Sunk Cost Fallacy” where we might still invest in doing in this case the compulsion, thinking we have anyway invested all our time and effort this much, so why not just do this time and be in peace, but sadly that’s exactly the OCD’s trap, the loop will just go on without any progress! I totally get its really difficult to challenge that thought, and to see the other rational side when OCD blocks our judgement, but by preventing falling into those traps is the first step towards making a lasting progress!!
@UH52 Thank you for spending your time writing to me what should i do to resist? I am so afraid
@guest1234567 It’s totally fine:), like to resist there are multiple ways according to what you are planning to do as the compulsion, like I believe the best way is to engage in some distractions exactly when such compulsions flood into our heads, like diverting our attention for that time frame and then looking back can give us a perspective and make us tell back to OCD “See, I didn’t do any of your demands, but I’m still well and good”. And by time, we itself can distinguish between rational and irrational thought patterns and feel much more in control!!
@UH52 I can't stop thinking of it my life feels so different now that i am not doing my compulsion bc if i hadn't started the cycle it would be fine but i started it and can't leave this way
@guest1234567 I have a lot of thoughts racing in my mind that convince me to do the compulsion bc there is no way to find relief if i don't do this one
@guest1234567 I understand, so what theme of OCD do you struggle more?! Like and how long will the compulsions last? Like definitely we can’t stop such intrusive “automatic” thoughts cause it’s largely outside of our control and automatic as well, what we can do is just to decide how we respond to them! Thoughts are just thoughts and not absolute “facts”. Since OCD and its fears are mostly way out of our control, all we can do is to decide how will we respond to such intrusive thoughts and demands rather than trying to eliminate all such thoughts and compulsions! Hope it helps!
I’ve tried living in the uncertainty today & kept myself busy but I can’t shake this feeling that I’m about to lose control & act on my thoughts. I keep feeling like I need to check in to see how I feel & keep my self safe & when I’m near my trigger it feels like I’m being pulled into doing it & feels like I want to but I’m not using compulsions. My thoughts feel like my own & feeling like I’ll be like this forever. Can someone relate or give advice 😩
i don’t want to do my compulsions. I feel like if I don’t somebody will get hurt, sick or die. It’s a very scary thought to feel like if I don’t do my compulsions it will be my fault even though it isn’t & nor will it happen. I know it’s magical thinking & my thoughts are not true nor will they come true. it’s just im so tired of doing these compulsions. im so tired of feeling like I can stop something bad happening if I don’t step on this or touch this 4 times. it even got me believing that if I do something I want to do & love, something bad will happen. I just want to be able to live & feel like I use to. I hate ocd. how can I calm this down so I can be able to navigate in my own life?
I have disturbing thoughts. I am very upset. Someone please help me. Please talk to me.
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