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- haydensmith
- Date posted
- 44w ago
HOCD
anyone who has recovered from this theme, how did they do it because i’m really struggling, does medication help?
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- NicaNica
- Date posted
- 44w ago
I went through ERP and learned to not care about the thoughts. Also, my brother is gay and my mom’s cool with it, so if it just-so-happened I was gay, wouldn’t change a thing. I had to accept the uncertainty of 100% knowing for sure and caring to control everything. I haven’t had the theme since I was a teen.
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- haydensmithhaydensmith
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@Nica so you didn’t become the sexuality you feared, yeah none of my family care about sexuality because my mums bi sexual and my dad has said no matter what i’ll always still be his boy, it’s just scary because i’ve never doubted myself before all this and i was girl crazy.
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- blazedblazed
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 44w ago
It can, yes. It won’t go away completely with medication, it just helps with reducing the anxiety and stress. ERP is what will really help you recover from OCD though.
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- haydensmithhaydensmith
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@blazed my therapist is looking more into CBT, do u think this is a good option as well?
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- 6827368273
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@blazed Yup, I did erp, it hasn’t left. I have had a few days of no ocd and it’s awesome but alas it always comes back . I still feel distress but it as much as before
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- haydensmithhaydensmith
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@68273 how long have you been suffering for?
- Username
- blazedblazed
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@haydensmith Unfortunately no bc CBT is more focused on analyzing the thoughts/emotions and using logic to figure them out. This doesn’t work bc OCD is not rational and there’s always going to be another “what if”. Staying uncertain and learning how to tolerate the discomfort is how you’ll get out of the OCD cycle - which is what ERP teaches you.
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- blazedblazed
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@68273 Me too 🥲 some days are worse than others but I’ve gotten a lot better.
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- haydensmithhaydensmith
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@blazed are you more confident in your sexuality now or know what your sexuality is?
- Username
- 6827368273
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@haydensmith I’ve had 13years of ocd
- Username
- blazedblazed
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@haydensmith I’m not, but I chose not to label myself and just date my preferred gender.
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- haydensmithhaydensmith
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@blazed sometimes you have to live with uncertainty for a while to become more certain in the future.
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- GayleGermit11GayleGermit11
- Date posted
- 44w ago
i'm really sorry to hear you're struggling, but it's super brave of you to reach out and ask for help 🌟. you might wanna try "unstuck," it's this new ai-powered therapy tool specifically for ocd (just google "unstuck app for ocd"). my nocd therapist recommended it to me and it's been a game changer this past month. it might help you too.
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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 44w ago
I’ve got it and I don’t know who I’m anymore I’m soo scared
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- haydensmithhaydensmith
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@Anonymous same
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- haydensmithhaydensmith
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@Anonymous how long u had it for
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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 44w ago
@haydensmith Since September but I have had ocd episodes before since Covid
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- mktropeano
- Date posted
- 6y ago
does anyone have any tips to get over HOCD? it’s driving me crazy and it’s taking over my life
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- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
- Username
- OCDUDE99
- Date posted
- 3y ago
If you have HOCD this one's for you. So to set some background I'm currently 20 and have had cycled through many, many of the different types of OCD since the age of 10. I've probably had every type by now. But when I was about 13 I had hocd and it was bad. Really bad. Had 80 absences from school that year bad. And I was only 13 I had no idea what the hell it was I was dealing with, I had no idea what ocd was let alone hocd. So I suffered and suffered until I finally found a fourm somewhere about this thing called hocd, and I finally had a name for what I was experiencing. I fought it by myself because I was too scared to tell anyone about it, in hindsight I should have though lol. But I just stopped giving those thoughts power. I accepted it and was like "yeah maybe I'm gay, maybe I'm not" or "yeah that guy in this movie is pretty good looking, does that make me gay? Maybe, maybe not" and eventually it lost it's power and faded away. Unfortunately my ocd continued to bounce to other topics I've had to fight that have also been hard. But I just want you to know if you have hocd you will get through this. I'm 20 now and have an amazing girlfriend and I literally can watch brokeback mountain lol (that woulda been impossible in my days of hocd)and just be like "hey that was a pretty good movie" without any ocd trigger or worry of being gay. You got this guys! Also one of my big compulsions was looking at male celebrities for hours and seeing if I had any attraction to them or what we now know as "groinal response" I know many of you might have a compulsion like that, and it's okay but you gotta try and not do that it'll only feed the ocd. I hope this may have given some of you some hope.
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