Did your anxiety over yourOCD ever get very intense for a period of time and later go down even though you still have the same intrusive thoughts and the same obsessions?
Yes this has happened with some of my OCD themes or common intrusive thoughts - as time passes and as I learn how to live with them, the anxiety has gone down but the thoughts still stick around. Luckily for me the thoughts have usually decreased in frequency and intensity, but there are definitely still periods where they come back (sometimes in full force) and cause me anxiety all over again š
@mseb10 You just described my experience with OCD
@mseb10 Omg thank you for making me feel normal.
Yes!! And then you feel scared that you arenāt scared!!! @madmatt
yeah, i've totally been there. it's like riding a rollercoaster with the ups and downs of anxiety, even when the thoughts themselves don't change much š¢. 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 big help this past month. could be worth checking out for you too!
@WellerStorn98 Thank you
recently my intrusive thoughts havenāt been bothering me much, unless iām busy doing nothing. i suffer from SO-OCD. whenever i think yes, these thoughts donāt bother me anymore, iām doing great, i then work myself up like āwell your thoughts are obviously true then otherwise they would make you upset and uncomfortableā. when i get the thoughts they do still make me feel this way but also not as strong. I do then panic and think iām something iām not, despite knowing the truth. also anyone know why they get worse when iām bored or not doing anything? š¢
I don't know if this is ocd related I just know that my ocd feels unbearable when it happens. From time to time I'll get waves of panic attacks that for me will lasts for a week. 3 days if I'm lucky. Recently I went up to 12 days with on and off panic attacks and barely doing or eating anything. This is the longest that this has lasted. I am a overall very anxious person but these make me want to tear my skin off. Does anybody know what this is?? I brought it up to my mom and asked if it was a panic disorder, but she said she doesn't think I have one because she has one and she said that's not what a panic disorder is. I've told her about the waves of panic attacks before and I'm trying to get therapy but right now I feel terrible. Is this a symptom of ocd ?? Does anyone else go through this?? Does anyone KNOW what this is?? Please lmk and if you have anything that could help please tell me :( (I have diagnosed OCD and GAD if that helps any!!)
These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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