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
Are there ebbs and flows to OCD or anxiety. Last week there were periods of times I was feeling better. Moments. Times where the intrusive thoughts didnāt bother me and I didnāt had riddling anxiety. Now itās back and I need help
Does anyone else feel like theyāre OCD turns off for a couple days? Like you go through an intense period of having intrusive thoughts and feeling the need to confess and then you only start to get thoughts here and there? And you try to keep yourself from having the thoughts but youāre not sure if itās avoidance? Like I have felt sooo much better the last couple of days, especially in the morning, I live for those times of quiet in my head. But I still havenāt been able to accept myself for the things I might have done, like I canāt accept myself still because of my OCD. This probably sounds a little jumbled but I would like to think someone can relate lol
I had never really had OCD symptoms like this a few months ago. I had struggled a little bit with anxiety and had always had a fear of uncertainty but Iāve never felt a 24/7 pain anxiety, guilt and fear like this. I was pretty happyš Have others had this experience as well? Did it just show up randomly from one intrusive thought that you couldnāt brush off? Is it possible to get back to how you were before or will I have to āmanageā for the rest of my life?
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