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Please go seek help. In the meantime try to do some self-induced exposure therapy. What are the least triggering triggers you have? Start there. I do this. I don’t ever go all the way without doing some kind of compulsion after but I improve with how long I can go without doing the compulsion. It started with a mere 10 seconds. Now I’m up to 3 hours. 3 hours is dang good to not act on an obsession.
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I would start looking for an ocd therapist, it will definitely help
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- 5y ago
Is there some kind of program they are free or affordable cuz my mom is a single mom And can barely afford to pay the bills, I’m 17 by the way almost 18 and ik it’s like get a job then but I help my mom with watching my sister and picking her up every I literally walk 4 miles every so I kinda feel stuck plus my mom is the type of mom that thinks you just need to stop like just stop doing it stop worrying and I kinda do exposure therapy like rn I’m going on like 2 hours of not washing my hands although ik im just gunna do it eventually cuz I can’t not do it but it also adds to my anxiety cuz now I touched my phone now it’s on my phone and my charger and I don’t want it on my bed
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Where do you live? Like, don’t be specific. Just the country or state.
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California
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Okay. So for ppl who have low income in California there are health coverages that don’t charge. Like Medicare and medical and they’re covered.
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Does Medicare cover nocd
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My friend is on it and he goes to therapy and doesn’t pay a dime.
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- 21w ago
I have contamination OCD that causes me to excessively wash my hands/clean items with disinfectant wipes. I know I just need to start with small exposures but how do I do that without spiraling? I tried a while back by just touching the outside of my dishwasher and not washing my hands after and it led to me being unable to even exist in my house. I basically lived on my couch for three weeks as it was the only 'safe' space that I had not touched with my dirty hands. I had to take a week off work to clean my house to make it somewhat liveable. I still haven't got round to cleaning everything though so things like my kitchen are still no-go zones that I don't enter. I just don't know how to start ERP without it making everything worse. Any advice would be appreciated. I am not seeing a therapist at the moment due to financial constraints.
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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?"
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Guys I need help. I feel so alone . Basically I have this compulsion where I feel the need to write everything but this stems from me being anxious about EVERYTHING. Like my mom came in my room and I was irritated and snapped, immediately regretted now I keep writing “don’t be mean to mom next time” but I keep thinking about it. Then I think about how I finally left my house today and all the surfaces I touched that could’ve been contaminated and now I’m writing “next time don’t touch this and this”. Then I think about all the things I need to be doing for this week and I’m writing “don’t forget to do this and this” even though I’ve written it 5 times already. This is what happens everyday btw. My brain always thinks about something I need to be doing and making me anxious that I’ll forget it which is why I write it down on my notes app. I’m sooo mentally exhausted I need help pls!! Anyone have any advice ? I used to think I need to stop the writing but really I need to stop the anxious thoughts coming into my head . People say I need to accept the thoughts and let it go but that’s too hard for me
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