- Date posted
- 1y ago
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
OCD is listed as an anxiety disorder, so it only stands to reason that a backdoor spike would include anxiety. Stay mindful that's it only OCD trying to ruin your day, try to let it go, and move on. The episode, more than likely, will eventually pass. And try not to dwell on it. OCD wants you on its rumination treadmill. Don't buy into it.
- Date posted
- 1y ago
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- Date posted
- 25w ago
Hi everyone. Iâm going through it at the moment. Any advice would be appreciated. I posted this before, but I really need to vent about this again. Feeling really anxious. I would just like to hear more opinions and advice please. So my main theme of OCD is harm related, especially towards my mom. I live with my mom and I love her dearly, and she loves me as well. Weâre best friends and have been close my whole life. I was diagnosed with ocd and generalized anxiety disorder at 15 years old, and Iâm 32 now. Got back into therapy this year due to flare up of my ocd. Back in July I had the thought âwhat if my mom wants to hurt me?â Which led to thoughts that she is going to hurt me in my sleep or plotting against me. Also just other crazy thoughts like what if sheâs secretly a killer or something. My mom is one of the kindest people I know, gentle and polite to everyone she meets so to have these kinds of thoughts just seems too bizarre for ocd. They seem almost delusions. There were also urged to like barricade my door at night so she couldnât get in, which I never did of course but the thought to even do that and feeling like I wanted to freaked me out. I even had the thought like âmaybe I should report her to the police.â It just sounds crazy deep down, but those thoughts and fears feel so real at times. It just seems to lead to more paranoid type thoughts and it freaks me out. Fast forward and the thoughts went away, but the past two weeks or so they came back and I have been thinking them on and off. They give me anxiety, which then makes me think I believe them. Like if Iâm scared of the thoughts, that means I believe them. I wonder a lot if I really believe them or not. I know I truly donât deep down, I never once thought like this before, but the feelings and doubt make it feel real. I have told all of this to my mom and she understands me, but I feel guilt and shame as well to have these thoughts. I want to get back into seeing a psychiatrist again since it has been 15 years without any adjustments to my medication, but aiâm terrified of seeing someone new and then diagnosing me with schizophrenia or think Iâm experiencing psychosis due to how delusional these thoughts sound. Iâm scared to be misdiagnosed, even though I have always just been diagnosed with ocd. But maybe I have changed⊠I hate these thoughts and I just worry theyâre too bizarre for ocd. If this isnât something else. Iâm scared ERP wonât help with this or that it will make it worse, prolonging me from getting different help that I may need instead. Thank you for reading all of this.
- Date posted
- 15w ago
Where do I begin with thisâŠâŠ.. so my OCD has been around since childhood and has had many themes over the years. I only realised I have it just over 2 years ago. Iâve tried many things to help it not be such a monster and thought I had a good grip on it for a length of time until now! Some of my strategies have been acceptance, change of perception of thoughts and sometimes on hard days just telling myself that no matter what, I have to be brave and go out and live life. In the last few months Iâve developed none OCD related anxiety as well and so have been looking at ways to help with that. Sunday morning I was just casually scrolling TikTok and a video only about 30 seconds long or so comes up, seemingly a therapist of some kind, straight away the video began something like âyou cannot replace a thought with another thoughtâ along the lines of âyou canât THINK your way out anxietyâ I donât know the full context of the video it wasnât long enough, I donât know who the therapist was I didnât look but now purely because of that one sentence my OCD has gripped onto it so badly and is trying to tear down some of my strategies because I have used changing my thought patterns a lot to help me, self compassion etc but now because of that video Iâm struggling! Iâm not looking for answers but I am just really upset and it feels like Iâm in an impossible grip of OCD again
- Date posted
- 15w ago
I was doing fine with my schizophrenia ocd (fear of developing schizophrenia/psychosis), mostly because I was obsessing on something else for a bit, but something caused it to come back. I was at work yesterday and checked out a customer, he didnât know English very well and was very quiet. However, when he was leaving, he said âthank youâ loudly while walking out and I told him to have a good night, but since I couldnât see his face nor his mouth move, I worried that I hallucinated the whole thing and he in reality didnât say anything while he was leaving. The voice that said it sounded a bit different, however it couldâve just been since I had only heard him talk quietly before. Iâm still wondering if I hallucinated this and it freaks me out, causing my ocd to make me believe Iâm developing schizophrenia/psychosis or losing my mind again. I also always read that the difference between those with schizophrenia/psychosis is those with OCD have insight and know their thoughts are crazy, but then that leads me down a spiral if what if I DONT think those thoughts are crazy? What if I actually believe them and become delusional/lack insight? So a statement that would be helpful otherwise made it worse for me. One night I had a panic attack super bad because I couldnât convince myself I didnât believe I was in a dream and hallucinating. Any advice on beating these constant thoughts and how to cope with it? :/
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