Can we all agree that letting OCD feelings sit there and not trying to get rid of it just SUCKS?? It feels like it’s never gonna go away. It’s really hard trying to accept uncomfortable feelings and not trying to get rid of them because my default is to ALWAYS try and feel better and get rid of anxiety. It’s tough.
Yeah it sucks. It feels like it’s gonna be there forever I agree. The worst part for me is when the back door spike hit or the OCD tried to fight back and say “maybe you never really had it”. It’s AWFUL. I’m proud of you for fighting it.
@rodria49 Yes ocd is so sneaky like that!! It’s trying to tell me at the moment that it’s not even ocd and that it’s actually real. Like UGH give it up ocd. Thank you ❤️❤️I’m proud of you too wherever you are on your journey
I can totally relate… what kind of feelings do u experinace? Mine always revolve on the topic or theme I’m struggling with
@jordyng09 I usually experience absolute dread like the world is coming to an end. It’s such a suffocating feeling :(( I’d say the mental anguish feels worse than the physical for me. What about you??
@Immyxo That's exactly my problem the world coming to an end the wars the diseases.
@Ocd9999 Yeah u feel like the worst possible thing you can imagine is happening. It’s sooo scary.
@Immyxo I can seem to accept the uncertainty
If you're feeling uncomfortable sitting with the anxiety it is good, believe it or not It's your brain beginning to heal. To be effective it's going to be uncomfortable. That's the basis behind ERP. If you give in to a compulsion, physical or mental, you won't beat the beast. The uncomfortable feeling eventually subsidies and you find you were stronger than you thought.
@PJ32 Yes I keep trying to remind myself of that!! Comments like this make me more determined towards recovery ❤️
YES. I hate having to sit there and just wait!
It sucks so bad.. if I had just thoughts I think i would’ve kicked this already but the uncomfortable feelings are the hardest part.. even days where my intrusive thoughts seem to have stopped I’ll get this eary grey cloudy world feeling like things are hopeless and the world is going to end feeling . So hard to just sit with it and be like oh well - accept that I feel like 💩 even though nothing in my actual world suggests that
@amc1234 I know exactly what you mean!! Some days the intrusive thoughts are minimal but you still feel impending room and that there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. It’s so so difficult but we will come out so much stronger on the other side!! You’ve got this ❤️❤️
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“Sitting with it” does not help. Our space at home in flux because of my boyfriend moving in last April. I constantly hear that the treatment for OCD is to not engage in the compulsions, but it doesn’t work AT ALL for me. I have “sat with” the disorganization in our space for months and it continually makes me feel very stressed and, in turn, depressed. There are times when I finally can make an improvement in our space to make it more comfortable and there’s a noticeable uptick in my mood and my stress goes down considerably. Isn’t there anything else I can do? This “sit with the anxiety” it bullshit for me.
Anxiety and Not wanting to feel feelings Since I started ERP and resisting rumination and rituals and controlling things I’ve noticed I have extra mental real estate. I’m not as consumed by my thoughts but my baseline anxiety is like 6/10 always. It’s pretty high. My brain keeps checking in and saying “you shouldn’t feel this way! This isn’t right! Google depersonalization! Google spacing out and brain fog!” But I know that’s OCDs game. So I just sit with the anxiety and try to move on with my day. Interestingly, once I strip away all of the rumination, compulsions and rituals all I’m left with is my own uncomfortable feelings that I don’t like. This leads me to conclude that ocd is just a way for me to try and control how I feel. I always wanna feel good and relaxed. Everyone does but that’s an unrealistic goal. Has anyone else come across this before?
It’s so weird how OCD just comes about with no explanation, out of nowhere. My issue has been feelings. I have moments of hyper focusing on feelings, trying to figure them out, and it’s exhausting. Logically, I know that what I’m going through with the things happening in my life (relationship ending that was abusive, my father just getting diagnosed with dementia, etc) would make anyone feel the way I do. But I keep trying to fight my feelings. “Normally, old me” would embrace them and let them be. Ever since my OCD returned, I can’t help but fixate on them and stress even more. It’s almost like my emotions and the way we are as humans in my mind has become even more of a problem than the problems themselves. Can anyone relate? I am doing my best with ERP. I definitely helps. But I’m still waking up not feeling like myself and it hurts.
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