Have you ever felt calm after a huge crisis?

I had some very difficult weeks with ocd and went through a huge crisis. It felt almost like an identity crisis - one minute I believed that I was a lesbian, then straight, then bisexual, then I questioned if I love my boyfriend or not, we kinda broke up but then decided to just take a break... so, so confusing. But now, in the moment I'm writing... I'm fine! I don't know which my sexuality is or what will happen with my boyfriend. But I'm just so so calm - like of course I'm thinking about all this stuff, and sometimes I'm anxious/sad, but not in the "Oh no I'm going down the spiral of ocd" way. It's so strange, it almost feels like I don't have ocd anymore. But I had ocd syntoms daily for years and even got a diagnosis. It feels strange that everything is fine from one day to another 🤨 I started questioning if this wasn't ocd after all, but it feels impossibile that I have made all that up. Like years of rumination, torture and impossibility to think of anything else... I can't have "invented" that! That's the most strange thing that has happened to me in a while.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 34w ago

That exact thing has happened to me

Username: Iwanttobreakfree🦋Iwanttobreak...

Date posted: 34w ago

Then what happened?? Ocd "returned" to bother you?

Username: ZoroarcanineZoroarcanine

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 34w ago

Back when I first fell back into my SO OCD theme, whenever I had my worst moments, it felt like a wave of clarity would come back right after and I would be fine and feel like I figured it out, only for x amount of time later for me to get sucked back in and doing compulsions. Obviously this could always not be OCD but speaking from my experience this sounds similar to what I’ve gone through

Username: ChocolateChocolate

Date posted: 34w ago

You did not invent it. No matter what your sexuality is the feelings of anxiety that surrounds these thoughts are real and they are OCD. Questioning your sexuality is not the OCD it's the debilitating anxiety, the fear of uncertainty, the lack of ever finding an answer, the obsessive thoughts that cloud your mind all day.

Username: Iwanttobreakfree🦋Iwanttobreak...

Date posted: 34w ago

I'm googling a lot and still ruminating during these days, but with less anxiety, and this is nice but also a little disorientating. Anyway I kinda isolated myself during these days (I spent almost all the time at home), so I must go out and see how it goes returning back to my normal life. On Monday I'll see a new therapist so... we'll see what he thinks🫠

Username: Anxietyking5150Anxietyking5150

Date posted: 23w ago

@g🦋 I know this is old but sometimes I still do compulsions and I just feel numb . Not really calm but more like I feel nothing

Username: Iwanttobreakfree🦋Iwanttobreak...

Date posted: 23w ago

@Anxietyking5150 yeah it becomes kinda "mechanical" sometimes, like I'm doing automatically because I'm so used to it

Username: Buttercupz Buttercupz

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 34w ago

Going through it this morning. Had unwanted dreams and I didn’t wake up with gut wrenching anxiety. I feel fine. It is so weird. Do you think it has to do with our hormones? Or maybe our bodies are just too tired and decided to take a break?

Username: Iwanttobreakfree🦋Iwanttobreak...

Date posted: 34w ago

It could be different things, maybe it's part of recovery (you're learning not to freak out on everything as before and that's good!). I think hormones play a huge role in this. Before and during my period my syntoms usually get worse, and I feel more relaxed during the ovulation part (so interestingly right now!). I think also the last part you wrote could be true!

Username: Buttercupz Buttercupz

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 34w ago

@g🦋 This has happened to me in the past! Been struggling with anxiety and OCD all my life. I have a period of calmness and then suddenly I’m spiraling again! I started to feel better because I’ve been drinking vitamin b complex, vitamin D and magnesium. I also started to eat and walk more! Today was the first morning without anxiety in weeks. I definitely think it’s our hormones because I’m in my ovulation period too!

Username: Iwanttobreakfree🦋Iwanttobreak...

Date posted: 34w ago

@Buttercupz I should do that too! I'm happy you didn't have anxiety this morning :) Hormones definitely play a role in all this!

Username: Sarah🕊

Date posted: 3y ago

I’m so confused right now. I feel really calm about my intrusive thoughts and I feel calm overall. I can still get moments of feeling uneasy but overall I’m calmer. Yesterday was really difficult. Does that mean I don’t have OCD? I just don’t get this. Even today I was scared with the thought of what If I’m lying about my intrusive thoughts and my experience with OCD and I’m really just a crazy person.....and then later today when I felt calmer I was like omg what if I really don’t have OCD and I really I’m just making it up. I feel so calm right now. I’m kind of guessing maybe because I talked to my mom about my some intrusive thoughts have and have had in the past and I was worried about telling her but she understood and so I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders. Is it possible to suddenly feel ok?

Username: RG123

Date posted: 2y ago

OCD Turns Off?

Does anyone else feel like they’re 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 you’re not sure if it’s 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 haven’t been able to accept myself for the things I might have done, like I can’t accept myself still because of my OCD. This probably sounds a little jumbled but I would like to think someone can relate lol

Username: lashes

Date posted: 2y ago

Can OCD calm down for no reason? I’ve always had pretty bad symptoms and it’s usually quite overwhelming, but recently I’ve moved to uni and for some reason my symptoms are minor now, there’s still some there but I can cope with them? It seems like a good thing but at the same time I feel like I’ve been faking this whole time.

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