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Tips for OCD episode
Hi all! Any tips for riding out an OCD episode? Trying not to use safety behaviours/compulsions or ruminate etc.
Hi all! Any tips for riding out an OCD episode? Trying not to use safety behaviours/compulsions or ruminate etc.
I just posted this too. I’m still trying to figure out the sit with it vs maybe, maybe not. Granted, I’ve gotten a lot better over the past year at managing this thing. Staying active is a must. I walk about 20,000 steps a day - not all at once. Get outside. Be kind to yourself. FORCE yourself to do anything that ocd doesn’t want you to do. Get out of bed, go towards the discomfort. It sucks at the moment, but I’ve noticed it shortens the length of the episodes. Of course, don’t seek reassurance. Don’t research. Don’t ruminate. Your brain can only think about one thing at a time. So change the channel - after sitting with the discomfort. You got this!
Believe me I know how this feels I got into many disagreement and arguments with lucky dipshits who did not have ocd The cards are always on their favor All the time they have a big advantage and they don’t see that yet they cry about issues that don’t effected them That’s why we ocd people need to be stronger to hammer and smash people without this disorder who don’t understand I hate god for creating me with this brain I really do For years now I hoped a solar storm would come and I would get a break from technology but it will never came rather shitty Covid came and Gave those shitheads without ocd another advantage god I hate people who don’t understand us so much For some months I was also angry with people with ocd for not expressing themselves enough not spreading a lot of awareness or mass protesting this truly is one of the worsts disorders to live and work with keep this in mind
Always hated how god gave me a decent person OCD when there are lucky dipshits who are far more deserving that’s when I threw religion away for good
Also it makes me VERY angry that other people have it so easy that they have the time to empathize with other people daddyofive situation wars etc when I was BADLY suffering with ocd and nobody seemed to care why do they help one and not the other😡 Also I could never empathize with people because I suffer BADLY from ocd
Hi everyone. I'm feeling kinda scared because I have to wait a whole month to start ERP therapy, but I feel like I need to start doing exposures now because the longer I wait, the more anxiety I get. It just feels like the OCD monster is getting worse. One thing that helps me is asking one person about an obsession I have...asking a person that I trust, and then doing an exposure after I get the "ok" to do it. I feel like I do need 1 reassurance and then I can go ahead and do it. I know i'm not supposed to ask for reassurance at all, but i dont think you're supposed to do ERP on your own right? Does anyone have any suggestions for what to do while waiting for therapy? PS-the reason there is a wait is bc she's on vacation. After she's back we will meet regularly.
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
So, I know my capacity to get fixated on things. And it's normally something that's relatively remote but, my latest issue is really getting to me and I was wondering if people have any advice. I'm avoiding getting too into specifics, as I don't want this to get reassurance-y but, in essence.. I came to the realisation recently that people who I'd been "friends" (feels like the wrong term now) when I was younger were not very nice people, and normalized a lot of very unpleasant behaviour towards other members of the group. They really normalized it, sold themselves as figures of authority, as older and more responsible and grown-up than others, and looking back, they acted horribly. And coming to this realisation, that I'd been manipulated into just accepting their behaviour has just... broken me. My OCD has latched onto it and I can't stop feeling irreversibly tainted by it. I've talked to others about it, and they've reassured me, told me it's not a big deal and that I hold myself to too high a standard, but none of that sticks. I feel better for a bit, then think 'Maybe when you told them you were skewing it to make yourself look better' or 'Did you leave out a crucial detail'. I keep ruminating over and over, trying to remember exactly how everything played out, trying to figure out if I fed into the behaviour, if I did something bad myself (because y'know, I feel like I was accepting of it at the time, so what does it say about my own values?). I know I need to stop doing all this if I want to improve, but then some part of me keeps saying 'So, you're just going to let yourself off the hook then?' Normally, I can rationalize my own fears to some degree, assure myself something won't happen, but the realness of the situation, and the fact I only came to understand the reality of it because the thought had been bothering me means it feels so much more all-encompassing. I know confessing in itself is a compulsion, but I keep feeling that if I'm not I'm somehow concealing what I 'really am' from others around me, and any positive interactions are me deceiving them in some way. I feel like I can't enjoy anything in life right now, and a good part of me feels I should not enjoy it ever again. If anybody has any advice on it, I'm all ears. Or even hearing if you relate to these feelings, I might appreciate the solidarity at least.
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