Do you A. Just let yourself keep yawning and learn to not care B. Try to stop or suppress the yawning Trigger warning only because I don’t want all the Somatics to start yawning
A. I recently had a situation where I couldn't finish sneezes (unrelated to OCD). Using my OCD training, I just accepted that I may or may not sneeze. In this case, it didn't take long to correct itself.
@Ben84 😮 I lost my sneezes too. It happened a couple months ago. I could get to the inhale/about to sneeze part, but then my mind would jump in and not let me actually sneeze. That’s how mine corrected itself too, same as you. I just said Oh well, I guess I’ll never sneeze again. And then I got the sneezes back. I actually do think it has something to do with OCD. It felt like yet another OCD game. The mind is very powerful. Thanks Ben
I didn’t realize this was related to my ocd that’s crazy NO ONE has understood the yawning thing I won’t be able to yawn for weeks at a time. Drives me nuts !
Hey there everyone, first I would like to say I am very grateful for every single one of you on this platform and it feels so much better knowing that I can be heard. I’ve been hyperaware of my swallowing for 1-2 month. I feel like I have so much saliva in my mouth and I have to swallow and swallow. I feel the urge to swallow even I don’t NOTHING in my mouth, so I just swallow air. This has been really overwhelming and I feel like I can be so easily latched to other body part of my part. For example, I was conscious about my blinking and breathing for a few days, and now I get so anxious when I heard a weird sound my ears make after each sentence I speak. Is this somatic ocd or health concern ocd? I am so helpless and having a hard time to shift my attention. Does anyone have any suggestions or just words of encouragement would really help me at this moment. I REALLY appreciate your help. 💗🙏 Thank you !
I don't have panic attacks at this moment, but i realized if i will have again I don't know how to stop it, there's people who say "trying to stop it feeds more" and that's why i get stuck with it cause then i try to sit with it and i just get stuck or go with the panic. Many times when i try to stop feeding itit gets worse, i think that im doing something wrong or i just feel like it does not work cause when i try to stop the panic gets stronger, then im panicking over do I take the danger seriously. I try deep breathing and moving my attention but i know i do that to avoid the panic which makes me panic more. And then i feel angry cause people say "sit with it" and i dont know what they mean, like everytime i get a panic just accept defeat, lay down and wait till all the symptoms just goes away... cause you cant control it. So if i want to face it, accept i might faint, vomit, get taken to the hospital, and just face it. These are the more negative ones I know, but even with others i feel like its defeat cause I have to stop whatever i do and i need to accept that panic will take me wherever it wants... Im open to change my opinion over this, but with the "accept it" menthod i feel like it looks like this and thats why I don't like it. How do you deal with panic? Do you stop it or you always give that moment to the panic?
As you try to fall asleep, what exactly are you supposed to do? Most advice would be “just allow it but don’t engage” ok that sounds great but if it pulls you right out of sleep just as you’re drifting off, it’s hard not to engage. It’s like another person waiting for you to just fall asleep and then they purposely wake you up. Just let it keep happening? And yes, my mind is doing it on purpose. 🙏?
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