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- Perfecto
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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- SkarlettroseSkarlettrose
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I experience this frequently. There’s times where it’s so bad that I cry for days on end. I’ve even felt suicidal in the past. My only advice that’s worked for me is to avoid reading and writing things that have to do with the subconscious mind. If you’re anything like me though, then you’re deeply interested in the very things that cause you to suffer. I can honestly say, I suffer from multiple types of OCD... but this one is the worst. Mainly due to the sheer uncertainty about this kind of subject.
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- ChipperChelseaChipperChelsea
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I haven’t, but I can easily see how one could struggle with that. When I was younger my subconscious voice and thoughts seemed to echo in my head. When listening to others speak, my thoughts would echo them and repeat it over and over. Usually the last word someone spoke or just the last syllable. When I would read it would echo too really impacting my ability to do homework. I’m thankful that went away ? The subconscious voice is weird, but your username is absolutely amazing ???
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- PerfectoPerfecto
- Date posted
- 6y ago
@skarlett. Avoidance is one of my worst compulsions. I’m trained to sit in my worst thoughts and not do compulsions and just accept the worse
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- PetShopBoysrockPetShopBoysrock
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Sounds like you’re doing the correct things to get better @perfecto!
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- PerfectoPerfecto
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Please explain your worst theme exactly?
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- PetShopBoysrockPetShopBoysrock
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Have you noticed improvement when doing this?
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- Christian
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Hello everyone! (Existential Obsessions) I have struggled with anxiety since I was a young boy. I remember worrying when I was younger that I was inadvertently trying to harm my mother, even though I love my mother more than anyone in the world. It’s shifted more times than I can count, from worrying about poisoning or contamination to thinking that I had heart disease. It’s all the same animal just shape shifting into whatever I fear most at the given time. Currently, (trigger warning) I am constantly obsessed with the fear of developing some sort of delusion or schizophrenia. I am 25 years old (I know that it would’ve probably developed by now) and have no schizophrenia in my gene pool. But I am constantly checking my thoughts to see if they sound delusional or if I am hallucinating my reality. This of course if extremely frustrating for someone with OCD because there is never going to be any definitive proof that I am not going mad. It has caused me extreme discomfort over the past few months and has brought me to extreme states of panic. I was wondering if any of you deal with existential OCD or fears of losing touch with reality. Of course, some days this seems laughable and others I can almost taste the insanity. On paper, everything in my life is going amazingly but in truth I can’t seem to enjoy any of it because I have these nightmarish intrusions of everything falling apart around me. Is this a common symptom? P.S I already run a few miles a day, meditate, do yoga and am working on strengthening my CBT. Any other suggestions?
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- Cami16
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Is anyone experiencing existential OCD as well?
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- Chelseadom
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I just read “The Egg” by Andy Weir and it’s pushed me into a spiral of Existential OCD, and fear of solipsism. I have Pure O, Hyperawareness and Medical OCD on top of the existential stuff. Does anyone else struggle with this? I’ve also had episodes of DP/DR which is exacerbating the symptoms and making me feel like I’m not real. It’s only gotten bad in the last 6 months and I just want to go back to normal again and not feel full of fear and panic all the time. It’s hard to live my life like a normal person ?
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