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I know this isn’t much help but feeling the same 😕 it doesn’t make me want to do anything but then when I do things and go out I just get so triggered you’re not alone
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Maybe try to give your OCD a name and consider it another person or a monster that is annoying you. Don’t think of it as part of you. Like, my OCD is not real— it is just that annoying “Oscar” here to pester me again. Leave me alone!! Then force yourself to get up and do one small thing. Then another small thing. Keep a list of all of the small things you have accomplished. Doing a few things may break the cycle. Good luck!!
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What helps me is what I learned in therapy I believe it’s called “opposite action”. I know how hard it can be to push yourself for even a small win but just do it I promise you’ll feel even alittle better later on even if u don’t in the moment. Like for ex for me when I feel very sad and sluggish and get in a mood of “I’ll never get better” and I just want to sit in my bed and ruminate I push myself to get out of bed and do productive things like - clean my room - get ready - go to the gym have a good workout or do a fun workout class try smth new - go to the pool read a book - do something for yourself like get your hair done Just anything even grocery shopping has become positive for me. Also search some serotonin boosting foods! Incorporate them in a yummy breakfast
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I’m going through the depression too. As soon as I wake in the morning ocd reminds me that he is here and I feel depressed and I dont want to go on i just want to lay there and do nothing. But I get up anyway and go about my day. Sometimes it gets better sometimes it sucks. The point is you have to keep going. I know that just doing nothing is definitely going to be worse. Focus on what is in front of you not your ocd thoughts. Let them be there but focus on what’s in front of you. If you don’t have something to do create some to do. Like a language learning app and learn a new language or listen to your favorite music and sing out loud to it or go to work or for a walk and notice nature. As the thoughts pop up instead of doing compulsions say to yourself “this thought is meaningless and unimportant. I refuse to engage with that thought.” Then focus on something in front of you. Even if you feel the thoughts are meaningful and important. It don’t matter. Tell yourself that it’s not. You’re not alone. Don’t give up🙏
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- 23w
I am having a real hard time with meta-ocd and thoughts about feeling depressed and be like this forever. Or the thought I never feel normal again or never feel connected to normal life things and normal people. The intrusive thoughts are here like the whole day and they are all about my mental health. And I obsess about how I feel and what I feel with everything I do. It’s so hard to explain. If someone- a therapist or someone who dealt with this has tips or word of encouragement right now, that would me great. I feel like everything I want to learn myself about ocd and coming to this forum also is a bit compulsive. It is so confusing 🫤
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- 22w
I usually would say I’ve never been depressed , but recently in my life since my anxiety/ocd has been so bad and having relationship problems I’m feeling kinda sad / stressed. I keep getting scared of being depressed I keep having intrusive thoughts of “ you’d would be better off if you weren’t living” “ I don’t wanna live if it’s like this” and it’s just scaring me 😞
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i think i might be struggling with depression. can depression make ocd worse? because lately, my intrusive thoughts have become so intense that even trying to sit with them doesn’t help. i hate that i can’t even go one full day without giving in to a compulsion. the horrible, blasphemous thoughts are so overwhelming that i sometimes feel like giving up and just believing them—not because i actually want to, but because I’m so mentally and emotionally exhausted. what scares me most is that my feelings feel so twisted now… like i’m starting to like or want these cruel thoughts. it’s terrifying because i feel like i’m becoming the kind of person I never wanted to be—a cruel person, even an enemy of God. and i don’t want that at all. i'm just scared i’m changing into someone i’m not.
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