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Life sucks
My mental health is at its lowest and I'm sick of existing
My mental health is at its lowest and I'm sick of existing
i understand, but remember this feeling is temporary, you will get better and be happy
It doesn't feel temporary anymore
I'm feeling down after a good period of being well, but I've been living this cycle for a while now and all I think about when I'm better is that I'm strong and I feel proud that I didn't give up on trying. The ups and downs are horrible, but I think one day it will get better and easier, good luck ♡
@Bwillbebetter that’s exactly how i feel, it feels like a endless cycle i just try and get myself to think that’s this is temporary, i will get better someday. you are very strong for dealing what you do deal with. if you need anyone to chat with im here and so many other people are too!!
@meowmeow My God, it's so good to know I'm not alone in this. OCD is one of the hardest things that has ever happened to me and some days it feels like it will consume me and I'm afraid of losing all the progress I've been making over the last few months, but we need to keep going, right? one day and then another, and then another. Thank you for commenting here ♡
@Bwillbebetter It’s okay to lose some progress no one is ever gonna be okay all the time it’s okay to have a off day it’s just a matter of getting out of the cycle it’s hard but we have to try !!!
@meowmeow Yes, breaking this cycle of repetitions, checking and compulsions is what's hurting me at the moment, but just as I managed to get through it at other times, I know I can do it now too. I'd rather deal with the anguish of not doing it than feed the cycle that will consume me forever.
@Bwillbebetter exactly it’s good you have that mindset!
There is an Native American story I heard and have been telling everyone because it’s definitely helped me. The story of two wolves One evening and old grandfather told his grandson about the battle inside of people, he said “My son, there’s a battle inside of everyone between two wolves, One is evil, it is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other one is good. It is joy, peace, hope, love, serenity, humility, kindness, but leveling, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and, faith.” The grandson thought about this for a minute, and then asked his grandfather; “which wolf wins?“ The grandfather simply replied “the one you feed” It’s hard, life is hard on some days when you can push yourself a little more do it when you can’t you can’t. Give yourself grace and love and understand you are human and not everything is going to be great but you can’t have food without the bad and so sometimes we need to push a little within reason. But if you did everything you could today to make things better within your ability to do so you should be proud of yourself. If today you can only give 10% if you have 10% that is 100% because that’s all you had to give. If tomorrow you can give 80% than give 80% because for you in that moment is it 100%. Life can be better but you need to feed the right wolf and work on moving forward in a positive direction. Every single day. Yesterday is spilled milk. You can do what ever you want to try and put it back in the glass but it’s not going to happen so it’s better to look forward and make decisions on what you CAN do and what you CAN control. Instead of focusing on things out of our control, that feeds the wrong wolf. I know this was long. I hope it helps Hope you have a positive day and remember we are only human and we are perfectly imperfect the way we are and that’s 1000% okay because it would be a very boring place if everyone was perfect. We wouldn’t have opportunities to learn and teach and share moments with each-other
That story is actually integral to my scrupolosity OCD, I won't get too much into it. but I had it on my wall from my mother and it had a random number 51 below it. And now that story haunts me and tortures me and I keep seeing it everywhere because my problem is I always feel evil, and feel like a horrible rotten human being for never feeding the good wolf enough. I never feel good enough and I feel like God is always judging me for feeding the evil one and judging that the evil wolf is always winning and I feel so ashamed of it. Like I'm being completely serious that story was on my wall and is Center to my whole scrupolosity theme Every time I have a mental breakdown and self harm I feel evil, and I always feel evil And afraid of demon possession and Satan. since I never ever feel good enough of course then I perpetually feel as if the evil wolf is winning and I feel like my fate is doomed towards the evil wolf and that's all my fault and I am eaten up with shame and guilt about it but with OCD i suffer a lot more than i am content, therefore evil is winning. And I have horrific blasphemous and harm thoughts , there fore evil is winning. And I never feel like I get past the fifty percent mark where there's more good than evil. There's always more evil This is the basis of most of my obsession and I am racked with guilt because I can't ever be good enough for good to win
@livingnightmarehell33 I see that number all the time at very specific moments
@livingnightmarehell33 Im sorry for triggering you that was not my intent. I can understand the feeling that you are always feeding the evil. I have been there and stuck in what felt like and endless cycle. For me what helped us reminding myself that I am human and i can only do so much and that I give grace and acceptance to others regardless of their faults I need to do the same for myself. No one showed up for me. I will show up for me. Small baby steps of doing things to better my situation. Sometimes you take steps back but as long as your intentions are to move forward and prioritize yourself things can get better. It’s not one size fits all you need to find what works for you. But if we are stuck in a cycle where things are not improving we need to shake it up and change it up because that method doesn’t work for us and what we need. Again sorry for triggering. I don’t know you but you are capable of doing anything you set your mind to and are perfectly imperfect the way you are and you may feel lost at times but don’t be discouraged. Set backs and I hate the word “failure” happen but try looking at those as opportunities to try something different.
That's all I really have to say. I hate dealing with this every single day of my life.
Never feels like I can fully put my mind to rest. The problem with OCD for me is once I'm over one worry there's another buried deep into my mind that I'm not fully over. The two events I'm not completely over is when I tried to help a 17 year old with POCD when I was 19 and the topics unfortunately were detailed and even then I explained to them I wasn't comfortable with talking to them. I guess I just had a hard time saying no to someone needing help but it eventually made me so uncomfortable that I stopped talking with them altogether at some point. Then the other thing is being so worried that I committed a crime because my elbow touched someone's behind when I didn't want that to happen at all. I didn't want to listen to my OCD by saying move my arm or something horrible is going to happen so I didn't and then something bad actually did happen. I thought it would just be a light touch while zipping a bag up but then it was worse than I ever wanted it to be and it was so awkward and I hated it. I feel like I just won't be able to get back to the way I was before OCD started all of this. Aside from that I've just had extreme health anxiety but am too afraid to reach out to a PCP even though I need to. Something deep down is telling me I should do this but I'm just so anxious and embarrassed about sharing things to them. I can't even enjoy the things I used to do because this is constantly just messing up my life. I'm hoping I get a start of positivity next time I see my therapist. This just sucks. Feels like others around me are doing so much better than I am and I'm just kind of stuck on these same problems and feeling absolute shame and guilt from the past over and over again. I'm just so sick of dealing with this every single day so I just use escape whenever I can. Even that doesn't really work. I just wish I could go back in time.
TW// suicidal ideation There are things I want to do like i have an interview tomorrow for an exciting internship, but i also feel like I kinda don't wanna be here anymore. I'm not actively trying to do things to end my life, but I'm getting more and more tired of the same shit every day and i don't think I even want to come to terms with it and live for the next 40 or 50 years. maybe my constitution just sucks but idk if that's something I want. I don't want to accept OCD. im exhausted and frustrated. I don't want this in my life. But I'm not sure I want a life anymore anyways.
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