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Do you isolate yourself because of these thoughts? I am scared to go outside having these thoughts.I am scared to even go to a shop to buy something
Do you isolate yourself because of these thoughts? I am scared to go outside having these thoughts.I am scared to even go to a shop to buy something
No, I do not. I used to and it made it all worse. When you isolate, you’re telling your brain you are in danger from the world and that creates problems. You have to expose yourself to being uncomfortable.
Absolutely.. you are not alone.
Yes i do, I'm scared basically at everything bc of my intrusive thoughts and the fact that im convinced people can read my mind. So it's easily isolating. Not sure how I can get help. Even with ERP is scary bc ppl will know each step I'm taking to get better and I feel like I'm healing on other people's time line not my own. It's stressfull
@LILBOIIBRENT Everyone has their own timeline. Especially with mental illness it’s not always predictable. I hope you will be able to not stress out.
I also feel like people can read my mind :,)
@LILBOIIBRENT Also, you don’t owe anyone -except for your therapist- that they have to know about your therapy progress🤷♀️
@elliss2 Thank you for that reminder, I hope so too! :)
Don’t feed the fear! Treat it like a bully and stand up to it and do the things that scare you! Your thoughts are judt thoughts
For the past couple of months, I’ve had a really big fear of like my hand basically going down there or objects going down there and like being contaminated. This basically leads me to be scared of being on my own and doing things without people near (because if I do everything in front of someone they would tell me if I did something), also tucking my shirt. This started last October too and I remember crying for like hours everyday. Now I’m better but I do compulsions like tucking my shirt in a specific way so I know my hand couldn’t reach there. I’m scared to even get ready for the day, brush my teeth, etc with my shirt untucked because I’m scared those objects will be contaminated or I’ll do something to contaminate them. I’ve been trying to stop this compulsion of tucking my shirt in for a while but I’m not really going anywhere.
Guys, does isolating yourself from society make OCD worse? Because I go out these days and I feel like my questions are illogical. Because it seems that alone, everything becomes bigger. It seems that we disregard everything. So something that you would or wouldn't do doesn't seem to have an answer because you don't consider the other. Is this real? Because for example, one question is whether I would take advantage of someone. But the question is, does that someone exist? It's not something that's in my head. In real life, we're all human and you see them that way. So your debt is answered with no. Because that's how you are, when placed in society. You would only do some harm if you didn't consider this, but that would be your values, right? So OCD asks some questions that disregard things, right?
In the past I used to isolate myself when I was feeling bad or when my mental health became poor. now I feel like I don't want to be alone because I'm scared that when I'm alone, something bad will happen or i'll lose control and do something bad. And I feel like when I'm around someone e.g. my mom, it's easier to just let the thoughts go because at least there's someone there to verify that I haven't done anything bad.
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