Well, ocd seems to have been fine but feel like I have another disorder now (already had and just acknowledged). I literally almost had a panic attack and decided to skip work today because of what I feel is body dysmorphia. I don't know what treatments are out there for this and I know I've seen people on here mention it before. What non-reassuring treatments are there? I'm dealing with this ASAP Feel like absolute crap.
I just recently started therapy for OCD and this was one of the questions on a standardized questionnaire that they use for determining your OCD themes. It specifically mentioned being fixated on a specific aspect of your body, a specific body part. I'm not a therapist but I think this may actually be related to your OCD. I hope this helps. God Bless.
I found out it may be linked or a part of ocd too. I'm calling a helpline for it in a bit to seek options.
I found the name of the questionnaire "Y-BOCS"
I really hope things get better for you soon 💔
Same. This isn't the first time I've felt like this and the reaction is completely extreme and ridiculous. The thoughts that I've had today are not something I'm going to ignore or ruminate over. It feels like there's always one more thing that ocd dwarfed, but if I can deal with that, I can deal with this. Just sucks right now 😣
@Wolfram Hi! I am so sorry you are having such a hard time. I am glad you are active and seeking for information and treatment about it. You are a role model to me. You are very strong. You are a fighter. You are going to beat this too. I wish I were of more help to you. My personal doctor GP is away this month. I needed to change my medication for diabetes from pills to injections. I have just been to a doctor who is working instead of my doctor. He weighs at least 300pounds. He refused to put me on the new medication, because he believes that my vegan diet is the main problem. He told me to eat eggs and occasionally even some meat. I told him I was an ethical vegan. He asked:" What the hell is an ethical vegan? What kind of stupid thing is that now?" Even before I had a chance to answer, he made a joke saying that that means that I now eat all the food that animals were supposed to eat, so they have no food and die. " He found himself very amusing. He couldn't stop laughing. He even wanted to tell me more vegan jokes, but wasn't able to remember the details. Hallelujah! So, dear friend, my ocd is way more intelligent and smart than a man with a degree in medicine. My ocd would never make fun of him being a doctor, weighing minimum 300 pounds, and gaining weight by eating killed, dead animals. Yesterday I gave in to a fear and took a shower. 5 min. But still. I was disappointed at myself. But today, I feel just ok about that. It took me 5 min to calm ocd down. 5 min. It's OK with me, because it would take me a few lifetimes to convince some people to open their minds, their hearts, find compassion and empathy and finally become human humans. I hope you are feeling a bit better. There is this song by a quite young British singer George Ezra - It's just my skin. He suffers from Pure OCD. It is a deep and sad song, but it always calms me down somehow when I feel confused and scared when my ocd wants to play. Give it a try. I hope you like it. Just a suggestion. Let us know how you are doing. I care very much for you. I want you to be well and happy. If you wish to talk,.... 😊. You can do it! You can find a way to deal with everything! Tons of hugs. 🤗👍🍀😊.
@NODA I don't know why this message isn't in my notifications at all, I found it by chance 🤔 must be a glitch. I'm going to talk to my mother about options for therapy or treatment for it tomorrow as the numbers I called today were frustratingly useless. I have a feeling it'll be cbt therapy though. As for your doctor, the comments on him made me laugh. I don't want to judge them too much but it doesn't sound like they're a beacon of health themselves. As for the vegan comments, you get that from time to time, it's less common now though. I'll give that song a listen. Stay strong
Hello. How are you doing today? Feeling any better? I hope so. How did the talk with your mother go? Have you decided on cbt therapy? To tell you the truth, I don't know nearly enough about Body dysmorphia. I am going to read more about it tonight. About the song...you might be disappointed. It is not very uplifting, but somehow when I am feeling desperate or alone in the whole world because of ocd, I can relate to it. It makes me feel less lonely. I can feel his words. He only came out about having ocd years after the song came out. The first time I heard the song, I knew he was in the OCD boat just like me. It is the most overlooked song on the album. People find it too slow, bluesy, not interesting. Well, at least those I know don't have OCD. I loved George Ezra's first album. I had no idea that he existed until a few years after he released the album. Once I was in shopping mall in the ladies room and the song Budapest came on on the radio. I fell in love with his voice. But I had no idea who was singing. I tried to find the artist and the song, but everytime I came close, a picture of this young guy popped up. I didn't even give it a benefit of the doubt that such a baby faced kid could possibly have such a deep baritone voice. So, I never listened to anything by him. I kept looking and looking. I was checking out guys like Dylan 's son Jacob from The Wallflowers and many more. And one day, ready to give up the search, after like almost a year, I decided to listen to that young guy's voice and I was stunned. I couldn't believe my ears and eyes. The song Did you hear the rain, the full version, was incredible to me. He was 18 when he wrote it. His second album was so so. The third is for me too similar to the popular pop of today. I kind of don't like it when men sing like they are crying,... and women rely more on their looks than their musical skills. Old rock is where I feel well. Robert Plant, Mark Knopfler, The Stones, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Seger, Pink Floyd,.... = the old giants. I hope I have managed to get your thoughts and feelings away from the ocd and body dysmorphia even for the shortest while by writing about music,... About the doctor... I can't understand how he expects me to believe his advice about diabetes, when you could make 2 or 3 of me out of one of him. My diabetes is stress (ocd= anxiety= depression, working looong hours,...) related as well as a result of my ocd medication's side effects. I have never heard that vegan food causes diabetes. Especially the nutritious and non junk vegan food. I was teaching him about how to steam cook broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes,.. He must be at least 60. And a doctor.?! HE needs to exercise and lose weight. I recommend vegan food to him, but no way would he even consider it. Just to finish this long post, a little sth to think about. Yesterday when I came home from the doctor, I found a small beautiful dead bird before the entrance of the building. It broke my heart. I wanted to go home and come back with gloves and a bag to pick it up and take it to a nearby playground surrounded by bushes of flowers and a lot of birds chirping and singing. When at home, I felt a bit sick because we are having a super hot summer, and I took a cold shower and took a nap. When I woke up, it was dark outside, so I postponed taking care of the bird for today. I was hoping, someone else would have had the empathy and would have taken the bird somewhere nice away from the boiling concrete by that time. . At least 100 people must have walked by it. It was impossible not to see it. Today around 11 a. m, I went out with a strong belief that people have a heart and I wouldn't see the bird anymore. Guess what? Nobody gave a damn. It was still in the same spot. I took it to the beautiful playground with flowers and put it to rest in a safe place. I am not telling you this to blow my own horn of what a good person I am. I am telling you, because I have been really sad all day realizing that people just don't care. I wish you a beautiful and anxiety free day. It's evening here. 9p.m. Keeping my fingers crossed that you find the right treatment. Keep me posted on how things are going. Believe in yourself and your strength. I do believe in you. You can beat this. 🍀😊
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 🫤
Finally slept well today! Which is nice. Regardless, I feel like it has destroyed who I am. Its been over a year and a half, and I keep overthinking and questioning my identity and I can’t let it go to the point where I feel that my future is certain, even though I’ve liked myself the entire time and had a pretty stable idea of who I was. My mind has gathered enough proof. I love being a woman, and I don’t want a different body. I wasn’t born in the wrong body. I am obsessing over my voice, which needs no changes, and my chest. After speaking to a friend of a friend, I’m afraid I’ll want a sex change when I finally have a partner. I’m terrified. I don’t know if anyone can relate. I don’t know how to get over this and my first ERP session is in about a week. How do I even go about this? I feel like a monster to my own family.
I am newly diagnosed with OCD as a 33 year old female I was fat oses with bipolar at 15 and never really identified with it much and totally relate to ocd. I wish i would have known long ago so I could have gotten treatment earlier. Now that I know and am aware and can see what’s off and what are compulsions and my insatiable need for reassurance it’s so overwhelming- it feels like my mind is a prison and attacks me with a new pure o quest as soon as I wake up I’m optimistic I’ll be able to get better but it just feels like it’s time sucking and joy stealing disorder I know I’m not alone here I feel like a crazy person replaying and replaying things I want to know if you can relate or if you have been at this for a while and actually feel like you are breaking free from this Thanks for the read
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