tay_may19
- Date posted
- 48w
Bad place
Is there a point to living anymore
Karotajs-theanxiousgogettergirlKarotajs-the...
- Date posted
- 48w
Yes. Really. Ive been there and thought the same thing. Please hang in there! I know how hard it is and i know what its like too reach that point. People need you! You are strong. Some days its all i can do to shower or get out of bed. Just putting one foot in front of the other. I feel for you.
justlivejustlive
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 48w
Yes always. Please seek help immediately if you are actively thinking of doing something to hurt yourself. I know how tough it is but I promise you life is better with you here. It can and will get better. Hold on and keep fighting you are stronger than your OCD! Sending so much love and healing your way
Ryan787Ryan787
- Date posted
- 48w
Yes, people love you. This community loves you. Sometimes it gets too heavy, remind yourself that you can overcome these things, no matter how loud the thoughts are.
anonymous12783927anonymous127...
- Date posted
- 48w
throughout all of this i have had this mindset countless of times, but each time i have gotten better and so will you i promise it gets better. i am struggling badly right now as well so i understand how you feel, however we need to stay positive because letting ourselves feel helpless will only make it worse unfortunately. i know how extremely hard it is to stay positive through all this but it really helps to just try, even if you dont believe it right now its good to tell yourself that eventually you WILL feel better. if nothing else, time will heal. youve got this i wish you the absolute best. if you need someone to talk to i can talk
Courage2ContinueCourage2Cont...
- Date posted
- 48w
Hey, I’m sorry you’re going through this right now! I may be way off the mark, but it sounds like you’re in a lot of emotional pain, and are struggling to find a way to get it to stop, and are hoping to get some kind of community support? Are you lacking any support outside of this app, or is there anyone who you feel comfortable talking to about this? Regardless, we can figure this out! Is there something in particular that’s triggered you to feel this way, or does it feel more like it just came out of the blue?
tay_may19tay_may19
- Date posted
- 48w
@Courage2Continue What I’ve been experiencing has been coming in waves. The feeling is always in the back of my mind but sometimes it just flares up like it did yesterday. I’m doing okay now and I do have a therapist but I haven’t seen her in over a month and I just don’t wanna share to much and be admitted to the hospital.
Courage2ContinueCourage2Cont...
- Date posted
- 48w
@tay_may19 Oh good, I’m glad you’re doing better! It’s okay to not be doing great too, that’s why we’re all here! OCD can be brutal most days, and the point isn’t to necessarily feel happy all the time, but to feel less alone and have permission to feel all the emotions as they come up, and know you aren’t going to be judged for it. There’s a reason a lot of people who are depressed don’t seek out help, and it’s usually because there’s this huge weight of “you need to change because you shouldn’t feel x/y/z, and if you can’t feel better then there’s something wrong with you,” but no one really asks why it’s so hard for someone experiencing depression to talk about their feelings. Usually depression starts because the individual already doesn’t feel like they have a right to be able to experience all their emotions without getting punished or backlash for them, and it’s really important that we build up a community for each other where we can openly talk about these things! I don’t know if your therapist is a NOCD therapist, or an OCD specialist, but I know once I opened up more to my therapist about what was going on with me and told her the details of everything, I felt better. Weirdly enough, what looks like planning for a suicidal person is actually compulsions for others, and I always felt so weird that I needed to keep self harm things around to feel better. Especially because I didn’t use them! And it turns out I was using them compulsively to show myself that I wasn’t going to follow through. I thought my therapist was for sure going to send me to inpatient, but she was extremely understanding and we worked it out! It was nice to finally speak to someone who exhibited trust in me to be able to handle my own emotions, and it was very liberating to experience that! I really hope that you can experience that too!
tay_may19tay_may19
- Date posted
- 48w
@Courage2Continue Thank you for sharing that I really do appreciate it. I’m gonna try my best to schedule something with my therapist and psychiatrist to talk about my symptoms.
ughhhhughhhh
- Date posted
- 48w
Ive had thoughts like this all the time please dont give up no matter how hard it is :( stay strong thiw community supports you
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- Date posted
- 16w
How to start living?
I feel like im no longer living im only 17 and i use to be so excited to turn 18 recently i feel like life is pointless and its all i think about including philosophy and i never liked that before. It has taken complete joy out of my life anything simple like watching a movie feels pointless because it has no meaning and i feel as if my life has zero meaning because i am not important. I am constantly criticizing everything. For example i went to a concert ive been dying to see and when i got there i didnt enjoy it all because i felt like it was pointless. Is there anyone that has experienced this that has advice I feel like im in hell rn
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