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- 40w ago
Bad place
Is there a point to living anymore
Is there a point to living anymore
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.
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
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.
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
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?
@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.
@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!
@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.
Ive had thoughts like this all the time please dont give up no matter how hard it is :( stay strong thiw community supports you
I can't live with OCD anymore. It's ruining my life. I feel like I'm being constantly bullied in my own mind all day everyday. I don't know if what I think and feel is ever real or normal or okay, what is me and what is the OCD thoughts. I don't know if any of my experiences are normal. I'm exhausted from picking apart every single conversation I ever have with anyone until I'm strung out by a vague and ambiguous feeling of guilt. I'm tired of feeling like I'm a bad person and feeling scared all the time and not knowing why and having my brain spin me out on an endless spiralling train of thoughts that never goes anywhere and just makes me feel disconnected from everything and everyone around me. I don't know what I feel and if what I feel is normal or if anything I am doing is real and actually me or if I'm 'losing my mind.' I don't even know if this makes any sense. I get into these states of mind where every thought in my head and everything I feel and perceive makes me question my own sanity. I don't know if anyone likes me because I have absolutely no concept of what I am actually like. I feel completely lost and confused CONSTANTLY.
Everyday I wake up, all my mind makes me think of is the stuff I’ve done in the past, like all day I’m in a constant cycle of judging who I used to be and it hurts so so much. I wish I never thought to do those things, I wish I had been more mature than how I was before, it’s really lowering my self worth and I don’t think I’ve ever felt this miserable before, like last summer was the worst because I was dealing with this shit, I about almost ended my life over it, and I thought it would get better, which it did, but it didn’t last but for a while. As soon as it became 2025 I was going through it again, having constant cycles of “I’m a good person” to “I’m the worst person imaginable” and I’m so sick of it because I just want to feel like the good person l like to imagine myself to be, but I can’t because of shit I did in the past that I obsess over. I’ve cried and screamed so much over it and it seems like it will never leave me.
I don’t know if it’s worth it to keep going. I have so many diagnoses, so little support, and constant struggles with finding the right medication. My immune system is weak, I have multiple deficiencies, and I’m dealing with so many physical health problems on top of severe OCD. It’s just too much. On top of everything, my family treats me so not okay. Every single day is a fight just to keep going—to wake up, to eat, to take care of myself even a little. I’ve lost over ten pounds in the last two weeks from how depressed I’ve been. And instead of support, all I get is blame. My family constantly throws my struggles in my face, calling me selfish, as if I’m choosing this. I am trying so hard to push past all of this. But after five long months of severe OCD, anxiety, depression, panic disorder, and everything else making life unbearable, I am exhausted. And to be called lazy? Selfish? *Worthless*? How am I supposed to keep going when the people around me refuse to see how hard I’m trying? I don’t want this anymore. None of this suffering feels worth it. What am I fighting for just to be treated this way by my own family? To be yelled at for the look on my face, when my face reflects nothing but the stress, panic, and despair I’m drowning in? Am I still supposed to smile for them? This isn’t fair. No one should have to live like this. I don’t deserve to be treated this way, I’m really trying to keep going, but I just want everything to end.
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