any advice would help right now

The theme i struggle with most is suicidal OCD. And with September being “national suicide awareness month”, My anxiety is sky high. i’m back in my spiral. I’m back with the panic attacks. My mind keeps comparing itself to all of these people and now i’m convinced i want too or i have these symptoms and im next. i’m freaking myself out and idk what to do. I get scared i have suicidal ideation when i know i don’t because i would never ever actually kms nor hurt myself in anyway. Does anyone know how to comercome this??? I just got out of my spiral not even 1 months ago and im scared im going deeper this time. My mind is all over the place scared im actually going to do it when i know im not and i feel like i have to go to the hospital or something idk what to do.

Username: Jesse1982 Jesse1982

Date posted: 10w ago

You are an important person to many people, I understand how hard it is to live with this nightmare but hang in there and pray to the virgin mary

Username: djfloriodjflorio

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 10w ago

I understand this fear and your frustration. I used to struggle with this theme a lot, and I've overcome it. The solution is simple, but difficult. You have to stop fighting these thoughts. You have to stop caring about them. The way to do that is to SHOW to yourself that the thoughts are not dangerous. You can argue with them or resist them all you want, but the regions of the brain responsible for these thoughts don't understand logical reasoning. You do this by allowing the triggering thoughts to be there without doing anything to get rid of them or the anxiety, and focusing on how you physically feel. Your only job is to be aware of how you feel, physically and emotionally, without any sort of judgement. This is challenging and takes practice, but eventually you will learn that you can handle the anxiety that arises without the need to do anything, you will naturally care less about the thoughts, and they will naturally occur less often. Again, the regions of the brain driving these intrusive thoughts do not understand logical reasoning. They evolved in our brains well before spoken language was a thing. That's why arguing with the thoughts doesn't work. Happy to answer any questions.

Username: cows12465cows12465

Date posted: 10w ago

@djflorio Thank you so very much. I really need help with the panic attacks and learning how to sit and feel the anxiety without sending myself into a deeper panic

Username: xisaacdaxisaacda

Date posted: 10w ago

Our minds wander off a lot and start thinking about things that don’t matter. Sometimes we just think the worst possible stuff and Yea it’s kind of impossible to just stop them but if you just sit down breathe and ask God to help you, then it’ll starts calming down. Or for me personally I smoke when I get too much anxiety I’m not recommending it but it helps sometimes. Idk what puts all these draining thoughts in our head but just focus on the good things, God, Family, life, everything you like. Sometimes we panic cause we feel like we’re not sure what to do but in reality we just have to live and love. Bad things are inevitably going to happen in everyone’s life and it sucks but you just have to stay strong and focus on what you know. I wish I could express this in a better way but I hope it helped and please don’t ever harm yourself, you’ll end up hurting everyone who loves you. Fight them evil thoughts with good positive thoughts

Username: cows12465cows12465

Date posted: 10w ago

@xisaacda thank you so much❤️❤️

Username: holytropical!

Date posted: 5y ago

(PLEASE HELP IM BEGGING!) Hey guys, right now I’m having suicidal OCD and it’s really fucking scaring me because I know I want to live but it’s feeling like I’m going to end my life any second or any day now and that I’m going to die soon, and I’m afraid that I’m going to come up with a plan and go through with it, or say fuck it, I don’t care about recovery, be selfish and just do it. I’m SO scared I don’t know what to do anymore, I don’t know if these are real suicidal thoughts or just my OCD attacking me and I’m genuinely scared for my life. It’s like every second of the day I get a stupid intrusive suicidal thought and it makes me feel like I’m really suicidal and that I don’t want to live anymore, for ANYTHING positive I hear, I twist it and make it negative and tell myself, you’re going to die soon, or you’re gonna kill yourself anyway, you don’t have a future, you don’t care anymore. I even feel a lil bit down and sad when I get these thoughts and I start to feel depersonalization, I almost feel depressed when I get these thoughts all day and it makes me feel like I’m genuinely gonna get depressed and the suicidal thoughts will become REAL I’m so scared. Even when my parents tell me that I’m going to be ok and not do anything, I tell myself in my mind that I’m still going to go through with suicide and just kill myself. I don’t have a set plan and I’m afraid that I may develop a plan and want to go through with it. IM SCARED FOR MY LIFE! IM SO FUCKING SCARED PLEASE HELP PLEASE! Anyone that has gone through this PLEASE HELP! Going into a hospital won’t help because I’m not ACTUALLY suicidal but these thoughts make me FEEL like I am and it’s just SO confusing I don’t know what’s real and what’s not!!! PLEASE HELP ANYONE!!!! I’m so fucking scared ??

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Username: Anonymous 567

Date posted: 30w ago

Any advice?

So I’ve been in a pretty rough spiral/ocd spike for about a month now. I used to have this theme of being severely mentally ill or schizophrenic or psychotic and it went away for like 6 months and now it’s back full force. I have never hallucinated but I have this intense fear of what if I do. So with this theme I have these delusional thoughts that are just bizarre and I know how delusional they are but they feel so real and scary like I believe them. My body reacts by my stomach feeling uneasy and I’ll get a chill and just feel like I’m gonna be sick. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be a thought per say.. it can just be a weird sensation or feeling and then I’ll become extremely anxious and borderline feel like I could panic. I can usually talk myself down from a full blown panic attack and but it’s just so distressing and I’m wondering if anyone else goes through this? I think it stems from a core fear of losing my family, ending up institutionalized away from my family and my family being devastated and judging me bc I “went crazy” please if anyone else can relate I’d appreciate any advice.

Username: cows12465

Date posted: 20w ago

really need someone with socd

What does your thoughts get like? i start having severe panic attacks to the point i can’t breathe. i also freak out and start thinking i have to go to a mental hospital because of my thoughts. i would never act on these thoughts but they are killing me and my panic attacks are getting out of control. i’m scared that my ocd is going to give in and im going to do it but i know for a fact im not but im freaking out because these are so distressing.

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