Any hobby ideas?

I’m just looking for some hobbies to keep myself busy. I currently play guitar and go to the gym but I cut my fingers playing guitar today in class and idk how much longer my moms gonna be able to afford my gym membership with my trainer so I’m just looking for things to do. Videos games drawing and watching movies don’t really interest me I like physical stuff a lot more and I’ve been thinking about getting involved in after school clubs but I’m mainly focused on hobbies for the weekend so I’m not bored out of my mind going crazy from intrusive thoughts so any suggestions help

Username: niknicoleniknicole

Date posted: 9w ago

Carving could definitely help. I carve and it helps take my mind off things. You’ll usually be busy for hours working on it. You could try dancing. It’s active and you pick up on some dance moves. That’s all I got🤷‍♀️

Username: Brian__Brian__

Date posted: 9w ago

@niknicole Tysm for the suggestion! I’ve always loved wood work and stuff like that so I’ll definitely look into carving. Do you know where I could get the stuff for it or any places that might have it?

Username: niknicoleniknicole

Date posted: 9w ago

@Brian__ Of course! You can get the wood carving tools at any craft store, like hobby lobby or Michael’s. When I first started out, I would collect wood from my backyard but they sell some woodblocks at Michael’s!

Username: Brian__Brian__

Date posted: 9w ago

@niknicole Tysm 🫶

Username: patheticgirl43patheticgirl43

Date posted: 9w ago

Following, need stuff to do bc i feel like im gonna go insane. Cant even draw anymore because my intrusive thoughts get so loud

Username: Brian__Brian__

Date posted: 9w ago

@patheticgirl43 Ugghh I get how you feel, I used to love drawing and was actually pretty good at it but now my intrusive thoughts have just ruined it and always are like “draw/write (insert gross thing or racial slur)!” And it’s just like can you not?? 😭ik it’s good to do erp with that kind of stuff but when I’m looking for something I wanna enjoy doing I don’t wanna do a erp exercise 😭

Username: 🌊Anonymous🌊🌊Anonymous🌊

Date posted: 9w ago

Hiking while plants identification or birds, there are also app like geocaching that you can use to search objets and notes other people hides. If you like animals volunteer in your local animal shelter can be an option

Username: Brian__Brian__

Date posted: 9w ago

@🌊Anonymous🌊 Tysm, I’ve always loved plants and flowers so I think I might try that! And I never knew what geocaching was but it sounds pretty cool so I’ll probably try that to! 🫶

Username: King sillyKing silly

Date posted: 9w ago

You could crochet, sew, knit, draw, paint

Username: Brian__Brian__

Date posted: 8w ago

@King silly My grandma crochets and knits so maybe I’ll ask her to teach me! Tysm 🫶

Username: King sillyKing silly

Date posted: 8w ago

@Brian__ Ofc! I wanna try crochet too!!!

Username: Fathomable

Date posted: 4y ago

Hobbies! It's important to have things in our lives other than OCD, which bring us joy, calm us down and can provide a good way to redirect our attention away from obsessions and compulsions. I'm curious about your hobbies and interests! I enjoy painting and learning languages- I reached B2 in Swedish and am starting on Korean. I love to follow artists on YouTube who show their methods step by step and try them out. I also decided to learn more Python (programming language) and brush up my C++ in order to work in software development and eventually data science, so I am making a plan to write some code every day. I find that redirecting my attention to these hobbies when I'm anxious makes my OCD symptoms reduce and ensures that life isn't entirely passing me by even though I struggle to be social.

Username: GregJ

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

Bored

Not having the best day today mental health wise. Feel super bored but nothing sounds appealing to do. Anyone ever feel like this? What hobbies or things do you guys do that maybe some of us could try?

Username: Wanderer_

Date posted: 35w ago

Videogames

Should I put videogames?? It's one of my favorite hobbies And it used to keep me from obsessing and from overthinking But I had an ocd flare 3 weeks ago and idk, my life just hasn't been the same, I feel panic, anxiety, things just doesn't feel the same, I haven't been able to play video games since I feel they could make me more anxious Is it ok to quit them??? Or should I try keep playing??

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