Why do I feel fine after intense anxiety and obsession? Is this normal?

i feel so weird advice asap

i had a really bad an intense real event obsession for the past two days like extremely anxiety and nausea inducing it felt like unbearable like i was panicking and going to die. but i woke up and ive been fine all day, my brain wont think, it just wont produce any anxiety-evoking thoughts or compulsions, why? like everything feels normal and even when i purposefully think about the obsession its almost like its muffled i dont feel any anxiety and its like my brain wont produce any thoughts around it, it just wont. i feel like an absolute faker. is this normal? what if this means its all fake?

Username: truceracheltrucerachel

Date posted: 7w ago

i have experienced this too! i think with me it was a trauma response. I just stopped feeling anything and i blocked my emotions which caused me blocking my anxiety too. That doesn’t mean you faked your anxiety and ocd. i just think it means that you couldn’t handle the stress anymore so you blocked it maybe? i’m not a professional so i don’t know if it was this for you, but this is something that has happened to me before so maybe it helps if i speak about my experiences? And just because your anxiety stopped that day, doesn’t mean it wasn’t real yesterday. Your feelings are valid. And if its not that you blocked it and its something different for you, maybe try to enjoy not feeling the anxiety today and try not to think about you ‘faking’ it to much. Let yourself get some rest instead of making things harder on yourself by overthinking. I hope this helps a bit. Lots of love<33

Username: Wolfram Wolfram

Date posted: 7w ago

Actually I was dissociated from anxiety and nerves for over a year because I was overwhelmed. I still went through the motions of feeling them but couldn't feel them. Maybe if that happens, seek a therapist for it. It's good to feel anxiety and nerves

Username: Wolfram Wolfram

Date posted: 7w ago

I wouldn't question it. If its not affecting you anymore, it's not an issue right?

Username: cherriescherries

Date posted: 7w ago

I experience this too! I think for me it’s because my brain is just so exhausted that it can’t produce any more thoughts

Username: 🌊Anonymous🌊🌊Anonymous🌊

Date posted: 7w ago

Hi I experienced this also with real events, I think sometime this happen because our brain is exhausted and can't manage this levels of anxiety. That dosent mean it was fake, the topic can start again, or not. Try to rest and, if you are in therapy, I will recommend you talk to your therapist about this even if it is not a problem anymore

Username: Nour04

Date posted: 3y ago

i barely thought about it all day. barely did any compulsions. barely felt any anxiety and barely ruminated. i thought this was ocd??? shouldn't i be more worried??? i don't feel like this is ocd anymore :(

Username: Sarah🕊

Date posted: 3y ago

I’m so confused right now. I feel really calm about my intrusive thoughts and I feel calm overall. I can still get moments of feeling uneasy but overall I’m calmer. Yesterday was really difficult. Does that mean I don’t have OCD? I just don’t get this. Even today I was scared with the thought of what If I’m lying about my intrusive thoughts and my experience with OCD and I’m really just a crazy person.....and then later today when I felt calmer I was like omg what if I really don’t have OCD and I really I’m just making it up. I feel so calm right now. I’m kind of guessing maybe because I talked to my mom about my some intrusive thoughts have and have had in the past and I was worried about telling her but she understood and so I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders. Is it possible to suddenly feel ok?

Username: landsay

Date posted: 30w ago

no thoughts?

does anyone else have times where their OCD disappears? Like I've been dealing with a new OCD theme and it was so distressing dealing with those thoughts for weeks on end and i couldn't talk to my therapist at the time. I told my therapist about it yesterday and now there's no more thoughts? and i feel like i lied about having these thoughts and now when i do my exposures it's like i'm checking for the thoughts to pop up and they're not. I don't know if it's because I've been kind of avoiding people that trigger the theme or what. I feel like a liar.

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