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Gosh I relate so much to this. I can’t believe I finished school to be honest. You just have to force yourself through it. I know how it feels to be judged. I got broken up with by a boyfriend over my OCD and lost a lot of friends because of my reassurance seeking. It sucks. But if someone doesn’t even try to understand our OCD and are judge mental, are they really the type of people you want to be around?
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Surround yourself with positivity, it helps.
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i relate to this so much!
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Same happens to me, I have just finished college and I am currently looking for an apprenticeship but every time I have an interview my ocd gets worse and it makes my anxiety worse. Hope you’re alright.
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Same, honestly I’m failing so bad and I can’t help it, I force myself to go to school but most of the time it gets too much and I end up coming home early. Some days are alright though and I can get through the whole day without needing to escape and it does suck honestly no one at school knows about my ocd except my best friend and school counsellor. But I’m hopeful that it will get easier as I have an appointment on Thursday to see a psychologist.
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Oh yeah. To the point that I have vomited repeatedly and lost a lot of weight.
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Yes! I usually do a round of Nexium every 4 months to help with the related acid reflux, I’ve cut out any dietary triggers like Dairy or Excess sugar, and I try to exercise regularly! It helps a lot, I still have nervous bathroom breaks but they’ve improved significantly
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I used to think I had IBS ad heartburn but that was before I was diagnosed and started on Zoloft. Now I don’t have any of those issues. I guess it was al anxiety related.
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Very much so- it was like the symptoms that made me first realize something was off in my case.
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I had avoided a lot with school specifically, but I did do it in other areas of life as well. School for some reason has been the biggest trigger that sends me into avoidance and it has been for the longest time. Does anybody relate? If so, what did you do to help besides therapy? In high school I used to sit in the bathroom stalls for hours so I could avoid going to classes. I was struggling to keep up because my OCD makes me perfect my school work so much so to the point where I’d never turn it in because I’d never be satisfied with what I’d produce. I’d get so incredibly frustrated with myself and the fact that I could never meet my own standards, never mind the rubrics given. I took ages analyzing all my writing, all my answers, all my google slides and I burnt myself out. So I stopped trying. I stopped turning in work because I’d never be satisfied. I’d cry because I felt I wasn’t good enough. Then I’d be missing assignments, getting them done but not submitting them because I was too ashamed. So, I avoided classes because I’d be in trouble or be called out for not getting anything done. Unfortunately this habit bled into my first year of college last year, and OCD coupled up with depression, made going to the dining hall and attending classes even worse. So I avoided it all together. It’s so hard being a freshman in college, so so hard. I unfortunately failed out of that school but I tried to medically withdraw either semester. No, I wasn’t partying, or drinking or smoking or hanging with the wrong people. I was a college freshman struggling with ocd and depression. I’m trying to not make excuses for myself either because I’m well aware this is my fault and I’m trying to reverse it now at community college. Right now I’m trying to get those Fs turned into Ws from my old school so I can fix my gpa. I want to transfer, I want to be a forensic psychologist, I want to be independent, I want to be ok. It’s gonna take me so long to transfer from community college but that’s on me. I’m willing to put in the work. I’m so embarassed, please help me.
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Having ocd is so incredibly exhausting and depressing- my mom and dad argued with me for over an hour talking about how im a pain to be around, go in too many loops, and ruin everything and everyones mood… this conversation started with me saying im stressed out because of school and that i dont want to go because im exhausted- and idk if this is like ocd directly but it takes me like 2 hours to get ready in the morning because i need to look PERFECT and the same everyday literally 😭 and that process feels so exhausting every morning at 6am but i will NOT go to school without going through with it- i will literally be crying and shaking and wanting to go home the minute i get to school if even a single strand of my hair is not perfectly straightened or any blemishes or flaws are showing- and i cant even walk to school or anything bc im scared the humidity will mess with my hair and everything- and it just really affects my life? And yeah its freaking exhausting. And i have two more years of highschool and I dont know if im going to make it 😭i get super stressed over grades too because i need them to be extraordinary otherwise its a fail. Nothing below 95%. And thats also tiring! 😁 and my mom told me today “medication IS NOTTTT AND OPTION!!!” Like oh okay so im just cooked 😭 and therapy isnt really helping me at all- i feel like what im being told is so basic and generic and it doesn’t help me when im in a huge ocd episode- which is often… and what i hate most is like my mom says “don’t come to me with your problems after 6pm…” im sorry i cant schedule my feelings 😭 im so tired
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- 13w
So my OCD got that bad to the point where I’m barely having ocd and my body is stuck in stress, I can’t sleep, my mind is soo loud and my chest hurts and my vains are popping out and I feel like my body is shutting down what do I do ☹️ I don’t even feel like I am here I can’t focus on anything I’m always zoned out
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