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Any tips on how to overcome suicidal ocd and fear of depression ? Does it get better ? Currently dealing with this theme for only 6 months and it sucks I don’t wanna think like this …..
Any tips on how to overcome suicidal ocd and fear of depression ? Does it get better ? Currently dealing with this theme for only 6 months and it sucks I don’t wanna think like this …..
Mine felt very real and I ended up in the psych ward, twice, after two regular therapists told me I was depressed for months. I failed to tell anyone I was also having harmful thoughts against my family because I was scared my son would be taken away or I would be involuntarily committed. I finally told a social worker in the ER and she told me about harm OCD. I had no idea that was a thing. Getting the right diagnosis, medication and ERP therapy saved my life.
@Slicey Omg I am so sorry to hear about that !! That must’ve scary ! Did you ever think it wasn’t gonna go away ?
@Who_knows? I was scared it wouldn’t go away and knew I couldn’t continue on like that.
@Slicey Well I’m so happy you were able to get past it ! I’m not diagnosed one of my therapist said what I had was passive and my stomach sank ! Then found this page and related so much to it . I’m to scared to get on medication so I’m trying the natural route first and hopefully this will be a thing in the past !
@Who_knows? I hope you conquer it! I take magnesium and Nac - both natural supplements that help with anxiety and intrusive thoughts.
@Slicey I am taking NAC and magnesium at night before bed. How long till you noticed it did anything ? I’ve been taking NAC for about a month now but hasn’t really lessened the thoughts or anxiety .
@Who_knows? It took a couple of weeks for the magnesium to kick in. I upped the dose pretty slowly too. I’m still working on upping the doasge for Nac - I take it for skin picking and, well, I’m still picking so that’s a work in progress.
@Slicey How much magnesium do you take ? And how much NAC do you take ? I take 2 of each
@Who_knows? 480mg of magnesium. 1800mg of Nac (just increased from 1200mg yesterday). I split the doses between morning and evening.
@Slicey Ok! Is that what your doctor recommends for each ?
@Who_knows? Yes on the magnesium. I’m kind of winging it with the Nac - I have read varying amounts and heard in a support group yesterday a person was taking 3000mg. I’ll probably get up to 2400mg and see how that goes for a few weeks.
@Slicey Ok yes please let me know how that works . I’m just going based off the recommended on the label so it scares me to go any higher
@Who_knows? Will do. My therapist said at least 400mg on the magnesium for it to be effective. She has OCD and takes it, so I feel like she is a reliable source and I feel like it has helped my anxiety. I also put magnesium oil on the bottoms of my feet.
@Slicey Ok yes that’s what I do I do 400mg of magnesium at night before bed . Thank you so much for the advice . Do you have social media we can possibly talk on ?
@Who_knows? I only have LinkedIn🤣
@Slicey You might split the magnesium morning and night for more even coverage
@Slicey Also do you have a therapist through NOCD? If you do, you have access to the support groups - I just attended the harm one for the first time and it’s AWESOME!!
@Slicey No I don’t , it’s kinda pricey so the best I can do is just talk to people on here which helps a little !
Be open with your therapist and learn to gradually sit in the fear and discomfort. It’s really hard, but 100% something you can overcome. It does get better.
@MichelleV Thank you so much !! It just scares me because I have kids and the thoughts feel so real and makes me confused
@Who_knows? It’s so hard when OCD makes things feel so real and scary and urgent. But remember that what you want is more important than what your OCD wants.
This was my first OCD theme 5 years ago and it hasn’t bothered me since. You literally just need to face the things that trigger you and let the thoughts be. It really sucks at first but it WORKS! You got this!!
@roarytorii 🌺 What if you cant face the trigger because it’s best not to? I don’t want things to escalate more than they already have. I just get intrusive thoughts about this person
Meds and therapy, got super lucky with therapy options. Helped a ton
What were your guys’ experiences with this one like thoughts and stuff ? Didn’t feel so real to you and make you confused ?
I’ve been dealing with ocd my whole life, and just got diagnosed about a year ago. I feel my days becoming occupied with thoughts, urges, fears and worry that completely debilitate me. It’s getting to the point where i feel like it’s taking over my life. I don’t see this getting any better, even with the therapy and medication I’m on. I’m scared my life will be like this forever, I’m tired. My brain is tired of ruminating every second of every day from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I’m not sure how much longer I can go on like this.
so i have ocd but this is the main theme ive been dealing with for the last few months, im obsessed with my mortality and i feel trapped by the reality of death. i dont really believe in an afterlife which makes it scarier, not that i dont wanna my brain literally just wont let me. but i have daily panic attacks thinking about death all day, its honestly the toughest thing ive ever dealt with. does anybody have any tips on how they manage this if they have ever dealt with it? not looking for reassurance, just some non compulsive ways to kind of lessen the grip of the fear.
I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…
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