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Hi Hannie! I'm in early stages of recovery however I do know that one can have multiple themes at any given time and not uncommon for 1 to fade and another replaces it. Can you take a few minutes to do mindful meditation?
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Thank you so much for responding! I will take a few minutes to do some meditation! Thank you again ❤️
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Yes happens all the time. Feels like when you go into recovery on one another pops up ?
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Thank you for responding ❤️
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I believe that's right. Expect the unexpected.
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Thank you for responding ❤️
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I'm dealing with unwanted and intrusive thoughts!
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Me too! It’s so frustrating and scary!
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I’ve had several at the same time, and am right now. I think maybe trying some strategies to reduce stress and anxiety could help. I can give a few tips if you’re interested.
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I would really love that. I will take and strategies I can! It’s been so bad today. I can’t seem to calm my thoughts or my brain down. It really started to scare me earlier. I have calmed down a bit but I feel it trying to come back. But yes, I would appreciate any advice! Thank you so much?
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I would suggest atleast trying some kind of meditation, mindfulness meditation perhaps. This is a good one I like: https://youtu.be/BvOg_4ZvfFo Else you can try getting some sort of medication, natural supplements like niacin/niacinamide or some other form of light benzo. Get off of coffee or reduce your intake, and try your best to sleep more. Last but not least I suggest you try some light exercise, like walking, in nature specifically, the light and surroundings should reduce your stress. Maybe this sounds vague and boring, but I myself find all of these relieving for me.
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Thank you so much! I’m gonna try all of these tips. It means so much that you took the time to respond! Thank you☺️
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Great tips! I've gone back to the gym. I took a mindful meditation class which helps a lot. When you find yourself obsessing bring your awareness to your body. Theirs a great quote, " the freedom is in the breath." Sitting comfortably focus on the breath. Your thoughts may bombard you ( that's okay) gently bring your awareness back to the breath. Over and over and over again. It takes practice! Sending you hugs!
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I definitely workout the most when I’m anxious. I had to do it tonight cause my intrusive thoughts just won’t stop. I’m also gonna try a meditation. Thank you so so much for responding. Hugs to you too?
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I’ve had different themes of ocd throughout my life. Can they all differ such as how the thoughts may present? Currently my thoughts feel so true immediately (like they genuinely feel like what I think) but in the last theme I feel like it may have been more of a “what if I think this” type of situation
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I don’t even know where to start because there’s so much going on in my head and it feels like there’s so much evidence for every thought. Like my ocd feels like it doesn’t just have one specific theme it’s honestly every theme and it just switches throughout the day depending on the thoughts I have. This started all about a month ago, this whole ocd flare up. I’ve been diagnosed with ocd for about 3 years now and looking back on my childhood, I feel like I’ve had it for probably my entire life. My grandpa just recently died back in February and I feel like this whole ocd spiral is a result of dealing with grief especially because it didn’t even hit me for the whole month of April for some reason and things felt “normal”. But since this ocd flare up has started I’ve been constantly reviewing and revisiting my past, all my childhood memories and so many of them are terrifying which is weird because I never had a traumatic event hppen to me as a child. I feel like it’s always been “self-inflicted” trauma if that makes sense? My mind is telling me so many things related to so many topics like maybe I liked my family member as a kid and have just hid it to fit in with society? That my anxiety as a kid has caught up with me and I’m turning into a psychopath? That I’ve always been a creep and enjoyed looking at peoples privates or chests, etc but just ignored or allowed the thought this whole time. Also before this whole flare up I remember always feeling on autopilot and not really alive like everything I did I just felt numb about it. Which aids my ocd to tell me that these feelings are real and the thoughts are true and that I’m “waking up” or realizing or something. I haven’t felt such intense anxiety and distress since I was a kid and I didn’t even understand my own thoughts. It’s like I’m either hyper aware or totally unaware of what’s going on around me and it gets me thinking about my existence, personality, what my role in life is and like genuinely what I’m even doing in the moment like what’s the reason behind everything. I’m constantly questioning my intentions because I don’t know if they’re true or not and it’s like my ocd doesn’t even allow me to consider the thought it just jumps to conclusion. Like telling me I’m guilty before proven innocent. It honestly feels like so much at once to even simply call it ocd or anxiety because it feels like a crisis and any moment I could spiral and breakdown completely. Going to school everyday feeling like anytbing could trigger a panic attack at any moment makes me feel like I can’t be left alone with my thoughts. And like overall since I got down this rabbit hole, my first obsession was harm to myself, then it was harm to others specifically my family, then it was being a pervert or pedo, or being attracted or someone or something I shouldn’t be, which then makes me question my existence and who I am along with also being hyper aware of my facial movements like my eyebrows, nose, etc. Like why does ocd have to involve itself in every aspect of my life? It feels like there’s always something wrong that I need to fix.
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my OCD is doing what it does best and it’s randomly selecting themes. Once I’m not scared or react to one it bounces to another. And then i temporarily forget all of my coping skills for that theme. Rn it’s fixating on the time I had a panic attack and it’s trying to make me have one again
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