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Hello my fellow OCD Alumni lol.
Was wondering if anyone liked to share how they deal with Severe rumination and anxiety , as I’m always looking to Add to my tool box . Thanks 🙏
Was wondering if anyone liked to share how they deal with Severe rumination and anxiety , as I’m always looking to Add to my tool box . Thanks 🙏
I’m right here with you. Curious to see what people do. I find myself ruminating for most of the day. I’m long time suffering with OCD but recently putting a name to the intrusive thoughts Ive experienced throughout my life. I often ruminate about the start of my HarmOCD. It all started from watching a stupid psychological thriller. So dumb! When I catch my self ruminating I often say this is rumination, it’s not helpful and not productive. Sometimes that helps. Stay strong!
I get the same thing ! Ruminating over the start of my harm OCD. I have felt a little more anxiety in the last few days . Those are the moments I try to lean into the discomfort as much as possible . Whatever is triggering the anxiety , I try to think about that more. I was worried I would be late to work which made me feel pretty anxious , I thought about the worse case scenario of the situation on purpose. Whatever feelings come with anxiety I just invite and not resist
@Anonymous I’m in therapy and having a lot of trouble leaning into my anxiety. When I have any type of intrusive thought my rumination takes over. I attempt to sit with the anxiety but I end up asking internal questions and often checking my feelings. Before I know it the anxiety or thoughts are suppressed which starts the vicious loop again. Can you relate?
@JV24 The loop definitely happens but sometimes if I have leaned in as much as possible , responded with a maybe or maybe not response , then I might just not do anything . Just observe the thought . Maybe the thought will stay or maybe it will go away . Who knows? But I am acknowledging the thought , I just allow it to stay as long as it wants to stay like an annoying fly in the summer
@Anonymous I think my thoughts are centered on a fear of losing control. My mind turns against everything. If I can’t control my mind then I will be stuck like this for ever. If I can’t figure this out I will be stuck like this forever. My mind turns everything into an intrusive thought. I was reading something about people praying. Now every time i think of praying I instantly have an intrusive thought towards god. This causes me great anxiety which cause ruminating. It’s an endless loop. Any advice?
@JV24 I have the same fears of loosing control . “Maybe I will lose control , may I will not “ I may even write a worse case scenario script of what it would look like if I lost control. The only advice I would give is to bring this to your therapist and have them help you with some exposures around the fears. But you are not alone at all , that for sure
@Anonymous Thank you for advice and the confidence boost. This is a terrible thing to deal with. It’s people like you and platforms like this that give faith in combating this nonsense. Stay strong and keep spreading the love.
Thanks 🙏
Thx 🙏
Hi! I’m new to the NOCD community, but I’ve been dealing with OCD since I was 12. I’m almost 29 now, and my biggest issue is health anxiety. It’s gotten to the point where getting work done is nearly impossible because i can’t stop spiraling. I’m lucky that i work remotely, but also makes it easier to be in my own head… Asking for advice - how do you all deal with the intense anxiety and are able to make it through a 9-5 work day? Any suggestions on how I can actually be productive? Thank you!
I’m new to treatment and only realized I have OCD a few months ago. I went through a tough and abusive marriage and ended up getting divorced. I had my first panic attack several years ago and ended up needing to go on Lexapro. This helped me significantly and allowed me to leave my partner. Several years later and I decided to stop Lexapro because I thought I was good to go. I’m in a very healthy relationship, have a great job, friends/family, go to the gym and have a wonderful life. It’s been about a year off the meds and I’ve had some panic, but I’ve been able to manage it. For some reason, the last three weeks has been really difficult for me. I have different spirals and different thought processes: what if I’m schizophrenic? What if I have a deeper mental disorder? What if I hurt someone? What if I need to leave my partner? What if I end up becoming so depressed that I end up hurting myself? My brain just goes from one what if to the next and once I conquer one, the next one pops up with even more intensity. I started taking NAC and inositol and I’m taking saffron during the day because I really don’t wanna go on back on medication but sometimes my thoughts scare me and I’m convinced that I’m not gonna get better and I know that’s just the OCD loop, but I’m wondering if this resonates with anyone else!
(Long read) hello everyone. i was out of the country for about 3-4 months and traveling. my ocd was not that bad at all and I was able to handle it even if it came up. on my way back home, it immediately started. i have learned how to handle it better, but i am more sad and just “awaiting” for something bad to happen. for example, i have sexual themed ocd. pocd and family related stuff, and also my ocd targeted my pets for about a year and it manifested into compulsions that disturbed me and made me not want to be around my cats. now that i am around my cats, i feel like “what if i harm them or do something bad?” or “what if you do those weird compulsions that happened before?” , when i look back on the compulsions that happened, it doesn’t feel like me and it was clearly driven by ocd, but it makes me worry i am just a sick person. i know myself and i know im not, but i had such a weird childhood and then ocd from 15 years old and up. so when these weird compulsions had happened , whether it was for the pet ocd theme or pocd or the family ocd, it feels like some sort of proof. anyways, i feel a bit for content with myself but i know how real ocd can feel and i just remember feeling so hopeless and suici da l, i just don’t want to go through that again. i take a more spiritual route of life and healing, and i wonder if anyone has some deep spiritual warmups or practices i could do to maybe open up my mind more? maybe to realize this is all in the mind? but also to not fight it… Not fight it meaning not let it take over my life. i racked up so much debt in therapy and i truly think i can get through this alone i just need a bit of help. but i dunno. any advice would help! thanks everyone ☀️
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