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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 🙏
Hiii - hope everyone is having a good day! Has anyone found any type of medication or supplements helpful with thinking sooo deeply about everything and intrusive thoughts? I’m in therapy + doing erp but my brain in this relapse of ocd just thinks sooo deep into my brain and i can’t seem to not to do it pull myself out. Like I’m just paranoid. An example would be if i simply look at my arm I’ll think so deeply about it like what’s under my arm what’s it look like inside etc. but if anyone not in this cycle looks at their arm they’ll be like hmm ok cool my arm and move on w their day. Just looking to see if anyone has had a similar experience of what I’m feeling rn.
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!
I have really started to take control of my compulsions and im starting to string together better days! Still not great days or even good, but they are better!!! I have controlled my outward compulsions (googling, research, reassurance, checking) the past couple of days and felt the positive impact of that. But unfortunately, I am realizing that the rumination is still constant. My sexuality and relationship are the only two things constantly on my brain, and if they aren’t I freak out and wonder why im not thinking about them! Anyone have any advice on how to deal with the rumination. Sometimes I don’t even notice im doing it, but it’s taking up 90% of my day. Once I start to tackle this I think I may make some real big progress! Hope everyone is fighting today! ❤️
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