Ridethewave
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hanniehannie
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I’m going through the very same thing. My thoughts are so intense as well as so bizarre. They make no sense and have tricked me into thinking I’m losing it. It’s all just OCD. It’s so frustrating and scary cause you don’t feel like yourself but OCD wants you to give into it. One thing I have been doing the last few days sense my OCD got bad, is I keep tellling my self when the thought happens, that I’ll address it later. I let it in my mind, along with the anxiety but I just tell myself I will worry about it later and I have stuff to do right now. Then I get up and go do something with my hands and get my mind focusing elsewhere. So when the thought comes back, I’m not as anxious. It helps but it doesn’t always work. These are just thoughts, they will pass.
Ridethewave Ridethewave
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Thank you, it just all feels soo real that I just wanna sleep forever ya know. And just stop thinking altogether.
hanniehannie
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@NocturnalGyal I feel that way too sometime but the thing is, the thoughts are not you. They are just your brains creative way. Everyone’s brain works like this, others who don’t have OCD know how to just push it off. We have a hyper active brain that doesn’t want to. We have to find meaning, unfortunately. To be honest sometimes we are just meant to not know why those thoughts enter our minds. OCD is not you. You are not OCD. You have a brain that loves to think. I have felt the way you have for the last few days. One thing I do know about myself is, I deserve to find happiness, I’m a good person. I know you’re a good person too. You are not your brain either. It’s an organ just like a kidney. Kidney function for us, they are not us! You know what I mean? Anyways, you deserve to be happy and everything bad ends. Every bad day, bad feeling, dark place, is not permanent. It’s all temporary. You’ll feel good again. Not gonna say you won’t have bad times, that you won’t wanna give up again, I’m just saying don’t ever give up on yourself. You’ll make it I promise. You deserve it. I just want you to know, your not alone, you are worthy, you are strong, you are amazing. I’m here to support you. We face the same disease. We got this???
Ridethewave Ridethewave
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@hannie Thank you so much for these kind words. It's so easy to be hard on ourselves sometimes :( I hope you find happiness as well girl, stay strong ❤️
hanniehannie
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@NocturnalGyal You are so welcome! It’s so easy to be hard on ourselves. We create this idea of normal in our heads and when we don’t obtain it we label ourselves and beat ourselves up, when in reality, nobody is really “normal”. We just have extra struggles but we are strong. Thank you so much girl❤️.
janiejetjaniejet
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Thank you friends for sharing! We need to support one another. I did an exposure all day and I'm good. ? I need to remember it takes time . As for unwanted thoughts, I have a few tools in my toolkit. Sometimes I think instead of making it right or wrong, I say "this is not a helpful thought" then continue doing that lines up with my values. Or " this content is Irrevelent engaging in this is not helpful." It's easy for me to forget that every thought is NOT important..kinda like "fake news"
hanniehannie
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That is so amazing that you did exposure today! That is amazing tools that I’m gonna try when the intrusive thoughts are loud. Thank you so much for the idea. I try anything to cope on my bad days. You all are so strong?. We got this??
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