Sensorimotor OCD

Hi , I have Sensorimotor Ocd and i dont know exactly what to do because it feels like everythings a trigger and i just want to be alone without it , Every day after school i want to watch tv , Play Video Games or just lay in my bed in peace after an exausting day but i cant stop thinking about my sensations and i basically have all of them Swallowing , Breathing , Saliva and Blinking. Every time i research it triggers something even more and im just wondering how to stop getting triggered.

Stay.Fluid

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 24w

If you’re interested, try practicing yoga (consistently) with your sensorimotor OCD I imagine it would be difficult at first, but ultimately it would be like an ERP to your awareness of your sensations like breath. Maybe ask a professional if you work with one what they think about my suggestion.

Anonymous

Date posted: 24w

You are not alone at all. I have this same thing and thought I was crazy for many years. Finally seeing a therapist here at NOCD. Just started. Hoping to see improvement and to stop fixating on these automatic/sensory related things.

CBurnicle

Date posted: Yesterday

Hello, so I live with sensorimotor OCD, what a pain eh it can be eh? So, my experience of it continues to grow, there are periods of time when I feel I have it totally under control and others when it’s like I’m back at square one and am very overwhelmed. First of all, let me say that I understand and I HEAR YOU! Oh the desire to flip that switch and go back to blissful unawareness, it’s like looking at the rest of the human race through a glass wall that you can’t get back to the other side of. Here are some thoughts for you.

CBurnicle

Date posted: Yesterday

@CBurnicle So we’re ALWAYS going to be triggered. When it’s something so natural as these automatic bodily processes it’s redundant trying to move through the world hoping that awareness of them doesn’t spring up. It’s just going to happen. I live near a hair salon called “Blink Hair” and used to be irrationally furious that someone would think THAT was an appropriate name for a business, now I view it as a gift. Go out, get triggered, remind yourself of all of them, write notes and leave them around the house, set alarms on your phone. WANT to notice them, take the power back and the fear away

CBurnicle

Date posted: Yesterday

DO all the things you want to do. Lie in bed, play video games and watch TV and do them all whilst being aware of your blinking, breathing and swallowing. DO them and do them scared, DO them and do them SAD but DO them

CBurnicle

Date posted: Yesterday

STOP researching. Oh God howI recognise the compulsion to get on those forums and try and find answers. You’re not going to find what you need. You’ll spiral out and you’ll remember the things that your panicked OCD prone brain will want to remember; the inflammatory posts, the comments that are the most panic and despair inducing. It’s reassurance seeking and it does the exact opposite. Instead, reach out to professionals/your therapist. You can educated yourself in a much more controlled and empathetic way, Googling “how do I fix my sensorimotor OCD” is not one of them, believe me….I KNOW!

CBurnicle

Date posted: Yesterday

There are many reliable OCD practitioners on YouTube and social media that can offer information in lieu of scrawling forums or blind Googling and that do so in a gentle and empathetic way. I would recommend Nathan Peterson in particular who has several really useful videos on sensorimotor OCD in particular

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 24w

Help, Meta OCD/POCD?

I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?

lalalalal166373

Date posted: 21w

what if it’s not ocd

so i was on instagram and it came up with other signs of ocd then someone commented this doesn’t mean you have ocd now im stressed that its not ocd background - i had so-ocd for a few years then got treatment for it but am now on the waiting list for further treatment for other stuff but i dont have another theme which makes me feel like its not ocd my day to day life consists of touching the door handle every time you go past it or someone will die, and inability to send emails without re reading loads of times and getting other people to check because im scared i wrote something bad but the what if it’s not ocd thought is triggering me now and i don’t know what do

gage736

Date posted: 20w

Need tips

I have pure ocd i think , i always gotta make sure i do certain things like tap things , light switches on n off , shut things few times and re open them till it feels right . Walk in a room go back out and back in out in in till my mind is right Its exhausting

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