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- 30w
Feeling much better
I realize that if you try to hold in these intrusive thoughts and feelings then it will get worse, but right now I’m not as bothered by them like I did yesterday
I realize that if you try to hold in these intrusive thoughts and feelings then it will get worse, but right now I’m not as bothered by them like I did yesterday
That's great to hear! :)
For me, my OCD took it as if I had accepted this and that I wanted this, but even if I felt good, my OCD would decide not to 😂
@Lit555 Yeah ocd low key gaslights ya, just try to take deep breathes and yea just be aware of your thoughts, it’s like your brain is dumping some garbage out of your head
@spooky artist The problem is that I haven't been conscious for a long time.
@spooky artist But that's good advice, thanks.
@Lit555 Keep practicing mindfulness, it’s all about being aware of your breath and thoughts, sure your ocd might try to gaslight you but just observe those thoughts instead of interacting with them
@spooky artist De So it feels like I accept it and like I want to be this.
@spooky artist Thank you, I hope that when I'm among people, this will pass and I'll be able to look at people calmly without intrusive thoughts.
It feels like my brain is starting to break down.
@Lit555 I know how you feel, be patient with yourself we are all trying to recover from this
@spooky artist But it feels like I've been changed or I don't know, it's weird
@Lit555 Yeah I had the same thing happen to me
@spooky artist And the strange thing is that in the evening it all goes away completely, I don't feel hot and it's not in my head, I live as usual, but when I wake up, boom
All I know is that I just kept doing mindfulness and it slowly became less and less, it’s pretty much not exactly how you get rid of intrusive. Thought it’s just how you deal with it.
In the evening the effect was completely gone but now that I woke up, boom it came back
It's like OCD wants to change me and my way of thinking and it's really scary.
Yes, you're right and it's really much better and the strange thing is that when it goes away another ocd thought comes but when another ocd thought comes this one that I have now completely goes away and literally disappears and I live as I am I've lived this far, but it's still better now, so I do what you advised, when an intrusive thought comes, I don't pay attention to it and I don't respond, and it's really much better.
It almost feels like I've been changed and there's a different brain in my head.
Yeah I know that feeling but I don’t know what exactly it is
When I struggled with intrusive thoughts a long time ago, I overcame them in about a couple of weeks.But now I'm living as straight as ever, back in December I saw a gay guy on TikTok, I had an intrusive thought and boom Since then I've been arguing with myself for 0 24 hours and it's gotten worse and my brain literally automatically thinks that I am.
It used to happen like this and now I'm still straight, there was nothing gay about me, I never saw a gay person, I got an intrusive thought and boom, I was fighting with myself.The more intrusive thoughts I had, the worse it got.Then I got the one I thought was handsome, etc., and then it automatically says, "I need my brain, I want it."And it's fucking annoying.
@Lit555 Yeah your ocd want you to react to those thoughts, but try to focus on your breath, if your mind wonders that’s okay, just focus on your breathing, you are not your thoughts
@spooky artist Thank you brother
@Lit555 I feel much better, almost fine, but it's still inside me and it's weird and when I see someone who's handsome, it's still weird for you.
@spooky artist The weird thing is that I'm not sick anymore, I feel good and it doesn't affect me. It's just weird because I've been fighting with myself for so long that I still have all this inside me.
I'm better now, but I'm still quite affected by this whole thing.
I think it would be better if I moved out of the house.
Anyone else just have days where they feel more calm and don’t have as many intrusive thoughts? But then later at night time it just comes back so you only had relief even for a little bit 😞😞 I feel like even when I’m not having my OCD send me intrusive thoughts, I always have a feeling in my stomach that something is wrong/off or a sense of doom. I always just feel on edge and anxious as if my mind is always preparing itself for the next horrifying intrusive thought to torment me with ugh 🫠
Yesterday I had a good day after I decided to not let any thought or feeling ruin my day. My intrusive thoughts and hyper awareness of consiousness/thinking was still there. But my day was more than okay. I even felt normal some moments of the day 🤓 Let’s do the same today. Lets live with the ocd instead of trying to escape it at all times.
i’ve just been feeling so off lately. i’m okay right now, but a couple hours ago i was in this mood where i felt anxiety creeping up. like i will feel like there’s danger when there isn’t. i just get this really uncomfortable feeling that something feels wrong even when it isn’t. and i’ve been feeling derealization/depersonalization. just really disconnected from myself and the world. i’ve also been unmotivated to where there are times when the thought of doing things upsets me. and i’ve been having existential thoughts that do not mesh well with harm ocd. i get the thought “if people aren’t real then it’s okay to hurt them”. it sucks because there are times where i just don’t even care to ruminate and find reassurance that that’s not the case. furthermore, i’ve just been really aware of my existence. i will get moments where i’m so aware of my existence and it freaks me out. like the fact that i’m a living human being is crazy to me. then there are times when i’m not even anxious about anything which then has me questioning and ruminating on that because i ALWAYS have something i’m worrying about. i’ve also been feeling really nostalgic and bittersweet of the good memories from the past. i keep thinking about good times i’ve had and really wishing i could relive it. for example, last summer was a pretty good summer even with my ocd. and i just wish i could relive some of those moments, but i obviously can’t. and it’s been upsetting me because this month has been shitty with my anxiety. as for an update with my room change to those of you curious, i still have anxiety over it and my mom is taking it as me being ungrateful with what i have when it’s my ocd making a huge deal of it. that upsets me especially since i’ve told her what’s been going on and she was really understanding of it. anyways, life has just been a bit much and i’ve been dealing with more to my anxiety that i don’t appreciate. while worrying about constantly throwing up with my contamination ocd is incredibly exhausting, it’s so normal to me that i’m used to it. but when my harm ocd kicks in along with other themes that aren’t usually common for me, i freak out and feel like i’m going insane. i genuinely wonder how people have dealt with taboo topics of ocd without treatment for years on end. i’ve had harm intrusive thoughts since i was little, but it didn’t get to any extreme until 2023. i feel like i’m drowning in it when it decides to hit me and the thought of having to deal with it for the rest of my life?? i’m scared something in me will flip and i’ll become what my thoughts are telling me i am. i apologize for the mixed thoughts that are all over the place but i feel safe posting on here about it and want to hear how y’all are doing
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