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New to this app. Do members find it helps, I'm worried I will start obsessing over things I hadn't thought about before when I read other people's OCD triggers...
New to this app. Do members find it helps, I'm worried I will start obsessing over things I hadn't thought about before when I read other people's OCD triggers...
Newbie here too and I find it has its ups and downs but definitely found some triggering. Usually it will say trigger warning but honestly anything can trigger me. I think overtime we get better with ERP. I just started but I’m excited to see how well it works. I’ve always been triggered so easy on things I read like “what if” that’s me 😫
Thanks for replying are you doing ERP through the app?
One of my exposures in ERP is to look at the community page, as it can be very triggering to me. One of my main obsessions is the fear of getting a new OCD subtype and having new intrusive thoughts. I started my own exposure as looking through for 5 minutes and not reassuring myself or doing any mental compulsions, and now I’m up to 10 minutes. It’s finally getting to where I don’t care that much about seeing all of the posts and different themes. Sometimes I still get the physical feeling of anxiety and I know my OCD is trying to tell me, “what if you get that subtype?” But I have to say, “maybe I will, maybe I won’t. I’m going to accept not knowing and I’m choosing to live in the discomfort.” Eventually it gets better, but if you find it too triggering and you’re not using it in ERP, I’d say it’s okay to limit your time on here. Hope that helps!
@JazzyJez86 Oh that makes sense! I’m just starting ERP so I’ll mention that to my therapist. Shows, news etc trigger me!
Same here but in the long term I think it will help to know that I’m not alone!
For me the core fears I have are from within due to my personal experience in life so I don’t get triggered and pick up themes (by the grace of God) BUT if I see someone who talks about a theme I used to have, I do tend to start thinking about it temporarily until the theme that causes me the most distress at the moment takes over again. What you can do is post your experience and search others who have your experience in the search bar and not scroll through everyone’s posts.
Hi, I’m new to this app and newly diagnosed. Question for you all, What things did you normalize and do without a second thought that when diagnosed, you realized was actually your OCD? Mine was how concerned with germs I am. I hold my breath when I open a door so the rush of wind doesn’t infect my lungs from whatever is in the room. I thought everyone was really careful and concerned like me. But Ive learned it’s not normal the lengths I go to. What was yours?
I’m new to the app and wanting to know who else experiences this form of ocd. Some background I was a therapist for over 10 years now I am out of the clinical space. So I have background knowledge of ocd but never knew much about relationship ocd. I realized over the last several years with my now fiancé, that I have a hard time just letting go in general, whether that’s an argument or statement or feeling. I want to be able to just accept things at face value and move on (and talk later if my partner is ready as needed). But when conflict arises I can’t disengage till there is a clear resolution. It’s causing serious strife as he can feel trapped and it escalates the argument. I am reading more and this sounds like relationship OCD. Anyone else experience this? Curious on what others have done to work on this for themselves. I do have a therapist but we are not doing work in this area yet as I am realizing this is an actual concern.
i’m a new user on this app, I downloaded it just cause I was curious, I don’t really know if I have OCD. Because in school all I learned about OCD is things being out of place and having it to be perfect almost like perfectionism, but I’ve just recently realized there’s a whole kind of different types of OCD, some things I struggle with daily is a fear of bad things happening or almost like an impending doom of when is it gonna happen? I’m always in my head thinking feels like I’m having multiple conversations at once. Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like I’m having a conversation with myself. I have horrendous anxiety about everything and anything talking to people being around people. It just feels like it consumes my everyday life and I don’t know what to do. I can’t clearly remember anything from my childhood and some things I feel like I may be imagining I just don’t really feel like a person. I’m always thinking the worst in my relationship over analyzing and stressing out thinking of scenarios or thinking, my boyfriend‘s cheating on me. It almost all feels out of my control.
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