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- 22w
Does your ocd make you deal with nausea?
I have HOCD and ROCD and it makes me wanna puke all day I live with my husband
I have HOCD and ROCD and it makes me wanna puke all day I live with my husband
I am so so sorry. Are you doing ERP? I think the answer is to treat with with ERP just like everything else. Tell yourself, “If I feel like puking, then great! I can feel like puking all day my body wants to. And if I don’t feel like puking, then great. It doesn’t matter either way.” This takes the pressure off of you and allows your body to respond however it is going to respond. For me, I often have a heavy or painful feeling in my chest. It’s a physical feeling almost. I just allow it to be there however long it wants to be there. I don’t try to fight it off. I think for you, the more you practice acceptance about the physical feelings that your body has, the easier things will get. I think over time feeling like puking will also go away. Big hugs ! 💙💙 I know this is hard.
@Tea and Honey Thank you so much for the lovely comment. For how long do you feel like this? For me it’s almost been a month. I hate it. It’s so hard.
@confused writer The answer is this …. it is going to take however long it takes. We don’t know how long it will be, but we have to have an attitude that it doesn’t matter how long it will take. In the meantime, we can WELCOME the physical symptoms to stay however long they’re going to stay. And during that time, we are going to live our lives just exactly the way we want to, no matter what. The more we don’t care whether or not the feelings are there, the more likely they are to go away. But we are not in control of the timeline. And that’s okay. We just keep living our lives.
I remember having a bad OCD episode and going to be at a track meet where would be in the stands for hours. I had heard of some techniques from a therapist, so I had a chance to practice… I had these really sticky, bad, heavy feelings in my chest. And I just said, “ You bad feelings are welcome to stay all day if you want to. I’m glad you’re here.” And then I went about watching the track meet. It was the best thing I could have done.
yes yes yes!! if i’m ruminating or having intrusive distressing thoughts, i get extremely nauseous
I suffer from HOCD as well and live with my wife! Its tough especially when it the thoughts involve her. I went 3 months fully nauseous, it was tough, and painful because I felt like I needed to puke but never did. I even tried to make myself puke and I couldn't. I knew something was seriously wrong and sought help, I learned it was OCD and now doing ERP therapy. Now I feel like I don't need to puke. To help with the feeling, I always drank chamomile tea or tums nauseous relief. Next is accepting the thoughts, don't try to fight them or suppress. That will make it worse. It will get better, take care of yourself
What irritates me the most is that during intimacy with my husband, it happens that OCD puts an image and scene in my head, my sister or someone for whom my OCD is attached and it's literally as if that intimacy is happening with that person, and it seems real that I can and it's exciting! I'm working on ERP during that, but it's still hard to digest... I don't know if it's the same for you?
So my OCD has been bad lately. I’ve been ruminating and obsessing over my sexuality again. And it just keeps getting worse. I hate it so much. I try to sit with the discomfort but then my ocd does the backdoor spike. And the groinal response is what keeps me looped. It SUCKS. I am not attracted to men, but my OCD is trying SO hard to convince me that I am. There have been days where I’m just so mentally exhausted that I “accept” what my ocd tells me and I just walk around a hollow, lethargic shell. But then I rethink it and I feel better. It feels like I can only find my TRUE self when I tire my nervous system out enough that it literally breaks down and has me suicidal and hopeless. And then accepting my OCD’s “truth” (that I’m attracted to men) feels like a burden and a chore. I woke up today from an OCD dream, tried to go back to sleep, and my stomach kept cramping bc I was so anxious and ruminating over my intrusive thoughts. I’m starting to doubt it being OCD anymore. My brain is too tired to fight and cry about it anymore.
I have emetophobia. And have been battling with it for about a year and a half now. It stems from a trip I took with my high school where everyone ended up getting the stomach bug. I didnt have it so bad but I ended up feeling nauseous the entire trip (1 week long). And then every time I would eat food I would feel nauseous or unwell and had a strict clean diet for a while. It got to the point where I couldn’t attend school without feeling like I was going to vomit and pass out. I couldn’t even hear the word without getting anxious. I eventually got on lexapro and when that didnt work then I recently got on prozac. I have been talking to my therapist about my anxiety and she had initially thought it was a trauma response from the trip, but eventually came to the conclusion that it was a form of OCD. Like it was where I wouldnt eat something if it touched the counter or I wouldnt eat something unless someone else ate the exact thing a few hours before. I avoid red meat completely because it is slightly raw. I get panic attacks after eating something like a freaking cookie from Crumbl, because I would read reviews about someone getting sick from the uncooked dough. But it felt like before summer I was getting to a point where I could eat most things and not get too much anxiety. Until the other day. On my birthday at midnight I ended up getting sick like stomach flu sick like real bad and ended up in the er. I havent eaten anything since and am horrified to eat something. And my thoughts keep running and I dont know how to be normal anymore. I dont know how to have a relationship with food anymore. I am horrified. I spent the entire year just dreading this one day and it happened on my birthday. I am supposed to be in school but I don’t know how to function anymore. Please someone help, I feel so alone.
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