- Username
- Lark G.
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Sit with the anxiety
Been sitting. It’s so bad. I ended up overly washing and then I stepped where I stepped before washing I wiped my foot and now I have major doubts. Trying to sit with the anxiety more
It'll be difficult but no matter what stay with it, you've got this!
Id find a distraction? Play a game or listen to music, hope it helps.
I'm so sorry. This is so hard. You're doing an AWESOME job by trying to fight back against this compulsion! Even in the times when you give in, you still get a trophy because you're TRYING YOUR EARNEST BEST, and alternately you could not try, and everything could just be awful and impossible forever. But you're not going down that easy. YOU ARE DOING THE THING. YOU ARE FIGHTING BACK! YOU ARE DOING IT! YOU ARE AWESOME! You ARE going to get there some day if you keep up this hard work. You ARE going to get to the point where these behaviors do not control you anymore; you WILL successfully take control with enough time and determined practice. Every single person who has ever downloaded this app believes in you and is rooting for you and is celebrating every small success, every five seconds you made it without rushing into the bathroom and indulging in the compulsion. Every five seconds is a victory. They're gonna keep adding up. You're gonna conquer this.
Thank you both soo much. It wasn’t easy. Today was a new day. I did t have a trigger and I don’t care about the events of yestrday anymore. That said. It still took me many hand washes today. It’s far from perfect but I am so afraid and cannot live my life this way that I’m considering g taking the medication I was prescribed. I was really afraid about it for some time.
Stay strong! ✌❤
Thank you!!
It’s so hard. Still ruminating and still anxious and now other forms of ocd have surfaced with intrusive thoughts so I’m just all around anxious and struggling and unable to sleep
Hi everyone. It’s been a few days. I’ve sat with the anxiety and while it goes away the shoe I wore the day I saw the blood is still there untouched. That alone is still making me so upset. I feel like I need to wipe it or throw it away (it’s an old worn out shoe) and I know I shouldn’t but it’s over bearing. If I keep wearing it I will feel like blood will get to my foot even though I just saw it and did not step on it. This happened last year and I still have yet to deal with the shoe I wore. It’s hard.
Sorry. What I meant to say is the same thing happened last year and I haven’t gotten over that with that shoe. This incident happened last Wednesday and I’ve been dealing with the anxiety and been very afraid.
I can’t touch the shoe and I can’t go back to that bathroom. I’ve been so dehydrated when I’m at wiek
I don’t really know how to start this honestly. It may be long winded. I’m not sure that I have OCD, I’m not trying to take away any experience from anyone but I don’t know how else to explain when I obsess and feel consumed and disturbed by thoughts like this. I’ve been good for a while, thoughts have been at bay, I haven’t googled anything either or had any bodily responses/urges. But I saw something in the news today that brought it back up and disturbed me and I’m back in that headspace again if worrying I’m a danger or a freak or gross. I’m feeling alone in this, I don’t know how to talk about it, and I don’t know how to move through it.
Hello everyone this is my first time writing on here and I’m really scared to even say something because I have never had proper help with ocd or been diagnosed but I’ve been dealing with severe ocd since 2017 now. I just want to get better but it feels like there is no way out at times. My most common are sexual thoughts or pocd or ocd related to my family, sexual or harm. Yesterday my niece was at my house and I adore her to bits but over the past year I’ve become very distant with her and I don’t like hugging her or touching her or just being close to her. It makes my heart break because she is everything to me and I have to push her away when she comes to hug me. Yesterday I tried to get over it and play with her again so I hugged her and sat by her side with my head on her shoulder but a sudden urge came into my mind and it was so disgusting. I kept thinking I would touch her inappropriately or without her consent and that thoughts just took over my mind. This will sound so stupid but my thumb or fist was on her back and I had a thought that it was wrong to touch her so I pulled away but the thoughts came rushing back and I let my fist be placed in that same position again. I feel so disgusted I know it’s nothing and this sounds completely insane but I feel like I’ve done something disgusting and touched her in a inappropriate way and I havent been able to get over it because it feels like I let the thoughts win and they made me do it? What if it isn’t ocd? I’m feeling like I just can’t get through the night please tell me if real event ocd happens to you guys and how to deal with it? Is this ocd or am I just this disgusting person who did something to her? I keep replaying the moment in my head but all of it is fuzzy and I can rationalize it. I just feel disgusting.
I’m going through a very bad sexuality ocd episode and I really can’t get myself out of it. I gave into all my compulsions and have been throwing up all night because of my thoughts. Does anyone have any tips on how to get past this
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