Existential OCD

@Anonymous Thanks, I will keep stacking the days one by one

@MissKrit I appreciate this!

@MissKrit Mind if I ask some tips or ways you coped?

@user23456789 The way to cope is to expose yourself to scary existential thoughts, and become conditioned to not find those thoughts as scary (ERP with your NOCD therapist). It is unpleasant at first, but your anxiety spikes will start to dissipate after prolonged exposure to your unsettling existential anxiety circa OCD, and when you stop finding the existential thoughts as dreadful or scary, that will just be your new normal so you won’t even be that relieved - you will just have a new normal baseline, which in treating OCD, is as close we all can come to a cure. You got this. Sending love. -Steve

@winterdays What helped you get thru?

@winterdays Can I ask for some support

@user23456789 I went on with my days, did the same things as always, and didn’t let the existential dread stop me. Even when I kept wondering the meaning of everything, I kept going as if those thoughts never existed. It’s difficult, but it’s important to not let the thoughts get the best of you.

@Ocd is horrible Yes! Ask me anything

@winterdays How long would u say till u got better after doing that? And how do you feel now?

@winterdays I’m trying my best to refuse to get any showers today which is hard. However I just want to ask a question Can ocd do this… So the wind was making my hair hit my mouth and it was saying I was doing it for a sexual feeling by not putting my hair up or moving it out of my mouth, and it genuinely felt like I wanted it to touch for a sexual feeling “over kids” which stressed me out but why would in the moment it felt like I wanted it and wasn’t stopping it? Like I was stopping it bht sometimes not. It felt like it was wanted cause I didn’t avoid it? Can ocd do this? I’m really trying to fight getting a shower

@user23456789 Remember everyone has different experiences. I had a horrible OCD flare-up last year, from January to April I lived some of the worst times of my life. I started getting better because some things in my life changed, and I started medication. What I can tell you is that the situation you’re living right now will not be same one you’re living, like, 3 months from now. Some things will eventually change, and maybe it’s because of those changes you will start to get better. I still deal with existential OCD, I’m dealing with it even now, but I know because I got through it in the past I can do it now.

@winterdays The important thing is to not let the thoughts control you. You’re stronger than OCD.

@Ocd is horrible Yes it totally can! Our thoughts can feel real, very real sometimes, but our thoughts don’t define who we are.

@winterdays This is what I did too! It feels like it isn’t doing anything and there’s no improvement but it does work eventually haha

@winterdays It was because I didn’t try to stop it like I wanted the sexual feeling over the kids. But can it do that?

@winterdays I appreciate that, best of luck to u

@Ocd is horrible Yes! The fact you didn’t try to stop them doesn’t mean you really think those things. OCD can make you think that because you didn’t fight the thoughts or didn’t fight them hard enough that you are really like that. But it’s just another thing OCD does. Remember the thoughts are not you, that’s why they’re called “intrusive”

@user23456789 You too!

@winterdays But even if it felt like I liked it and enjoyed it and wanted it more? But now I wanna shower etc

@winterdays But I mean because in the moment I thought I liked it? You get me? Not after? During

@Ocd is horrible Yes, it’s still an intrusive thought!

@winterdays Can I ask you something but it is a TW for people who get easily triggered

@winterdays Can I ask you something but it is a TW for people who get easily triggered