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Do you resolve one symtpom only to be left with a new one? How can I deal with that? It's almost like one went away and another began.
Do you resolve one symtpom only to be left with a new one? How can I deal with that? It's almost like one went away and another began.
All the time :( ocd is switching to a different fear. It can feel really frustrating or discouraging, but it doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong , it actually means you’re making progress! The key is learning to respond differently in general, rather than getting stuck in the content of each specific fear. Over time, as you build that skill, the symptoms lose their power. ERP and response prevention help with this a lot
Absolutely! Even though it’s so *ANNOYING* - you can find comedy everywhere! I gave my ocd a “name” - might sound weird but it’s something I was taught to do in therapy to take some of the blame of “having” ocd off myself. Clem - that’s my “ocd’s name” Sometimes I’ll choose to accept a symptom - then suddenly I’m hit with 50 different symptoms at once. So I just shake my head and let ”Clem” have his little tantrum. This may not work for everyone, but it works for me - gives me a little laugh when I’m down.
One of the things about OCD is regardless of the theme or topic, the answer is the same…ERP. Exposures and sitting with the unknown while allowing the thoughts to be without giving them your attention.
Unfortunately yes I have gone through so many different types of OCD however the good thing is that the way to tackle each theme is the same through ERP so once you have that down you will be okay and if you need extra help you can always restart therapy I had to do that recently because my theme changed but it’s getting better
It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
Okay so I’ve dealt with harm OCD from the beginning. Started off with harming my kids, going to jail and then harming myself. The harm to myself stuck around for a long time. Then it went away and other themes picked up but it keeps coming back. This is like the third time it’s come back and every single time it comes back it feels worse. It feels like this is the time something is going to happen. Has anyone ever dealt with this? With old themes constantly coming back and feeling more real? Please any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks
I am trying to see if there are others like me. For the past 12 years, I’ve had crippling Anxiety that leads to intense panic attacks. I’ve been in and out of Ambulances and ER rooms and have called 911 several times. The panic is that intense. I can be just driving down the road and out of no where, BOOM! Hit by the anxiety bus. Most of the time it leads to me panicking, thinking I’m going to die or something is fatally wrong with me. The fear is so intense that I can only find a fraction of calmness by consistently checking my blood pressure, putting on a pulsometer and even checking my blood sugar until it passes. I’m not even a diabetic. I’m always having intrusive thoughts that doctors can’t even fix me. I’ve never met anyone else like me. I feel so scared sometimes that I’m going to loose my mind and that I’m going crazy and will end up in a straight jacket. Then I get another attack just thinking about that as well. Starting new medications freak me out too. If I experience ANY minor side effect, I immediately panic and freak out. I’m being so held back by this . This is a constant obsession that I can’t shake. It’s like I walk hand in hand with Anxiety and panic. Anyone else ever had these issues?
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