Hello everyone! Just wanted to see if I can get some encouragement, hope, and love from the community tonight. I have been having racing thoughts and for years I thought the loudest most repetitive one's were just GAD or denial. OCD is scary and I am trying to get back into my hobbies. I am just exhausted and sad.
OCD is scary but it can be managed. It takes time but you’ve got this ❤️
I am trying to rush it since I can be impatient and it is hard to accept that it will take time. :(
Hi there! Take it day by day and try not to get discouraged. That’s great that you are trying to get back into your hobbies. I found that getting back into my hobbies and normal routine greatly helped my OCD. Try and slow down….practice breathing exercises, yoga, meditation or anything that helps calm you and your thoughts. Focus on things that make you happy! Set little goals each day and take it slow. You can do it and you have an amazing group of people here to support you! All the best to you!😊
Meditation is working and I am trying to do one thing I love daily even if the OCD wants to keep me at home or avoiding things.
You can so hard things! I can promise you if you try you can do it. It might not go as planned but you can do anything you set your mind to! When OCD sends in thoughts you just let them be there and keep going! Love you! Keep going!
Thank you for the encouragement!! I cried reading these supportive comments!! 😭
@Anonymous I think so many of us would like to rush past the rough patches, but remember our goal with OCD Is to be able to tolerate the uncertainty. I know it sucks firsthand. For me, I really tried to start out slowly and take it day by day. Then one day leads to another and pretty soon some time has passed and you’re getting the hang of things. When things feel really bad, I’ll take it hour by hour. And with practice and the grace of God I manage to make it through. I wish the same for you friend ❤️
@SF18 I am trying to keep that in mind. My mom is not very supportive and can't understand why I can't just choose and move on. It makes me feel right now broken and like it is my fault for this. I just get sad because I don't want to burden my family.
I’m so sorry to hear that ❤️ I understand that it’s really tough when family doesn’t understand and doesn’t support you. If it was as easy as thinking of something different and just feeling better, we’d all want to try that instead of treatment. You may feel broken, but you are stronger than you think. Family is supposed to be around through the good and bad but sometimes it’s not that way. You are not a burden and you can only control what is within your control. You can control what you do and you can control how you choose to see things. You can’t control your family’s thoughts. You deserve support as much as anyone else and you will find that here at NOCD. We all understand because we all know what OCD feels like. Take it one day at a time.
Hey friends. I hope you all are doing good today. Just struggling mentally myself. Feel like a terrible mother, but I want another baby. My OCD has gotten better despite the terrible episode I had that I seem to not get over. I hope someone comments that could just give me some support with POCD
Hello, This is my first community post and I would like to know if anyone else struggles with Religious OCD themes, I'm a Christian but please share any perspective you have. - What do your thoughts look like? - How do you know they are related to OCD? For me it's becoming a constant, 24/7 cycle and it's very draining. I want to find some kind of peace between my thoughts and God so I recently started NOCD therapy again. I'm not totally sure how this all works (treatment, OCD diagnosis, etc.). But if anything I want to know that I am not alone with Religious OCD. Thank you
I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…
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