I feel like every person I see who has recovered from OCD doesn't have my theme. I feel like I woke up in a nightmare I can't escape and it'll never end. Do people actually get better from this?
I have had big time episodes with this theme. While it bothers me from time to time, I'm in a better state of mind than I used to be, and each episode has become less frequent and easier to snap out of. ERP, mindfulness, and meditation have been the main things that have worked for me.
Thank you for sharing! I honestly just needed to know that it was possible to recover from/that it will get better as I work on it
@lanceelliottflores Of course! I've wrestled with just about every existential obsession you can think of. And each time I've spiraled, I've had the thought: "this is it, I'm never recovering from this one." Yet, I always do š . I recently posted about what I learned from my last episode (if this link doesn't work, try opening from a computer instead of the app): https://nocd.page.link/RfqwAN5wktBv8QFH8
@djflorio That was super helpful, it helps to know that someone else has experienced what I have and got through it. I definitely get the "well I can never go back to my life before because now I know that horrible truth" too.
Hi, I have recovered from that theme. I can't really say how, but for some reason it just feels less important and my current theme feels like the end of the world. That's true for all my previous themes, to varying extents. I feel like it's important to remember this is all OCD just ascribing an indie amount of importance to whatever topic it wants to at some point. It will feel like the end of the world now but something else will later unless we break from the cycle entirely.
Yes indeedy, I did. It doesnāt go away fully because everyone dies but what matters is staying in the present moment and living your life. Dwelling in death doesnāt do anything but create issues.
I just had an episode/flare-up that heavily revolved around this, and Iām not really sure how I āsnappedā out of it the other day. Iām not afraid of death anymore, and I never really was anyway, but I just donāt want to die a horrible death filled with pain and sufferingā¦and then there be nothing after it. I hope there is an afterlife, so that I can get the true peace that I did not get during this lifetime of mine.
Really bad theme right now is death, I keep thinking about how one day or at any moment my heart will stop my brain will stop & my memories & everything I know will all fade away. It is giving me so much anxiety Iām only 18, but I realize it all happens to us it is bound, we are born to die. I know itās a silly thing to be scared because itās not helping the quality of my life worrying about it and even when I do die, I wonāt care , if you donāt have a working brain then how can you care š¤·āāļø. It is tainting my everyday life currently & honestly making me terribly depressed & it is giving me derealization & making me feel nihilistic, Iāll remind myself itās okay but then with my ocd i donāt stop thinking and thinking about it and itās seriously so hard to stay present in the moment because this thought just feels like I canāt scrub it away itās miserable I struggle with religion, but I do pray to anything thatās out there possibly listening, because it is comforting, it just feels like this whole experience Is pointless & I am afraid of the unknown and what is to possibly happen but Iām subjected to it anyways so why should it matter
If you suffer from Christian OCD and feel Jesus hates you and youāre going to hell every few seconds but I keep fighting it because when I pray it says Lucifer and I refuse to pray to him. If I do Jesus will send me to hell. Iām terrified. When does it end. Some Christianās are so peaceful, I want that.. why.. I feel cursed forever. I have faith in others journeyā¦ not mine. Iām stuck like this forever. My mind will never be the same.
Hi guys! Iām new to the community and Iāve recently received my OCD diagnosis (tho Iāve known about it since childhood). Iāve been somewhat spiraling lately as I wait for my first ERP session (hooray!) I was just wondering if any of you guys have received ERP for existential OCD and if it was successful? My existential OCD compulsions are more so mental and have been affecting me in the sense of dream/memory flashbacks and giving me a sort of āuncannyā feeling about everything around me. Any advice is appreciated! Thank youā¤ļø
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