any tips on how to get rid of terrible thoughts?

hi im a fifteen year old girl with really bad ocd and emetaphobia nobody knows my fear except for my best friend and my sister. its so hard to even say the word or even type the word so i just say “sick” even typing this out makes my heart race and my hands sweaty. ive been really struggling with ocd for almost a year its gotten worst about every month. its always on my mind. i have a therapist but i cant even tell them about my anxiety and thoughts that go on in my head. my whole family is watching me fall deeper and deeper into this dark whole that i dont know how to get out of. its feels awful to see everyone around you watch you fail over and over again. please forgive me if this was graphic thank you

Alice 🩵🌊🦋

Date posted: 5w

Hey girly, I’m also 15 and I know exactly what you’re going through. It’s such a terrible feeling, and you’re absolutely not alone. I don’t really have tips to get rid of the thoughts, but writing them down or trying to simplify them to share with your therapist might help. I hope this helps even a little and you’re not alone 💕

lilss

Date posted: 5w

@Alice 🩵🌊🦋 thank you so much! i hope your doing okay as well 🥰🥰

Soufya

Date posted: 5w

Hey I’m 17 and I have really bad health ocd/anxiety trust me it will get better you may think that your getting into it deeper an deeper but thats the process of getting better I was going through this about three months ago where thinking of me getting sick or something happening to me would make me go crazy. I would be obsessed with not taking off my Apple Watch cause I was monitoring my heart all the times and you know I could be just sitting down on the couch and I would start thinking about what if I have this what if I have that,my heart rate would go crazy and of course that isn’t healthy when you put your body in that type of situation because you’re stressing it out you just have to tell yourself I’m fine and I’m gonna get out of this and it’s all a matter of time and I’m completely fine. You don’t have to be thinking of if you have this if you have that because when you do that you don’t let your mind rest and that causes more anxiety because it raises your stress levels so of course you’re gonna feel how you feel because if you’re constantly thinking about something, everything has an effect and these things do not have good effects because like I said you’re putting your body in distress by thinking that something‘s gonna happen to you unless you have a history of conditions or you’ve been told by your doctor that you have something that runs in your family or that you have had in the past I don’t think you should worry that much like I said I was in and out of hospitals because my anxiety was so bad three months ago and I would actually get disappointed to see that my results were always just normal and I never had anything actually wrong with me and I would tell them I physically feel pain in my heart, but it was because I was distressing my body so much. My heart rate was just going so fast so all I have to say is something that help me was reading to distract my mind from thinking of me getting sick or maybe doing something that requires your whole mind to it,like painting, cooking these things honestly help a lot.❤️❤️

lilss

Date posted: 5w

@Soufya thank you so much for the tips its honestly a really big help!! i hope your doing okay! 💕

Adi7

Date posted: 20w

Advice please ❤️

Hi ❤️ I’m really struggling right now I’m in my sophomore year of Highschool and I’ve finally started planning or thinking abt my future (for context I was extremely depressed and suicidal from 6-9th grade) After conquering my depression this is a huge leap for me and I’m proud of myself ❤️ But there’s something still holding me down :( and I’m not sure what to do anymore that thing is OCD. Since 6th grade I have had strong and invasive intrusive thoughts all the time they scare me so bad and make me feel as though I’m not even real anymore :( I’m sick of taking the time to do ridiculous compulsions to rid or ease these thoughts it’s a waste of time and energy and it hurts me so bad I feel like I will never get to just live my life without this :( How can I plan my future when I can’t even find myself in this mess of anxiety 💔 I’m so tired of fighting my mental health it’s been years from anxiety attacks to sh to survived suicide attempts (I got help dw❤️‍🩹) and recovery there. Just to be thrown into a storm of awful scary sickening thoughts day and night-when can I just be a normal teenager and possibly a happy adult? How do I conquer this so I can love myself to the fullest and live my life free and happy? :( ❤️❤️‍🩹 I’m so scared to talk to my parents about it I’m ashamed of my thoughts and every time I bring it up they just say I shouldn’t be diagnosing myself or it’s just ADHD. It really really hurts me they have no idea how awful this feels and it makes me feel so alone sometimes 💔

taylorrpaigee

Date posted: 18w

Any tips?

This is my first time posting - I have a fear of throw up and I’ve been told it is cause from my OCD (repetitive thoughts) which makes sense because if someone gets sick it replays over and over again and I can’t get it out of my head. It’s gotten a lot worse in the past maybe two years. I’m always on edge that someone is going to get sick around me. I’ve heard the “best or most common” way to help with this is exposure therapy and OBVIOUSLY I don’t want to do that. Anyone have any tips or anything for this (or maybe have done the exposure therapy)?

Toasterstreu...

Date posted: 6w

OCD. Please tell me I’m not alone.

This is going to sound crazy but I guess I am. For over a year now I’ve suffered from ocd. And I always thought ocd was just I turned the door the wrong way but it’s so much more. I feel as if I’ll never get better. I’m in a relationship, for 8 months now with the most encouraging and supportive boyfriend ever. I tell him all of my thoughts and he understands and accepts because he understands it’s not thoughts I mean to have. I feel so awful being the way I am and being with him. I feel like I can’t be happy because it’s always something going on with me. He has a bigger family all boys, and everyone I hangout with my boyfriend and his brothers I get uncomfortable and weird and convince myself I have feelings for them or I want them. It makes me so disgusted and physically ill every time. The thoughts never go away and it’s not even about them it’s tons of things. I cry constantly because I can’t get the thoughts to go away. I can’t hang out with anybody out of fear I’ll have a thought I don’t want. I feel like I’m so alone. A year ago I felt the same way about my dad which I know is absolutely disgusting and I would never have feelings for my own family and dad, bit thoughts pop into my head. I don’t know if it’s because my brain wants a reason and answer as to why I think those things so I tell myself I like them, but I can’t shake it. I’m trying medicines and hopefully getting into therapy soon. I just don’t know if it ever is going to get better. Some days are better than others and every time I have a bad thought I get heat flashes and and my stomach hurts and I get anxiety and I just want it all to go away. I hate it so much and I feel as if I’ll never be normal again and never be able to live my life freely. I have to constantly worry about what my brain might come up with. These are not thoughts I want to have but somehow my brain has them and I feel so disgusted and I need help so badly. I never know what to do and i feel like an awful human being. I convince myself these things are try when I know they aren’t deep down. I’m losing my charachter and I’m losing myself and the person I know I am which would never have thoughts like these. I want it all to go away. Please tell me it gets better. I don’t recognize myself anymore.

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