I have harm ocd and I’m rewatching the sopranos obviously there’s a lot of violence on the show. Would this be exposures for me?? I don’t feel super triggered or anxiety watching it which i think is a plus for me. I’ve been in therapy since march and think I made a lot of progress because i haven’t watched anything like this since my relapse.
I think if you really want to watch, then you could be careful about it! I agree that limiting time watching the show would be good. I’d also recommend watching it only when it’s light outside/a very well lit room (it works for me lol)
@rosegardens_ Unfortunately i watched a lot of it yesterday before i posted about it and after seeing everyone’s comments now im kinda nervous and psyching myself out ab watching it /:
@Dreamydream <3 you know yourself best, just be careful
Hey avoid triggers, exposure means facing the danger when it arrives not finding the danger
@krish123 Ooo really okay I thought it’d be a good thing. I’ll stop watching it
Shouldn't you NOT avoid triggers???
@James Hancock That’s what i thought…. I thought ur supposed to face the fears and not be avoidant and sit with the discomfort/ anxiety
@Dreamydream You should face it not feed it
@krish123 That makes sense… now I’m feeling anxious ab watching it and having thoughts 🥺
@Dreamydream Ya face that feeling
@Dreamydream Low confidence, weak desicion ability prolong suffering be confident
@Dreamydream And also distract yourself stop staying with it forever like do some other activity if distracted start again
@krish123 One way I distract myself is chanting the mantra ramakrishna sharanam loudly it's an activity not a compulsion I am not religiously btw and also whatever the feeling I get I say it's not important it's not my duty and also I say I don't care if I am scared of it or not scared of it also I say I might have to be dealing with it my whole life so I can do my compulsion later I try to spend time with my friends alot this are my tools
@krish123 Saying ramakrishna sharanam all the time I feel it is an honour so I don't feel bad about it and also it is an activity I just do it
@krish123 It's like a song actually
@krish123 Thank you, i appreciate this 🥹 how ru doing w ur ocd?
@Dreamydream I actually don't know if I have ocd or not I was prolonged hurt by someone that made me in an obsessive argument with them it has been 2-3 years now since it is stress induced idk if it will resolve or not but it is sometimes decreasing so I really hope it goes away
@Dreamydream Try singing a song of your God all the time not in your head outside really helps try and tell me I want to know if it works for others or not
@krish123 Would u ever try to get a diagnosis to see?
@Dreamydream I went twice they diagnosed me with many mental illness from schizophrenia, schizoaffective, dysthmia, ptsd everything I realized its just timewaste if I can't face I will go to psychiartist
Even if you are watching the movie limit the time
Basically long story short, ive been dealing with anxiety for a very long time all my life I'm 23 now but about 5 months ago my anxiety started to get really and I overthink a ton and get worried to easily. So my chest hurt for a while from stress at work made me worry why it was hurting, then me worrying and thinking worse case scenarios was making it worse. So i and to go to the doctor and got diagnosed properly with anxiety and I have a med now that I take when I really need it called hydroxyzine but I also have another med that is Zoloft that I have been taking for a about a month now, to help with my intrusive thoughts I have sometimes i only get them when im stressed or when I'm by myself or when i just overthink in general, my loneliness depression is one of the reasons for my anxiety because I wish I had someone as in partner wise to love me and for me to love them. But anyways I've had intrusive thoughts about possibly hurting myself and family, or even my dog. Ive never acted on any of my thoughts in the past and I don't want to but I have had anxiety attacks when everything feels to real and really scares me. I constantly have the thought of am I crazy or am I becoming crazy and stuff and I've done a lot of looking stuff in the past about symptoms but most of them are identical to what anxiety is so it's hard to tell the difference. It's been probably 2 weeks since we last talked. I've been mostly doing good. But I just was wondering if had a little Harm OCD intrusive thought happen yesterday that targeted my Aunt at work she was complaining all day and when it got closer to the end of the shifts for us. I was already annoyed with a situation that happened earlier in the work day. But she came into my department and then went back over to hers and I said it out loud to myself and said you better get back over there or I'll, I tried to say something else because the word I was going to say was kill you. Obviously I don't but that's what my intrusive thought wanted me to say. And made me think thats why i got to hurt her to stop her complaing So the rest of the night I was saying she is safe I am safe I'm control, like this is just anxiety lying to you, it's just because I'm tired and got annoyed earlier. I can't tell if it was working or not because I was so tired and just wanted to go home. But after work her and I spent time together at our house she was on the one couch and I was on the other with a bunch of our dogs in the living room. I tried to keep my mind off of what happened, and I was fighting some stomach achyness already. But I obviously don't want to hurt her and we had conversations just fine. But I went to my other aunt house at night after work to go to bed because she has to watch my aunts dogs because my other aunt and family is on vacation. But anyways I'm trying to get over that word Kill, that word is what is scarring me and sticking. Like my anxiety is lying saying kill, or basically do harm. I don't want to do anything bad but I'm trying to shake that feeling and stickiness of that word. I'm just so scared and worried.
does anyone else get really triggered when watching stuff to do with serial killers, p3dos, r@pists etc. I literally start to compare myself and check to see if i share any qualities with them. Ita really scary cause i really like this show Criminal minds, and i absolutely adore the characters, but its hard watching something i like cause of all the g0re and stuff. Not to mention all the thoughts that are convincing me i like the horrible stuff. Someone tell me if tou relate..
I feel like I’ve had a lot of different categories of ocd. Some categories stick with me more and are repetitive. I’ve been doing well with mental health - not having anxiety stick around. When the physical feeling of anxiety sticks around, every thought is horrible, but when the feeling of anxiety is gone the obsessions don’t really impact me. If I can keep anxiety at bay, my life is good. I’ve been doing well lately, although this week I was scrolling through tictok and watched a video about someone in a coma and wondered if I was in a coma right now and didn’t know it. I had a panic attack for about 15 minutes. Anxiety, sweating, etc. It didn’t take ahold of me and it quickly lost its impact on me. It still shook me and I was just like “wow” where did that come from. Now I am staying away from social media. Is that avoidance? Should I make myself keep watching social media? Many ocd problems have come from social media or watching a movie or show that triggers something and then spirals. I am limiting what I watch, which I believe is good because I shouldn’t be watching that stuff anyway. What do you think?
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