OCD often "looks" very different on the outside than it feels on the inside. We might be overwhelmed by distressing intrusive thoughts, but still appear productive to those around us (Outside: 🏃♀️☕️💻, Inside: 🌀🔥). We want to know: What does your OCD look like on the outside, and what does it feel like on the inside? Use emojis to show us your experience.
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Outside: 😊📖🍃 Inside: 😷⚖️🍂
Outside: 🌸☺️✨ inside: 🌧️😰🌪️
Outside: 😇👍 inside: 🔥💀☠️🪦⚰️🔥
Outside: 😅❤️ Inside: 💔😔😖🤔
Outside: 😇☺️ Inside: 🔪⚰️✂️👹😱⛪️🙏🏻😰
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Outside: 🙂😐💭 Inside: 💔😫😰
Outside: 🤢🧮🚯⏸️🔁 Inside: 🔪🤖🪫👹🆘
Outside: 🧐🫡🥴🙂 Inside: ⁉️🤡🤕🔥🤺😵💫
Outside: 😎😴🤓 Inside: ⁉️❓😰😰😰😥💔
Outside: 😇 😐 🧐👍 Inside: 🌪️ ✂️ 🔪 ⁉️ 🤢👹 😱 🤯 🔁 🌪️
Outside: 🙂🙂↕️ Inside: 😱😵💫🌫️💔🪫
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Outside: 😅🥲😁 Inside: 😭🤬🤯🫣🥴😵💫🔥
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Outside: 😅🤨🫣🤐 Inside: 🫥😤😬🥴🌪️🧠🙅🏼♀️😔
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Before therapy and being saved by Jesus: 💋🫣😭 👩❤️💋👩🔪🩸😮💨😮💨😮💨—————— after multiple years in therapy and being saved by the lord: 😊✌️👍🤠🤗💪 I still have anxiety, but it doesn’t control my life like OCD did.
Outside: 💖⚡️😛 Inside: ⁉️❤️👩🏼❤️💋👨🏼😰🪀
Outside:😉👌 Inside:🫨🌪️🦠☠️💀
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Outside:🤓🤣😐 inside:🌈😭❓💀
Inside: ⚰️😭😢😔🤯😨⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️ outside: 😥😨😰
Outside: 😂🤩🧘🏻♀️ Inside:😱🤢👻☠️🫨🌪️☄️
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keep your hope and faith. i struggle with debilatating cycles of ocd compulsions / obsessions sometimes lasting up to 2 days at a time, pushing my body and brain to the brink of its limits. putting my life and health , both physical and mental at risk of failure for those loops. for those two days, the longest i have been in a loop of ocd cycles / relentless compulsions and obsessions, or trances, i will go 2 days in that loop of endless panic without sleep and much food, almost like in a trance that i usually cant get out of. in that time i will be in my head cycling through compulsions, almost unaware of time in a trance like panic and trying to stay above water and get to the other side. catching eyesight of the alarm clock, out of the corner of my eye every so often by chance and realizing how many hours have gone by since the last time i saw the clock. usually about four hours at a time every glance. it is the hardest thing i have ever endured. i literally try to tell myself and make myself stop doing compulsions, and saying this will be the lsdt compulsion, knowing that i am on the brink of losing my mind, and then literally being unable to stop. i go into shock i guess. i dont know what to do when i get to that point, but to keep doing compulsions until i am able to get the miracle of a reprieve however / whenever that may be. i notice that if and when i do get to that miracle point of a reprieve and moment of rest, both physical and mental and temporary clarity of mind and peace, - that that is my one chance then to get the strength and courage and motivation and determination i need to start back the erp and therapy cycle. i need to get back on the right track of erp and therapy/ recovery as soon as i possibly can, and remember to myself that if and when i do give in to my ocd again, every time, every bit of attention or acknowledgement or compulsion or act of avoidance i do and participate in, the harder it is to going to be able to get back to that point of rest / sense of clarity / seeminly sanity / and peace again. if it is ever even attainable again, that is the risk i take every time i choose to do a compulsion and step farther away from that recovery mindset. that recovery mindset / state is extremely precious and valuable and can be gone again in an instant if it is not protected and strengthened and nourished constanstantly by every choice choice I make by doing my recovery / erp therapy. keep the door to your ocd closed. and everytime time you might give into your ocd or compulsion just know that you are at risk of losing your peace again, possibly forever. value it. i have to have hope though, and faith because if i dont have that in the back of my mind, even if i cant see it or feel it, or realize it, then what do i have? its the only thing that gives me a chance at recovery and remission from this debilitating chronic lot of an anxiety disorder i have been delt. stay strong. please. do not give up. even if you cant see or realize the hope and faith it is there. do the next right ocd / erp thing thing you can do, no matter how hard or terrifying it may seem or tell you it is. i have been dealing with seasons of active ocd and remissions since highschool and i am now 36. do not give up hope or your determination and dedication to recovery. please. saying this to you after reading your share helps me, commit to my therapy / erp i need to do for the chance and a hope for my own recovery of my ocd currently. feeling the trance like sickness, and fear and panic as i read your words, makes me sad. i feel it just as i have felt it for myself in the past and present. just do erp. please. do not think about it. just do it. we all deserve good lives, inherently. we just have to fight for our normalcy or carefreeness and contentment, joy, and peace that others experience without themselves being aware that they had been gifted that freely. erp and therapy are scary. so much is seemingly at risk in everything you do or dont do. every choice you make. please dont listen to the ocd. i say this and many times i am not able to not not listen to the ocd myself. goodluck. i hope you dont give up. i am constantly trying not to myself as well every day. peace be with you we have got this. stephen
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