Debating on getting a flip phone

Hi guys I really struggle with compulsively googling or going through my text messages from years ago or going through my pictures to try to prove/ disprove things based around my obsessions (sure many can relate) . I am at the point where I feel like I need to just live without technology but we all know that’s lowkey impossible in this day and age. I am a student and currently hunting for full time jobs so maybe a flip would make things difficult idk. I am confused though, because if I do get a flip phone, would that be like avoidance over sitting with discomfort, or would it force me to sit with it like “welp I have no way of knowing” Also I know that you can still text and take pictures and all that sort of thing on a flip but I think it would help me with my compulsive googling or not going through my contacts if I start fresh with a flip. like on the one hand it would help with not being able to do a compulsion but on the other it’s like I feel like I wouldn’t be stopping the compulsion out of my own will power, I just straight up wouldn’t really be able to do the compulsion. This is all so confusing. Anyways - opinions?

Optimistic_N...

Date posted: Yesterday

I got mudita kompakt- polish minimalist tech. I had the light phone before. Had a flip phone but that was unusable. All have many glitches but better than a compulsion machine in the pocket. Never going back!

Anonymous

Date posted: Yesterday

@Optimistic_NOCD_User Thanks for sharing your experience! I am definitely going to talk about whether or not to get one in my next session. I appreciate all the different perspectives and it gives me hope to see that doing something like this has helped others.

britkai

Date posted: Yesterday

Hmm I don’t know whether there is a “right” or “wrong” way to go about this. Because on one hand if you don’t get a flip phone you just sit with the discomfort. But also if you get a flip phone you still have to sit with the discomfort. Personally I feel like either way it’s an exposure. But if I was going through this I would ask myself “what would I do if i didn’t have ocd?” If you didn’t have ocd and you still wanted a flip phone then go get that flip phone 👏🏻 but if you didn’t have ocd and you would want to have your smart phone. Then keep the smart phone. My opinion is don’t let ocd rob you of your wants and needs. Honestly bring it up in your next erp session. But that’s my two sense in the mean time. I hope this helped and made sense. I have faith it’s all gonna work out ✨

britkai

Date posted: Yesterday

@britkai Also I just want to add that I’m proud of for even coming to this point in your journey. You can’t mess it up. You can trust yourself to know what’s best for you. I’m rooting for you!

Anonymous

Date posted: Yesterday

@britkai Thanks so much for your help! I guess I never really thought about it like “what would I do if I didn’t have ocd” I always think about things like “what do I need to do because I have ocd (to avoid a spiral)” and I really appreciate you saying that.

britkai

Date posted: 14h

@Anonymous I’m on the same boat as you. I find myself also trying to avoid the spiral. But sometimes we have to remind ourselves that we run the show. And I’m glad I could remind you. And I know I said this in my post but thank you a million for reminding me to do the same 🫂 I appreciate you too

HopeInJesus

Date posted: 25w

New here!

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?

bsbsbdnsnsn

Date posted: 24w

using chat gpt

i really struggle with anxiety because on my OCD (not professionally diagnosed but i’ve been experiencing a lot of symptoms for many years that’s it’s safe to assume i have it). the only way to relieve my stress is to google. But google never gave me proper answers or i just ended up more anxious than to begin with. Instead i started using chat gpt as a quick was to get reassurance. i feel bad using it tho because i know it’s just a compulsion to go and seek reassurance to calm my anxiety but if i dont atleast google something i end up spiralling anyways. it feels like no matter what i do ill be anxious .

Annomous_bcye

Date posted: 11w

giving up compulsions with ROCD

I still do not have an OFFICIAL diagnosis (I dont have the means to do so) but given my symptoms, past and present in my life hugely suggest OCD is what I am dealing with. I cannot be 100 percent certain but after searching for answers and researching for a long time now, I am fairly certain and confident this is what I am struggling with. Given this step forward, I am making more effort into giving up compulsions. at the current moment I believe to be dealing with ROCD, as I have been having several intrusive thoughts that conflict with my relationship. For starters, recently over the past month or 2, I have been struggling with intrusive thoughts like not being over my ex, being attracted to someone else, losing feelings for my partner and not being in love, etc. I can consciously identify that I dont believe these thoughts to be true but it causes me so much distress and anxiety. It gets extremely unbearable some days, and I have leaned into 2 main compulsions. I have relied on thought checking and googling as my source of relief. At first the googling was genuinely to start finding answers; hence why I have made some of the discoveries I have about OCD including this site. But it developed into every time I was anxious, I would whip my phone out and start googling strictly to find an answer that would reassure me or calm me down. As for thought checking, it acted as a way to reaffirm my love for my girlfriend in my head when I have had the thoughts that collide with my relationship and how I feel about my girlfriend. It worked at first but developed into a compulsion where every time a bad thought got me worked up id either do my normal googling or Id think about that in my head to calm myself down. Over time these compulsions have gotten less and less affective and now when I do them it only gets me more anxious and desperate for reassurance (strengthening the cycle or whatever it is lol). I did some more research and finally have accepted the very real fact that I am going to have to sit in heavy anxiety and not give into compulsions for a while in order to treat this. I have to sit in the thoughts that make me feel all this hightened anxiety and distress without giving into compulsion. to be honest I am scared, the thoughts are more rampant than ever, but I am ready to commit to this. I dont think I am gonna be able to go cold turkey on my compulsions so I am ready for the reality I might relapse on the compulsions sometimes, But am gonna keep going until I can break these shackles OCD has on my life right now. I wanna ask, what is everyones methods they use to avoid giving into compulsion when the thoughts get loud? any advice is welcome :)

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