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This disorder makes you mentally tough as nails and makes you live in the present moment. So that's the positive.
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That's a really good way to look at it! I wish I could tho I'm constantly ruminating:(
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@Daffodil Just battle and keep battling. As time passes it gets easier.
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@raptors6 Thank you :)
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Even when your super sad and theres tears running down your face just remember things will get better. Theres better times ahead.
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Funnily enough that is me currently. I hope everyone on this app gets better soon :)
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Oh yeah i have that biggg time. Thoughts of hurting ppl and hurting myself. I think my only advice is it does get better with time as you habituate to your thoughts and i recommend going towards your thoughts and not run from them. The brain thinks about stuff "you dont want to think about" if that makes any sense.
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Yeah I've had these intense thoughts for awhile, being stress doesnt help. But it's nice to know I'm not the only one that gets these these thoughts, thank you.
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❤❤❤
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I just started experiencing this a bit ago, it feels like months honestly, but in reality it's only been about a week. I have no intention or desire to hurt anyone but at the same time sometimes I just get dark thoughts of "i could". Its been crippling me ever since its started and it's so out of left field for me. I struggled with depression long before but now i dont really feel much exempt empty and fear of my thoughts.
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The website intrusive thoughts is quite helpful, I'm sorry you're struggling it's so scary and isolating. Just know there are lots of us who understand
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I always have to google intrustive thoughts to calm me down, becuase it always says how normal these thoughts are.
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@kramer Exactly! :)
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I do! It's awful but you can get better. Have you seen a CBT/ERP specialist? :)
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No I'm lost in how to find one. I seen a therapist 2 months ago a couple times, but I just feel like I'm doing all the talking, so I kinda stop going.
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@kramer Have you rung any OCD helplines? On OCD support websites it lists the sort of questions you should ask a potential therapist to see if they are able to help you with your OCD. It might also give a list of websites that have therapists. You can get better I promise, things will improve :)
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Thanks I'll look into that :)
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I get the most wild gory harmful thoughts imaginable. Even thoughts of murdering my gf i live with. Dont worry we are in this battle together.
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I have some crazy thoughts to, like what if I hurt my family. Been on 6 different medications all made me feel worse, so heres to doing it naturally.
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I'm so glad that you said this man. I get them of my family that I live with. I love them all but I cant even bring myself to stay in the same room as them without the thoughts getting triggered and getting really bad anxiety and I feel like people can tell that I'm ALWAYS in an uncomfortable state which makes me even more anxious... I hate OCD
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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.
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Hey so a couple months ago (7-8) I remember being upset at my family member. Like she was talking too much while I was annoyed and remember wanting her to be quiet. I got an intrusive thought like a really bad image of doing something really bad to her, and my hand twitched to the side a little? Like it felt like I was about to?! And I remembered thinking "if I do this, I'll get in trouble". I got up and left to the bathroom and felt horrified! I was thinking "did I want to act out? Did the only reason I didn't act out was because of getting in trouble? If there was no consequences, would have I done it?! Does this mean this whole time I've been using OCD as an excuse?" I remember I couldn't sleep for 3 nights because of how bad the anxiety was, I was crying and I felt very guilty like I should turn myself in to a mental hospital. I couldn't eat for many days or be near her because of that thought and twitch I had! I'm worried it was an impulse or I actually wanted to hurt her. And even to this day I still ruminanate about this. Like last night I couldn't sleep well I kept waking up every two hours and asking myself "am I capable?" I couldn't eat last night. Sometimes I move on from it like I forget that happened but when I remember, I feel distressed about it! I don't want to be an evil person or do bad actions towards anyone! I'm even scared to be angry because of this because I'm scared I have more "chance" of acting out due to anger. Like was it an impulse and I held back? Is this even OCD? Please help, I'm really scared!
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Honestly ocd has been so tough these past months, like I wake up in the morning thinking I accidentally hurt my whole family and just don’t remember. And I start to question so much. And freak out thinking that I did. If anyone can relate I would love to hear from you ;) and any things that may helped you
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