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Thank you all. For me, I often experience intrusive thoughts and so the feeling like numbness latches to parts of my identity, so I end up worrying that I'm losing myself or my mind. Right now it's my gender identity
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It sucks because I don't want to change but I have a theory that dealing with dissociation is the same as the thoughts and so just letting them happen and not really intensely focusing on it will help. Sometimes I just feel so over whelmed and tired
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Thanks so much, this helps
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Could you maybe elaborate on certain things? Like when you say "the reason you feel like this is because your hyper aware Because your convincing yourself Your "out of it". Could you explain that A little more
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@leahfaith Holy crap that's really similar
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@leahfaith I find myself wanting to go back to before everything happened and also I worried I change, my brain convinces me I change sometimes. Please read my comments below for explanation
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@leahfaith I think this is what I go through. So I suppose the best thing is to let it go? Act as usual?
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@leahfaith I'm sorry if this sounds odd or lest optimistic but I am worried I'll never get better
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@leahfaith Thanks. I guess my problem is ruminations and it sucks but I will work on it. I have been noticing that when I stop focusing so hard on how I feel I feel better. I try to feel normal and check how I feel a lot. When I don't feel normal it gets worse. It's hard to explain in full especially in my current state but it will be ok
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You can’t lose yourself from disassociation. When it happens, tell yourself, “I’m disassociating, I know what this feels like, and it is going to go away.” The worst thing you can do is freak out. The first few times it happened to me I got really freaked out but it just made it worse. Now when it comes on I know what to expect and I just let myself be in the moment (notice your surroundings, hear the sounds around you
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Like for me i dont see anything diffrent , I see what I normally see. But it feels like movie but it’s so much aniexty
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Once it came on and I started to freak out and my bf said “what are you feeling right now” I said “it feels like I’m in a dream or like I’m on drugs!!” He said “wow that seems pretty cool I wish I had that” sometimes you have to look at it in a different light to not freak out
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Thats exactly how I feel and your bf is amazing for being so supportive of you
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Yeah I still have this a lot, but if you have so much aneixty it will cause it. It is hard but you have too calm yourself and know that you will be alright. I still deal with it at times, mostly at night for some reason but you will get better.
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If you would luke too talk we def can, cuz I feel alone when I have these issues alot
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I'm new and I'm really trying to control thoughts of replaying interactions I've had or things I think might happen with the people around me. This is something constant, and it causes me to repeat actions. Then I lose track of time and often end up being late. It has always affected my sleep and becomes a part of my dreams, which are also always vivid. It's always been hard for me to get up. I just constantly keep replaying different outcomes of things that it haven't happened yet going over every possible outcome with no correct answer. I'm scared of what I might say and do when at work because it's been getting worse lately. I've been terrified of socializing, because I feel like I'm going to lose it every time I speak to someone. I work directly with people doing their hair. I don't want my clients or co-workers to catch me in the act of one of my rituals or it to effect the job that I'm doing. It just makes me angry that I haven't been able to control these thoughts and it makes the rituals worse. Then I feel embarrassed after I finally stop repeating whatever it is, I'm doing. I feel like I can't trust anyone, and I’m terrified but I know it's not real. I can't afford to lose it/show it.
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I can remember the day I started having intrusive thoughts. I was so confused and scared. It’s been almost 3 months- does it get easier to manage? Currently taking medication and going to therapy, but this is all still very new, and very scary. Please tell me there’s relief in recovery..? I tend to isolate myself from my family, often. I’m tired, so so tired. :( Most days, I just stay on the couch or in bed. I don’t quite get as anxious, but like a “heart stopping” gut feeling when a thought pops up. I miss the me I was before the diagnosis. HOCD is scary and harder when it attacks the loved ones, spouse, in your home. :( My heart hurts.
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My soocd sufferers and recoverers, I have a question! This is my second spiral and while I hade some manageable background noise before, the spiral literally “clicked” into place a few months again and it’s been awful every single day. I’m on meds and doing some light ERP/ACT because my anxiety was so bad I lost so much weight, but I wake up feeling ok and there’s no “click” back to normal. Is there supposed to be like a moment where it’s all over or is it gradual bc if anything I “feel gay” and more accepting of that. Anyone else?
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