i hate this feeling whenever i suddenly just start to think about particular themes or having intrusive thoughts. does anyone have any suggestions for how to deal with nausea without doing any compulsions? especially if i feel the need to immediately prove something wrong :/ itās so unbearable to sit with uncertainty
I'm sorry you're struggling right now š. It sucks when it felt like certain thought and feeling get stronger. I know it's really annoying to have to keep doing this over and over but accepting it and not judging those thoughts and feelings is the best way to go along with being compassionate and reframing unhelpful believes you may have about these things. If the uncertainty becomes too much for you to handle, you don't have to keep sitting through it I don't think. I hope you feel better very soon. :(
@BigGyro09 thank you, i was freaking out a bit but iām somewhat better now, i donāt throw up so thatās good. iām just sick of these little panic attacks that happen out of nowhere. the only thing is for these specific themes idk how to sit with the uncertainty or what the opposite would even be :( the only things i can think of would be compulsions and i know thatās the opposite of what i want/need to do. and iāve just been freaking out all day about things iāve posted on here before and whether or not iāve somehow done something wrong. idk i donāt wanna go into it on here too much because i get paranoid for some stupid reason.
@worryywart I'm really sorry it gets to that point for you. I'm glad it didn't come to that either but I hope there's a way to prevent it for good. I'm sorry. :( It's alright, you don't have to explain the specifics of this. It's totally okay. Just give yourself grace and remind yourself that you're dealing with obnoxious thoughts you don't want. Soon you can just accept them as any other thought.
@BigGyro09 itās okay, i donāt mind sharing with you specifically or anything since weāve talked so much, i just have irrational fears about people i know somehow finding my account or something. idk if that makes sense, i know itās ridiculous but yk ocd doesnāt care about thatš sorry lol rambling again but iām trying to keep all this in mind. iām just not sure if the compulsions i have are even normal. the thoughts iām just trying to ignore.
@worryywart It's completely up to you! I'm willing to help. :) Only if you think it helps to share, then you can share it with me. It's best to characterize compulsions as behaviors that are meant to relieve the OCD thoughts and nothing more. I think trying to figure out which are normal and what isn't can make it worse because at the end of the day, it's something we don't want to do but feel we have to do because of this. I hope that makes sense. It also doesn't say anything about you.
@BigGyro09 would it be ok if we didnāt talk about it on this app? if not thatās ok i donāt have to go into the specifics or anything. what iām struggling with rn is checking compulsions, sometimes i just have this urge to take some kind of test to prove that iām not the worst sort of person. i guess it is just like any other compulsion but i always get the thought that i shouldnāt even feel the need to prove it wrong and it should just be obvious to me that iām not that way. idk itās just annoying and it makes me feel really icky.
@worryywart We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. Of course that's fine. With checking compulsions, it's a very tricky thing to get through because it convinces you that you have to check you aren't what it says, but then OCD will ridicule you for checking anyway. It's very tough, but it can be one of the more harmful compulsions for sure. It feels really real and you have to disprove the thought but in reality, you don't! You can just let the thought come and go. I know it's really hard, but I know you can do it.
@BigGyro09 ah i meant on a diff app. but thank you lol, idk why i thought this wasnāt normal but itās probably more common than i think. itās just one of the ones thatās super hard to ignore. the mental loops ocd makes you go through is just awful. iām trying to remember this though and just label it as another compulsion that i donāt need to interact with. tyy :)
@worryywart I do have discord and I remember you had put yours on here. Sometimes anxiety gets in the way of adding people or having online friends but when it does happen I can push it to the side mostly. I can give it a shot though! It's good that you label it as a compulsion and intrusive because that helps in the long run! It truly does!
@BigGyro09 actually i just realized this might not have gone through cuz for some reason it hasnāt before when iāve tried to send it to someone elseš
I feel so sick and nauseous when I get these thoughts, I know I should not and I have beaten this before but canāt seem to take anything in and go with the thoughts, itās hideous
@helpšš»šš»šš» iām sorry, itās really awful. i hope you feel better and i know you can beat it again, as youāve done before!!
itās the worst man i try to redirect my attention to something that i do want to do if i had the option to not ruminate/do any compulsions and try and make a deal w myself to give me 20 minutes of peace and then iāll deal with it then and then try to procrastinate it another 20 minutes more or until i forget doesnāt always work and i give in quite a few times but maybe writing something like this down on a wall can help as a reminder to ground yourself. even a little bit of delay is progress in rewiring your brain
@unslicedlime this is actually a really good idea, i ended up giving in to the compulsions which sucks but iāll try this for the rest of the night!
@worryywart thatās okay i did too. i hope you have a great rest of the night <3
@unslicedlime you too <33
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