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I know! Maybe start a sport or focus on doing volunteer! Many things can help if we let it! Start meditation! This things are way cheaper than doctors and sometimes have the same impact!
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I like Chrissie Hodges. Shes kinda crazy, talks a lot, has a chaotic energy that is similar to mine. Admits her imperfections, rambles, laughs at her own jokes. A lot of this OCD business is serious, bleak and punitive. Fun to check in with people who are squishy and funny.
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Yeah she cheers me up and gives me some hope.
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Thing that happens to me when OCD kicks off is I get very serious and quiet. Usually I'm pretty wacky and loud, make stupid decisions, act eccentric etc. But OCD kicks off and yeah I shut down and get veeeeery perfectionistic and serious. Like, somber. Like the end of the world is coming. Anything that can snap me out of that, usually doing quick exposures, chatting to friends, listening to someone ramble on like chrissie. People always used to tell me I intellectualise too much, think too much. Its true!!!! Love it when that noodle soup evaporates
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Yeah same, it’s telling me I’ll like it when I accept it.
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I have the same! Start therapy! People like us need to learn how to distinguish reality from sensations! Alone we're not able! Stop searching on the internet it only made me worse!
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That’s exactly what I struggle with what thoughts are real and not.
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Scared to waste money on therapy in case it doesn’t work
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I'm in therapy, but my therapist isn't good and I can't afford anyone else at the moment. I'm looking for work, no luck yet.
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@hateocd123 I’m also looking for work but I was focusing on getting better first but then I need money so
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@JS0406 I feel you! And that's hard! But you need to stop thinking if it's real or not! @JSO406 if you have the money go for it! I believe we can all cure! After all we've been OCD almost since we were born! I had so many ocds that I lost the count! But none of them stayed forever! Because OCD is like this!
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@Mimi123 I can say that I've been through a bunch of other themes before as well, but none of them have affected me as badly as this one, mostly because now there's another person involved, my boyfriend.
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@Mimi123 I didn’t think about ocd before this I just thought I was overthinking but I don’t know if this counts as ocd but i had a fear of my parents dying and would look at life expectancy charts everyday, every time we passed a junction on the road I would hold on to the side of the car because I thought if I didn’t the car would crash into the side of our car, checking my body for lumps everyday and looking up health symptoms does that sound like ocd I didn’t think anything of it at the time ?
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Can’t even focus on looking for jobs
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There are a lot of YouTube channels that are helpful. Try find an accountability partner for a few weeks. Set some goals and stick to them. You can probably find a skype specialist somewhere in the world who isnt that much money. Get any job you can find that pays reasonable money. The structure it brings you will also provide relief from the abyss, then you can invest in mental health support. At the very least, listen to podcasts and Q+As, e.g. Mark Freeman / Ali Greymond. Listen to the OCD Stories interviews. Get informed. Start using what you learn to support people on here. Until you complete a course of exposure therapy with an experienced OCD therapist you will probably be quite limited by compulsions, but theres loads you can do while getting to that point. Remember that procrastination is also a compulsion, as is judging stuff, as is excessive phone use. They all feed into the big scary ones.
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Yeah I watch Chrissie Hodges.
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What do I do in the meantime? I feel like I'm dying
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Yeah same I’m going mental
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Yeah watched that video yestrerday
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I feel so sad, alone, scared and hopeless. Until two months ago there was not even the remote possibility of being anything other than heterosexual and now the idea that I could find out that I was lesbian or bisexual terrifies me to death. Everything was born from the fact that I didn't feel sexual desire towards my ex-boyfriend and I started to be afraid that it was because I was a lesbian... how can I be a lesbian or bisexual if everything was born from this? I would like to run away from myself and my head. I would really like to go back and go back to my life before. I can't take it anymore. I just want to live my life like before
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I feel like a really terrible person right now, I keep replaying this, and no matter what I can’t remember what happened, it’s like my brain is purposely not letting me think about it. Without wasting any more time, I’ll get into it. Basically, I was at Walmart, and looking at cards with My Dad, I saw anime ones, took pictures of them for my sister, even ones that were anime kids, because I did my best to ignore it, so I looked at a Hunter x Hunter card, I stared at the black haired kid, being all like “ I’m glad I’m not having any thoughts about this, I’m glad I’m having normal thoughts and not thinking anything” I felt happy, then as soon as I looked at killua (white haired kid), everything collapsed. I don’t know what happened, my brain won’t let me remember. But I’ll give bits and pieces. I think that I had false attraction, and something in my head, said “oh, I wouldn’t mind being attracted.” “He is attractive, and I’m attracted to him.” “I remember a girl thinking he is attractive and he is” “ It’s not wrong to be attracted” “ I don’t care about his age” .. something along the lines of that, and now I’m panicking super hard, because I’m worried if I said those things, I feel like I ruined my life that I’m a pe//do and deserve nothing, idk what to do, I feel terrible… I remember when I was having the intrusive thoughts, I was panicking and was worrying, but it kept playing out, and I kept hearing things talk, it was drawn out too long, that now I feel convinced that I was saying those things, I tested it too, and I can confirm that I didn’t say that, but why am I still not convinced? I know I wouldn’t say those things, I was hoping the complete opposite would happen. My brain kept making me feel like it wasn’t wrong and it was okay. Maybe that’s why I’m so convinced I did that. I’m just spiraling super bad right now, I don’t know what to do or what to think, I don’t know if I said that or not… even if I did test it, I genuinely just feel like I said it, and I wanted it, because I still feel uncertain, I still feel like I said it, part of me just wants to be like oh I did and so I can move on, not because I agree with it, I just don’t know what else to do… I’m really scared.
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Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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