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- 6y
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- 6y
This is normal to want more knowledge on your illness so you can understand it and fight it! But if you start searching for reassurance or reading about other peoples ocd then I really highly recommend you dont
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- 6y
When I first learned about intrusive thoughts and ocd, I did so much research and read forums, articles, studies, watched you tubers and everything. I definitely used it as a compulsion and have stopped because it was only feeding my ocd. I think knowledge is power too though and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to know what is going on in your head! Just be careful to not let it be a compulsion!
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- 6y
OCD shows itself in different forms, and the way it shows itself doesn’t really matter. The truth is that we latch onto an intrusive thought and obsess over it (the thought doesn’t matter, the obsessing does) and it’s all just fear and anxiety-nothing more. There is no exact definition for OCD thoughts, feelings, or actions because we’re all different with different brains and thoughts and compulsions. You’re OCD will manifest itself as whatever scares you and it will make you feel like you need to do something about this irrational fear so you perform compulsions. It’s totally normal for ocd to look different in each sufferer, the similarity is the obsessing and compulsions.
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- 6y
Yeah but I can’t tell what is triggering it, it’s like any free time I have it’s there. And I see in this moment how obsessively searching about ocd is ocd but then in a lot of other places in my life I don’t see it.
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- 6y
Well I would refrain from searching them. You will get confused when you read someone’s situation that is similar to yours but you may not have the exact same symptoms and then this can trigger you to think if you even have ocd. It can be trouble ha
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- 6y
Yeah probably. And yeah that is my fear, what if I don’t have a correct diagnosis, a friend of mine has ocd and he thinks I don’t cause his looks so different.
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- 22w
I know a few of you saw my posts about my ERP and the googling urges. That didn’t end up going well. My therapist actually decided we needed to halt it for now. The thing is it’s almost like I learned googling is harmless from those few exercises and my brain keeps generating more things to google. Normally I would just spiral and be done but now I can barely hold back from searching for long. I eventually give in. I’m horrified because it feels like I want to find illegal content. I swear on everything I am, I don’t want to find anything even close to it. I’m freaking out because I don’t understand what’s happening. I keep compulsively searching/testing/checking or idk. I keep remembering details and I feel like I need to google again to be sure of something. I feel absolutely insane can someone please help me??? I’m petrified I’m going to get in trouble.
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- 20w
I was scrolling on here and now I’m having a panic attack. Someone posted resources and one of them was a NOCD article and I thought that was so great. I clicked on it because I like learning about this disorder and I love NOCD’s resources. But I read that one of the compulsions for pocd is watching cp? I thought that wasn’t a thing with POCD. I literally cannot breathe because I feel like this thing is now possible and I cant calm down. That was the first time I’ve ever seen that stated as a compulsion. I feel like I’m dying. What triggered my spiral in the first place was months ago someone contacted me and told me they watched it but claimed OCD and I felt absolutely horrified. I deleted my account and removed that person entirely. I am freaking out so bad I really can’t seem to breathe right now
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- 17w
i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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