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- 6y
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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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- 25w
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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- 24w
It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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- 22w
Im a 21 year old female in a straight relationship with the best guy a girl could ever ask for. About 2 months ago, I went to get coffee with a friend and as I dropped her off, I got a “weird” vibe from her and the look she gave me which lead to the thought of “should I kiss her”….Ive never had a thought like that before and I never have ever wanted to kiss another girl. I have also never had a desire to be with another girl (sexually or romantically). Now though, I have had one other experience of being with a different friend going to get lunch and it felt weird. Ever since then I have been on google non stop with hundreds of different searches, questioning if im lying to myself of my boyfriend, wondering about my past relationships even though Ive only dated boys, been attracted to boys, crushed on boys, etc… boy crazy! Reading on other forums has been a big thing too or doing quizzes. I believe its SO-OCD but im so scared that what if its not. I am in therapy and actually had two weeks of not even thinking about it or googling it until yesterday. I dont know what to do.
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