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I can relate completely to this too. Just finished yesterday and I’m already worse in my OCD and anxiety. I don’t have many tips because I’m really new to this whole OCD thing and my family doesn’t all know about my diagnosis either so it’s kind of hard to be around them with all my obsessions and compulsions. All I can say is that you’re not alone in this feeling and I believe in us that we can get over it! ❤️
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Aw I’ve been there too. I’ve basically had ocd my whole life but only discovered that I had it about a year ago and it completely changed my life. I bawled for 2 hours when I figured it out. I had hocd at the time so I was compulsively searching on the internet for evidence that “I was gay” and came across a bunch of articles describing it as a symptom of ocd. Absolutely changed my life. I don’t know how yours manifests and you might not know everything yet either but I promise it can only get better from here. I hope you have a supportive family who will understand—but if that’s not the case the people on this forum understand. My biggest piece of advice is just to never submit to it, know who you are deep inside, and look your fears in the face even when you’re scared. People with ocd are the bravest people I’ve met simply because we look fear in the face ever single day and keep going regardless. You made it here. We can get through this ❤️
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@Jordyn ? This really helped me- I just posted something about how I have obsessive thoughts and dreams that essentially feel like I have imposter syndrome in the OCD community. I feel like when I read about people with different or more intense types of OCD that I don’t really have it because mine seems small and new. Thank you for your support- I need all of it that I can get going into this holiday season ??
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@Rylieraz No problem! And it’s super common for people with ocd to doubt they even have ocd, it’s a weird thing that happens but I’ve definitely been there too. You got it!
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Aw girl I totally get this. I just got back home after my finals and had the same kind of worry. You just gotta let those thoughts come to you, kinda like letting a wave crash over you. Remind yourself that you’ve been here before and you can get through it again. I had an ocd moment last night actually, because my family wanted to go to the movies and movie theaters are weirdly enough one of my triggers because as a kid I was always afraid of what the screen would show me in the dark, and now I have negative associations with the smell of popcorn and loud surround sound. But I love my family so I forced myself through it. You just gotta let those feelings come and go and be like, okay, I know this feeling, but I also know it can’t hurt me. It’s really hard, but I know you got it girl. You can get through this I promise
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Thank you everyone ❤
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I’ve been stuck in this cycle for the last month or two and am not sure how to get out of it. Basically, I will work on ignoring the thoughts and not responding or engaging plus limiting/completely eliminating compulsions. After a week or two of constant work, the amount of intrusive thoughts in a day goes down. The anxiety each thought causes also goes down with some, but not all, thoughts passing without notice like they would for a normal person. The thoughts that do stick cause anxiety and make me want to ruminate or do other compulsions but I make sure to limit them. After a bit, I’m in a pretty good head space. This is usually when it goes down hill. I’ll start to question if I even have ocd because some of the thoughts (once again not all) pass without notice. The difficulty resisting compulsions goes down and so does the anxiety, only increasing the questioning. I spend a while questioning if I’ve ever had ocd in the first place and then something sets me off or the questioning itself becomes a trigger and I get stuck back into the same ocd cycle with constant rumination, anxiety, and other compulsions. This lasts for a week or two before I know I need to stop and try and work hard to get back to ignoring the thoughts. And the cycle just restarts over and over again. Does anyone have any tips to stop this from happening? It’s really harming my recovery as every few weeks I dive back into the same negative place I was.
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Nearly a week since I stopped in the middle of a compulsion and I still feel stressed and tempted to finish it. My throat, ears, head, chest, legs,arms, my body has been hurting since then. And if I finish it will it stop? But what's stopping me is.. I've been trying to trust God to handle it. Idk what to do rn, Ive been trying to set up a schedule for this week but it ended up not working out so I will try again next week, and School work I'm years behind (I'm in yr 10), I don't rlly have any friends either to help me. But anyways I try not to think about school that much since I have alot more to think about. And I don't even have any talent or anything I want to be I just want to be a good person but I'm horrible I just need to do focus on stuff Like getting closer to God. looking after myself. The OCD thoughts which. I can't do any of these tho because the OCD makes me so stressed I just want to hit the OCD in the face but I can't obviously so I do it to myself, And they make me want to do more to myself but I don't because ✝️ And I don't want to. Anyways I can't even do the basic things to look after yourself, and The OCD thoughts keep saying about death all the time, and illness. I don't like hearing it in my head all the time I can't do anything properly. And Those thoughts are active when I try read the Bible. Even when I used an audio bible. And a app where u read 1 verse at a time it's still hard. But basically what do I do My throat keeps feeling weird like burning without the feeling hot ughhshsheh I don't want to go back into that life when I was 12-13 where I was worrying about my health and checking with doctor all the time
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i’m in college and on my summer break now. i don’t have a job yet or much to occupy myself with and im finding it really difficult to keep my ocd under control. if i have nothing to do, i find myself sitting around and ruminating heavily and getting severely anxious and my thoughts just keep wandering. i don’t really feel peace of mind unless im with my boyfriend or my best friend, both of which i don’t get to see often because they’re very busy or live far away. im not sure how to keep myself busy and how to occupy my brain with something other than worries :(
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