- Username
- Reptarrox
- Date posted
- 4y ago
OCD doesn’t like to be beaten. When you stop feeling anxious, it will guilt trip you into feeling anxious. Sometimes accepting the anxiety is less painful than dealing with the guilt so you deliberely bring it on. All this is a sign you are winning though & it’s having to work harder & harder.
Your right. Thanks man
Wow Reptarrox I feel like I’ve lived your experience right alongside you. It has always seemed to me that when OCD takes control nothing else matters, not even simple tasks like showering. I’ve been there done that and still doing that. It’s funny how I feel like I know all of you people better than my family knows me.
I know. But I get that they never felt like me or have been in this same situation. But it's always easier to talk with people who are literally in the same situation
My family doesn't get it, they think it's more of an annoying quirk. Which is fine, I don't expect empathy. But the people here get it and that's really cool.
?Beautifully said Martino.
Going through the same. The thing that helps me is to just do it a little at a time. Try to shower every couple days instead of once a week. Draw 1 thing a day, even if you don't feel like it, can be a quick sketch but do something. Go out and run just down the block or even just walk. Just do something every day, it gets a little easier over time, but the hard part is doing it every day. Best wishes to you.
Yea I should try that. I have been trying to draw one thing a day. Thanks man really appreciate it
Thanks much for the input FHFF! You’re greatly appreciated. So FHFF, Nik1234 and Martino I will start with you three. I’ve been thinking about buying a large poster board at the store and creating a branch of ocd subtypes that branch out from the center... I want to literally draw out as many experiences from you folks on here as I can.. tell me your OCD subtype, your obsessions, how long your anxiety spike lasts, tell me what compulsions you perform when you have a spike, and how long you have been suffering with your OCD. I am going to list my OCD information right alongside you guys. As a group I want to use your personal information to try to unravel this mess we call OCD. I think this could be a start in the right direction. Thanks in advance! My drawing all of this out I want to see if I can find a common link that connects everybody’s subtypes and symptoms. I will happily share with all of you any insight or brainstorms I can come up with. Any and all help is welcome!
That's a nice gesture, i'm willing to help out when I can. Let me know.
Hang in there don’t believe everything your mind tells you.
Thanks man
You don’t control your thoughts but you control how you react to them.choose not to
If you have a thought of eating your feases Would you eat them or you just dismiss it as a thought ? take others the same and let them go no matter what bodily sensations they produce.They are just thoughts and disregard what other pple think of you you are alone to fight this.ALL IN A POSITIVE WAY
Thank you man. I usually go on here to comment and see if I can help someone else and that gives me a new light on who I am as a person. Thanks alot for the support
You’re absolutely right about that!
It prooves that we are one and our brains ? love and respect us .They want to protect us no matter what,keep is out of danger.It sends all unimaginable scenarios,DONT FORGET THATS WHAT THE BRAIN DOES IT DOESN’T KNOW THAT YOU HAVE OCD .Just don’t believe and let it go no matter the urgency of analyzing and ruminating DONT FALL IN THE TRAP.Yes it’s in your head and it feels real but it’s all anxiety it’s misfiring in your brain ? and you don’t have control over that,so no matter how it feels follow your values not your thoughts ? luv you
I'm like worried in the background now that people will tell me they never felt like this and I'm crazy... -.-
Thank you FHFF!! I will let you know when I’m ready!
Ive gotten over some bad ocd episodes that have lasted months and months and i was so so happy when i realized it was achievable to overcome such an illness,but this time around it feels different i thought i had gone through everything but no theres always more,theres always the next intrusive thought,my intrusive thought this time that got me back in the dark ocd hole was,”what if i just stopped thinking”,it sounds so stupid and i didnt pay it much mind at first but then it popped back into my head and it told me “but what if everytime im about to think about something,i realize it and stop thinking about what i was thinking about.”this has made me feel so alienated in life,life feels grey and dull ive never had a thought stick around for so long its been 3 months and i havent heard anyone have anything similar too this i wake up every day scared of whag else my mind can bring to me to torment me and its so depressing in here.i cry a lot now thinking about the old me i used to be when i was happy and ocd free but I genuinely dont think i can live like this for long.Sorry for writing a whole essay but its the only way i could express what im feeling right now plz say something below.
My OCD has been a little better since I started this whole journey with therapy. The one thing I’m really struggling with is my anxiety. It used to be that my anxiety was fueled by OCD thoughts. It seems to have shifted though to just everyday life. I don’t even feel like I’m thinking about anything yet I have fear everywhere. I feel like I don’t know how to tackle this as it’s new territory. Living with this all day long fear has really started to take a toll depression wise. Just curious if anyone else has had a period like this. Any tips would super help.
I have this issue that I need help with and I would like to hear if anyone else has gone through something like this along with any tips. A few months back I had what was arguably my worst OCD episode in my whole life, it lasted a whole week, in this week I felt nothing but constant anxiety and obsession over this thought, it was like nothing in life mattered except this thought and that lead me to really become disconnected from what’s around me and become so occupied in my own head. After this week, I felt extremely numb and disconnected from myself and my identity which lead me to go down a spiral of disconnection and I had a lot of nostalgic sadness due to thinking “I miss the old days when things were so simple and I didn’t have severe ocd” and this caused me to become very sick of ocd thoughts to the point of suppressing them. Now it’s been quite some time and I have become much calmer but I still feel 2 main things from this extremely bad OCD episode that have stuck with me. 1) I feel extremely disconnected from my identity, my thoughts and emotions, I cannot name my emotions nor embrace them anymore and I can’t think straight (brain fog). 2) that sense of continuous background anxiety that I experienced in that week in my bad OCD episode has stuck with me and now I feel that anxiety all the time for no particular reason along with feeling dull, sad and disconnected. I feel like I have unresolved emotions and experiences from all this but at the same time I feel like I can’t point out anything specific that is causing me to feel this way. I have searched up symptoms for generalised anxiety disorder because of my continuous anxiety but I do not seem to match any of the symptoms, in fact I currently never feel anxious about anything except things related to my bad OCD episode. Please do not hesitate to leave any helpful comments if you have any :) and thank you in advance.
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