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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
I'm here for you too. Often times life feels too hard to continue when I don't see a way out, but I hope you keep fighting. We could just lay down and accept it. Life has no guarantees, but a chance at something better has to be worth trying. Keep going, it's f ing hard but just keep going. One thing at a time.
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- 5y ago
Love what you said... ❤️
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- 5y ago
I understand this. I always try to imagine myself with someone who’s ocd has affected them as much as its affected me and that we’d always be there for each other
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- 5y ago
Yes, I've thought about this too. But it must be tough to find people with ocd out there, mustn't it? Mostly because no one talks about this illness casually - Only in apps like this people talk about it openly outside of therapy. So I guess it would really be lucky to find someone so specific when we seem to be hidden out there. It's really sad that pure O themes are so tabu and hard to be understood. That's why no one really knows how hard it is to deal with ocd.
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- 5y ago
It's rough but me and the people on this app care and want to see you get better. I overthink what seems like for literally everything and about the weirdest things so your not alone. But you have to dare to think positive about yourself. You will find someone you will live happy. Everyone latches on the bad stuff cuz if it was good it wouldn't bother you at all. I need to think more positive about myself. Sometimes I can give plenty of advice but never take any. Head up girl. You got this
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- 5y ago
Thank you so much for both advices. It made my eyes fill with tears. Sometimes all we need is someone to listen and maybe comfort us, and tonight you were here for me. I'm grateful. It's very easy to drown in negativity when it's all your mind can come up with, both when awake and asleep, so receiving a bit of attention from people who undestand what we go through from time to time (not trying to sound like an attention seeker) can be really nice.
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- 5y ago
Aw wish I could give you a real hug. I don't know you, but I genuinely care for you and the others on this app because I see myself. A lot of us are here, so if you ever need to talk or vent we're here. ?
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- 24w ago
I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
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- 18w ago
hi. so one big factor of my OCD is rumination. i met a guy who i have a crush on the idea of (idea bc there are red flags). my biggest fear is not finding true love, my ex told me no one else would deal with what i have (my ocd, specifically reassurance seeking and getting overstimulated after intimacy). a few weeks ago, my friends and family all gathered and tried to give me advice that sounded like “you’re shy and you’ll never find someone.” after that, i’ve felt off. i’ve been using an unhealthy coping skill, daydreaming, and i’ve just felt unbalanced. my ocd makes everything feel different sometimes, i can’t explain it. life, myself, almost like being in a dissociated state. has anyone else experienced that? i don’t know how to remain balanced during my off times and i know pms exasperates it all. i take ashwaghanda and omega 3s in a multi vitamin daily. i take them all together in the evening but i’ve missed three days recently and also messed with my rocky sleep schedule because of fun times with friends. i hope these supplements work, because i don’t know if i’d be brave enough for medication. i had a bad reaction on prozac and often am forgetful. i just have been battling my OCD consciously for almost ten years now and unconsciously for longer. i am so tired, as my mental health extends beyond my OCD. i’m in talk therapy with some cbt aspects but i only see her twice a month. i’ve broken down so many times and promised myself id get on track or that certain things would work, but it’s like i am stuck in a circle that gets smaller when i’m able to help myself. i just want to be normal. i want to be able to mess up my sleep schedule to enjoy good times and not suffer horrible consequences or fear that i will be entirely thrown off balance. i don’t want to worry or doubt or feel so dissociative that i squint my eyes for a moment and wonder why i feel so unreal. i will never understand why god has allowed me to go through this. i cannot let it be for nothing but i don’t know how much more to bend and contort my body and brain to get somewhere stable but how lovely it would be if i could. i don’t have much of a schedule right now, i get apathetic and give in with things from time to time. one thing can trigger me and i am back to square one wether in a week or month. any advice, any and all is so helpful. your stories, your thoughts. maybe feeling less alone and knowing what has helped you is exactly what i need right now. thank you 💗
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- 13w ago
My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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