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Thank you I’ll give it a go I’m not working at the moment, so I need some structure, so hopefully I can adjust and get back to work ?? and I’m a guy I used to do a lot of weight training so maybe I could start again
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Very common form of ocd, they bother you because you’re a good person, if they didn’t that either means you’re used to them and can ignore them or something worse. Meditate and breathe whenever these thoughts occur, clearing out your headspace till your brain associates these thoughts with your mind being cleared out right afterwards. Do not stress or react I repeat do not get triggered by these thoughts or your emotions will fire off along with your fight flight response like a bullet. It feels weird at first not reacting you just need to sit through it for a while and it will fade away, with each time you do it over a gradual period it will be weaker and weaker and thus easier and easier. Exposure response therapy, lot of science and research behind it recently, no brained concept
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It does bother me greatly but sometimes I find myself less disturbed by some thoughts and that just makes my anxiety flair up even worse. I told my mom things were getting worse tonight and she said tomorrow we can go somewhere and see what we can do since my therapy isnt helping and it's getting worse. I remember I used to be a pretty depressed person, but I loved other people way more than myself, but now with these thoughts and the feelings and sensations they bring me I feel like a freak.
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There might be else something going do you get spells of depression as well
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I feel more fed up than depressed I feel like I’m going insane
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Honestly it’s awful at times I’m still haveing constant panic attacks as well. I feel like I’m constantly questioning every thought! It’s so tiering
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Are u suffering from mania or depression this app doesn’t provide everything we need they need to make a better one
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I haven’t shown any signs of mania I don’t do anything that resembles mania or spending money up for days extremely happy all of a sudden.. and I can get out of bed and do stuff but I would say I’m depressed due to what I’m struggling with
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Describe the delusional thoughts I know they’re delusional so I have at least fair insight, ocd is associated with severe beliefs that resemble pysychosis but aren’t psychosis as in meds for psychosis won’t work. They could be really bad cognitive distortions, describe the nature of your thoughts it may not be delusional disorder or psychosis and can be challenged with CBT
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U know they’re delisionsal and have fair insight*
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Were to start lol.. I’ll have thoughts like time moves really fast why’d it morning one minute then night the next.. why does my food disappear.. why when I write words appear. What if I start to think I’m god.. what if it’s something more serious.. what if I harm my daughter.. what if I stabbed my self.. what if I can change my memory’s. what if I’m hearing voices.. I can be watching and video and think what if I rapped her.. what if the tv starts to talk to me.. what if I see someone and there not really there.. when I see stuff in my minds eye I think I can’t remember doing that before the panic disorder!
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I know there all irrational thought I think I’m more scared I’ll start to believe them
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No if you’re worried about them then u wont do it anymore than someone who does do it you actually have an overly guilty conscience which is a good thing meaning u won’t do it though the stress is burdensome. All those horrible things u think of do you “worry” about doing those things or do you enjoy the thoughts or laugh at them or worse plan them out. I’m assuming you’ve never done any of these things and if you haven’t there’s no practical reason to think about it, it won’t happen and if it does you can worry all you want when it is about to happen otherwise you’re wasting your life, your mind, and your wellbeing. Think about more productive thoughts even if they’re worrisome but have them be positive and rewarding in nature that’ll help you in the long run and surround yourself with good. When you wear rose tinted sunglasses you’ll see the roses and you’ll be able to reach for them, pluck them, and enjoy them. Surround yourself with things that matter most to your survival, not those that can cause a threat, you won’t be able to prevent all of them real or imaginary as they have little power over your welfare and where you want to be at than u think they do. Set some goals to focus on in terms of what you want out of life and everything not necessary to it or gets in the way of, thus becoming relatively a distraction and with practice you can ignore the fears and see what’s really important. It takes a while to get out of your comfort zone and practice try it for a couple months including meditation where you don’t react to your thoughts at all you jut put it into a perspective that makes sense and let it fade away. The more you react the more your brain recognizes your reaction it gets out of you and the more it bombards you with it, especially if you find a little pleasure in these thoughts subliminally. You need to break out this cycle of rumination and thinking. Keep yourself preoccupied, read a book, exercise if you have to or have positive social interaction. If you find your mind idle like a devil’s workshop just sit relaxed, close your eyes, breathe through your nose, and perceive nothing but it and your body clear mindedly. The more you process this energizing and calming stimuli the stronger effects it has on the activity and wiring of your brain. After an hour a day for two months and your brain structure will change. Even when not meditating you’ll feel different when not doing it but you have to force yourself to change your routine and get out of that mental inertia. Then you can take things further and look at things differently and change your core beliefs and mindset before making changes in your lifestyle as your executive function will improve as well. You just have to make it like a part time job and it’ll get easier and better after that.
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Thank you ! it’s like my heads stuck in a loop of repetitive thoughts and questioning them constantly.. I try meditating but my head just goes to the voices on the videos I’ve watched it’s very annoying. Plus I spend all day questioning is it ocd
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Question if it’s ocd constantly is in and of itself the dounbting sickness the ancient philosophers who had OC were talking about. Utilize that brain for something productive it’s a double edged sword. Are you good at subjects regarding logic such as abstract thinking or math or technology?
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No my math is awful lol I know what you mean thou I need to keep myself more occupied.. at the moment I’ve just been crumbling in bed for the past 3 months
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Depression right there, start by breathing exercises and lots of insane stretching and meditation. It’s like an easy shortcut to the benefits of exercise use such as endorphins that indians came up with mainly towards the elderly and weak people. Drink plenty of green tea in the morning have someone lick you out of bed while the sun is rising so you can witness it and go for a walk and jog moving your way up to exercise. Look inside your body and mind and beware of any tiny benefit you’re feeling and remember it, it’ll motivate you more. Only go back home to eat shower bathroom and sleep. You need a life or to explore nature and the girl and for Christ’s sake get some exercise and fresh air/sunlight. Music and therapy including social motivation helps. Idk if ur a guy or not but cardio and even weightlifting enhance the fire within you. Force yourself constantly and eventually it will become easy and even automatic. Create a routine literally everyone will tell you that PhD or not
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Kick you out of bed srry
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Hey man, I've been getting harm instrusive thoughts about my family and sometimes people I see and it's been rough. Everyday feels like a struggle and honestly my headspace seems so clouded by them I feel like I'm losing touch with myself.
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Well you’re a compassionate person with a strong sense of moral guilt, no reason to feel bad by it. You need a lot of emotional support though it seems you could be an empathic person but otherwise you need some tlc to charge your batteries. Talk to friends, meditate, listen to music, LAUGH, or spend time with your girlfriend if you have one assuming you’re not too young but otherwise talk about it more with positive feedback. Keeping a smile on your face and laughing is key it’ll change what goes in your brain and allow you to interpret things differently
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I have a very supportive family and they wanna get me help which is why it's so hard for me, why would I have these thoughts about these people who care about me so much? I do hang out with friends a lot and I do try to engage in joking around and laughing but it doesnt always help, music also triggers my thoughts and abnormal feeling/thinking, which makes me very upset because I used to love listening to and working on music, but now it just opens my mind up to start thinking.. Sometimes I also feel like what IIf I smile and I'm happy and then a thought comes and I think that I'm smiling about that, fuck I hate this shit
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These are just intrusive thoughts don’t get stressed out by them or react to them, your mind is purposely bombarding you with these thoughts to see what kind of reaction it can get out of you, don’t let it win. Just detach yourself from your thoughts and only process sensory information as in your body and the world around you and constantly keep busy interacting with it. You’ll feel a certain part of your brain in the front being used and becoming stronger after that. That’s mindfulness meditation otherwise sit comfortably and focus on just your breath, notice the thought as they come by, tell yourself it’s just unnecessary neurons firing off that create that thought and nothing more, then shift your attention back to the breath like nothing happened
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I am diagnosed with OCD, ADHD, and mild depression. But my OCD symptoms are so prominent in my daily life where it feels debilitating. It comes in waves, there will be months with very minor symptoms and other times where it comes in random hitting me like a truck making me rethink life. I grew up having intrusive thoughts of all types, and a lot of them sent me over the edge because I couldn’t understand why things of such sort would cross my mind, things that I’m sure to this day that I’m incapable of or would never want to actually do. Yet I find myself in a constant cycle of trying to dig deep in the past and trying to figure out if I ever acted on any of the intrusive thoughts I can remember, yet ofc have no recollection of acting on them because they most likely didn’t happen. However, not having concrete proof of these things makes me not want to see another day sometimes. It is so hard to move into daily basis like this. I’m also in a happy healthy relationship and sometimes I get these thoughts of “what if I’ve done something awful during the relationship (for example, cheat, dishonesty, etc.) and can’t remember?” I know I would never do anything intentionally to harm my relationship and I think that maybe the idea of not having my partner sends me down a rabbit hole to think all these things. This mental fight is getting harder and harder. It feels unbearable. Does anyone have some fruit for thought, relate, or have any tips?
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I don’t even know where to start because there’s so much going on in my head and it feels like there’s so much evidence for every thought. Like my ocd feels like it doesn’t just have one specific theme it’s honestly every theme and it just switches throughout the day depending on the thoughts I have. This started all about a month ago, this whole ocd flare up. I’ve been diagnosed with ocd for about 3 years now and looking back on my childhood, I feel like I’ve had it for probably my entire life. My grandpa just recently died back in February and I feel like this whole ocd spiral is a result of dealing with grief especially because it didn’t even hit me for the whole month of April for some reason and things felt “normal”. But since this ocd flare up has started I’ve been constantly reviewing and revisiting my past, all my childhood memories and so many of them are terrifying which is weird because I never had a traumatic event hppen to me as a child. I feel like it’s always been “self-inflicted” trauma if that makes sense? My mind is telling me so many things related to so many topics like maybe I liked my family member as a kid and have just hid it to fit in with society? That my anxiety as a kid has caught up with me and I’m turning into a psychopath? That I’ve always been a creep and enjoyed looking at peoples privates or chests, etc but just ignored or allowed the thought this whole time. Also before this whole flare up I remember always feeling on autopilot and not really alive like everything I did I just felt numb about it. Which aids my ocd to tell me that these feelings are real and the thoughts are true and that I’m “waking up” or realizing or something. I haven’t felt such intense anxiety and distress since I was a kid and I didn’t even understand my own thoughts. It’s like I’m either hyper aware or totally unaware of what’s going on around me and it gets me thinking about my existence, personality, what my role in life is and like genuinely what I’m even doing in the moment like what’s the reason behind everything. I’m constantly questioning my intentions because I don’t know if they’re true or not and it’s like my ocd doesn’t even allow me to consider the thought it just jumps to conclusion. Like telling me I’m guilty before proven innocent. It honestly feels like so much at once to even simply call it ocd or anxiety because it feels like a crisis and any moment I could spiral and breakdown completely. Going to school everyday feeling like anytbing could trigger a panic attack at any moment makes me feel like I can’t be left alone with my thoughts. And like overall since I got down this rabbit hole, my first obsession was harm to myself, then it was harm to others specifically my family, then it was being a pervert or pedo, or being attracted or someone or something I shouldn’t be, which then makes me question my existence and who I am along with also being hyper aware of my facial movements like my eyebrows, nose, etc. Like why does ocd have to involve itself in every aspect of my life? It feels like there’s always something wrong that I need to fix.
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Hello, I’m new to this app. I’ve always had an anxious brain, and I’ve had coping mechanisms for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, from as early as I could spell, until I was probably early teens, I would constantly write words in my head along to the beat of music. It’s such a vivid memory because I never stopped doing it. The word had to perfectly match up to the lyric and I loved that it kept my brain busy. I grew out of that, but felt like good context. My anxiety increased drastically around ages 17-19, and I began therapy. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety and panic disorder, due to having a panic attack nearly every day at that time. I overcame that as well, and now the panic attacks are every now and then, but the anxiety is constant, and some recent symptoms have led me to believe I might have some form of OCD. Maybe not. I’m trying to understand myself and get better so I joined this app to make sense of things. Lately I’ve been having really intense intrusive thoughts. I’m really embarassed and they make me feel like a bad person. Thoughts pop in my head seemingly out of nowhere. It will be an image of me harming myself or someone else in a really bad way. (Trigger warning) for example the other day I couldn’t shake the image of me putting a knife through my own forehead, although it’s not something I want to do. Or I’ll imagine someone killing me. I imagine my loved ones dying often. The thoughts feel so out of my control it’s insane. I hate them. Another persistent issue that isn’t as new is replaying social scenarios. I’m a hairstylist so this one is difficult since I meet a bunch of new people every day. I obsess over how I act and if people like me. I will impulsively say things all the time and they will haunt me for weeks. I question even my closest friends and family who show their love. I find myself so angry and numb and like I have so much built up emotion and a busy mind always. While doing my job I spiral really badly if any little thing goes wrong and it’s embarassing. I know there’s more but I can’t think of it now. I just want to feel better and like I’m not constantly battling my mind.
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