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@emmspaigee thank you, I’ve already tried meds and they didn’t work, I feel atp my only option is exposure therapy but yeah it’s so draining

@heaven._6 Yes I would try the exposure therapy. If it helps, great. If it doesn’t, at least you tried it. But I do really think it will help you. Hugs!!!

@Dianne Mae Honestly, it’s a mix of a few different themes and it changes constantly.A lot of it is just an intense physical urge or tension where I have to keep doing a movement until it feels “just right”. But at the same time, my brain is hitting me with fears about making mistakes, and superstitious thoughts that something terrible will happen if I don't do the action.Because it's those themes happening back-to-back every couple of minutes, it just completely floods my brain

@heaven._6 I dealt with this yesterday. My urges and physical compulsions were so repetitive because I was chasing the “just right” feeling even with the most routine task of walking my cat in her stroller. That was literally all, and I had to keep repeating a movement with the stroller because I feared I shook it or lifted/landed it and it hurt her.. the weirdest thing and I probably looked like I had Tourette’s just trying to walk my cat and repeating a move with the stroller. And it’s never something I fixated on before but I made the mistake of compulsing. Because of course it was never just right. And I was never satisfied. So I ended up just trying to sit with the discomfort for what felt like hours as I went on with my evening. I feel your pain!

@Dianne Mae yea it truly sucks and with the Tourette’s thing my intrusive thoughts are so horrible where I have to yell “no” or twitch to make it stop I don’t have tourette’s but when I have to do a physical compulsion my body reacts

@heaven._6 I deal with physical tics too. I’ll shake my head to shake off an intrusive thought, or I’ll do a random weird wrist/hand movement because it somehow soothes the current anxiety in the moment. I was just telling my therapist about my weird tics this morning. It’s very random!