- Username
- lyndal
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yes, Mine switches almost every 10 minutes. If not less time.
That is normal! 1. OCD wants to torture you. That is its one goal. So, if it schemes up a new thing to torture you with, it WILL. So in that way new obsessions can come about. 2. Sometimes old obsessions just drop off and fade away, and that's a good thing! Don't worry about that, it's less burden on you. Now usually it will replace the old obsessions with something new, but a young obsession is the most vulnerable! If you can do your erp to pounce on a newly forming obsession, you can kill it before it matures and becomes a bigger problem! So, expect that ocd WILL change because it wants to invent new ways to torture you. What can you do about this? You Have the power! Practice erp and anything else (mindfulness, meditation,etc) that actually fights OCD. Then, when a new obsession emerges, you with your fine tuned erp skills can jump in and slash the newest tentacle that your ocd has spawned and as such reduce your obsession count.
I'm so sorry you're going through that:( I don't know how to help since I can't be there for you in person but if I could be I would be there with cookies in a flash!! If you feel like you have nothing to lose, then surely it would hurt to call the suicide helpline! At least try it instead of laying in bed, just to hear someone's voice! I believe in you friend and I am sending all kinds of positive thoughts your way :) Soemthing that also helps me when I feel my lowest is chibird, try looking up chibird on Google and look at all the sweet drawings of animals that are cheering you on :)
Rachel does rock! Including everyone else here on this app if they just?? in themselves! I want to buy chibird stickers now and put them everywhere in my house! Whenever I am having trouble or feel stuck I remember the voices or stories of people on this app being brave, scared, or just "being there" for other strangers. I imagine your voices in my head although I've never met anyone on this app in person, but it gives me strength to move on. That we are all holding onto the same common thread. I don't get to have this type of support anywhere else that I am aware of. At this point in my life, I've got nothing left to lose (yes, I just quoted from a U2 song) so at some point we all need to take a brave step forward. After all, "life is just a classroom" (yes, a Taylor Swift lyric); we get to live our lives the way we want to.
Mine has changed over 5-6 strong themes in the last month changes by the day between them
Thank u everyone ❤️❤️
Dear @lyndal, please read the email sent to you from NOCD at any mention of self harm or suicide thoughts, actions. The email will provide referral support. Please also reach out to your support persons, dial 911 or go to the nearest emergency room if you have any thoughts of self harm or suicide. NOCD cares about your safety.
@rachelrocks7 thank you for responding, I honestly feel suicidal at this point cause I can’t control my emotions anymore and I I’m just laying bed watching life pass me by, I’m sick of everything
Surely it would NOT hurt to call the suicide helpline, excuse my typo
Yes. Some can be Added to my main ones and leave but main ones always there. I get obsesses on body parts. God. Death. Aging
Hi, I have struggled quite badly with relationship ocd for about a year now and am always getting new worries coming and going at different times. Was just wondering if anybody here ever creates situation in their head like: ‘how would I react if an ex partner or someone else wanted something to happen between us’. Even though I know I would never do anything as I am very happy with my current partner the more you question the deeper into the intrusive thoughts you get. I can tell it’s stemmed from ocd as it just randomly popped up recently and took off really quickly in my head, I still become obsessed in my mind with things like: ‘why am I thinking that’ ‘I shouldn’t think that if I’m with someone else’ even though I know it’s the ocd I find it very hard to differentiate and not ruminate. Thanks everyone
Hi everyone had a question I am 42 years old until about 7 months ago my ocd has become so bad almost debilitating. I think I have had ocd since my mid 20s but it was barely there and it would sometimes almost be non existent and I didn’t even know it was ocd until I was diagnosed four months ago It was always my family getting hurt especially at night I was convinced that someone would break in the house and murder us. Or a fire would start but j would just check the doors and stove appliances a few times before bed nothing to time consuming and I never had panic attacks or the physical symptoms of anxiety, I did do weird rituals like I blessed things that fell on the floor because I thought something bad may happen to my kids which seems strange and I would put clothes away a certain way or again something bad would happen and I hated the number 6 so the volume can never be on 6 things like that. When I type if I didn’t get the word right the first time I’d have to erase the whole word and start over sometimes the whole sentence which was super annoying! But since I had my daughter 4 years ago I would have this weird fear with knifes like only I could wash them and put them away or someone may accidentally stab themselves or someone else, and I began to get intrusive images of someone trying to hurt my daughter or someone would kidnap her or she would stop breathing at night but it all was pretty tolerable until out of the blue I had a really bad intrusive images of me hitting her in the head with my phone it’s scared me so bad I had a panic attack and started questioning why would I think that?! Then a week went by and another intrusive image of me hurting her and then eventually it was anything and everything in my house could be weapon to hurt her i was terrified I googled it and realized it was intrusive thoughts and it was harm ocd 😞I have been really struggling since and that was 6 months ago I try to tell myself that they are just thoughts and it’s just my brain being hyper vigilant to protect her but I fear that the more I have them I will do them in my sleep And the physical sensations of anxiety and panic attacks are unbelievable sometimes Can anyone relate to their ocd becoming worse almost overnight later on in life I want my life back I’m so sad I’m scared to sleep at night I just want this all to go away Any tips it’s hard not to react to the thoughts when it is about harming your own child who I love soooo much And please tell me this is ocd
I developed ocd only after having my first baby. Postpartum ocd. It never went away and i’ve had it on and off ever since. I have a question..If you are so focused and stuck on an intrusive thought and you tell yourself over and over “it isn’t real because you’ve never had these kind of thoughts before it’s just the ocd” and then suddenly a random memory pops up from before the baby but this time its different than you remember and now you are having an ocd thought in the memory but you know you never had ocd before the baby..can ocd change a memory and add something to it to fit the lie the ocd is trying to convince you of? Has this happened to anyone else?
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