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I can relate to that My parents always say to my that I cry to much for ppl of my age, but OCD drives us crazy all the time, sometimes we are just on the edge and crying because of small things it’s pretty reasonable to me.
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Literally!!! Like ocd, the stress of life and then those tiny little tragedies like dropping your phone on the concrete; those are the moments I have no patience for.
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@ThreeLittleBirds Yes. OCD is pretty much mentally exhausting, but people outside your mind can’t really see how bad it is, so dealing with that PLUS normal daily problems is a lot. And crying over little things is just the result of all that.
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Yeah, it's like going from 1 to 100 in a second. I am amazed at people that have a solid hold of their emotions. I've seen people get screamed at in the face and just stand there all calm and answer calmly.... where as tiny things like inconveinances or a slight eye roll make me feel uncontrollable rage and distress. How do they do it?!
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Yes!!! Everyone else seems so stable and I’m just a ball of emotions trapped in a sealed soda can that’s been shaken. And the moments when I lose it over something small it’s like cracking the seal and it all comes roaring out in the form of me as a very broken, sobbing mess. I can wait to break down when I’m in my car or my room but when I do it’s like I’m letting everything out
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@ThreeLittleBirds Ok, I just watched this on yt and it was really quite sweet.. and a bit funny since you just mentioned you feel like a sodapop. https://youtu.be/8JdjEgZ4SC0 I'll be imagining my distress and panic the same way.
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@ThreeLittleBirds Let me know if you like it
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@blondehairyKrishna Bro that was so pure and calming. No one really talks about anger. , Being anxious 24/7 makes me a pissed off person I think. What that guy said was so true, you have to be mindful of your anger. Tonight I was having a hard time and wasn’t as nice to my family as I could have been. It’s not their fault. I need to remember that the pressure in the bottle goes down if I give myself some time and just close my mouth. That was powerful, thank you for sharing.
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I once sliced a pear off-center and spent the next hour sobbing about how i was a “failure.” So nope, you are not alone! Ocd can be pretty crazy sometimes, but we can get through it!
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Not having control at all times and being stressed is half the battle of getting through the day. And people don’t realize that when you’re carrying the wait of the world on your shoulders a small inconvenience can feel like the end of the world; almost to the point where you could just lay down and give up on life. And it can be over something as silly as losing your keys and finding them where you already looked. Haha Like stress can build up.
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@ThreeLittleBirds I totally feel you. But keep your head up, its not the end if the world, even if it feels like it! Life is worth it, even with all the stress. You’ll get through this!
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Yes and then I get angry then I get sad that I can’t calm down
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I had a moment like this today. I had to carry a bunch of groceries up to my apartment and in doing so I had to set them down on the floor because things were falling out of the bags. this triggered my contamination ocd and I instantly started ugly crying nonstop. I even had to call my boyfriend just to calm down, it really made me feel like a toddler who is incapable of controlling my emotions/handling slight inconviences. I think it is just the overwhelming thought of all of the compulsions that I’ll have to do in order to feel better.
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Yes!! You get it!! Lol like the absolute explosion of all the stress we’re holding on to just comes out at the slightest of frustrations and I can’t explain it to anyone who doesn’t suffer from anxiety disorders. It’s like we’re being strong so much of the time that our minds have to just throw a fit to get that toxic energy out of us.
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Yeah one little thing can spiral me down over every bad thing that’s happened in the last month and I end up having a huge dramatic meltdown
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I’m glad I’m not alone in this I was starting to wonder if I was just being dramatic but really it’s just the mind reaching a stress level and just releasing the energy in the form of tears and anger. It’s always funny when I look back like wow spilling my drink made me cry but in the moment I actually felt so helpless and frustrated
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@ThreeLittleBirds Yeah, old friend used to tell me I’m not being dramatic. It’s just pent up and released.
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Everyone is frustrating me at work and I’m about to crash out😭!! Maybe it’s how I grew up and have been gaslit a lot but does anyone ever feel like whatever they do they are in the “wrong?” I don’t know …my coworker made me feel like that. What’s wrong to her might not be wrong to me and vise versa. I just wanna scream and throw hands lol. I don’t know if anyone else feels like this. And they wanna have this conversation in front of customers and then I look like the “bad guy” 🙄. So over it. Workplace is toxic asf and I’m trying to find a new job but it seems impossible these days . I feel like I’m not the best at conversations on the spot. That’s why I keep quiet so ion look dumb, but both coworkers came up to me and approach me. I feel like I try and smile and nobody really smiles back. Or when I say thank you and go to places like ulta, all the girls are bitchy. It makes me think am I not smiling enough? Am I doing something wrong? Etc. Maybe it just the people I’m around . I just feel nothing but anger and I’m trying to calm down but I really just wanna go off
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whenever i loose something literally anything anyone has given me even if it is just the packaging that came with a gift i will start crying and get so mad at myself. i think the person who bought it for me will hate me. especially when i loose jewelry i look around my room for literally as long as possible and the whole day if that’s what it takes and it keeps me up at night. At camp, i thought i lost my waterbottle (when it was in my bag) and i went in my bunk bed and started crying. it was super late at night and everyone was sleeping and i feel bad bc i had to turn on a flashlight to look around the entire cabin for it. i even walked outside to the bathroom to see if i left it and tears were literally falling from my eyes when i couldn’t find it. the whole night i was crying and couldn’t think about anything else. it was just a water bottle that i could just buy again.
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Hi!! My names Calista R. Woodbury-Rabon. I recently got married in March of this year. And have been struggling with my severe anxiety disorder since I left my toxic 3 year relationship about a year ago. Over the past several months, I have noticed that I go through phases where: I have a full body “anxiety attack”. Or at least that’s what I call it. For example : when we went to cookout and they told us they were out of the chili for walking tacos. I had a full blown anxiety attack or at least what I thought was an anxiety attack and starting hyperventilating and crying. Therefore, the only solution (in my mind) was that I wouldn’t be able to calm down until I had the walking tacos. Another example : My husband bought me a pajama set that was only recently put out because it was a patriotic item which means that after the summer it’d be gone… I ended up picking up the wrong size. So that night when I went to put on the Pajamas and realized they were too small I started hyperventilating and crying. All because these $17 pajamas did not fit me and it was no fault of my own. Whenever this happens, I usually end up spiraling and crying and saying a lot at once very quickly. And I usually look crazy and don’t make a lot of sense. Usually after the spiraling is over with I’m very exhausted and usually will cry myself to sleep. My husband more often than not will say stuff like “it’s not that big of a deal you can get something else.” << when it has to do with food etc. OR “we can just buy another set of pjamas the next time I get paid.” << in relation to the pajamas in this instance. But honestly no matter what him or anyone else tells me in that moment. All that matters is that I can feel the anxiety in my bones. And I can’t breathe and in that moment my world as I know it has ended. I’ve tried taking online free “quizzes” to find out if I acctually have OCD and they’ve been negative. I also did some research and learned that you can have all the symptoms for a OCD “flare-up” but present no active case of OCD or symptoms. So I guess what I’m trying to find out is if I don’t have “OCD” than Is this out of body experience caused from my “severe anxiety disorder” diagnosis ? Or just anxiety in general?? Thank you for taking the time to read this even if you also aren’t sure!! Means a lot to me..❤️🩹
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