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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
This is classic OCD. I struggle from so many intrusive thoughts and those intrusive thoughts tell me I want to do them. But you are giving into a compulsion by taking these quizzes and looking online. Take no more quizzes, limit yourself. I know this sounds so uncomfortable and will suck but it will makes things better. I promise.
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- 6y ago
I’m 99% sure you do not have BPD. Ocd makes you terrified of everything including being terrified you don’t just have OCD
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- 6y ago
I used to do that! Okay. People with BPD do not take quizzes online to see if they have it ... I used to google for houuurrrsssss on end - this is a classic symptom of OCD. Have you started to see a therapist yet? Getting it out and having someone understand and help you deal with thoughts on a regular basis is so helpful and important! You get mad easily and react because your body is in fight or flight mode (from the anxiety and OCD) I agree to stop taking quizzes. Do something else to busy yourself, read, go for walk, call a friend, get creative with art supplies, play a game, bake... those have been things that helped ground me when I was having a really hard time.
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- 6y ago
I’m so sorry Naeun I misunderstood your post! :( I had thought you meant bipolar. I didn’t want to reassure you but I wanted you to know that even if you did that it’s okay. But also notice... you are compulsively taking tests ?! Ocd likes to you to think it’s you working and not it... I think the more you see it as it works the less scared you will be about the other possibilities. If it makes you feel better, I do the same thing... I don’t want another thing wrong with me either.... But truth be told there is nothing really “wrong” with us. We are just wired a little differently than most, and maybe there are good qualities in that too ?.
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- 6y ago
BPD is common comorbid with OCD, they have some overlapping symptoms. My doctor has been talking to me about that possibility as well. There is a spectrum to BPD. Initially I was pretty distraught because I didn’t want one more “thing wrong with me”. The verdict is still out. But whether you do or don’t that doesn’t mean anything about you personally... it’s all about you getting better regardless of what the tests say. Detach from that idea, so what if I have that... who cares... (Still share your concerns with your therapist) but know that you don’t have to attach to the upsetting thoughts.
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- 6y ago
I read bpd symptoms and I sound like some of them so now I'm scared too! ?
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- 6y ago
^bipolar disorder
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- 6y ago
@Dee that’s my fear I don’t want anything else wrong with me because I have severe harm ocd and *trigger some serial killers had borderline personality disorder so you can see where my fear is coming from... and gosh I don’t wanna worry about having bipolar now also ... it’s diff for other people.. I know you can be strong about t but no matter how hard I try I can’t.
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- 25w ago
I’ve been feeling really really depressed the past few days due to health concerns. I’ve been really feeling down like not wanting to be here anymore and it’s scaring me. I was in the doctor’s office this morning and I got a scary thought that said maybe I should just k*ll someone in here instead of k*lling myself. Then the thoughts continued… this man walked past and I thought “hurt him” I obviously wouldn’t want to hurt anyone let alone a bug on the sidewalk, but the thoughts began to overtake me and I had a panic attack. It’s still bothering me and I’m still scared it’s real and that I’m going crazy. This happens to me a lot after I watch a documentary about someone who hurt someone else. I begin to think I am somehow going to go crazy like the person in the documentary and hurt someone. Although I don’t want to .. I would never ever want to hurt anyone.
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- 20w 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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- 15w ago
I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but when I learned more about it, I never related to anything more. A little back story: when I was younger, there were a couple of youth suicides in my area and the schools felt the need to have someone come in and talk about suicide. Well the person they had come in did a horrible job teaching it and basically made it seem like the smallest negative emotion or feeling or change in behavior made you suicidal. This ended up scaring me so much that I got horrid anxiety. Fast forward to now, Everytime I feel anxiety and panic, I fear I'm going to kill myself. Everytime I feel down and depressed, I fear I'll end it all. I'm scared to be around anything sharp because the "What if" I hurt myself comes into my mind. There are always intrusive thoughts at almost every point of the day. And it's not only for me. Everytime I hear someone being negative, I fear they will be suicidal. I know in my heart that none of this is true but it's terrifying me that it's stuck around so much that it makes me scared that maybe it is true. I've had a lot of death in my family in the past year and a half and a lot of other family drama that I'd never had before that is now also bringing up existential intrusive thoughts. And I'd never questioned anything about life before but now I get the "why is life like this?" and "does anything we do matter?" and I hate it. I don't want to think like that. I just want to go through life being able to handle things normally again. It terrifies me even right now going "what if you give up?"
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