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Well, I find mine hurts the most near the end of an intense episode/afterwards. I think it’s your brain saying that it’s working much harder than it needs to be over something that it doesn’t need to be worried about! You’re straining your head when you worry, so when it’s extra intense and obsessive (so at a constant for the most part), it doesn’t get much of a break. Your body is practically punishing you because you won’t let it relax. I find it reassuring and use it as a reason to calm myself :-)
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Thank you guys, I love reading things like this and knowing I’m not alone ❤️ I have symmetry and ordering sort of OCD and we’ve just redecorated our study in my house and changed every piece of furniture and I’ve just taken over and wanted to be the one to organise it all to make me feel better and I’ve stressed so much by the end internally that I’m now sat in a dark room wanted to cry/cradle my head! But I couldn’t have just let go and let someone else do it! You guys are very reassuring x
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I would experience horrible, horrible headaches when I first started having intrusive thoughts a few months ago, so I definitely know what you mean.
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@Sarah26 I’m so glad I found this app to be honest! It’s great knowing I am not alone and “crazy”.
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Absolutely! It feels like a migraine. I just look at it as my body telling me to stop worrying so much and calm down.
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Is it your bodies way of just giving you a break in the midst of it? Cuz right now its much quieter after that episode!
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- 25w
I’ve been feeling a bit stressed lately because my intrusive thoughts aren’t causing as much anxiety as they used to. It almost feels like I’m becoming a little numb to them, and because of that, I’m able to engage with them a bit longer. I don’t feel the usual rush of anxiety to pull away, and in some strange way, I even find myself focusing on them for a few seconds, like I’m actively thinking about them. It’s really stressing me out because I feel like by not feeling that immediate discomfort or anxiety, I’m letting the thoughts stay longer or giving them more power. I feel like part of me almost wants them to be there, and I don’t know if that’s a bad sign? They don’t even feel intrusive. Has anyone else experienced this? I’m just worried that the lack of anxiety is the reason I’m interacting more with these thoughts that would normal scare me. I feel guilt about it later. I am currently withdrawing from medication so that may contribute to this but it’s not the first time I experience this :/
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- 22w
Is the following happening to anyone else? - that a certain facial expression of a person to whom ocd is attached causes a lot of thoughts that are connected to that facial expression, and that the images in your head are very detailed, and that they have a voice, say, and that you have a feeling of some kind of crawling from the groin all over your body?
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