Can someone please help . My OCD is more about obsessive thoughts. I dont know how to catch myself on the obsessive thoughts. How to fix it. I mean that I have so many thoughts and my thoughts are spinning and spinning then I dont know how to find an actual topic of my thoughts.... and what caused an obsessive thought . I hope it makes sense . It feels lately like I dont think and I just have obsessive thoughts . I'm second day in a row drinking alcohol to feel tipsy and to stop having the thoughts but I dont wanna become an alcoholic . But it's an awesome feeling to stop thinking and being focused on painting ( cause I'm painting and drinking right now )

It has helped me to write it out into the SOS tool on this app and then follow the prompts. For some reason, when I get the thoughts out of my head and typed into the app or written out on paper, only then can I move forward with the present.

The answer is difficult because the thoughts won’t stop, they may become less and it’s just by accepting them, I know that’s hard but try saying to yourself let that thought go or thanks for that thought and just try to carry on with what you are doing. It takes a lot of practice but it’s the best therapy

I totally relate to what you mean when you say you have many thoughts that just spin and around and you then try to find out where it came from so you are not the only one! Although I do find it still very difficult it will only make things worse chasing the root cause of the worry, easier said than done hopefully it helps to know other people experience similar things.

Have felt this way before!

Seems like a chemical imbalance to me, i think you have too little gaba or too much glutamate activity which is why alcohol helps you it increases gaba while lowering glutamate. I recommend trying to find a way to modulate glutamate, nac is my recommendation and I also recommend myo inositol

I have ocd and i am a perfectionist so i have literally spended more than 50 hours maybe more not sure researching everything i can about ocd because i want to know everything i can possibly know to improve my situation

It doesnt make sense a bit . But my point is that how to stop thinking the thoughts and start thinking about the present . Cause I'm tired of thoughts that make me feel like zombie

Thank you

@starboiklem can it be a side effect on quitting of antidepressants? I started taking prozac in may last year , then I quit after 3 months, in October I was taking opipramol for two weeks cause I couldn't sleep . I felt like zombie on antidepressants , they helped for anxiety tho . Now I dont take anything and I started to feel more like myself before taking medicines but myself without anxiety . Except the fact that also more " imbalanced " . I also have problems with my sugar that is fluctuating . Sometimes when I eat something sweet like a pancake, I'll have to sleep for 3 hours no matter what time of the day it is. And also I take steroids to my nose cause I have abscess in sinuses . I'm going to psychiatrist today but polish doctors aren't the best in psychiatry so maybe you u have idea what should I ask the doctor or you have some tips ?

Well the fact that you quited antidepressants could indeed play a role in this. I think that you should say to your psychiatric that alcohol makes you feel normal because it clearly shows the problem as alcohol works in a simple way (boost gaba blocks ndma) so if that makes you feel normal you probably have an issue with gaba or glutamate. Unfortunately im not sure if psychiatrists know alot about that because the use of glutamate modulators like Nac is currently being researched for ocd treatment so im not sure if he is going to prescribe that to you, good news is you don't need prescription to buy nac and its 100% safe just don't use after drinking alcohol. Now if the doctor give you benzos id say be really careful because they will make the problem worse long term

Thanks for the information:) may I ask how do you know all these stuff ?

I ordered nac from the internet ? thank you very much . I'll start taking it this week :) . It sounds like it was rumination but useful one haha. Sometimes OCD can be helpful

https://youtu.be/-fbVgryAjFE I reccomend this as well :)

@starboiklem do you know maybe if i can use nac in the morning and then in the evening drink some wine ?

Actually nac helps with alcohol detox it allows your body to get rid of toxins like alcohol, the important thing is to use nac BEFORE drinking not after or during because it may hurt your liver. So as long as you take nac an hour before drinking you are good

I took one pill of it yesterday evening and i feel worse since then to be honest.

Well one pill once is nothing, you should wait atleast 8 weeks to see if it helps you and if it doesn't atleast you decreased inflammation and boosted your antioxidants which is good