Anonymous
- Date posted
- 8y
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 8y
A way that helped me was talking about fight or flight responses. When you're in a dangerous situation, you get filled with adrenaline and have an intense feeling of panic/anxiety. Picture this feeling of a loss of control and total and utter fear, except it's over something others may find very small, or even pointless. What we then try to do it escape that, wether it be through washing hands or counting or rearranging or whatever. We will not stop being on edge until we've done it properly, that is our way of getting "in control" of our heads, even if we recognise that this behaviour is unhealthy.
jgwasherejgwashere
- Date posted
- 8y
There are some really good personal accounts of OCD if you search for them (short / personal experiences on OCD) and you could always have her try to read some of those to see what it's like for you if you find some you resonate with
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 8y
I know that was a huge generalisability but it may help her understand a little, best of luck ❤️
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 8y
I agree with whoever suggested the videos. They're an incredibly powerful tool, so much so that they're often used nowadays for legit teaching purposes. I showed one to my mom (who joked about occasionally having "OCD brain") and I think it really put things in perspective for her. She hasn't used OCD as an adjective ever since.
Mjs110160Mjs110160
- Date posted
- 8y
Ya I have some advice, especially since my family was the exact same. 1) There are some really good videos that show what suffering from OCD feels like. You can show here those. 2) I often like to use analogies that my family can understand. For instance, if you told your mom "imagine a woman who was terrified that she may accidentally drop and hurt her newborn baby, so she avoided it completely".
AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 8y
Do you all have any links to videos that helped?
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nae nae
- Date posted
- 23w
Grounding techniques?
I can't focus on anything but my thoughts. I'm so inside my head, and my mom always tells me to focus on my body and my surroundings, but I can't, or maybe I just don't know how. I try to, but it doesn't help. The thoughts are still there :(
flowerpetals
- Date posted
- 20w
very upset
my mom has been on this adhd kick where she thinks everyone has adhd instead of what they actually have because apparently it can present itself as anxiety. well i told her i was taking prozac because that’s something she needs to know since i still live at home. and she’s fine with it because it’s my choice. however, she comes into my room because she sent me a video about adhd. in the video, at the end, it says “girls with adhd may develop perfectionist or obsessive compulsive tendencies.” THEN, she has the audacity to tell me my compulsions didn’t start to show until after high school when that isn’t true at all. i just never talked about it, but of course she doesn’t believe me. i just feel so invalidated because after all of the hell i’ve been through, to be told i don’t have what i most certainly am positive i do have is atrocious. i would lose my mind if i was told i didn’t have ocd because of the intrusive thoughts i get that make me feel like a terrible person. i feel like being told that sets me back so far and makes me want to thought spiral a bit. i’m so upset.
Anonymous
- Date posted
- 20w
PLEASE HELP!?? ADVICE NEEDED⭐❌⚠
Okay so my parents don't really handle my ocd that well. For starters my contamination is getting worse (I'm 14) and keep exisivly washing my hands, or using toilet roll which is unfortunately really common. Now they are getting angry at me for using too much toilet roll... What do I do? There saying I'm ruining there lifes because of my ocd. I'm making there lifes miserable. And they don't COMMUNICATE or sit down with me and look me in the eyes and try sort it out WITH ME. they just go "STOP USING SO, MUCH TOILET ROLL" "you've broke another headset" "WE ARE ALLOWED TO BE PISSED AT YOU" and I'm getting self harm urges because there making me out to be such a bad person. Which obviously doesn't mix well with ocd.
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