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If I were you I would tell your therapist this. He will have suggestions you can do to take control when these moments happen.
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I have very similar symptoms. I agree with your doctor. Although very difficult, facing the scary thoughts is likely your best bet. My therapist has taught me to think whenever a scary thought comes to mind, or a doubting thought comes to mind to say in my mind “Yep, maybe.” You will know that you are really just saying this to yourself for the effect, but the point is that you are also actually allowing the fear to be there and agreeing that “it could actually happen” and by not fighting it with a compulsion or whatever, you are basically doing an ERP and an ACT.
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By not paying attention to them requires technique you must learn. Mindfulness teaches you this. Learn to meditate and learn to accept your issues.
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I paid for a few therapy sessions and it was then that I realised that I don’t need help in coping with this. It actually becomes a blessing in disguise, OCD. Once you learn how to handle, cope, etc... with it and you’ll tackle anything life throws at you. You will beat this. I’m living proof of it. It’s hard, but life is hard and it has many imperfections. No one on this planet is perfect, absolutely no one. Good luck with your life and be persistent with everything you do.
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Yes as paradox as it’s seems sometimes your worst curse can become your best blessing. Thank you for all your support, I need to go for work. Have a great day and stay strong!
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Many thanks I will try to do it today and see how it goes and I will also talk with my therapist about this. Thank you both for your advice!
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Thanks again everyone for your advice. I am currently reading the book ‘The Mindfulness Workbook For OCD’ and it’s very helpful. I don’t know if anyone of you experiencing this. Sometimes when I have bad days and I manage to not give attention to the thoughts I experience only the feeling of fear. It feels like a big wave of anxiety passing through by brain and body. On that current time I have this urge to turn inside and start the rumination of what is going on with me, the urge to figure it out, to understand what it seems to be an anxiety attack and urge to give meaning to this feeling to explain it. And behind this feeling it always has a constant feeling of huge fear and panic. Yesterday I had this crisis again in my work but I manage to not analyze it and to accept it as symptom, it was not a nice feeling, but after 1-2 hours it went away without really understanding how. The point is that I understand that the more I react on these feelings the more I analyze them the bigger the crisis it is the more I suffer. It’s like we need to find more hope more power in our most frightening state, it’s defenetly not easy, but accepting this fear without engaging with it, is let more helpful than trying to analyze it and understand it. Sorry if it doesn’t make any sense, and thanks for the support. Have a great day!
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It makes sense. You just need to allow the OCD and anxiety to dwindle in your body. You can’t fight it or avoid it, it feed the beast that it is. Leave it be and make amends with it, it does not know how to fight against a state of tranquil understanding. It’s hard, but it’s also manageable. Allow the pain to be there, it gets easier when you realise fighting against it does not help. See it as a passing cloud in the sky, allow it to float on by without acting on it.
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Thanks a lot for your comments, its actually very difficult to not engage with these urges especially when your are on this panic state, but I agree with you, I prefer to give me full power on not engaging with it, and accepting without analyzing, rather than turning inside and start doubting because as it seems it’s only make this feeling worst and giving it more power. I really thank you all for your comments, today I have a session with my therapist so hopefully I will be able to work more in my acceptance of all of these symptoms and learn more on how to not react on them.
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And learn the art of not giving a F***. Trust me, this is key to surviving.
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Thanks a lot, I also had survive OCD, and was free of it for a few years, and I also had the same insight. That OCD can sometimes be a monster but it can also become a blessing. Through OCD I learn to face all my fears, I learn to open up to people, to ask for help, to understand that’s ok to not be perfect, to forgive myself and other people and really love and apreciate live and small moments. Now through a stressful event my OCD is back and again I felt lost, l felt that all tha had work that I did the last years was lost, but it’s a phase that is will pass and hopefully one day soon I will have the same view as you are experiencing now. The one thing that I realize, it’s that when you have OCD you cannot hold things inside, unresolved issues, because your OCD attacks these issues, so my blessing is with OCD is that although I suffer a lot I always need to work and heal any issues inside me. When I heal these issues OCD starts to fade away, I don’t know if it makes senses but this how I overcome it the first time.
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Yeah it all makes sense. OCD makes you into a truer person, makes you wear your heart on your sleeve and speak your mind. And this is where it is a blessing because it makes you be the person you are destined to be and if people don’t like that... it’s there problem.
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JoshJRS - I am wondering your opinion? I have always thought that really bad OCD, which I have, and always have, has to be every bit as bad as having a lifelong disease, or anything along those lines. Is that your take?
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hi. so one big factor of my OCD is rumination. i met a guy who i have a crush on the idea of (idea bc there are red flags). my biggest fear is not finding true love, my ex told me no one else would deal with what i have (my ocd, specifically reassurance seeking and getting overstimulated after intimacy). a few weeks ago, my friends and family all gathered and tried to give me advice that sounded like “you’re shy and you’ll never find someone.” after that, i’ve felt off. i’ve been using an unhealthy coping skill, daydreaming, and i’ve just felt unbalanced. my ocd makes everything feel different sometimes, i can’t explain it. life, myself, almost like being in a dissociated state. has anyone else experienced that? i don’t know how to remain balanced during my off times and i know pms exasperates it all. i take ashwaghanda and omega 3s in a multi vitamin daily. i take them all together in the evening but i’ve missed three days recently and also messed with my rocky sleep schedule because of fun times with friends. i hope these supplements work, because i don’t know if i’d be brave enough for medication. i had a bad reaction on prozac and often am forgetful. i just have been battling my OCD consciously for almost ten years now and unconsciously for longer. i am so tired, as my mental health extends beyond my OCD. i’m in talk therapy with some cbt aspects but i only see her twice a month. i’ve broken down so many times and promised myself id get on track or that certain things would work, but it’s like i am stuck in a circle that gets smaller when i’m able to help myself. i just want to be normal. i want to be able to mess up my sleep schedule to enjoy good times and not suffer horrible consequences or fear that i will be entirely thrown off balance. i don’t want to worry or doubt or feel so dissociative that i squint my eyes for a moment and wonder why i feel so unreal. i will never understand why god has allowed me to go through this. i cannot let it be for nothing but i don’t know how much more to bend and contort my body and brain to get somewhere stable but how lovely it would be if i could. i don’t have much of a schedule right now, i get apathetic and give in with things from time to time. one thing can trigger me and i am back to square one wether in a week or month. any advice, any and all is so helpful. your stories, your thoughts. maybe feeling less alone and knowing what has helped you is exactly what i need right now. thank you 💗
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Where do I begin with this…….. so my OCD has been around since childhood and has had many themes over the years. I only realised I have it just over 2 years ago. I’ve tried many things to help it not be such a monster and thought I had a good grip on it for a length of time until now! Some of my strategies have been acceptance, change of perception of thoughts and sometimes on hard days just telling myself that no matter what, I have to be brave and go out and live life. In the last few months I’ve developed none OCD related anxiety as well and so have been looking at ways to help with that. Sunday morning I was just casually scrolling TikTok and a video only about 30 seconds long or so comes up, seemingly a therapist of some kind, straight away the video began something like “you cannot replace a thought with another thought” along the lines of “you can’t THINK your way out anxiety” I don’t know the full context of the video it wasn’t long enough, I don’t know who the therapist was I didn’t look but now purely because of that one sentence my OCD has gripped onto it so badly and is trying to tear down some of my strategies because I have used changing my thought patterns a lot to help me, self compassion etc but now because of that video I’m struggling! I’m not looking for answers but I am just really upset and it feels like I’m in an impossible grip of OCD again
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