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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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I had to cancel my therapy because it was no longer available with my insurance. And I just kind of feel hopeless with OCD. Even when I was doing therapy, I think my OCD started getting too complicated for my therapist and she didn’t even know what to do. My fears are so complex it’s crazy. So my big fear is my OCD being bad and being super depressed again like I was a few months ago in high school. I attended a public highschool for a semester and started the worst flare up I’ve ever had. I was harshly bullied for no reason whatsoever, and not accepted by anyone. I am an athletic kid who usually keeps to himself so I didn’t understand why people targeted me, especially when I wanted nothing to do with them. From August to now ( March) I CANNOT grasp hold of my OCD. I am very hard on myself about it. Going into dangers anytime I see one so I can expose myself. But constantly obsessing about if I’m doing enough for my OCD. And comparing myself to how I use to be, before the flare ups. From the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep I’m obsessing about my OCD and if it’s bad and comparing. Another HUGE fear of mine is being treated differently because I have OCD. So being bullied for so long I always assumed it was because I was shy and didn’t want to stand up for myself - due to my OCD- so I blamed myself for everything that continued to happen, . from people bullying me in the past . The people at that highschool were downright crazy. Even the teachers and coaches had major issues and I’m so glad to be out of there, but I still obsess the same everyday and hold so much resentment for that school and when I try to let it go, I just feel more passive pain and obsess even more about it weather my ocd is okay or not. I feel mentally sick. Please someone give me some advice for my fears, because I feel like I’m doing everything in my power to expose myself to everything but nothings working.
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Hi! I’m new to the NOCD community, but I’ve been dealing with OCD since I was 12. I’m almost 29 now, and my biggest issue is health anxiety. It’s gotten to the point where getting work done is nearly impossible because i can’t stop spiraling. I’m lucky that i work remotely, but also makes it easier to be in my own head… Asking for advice - how do you all deal with the intense anxiety and are able to make it through a 9-5 work day? Any suggestions on how I can actually be productive? Thank you!
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Often times I find myself spiraling out in the morning about all sorts of things. When I try and catch myself and figure out what I am obsessing over it’s like it goes away. I haven’t moved. I have been sitting frozen on the floor because I can’t go to work because I am behind on work and I hate being late and I hate being messy but I am frequently late and my room is cluttered and full of stuff. I want to be good and move and go to work but I don’t know what is coming today and I hate my job so I know I will get bored and when I have nothing to keep me busy and engaged I like start thinking and taking an inventory of what is going on and then I will feel a sensation and what is the sensation? How did it happen? And I know that I will pick up the bad emotions in the office and get contaminated, I was really worried about things like this as a kid too I cried because I had to touch dirt in kindergarten. I know I am this way and I have been this way for a while but at the same time I think I might just be normal and like I don’t know why I get stuck in thinking like this. Then I begin to doubt that OCD is real because everyone has a brain with wiring and everyone gets stuck in thought sometimes. I feel disabled from whatever this is because I am stuck. I literally cannot move because I don’t know what’s wrong and I know I have to go to work even though I feel like every moment I spend there is making everything worse because other people are so stressed and I get it from them. And I don’t feel ready because I just feel off and something is wrong and I just don’t know what to do because if it’s OCD or not OCD everything anyone knows about me is coming from me and I worry that I am often masking all the thinking I’m doing because thinking all the time is rude and inconsiderate and inconvenient for those around me, but I can’t stop. I just don’t feel right, right now - and I want to know WHY?? Why is everything off all the time? How do I even know that I am not making up the experience of OCD in my head to cover up something really wrong with me and now I am taking on the symptoms of OCD like an actress, because this could be something that I can latch onto as a final hope for explaining why I am stuck. So stuck so deeply and terribly stuck sitting on my floor next to my bed just scrolling to avoid thinking because any time I start thinking I am left with no answers or help or anything just this swirly feeling. I know I am trying, maybe not my best, but as much as I possibly can. I want to be a Special Education Teacher but I have so much so so so much doubt and uncertainty about every decision I make and everything I know that I can’t get there right now. I can’t do anything right now until it feels ok and then I will. It never feels ok. I know I have to be ok not feeling ok about it. I can be unsure and still be ok. I know it’s just my thinking and my body but I just can’t get past this feeling. And then I know that because I can calm myself and be ok even though I spent 2 hours of my life today already feeling stuck and spinning around and around and around in my head - I don’t feel sure about my OCD and I think it’s a bit of a scam made up by people to cultivate pathology around deep human thought because one day I might figure it out and we all think a lot.
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