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- Emmaaaahh
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- 4y ago
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Reading what specifically?
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- Sebastian777Sebastian777
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yes! It’s difficult to even get through a few sentences or sometimes even a sentence without an intrusive thought disrupting my flow of reading. I’m just starting out with therapy so I don’t have any great solutions, but I found that if you try to accept the thought as just a thought, as well as the uncertainty of it, it helps a lot! Good luck! Out of curiosity, what are you reading? Is it for school?
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- DarzDarz
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I love to read!!! Sometimes I go to read a book but the topic is too similar to my life or relates to something uncomfortable and I usually put it down, and my OCD tells me not to read it or something bad will happen...but I have tried to make a habit of circling back to it and usually by the third time I pick it up i'm able to read it. I was always taught to not do things that make me uncomfortable, so the OCD tries to win and beat me. I'm trying more to sit with the discomfort and tell myself its it's just the ocd....usually it works but not always.... Then I get really proud of myself once I have read something uncomfortable and then its it's not as scary
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- EmmaaaahhEmmaaaahh
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I am so happy you are learning to sit with that discomfort, despite what you were taught. It can be difficult to unlearn things like that, but it definitely sounds like you're doing a great job :) I love reading too!!! I honestly have more of a problem not trusting my own memory, so i tend to overthink when i read and re-read paragraphs and sentences multiple times. It's interesting how OCD can manifest in so many different ways, even if it's around similar things!
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- EmmaaaahhEmmaaaahh
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Reading anything really! Like I find for me I don't trust my memory and have to go back and re-read things... I also find intrusive thoughts will interrupt and I will have to start a sentence all over again, or else I won't like remember it properly or something? it takes me like forever to read. currently I'm trying to read a chemistry chapter for school and it's not going so hot unfortunately... trying not to beat myself up about it! :)
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
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- 4y ago
Same here! Trying to understand covalent bonds.
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
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- 4y ago
You know, I have just bought one thousand and one nights. I remember one time that OCD was really bugging me, and I took it and read a few pages. It always helps to escape to some kind of fantasy world where your problems are nothing.
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- EmmaaaahhEmmaaaahh
- Date posted
- 4y ago
That's a great idea! Maybe I will switch between reading chemistry and reading that. I'm honestly just not really interested in chemistry which makes it harder I find, but maybe I can trick my brain into being engaged in a book that interests me first, and maybe the flow will carry over! I find the pressure of having to read the chapters or I won't understand the content kind of fuels the OCD behaviours if that makes sense
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
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- 4y ago
@EMMaaaa It does! And yeah chemistry isn't the best subject. But it depends, is studying chemistry an urgent matter for you? If so, you can check out crash course on youtube. If not, try and buy some nice books! Also I don't know how one thousand and one nights is in English because I'm Egyptian and I read it in Arabic. But you have harry potter, lord of the rings, a lot of novels really.
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- EmmaaaahhEmmaaaahh
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@HopefullyOptimistic Yes I love Harry Potter! Maybe I will try reading Lord of the Rings, the movies are amazing!! Also crash course is a life saver tbh lol
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
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- 4y ago
@EMMaaaa Yeah! I always try and listen to some music, it helps a lot. What's your favorite artist?
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
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- 4y ago
@HopefullyOptimistic Whoops! Who's?
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- EmmaaaahhEmmaaaahh
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@HopefullyOptimistic My favourite artist has got to be Green Day ? I love punk, but I've also been super into Gorillaz lately as well! Who is yours? :)
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
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- 4y ago
@Emmaaaahh I love Gorillaz! But my all time favorite has to be the Weeknd. Green day are awesome too! If you're talking about bands then Maroon 5.
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- EmmaaaahhEmmaaaahh
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- 4y ago
@HopefullyOptimistic Omg Maroon 5 is the best I feel like I know all their songs ? the Weeknd is awesome too do you have any songs by them that you recommend? I haven't heard a whole lot by them to be honest but it sounds like you have a great taste in music!!
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
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- 4y ago
@Emmaaaahh Aww thank you! If I have to pick, I'll choose Call Out My Name, Starboy, and Earned It. His other songs are great too, especially collabs.
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- HopefullyOptimisticHopefullyOpt...
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- 4y ago
@HopefullyOptimistic Oh and one more song, called Sidewalks. He's with Kendrick Lamar on this one.
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- AnonymousAnonymous
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I have to read for school a lot right now since I'm having my finals exams and it's really bad when I have to stop every 5 minutes :(
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- EmmaaaahhEmmaaaahh
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- 4y ago
Yeah I feel you :( it's really interfering with my studies right now and I'm scared cuz finals are coming up soon!
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- AnonymousAnonymous
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- 4y ago
@EMMaaaa My finals are ongoing a d I'm here having a bad anxiety attack with my HOCD :(
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- DarzDarz
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I agree!!! And as soon as I think i have it all figured out...it shows up somewhere else!!!! Thanks for your post. It's always nice to talk to others that understand OCD;)
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