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Story of my life!! Being isolated like this makes my OCD so much worse. The best tips I have are to try and structure your day, have the same wake up/bedtime, 3 meals and snacks, lots of water. Think about the work you have to do, do it, and meditate/pray/yoga/whatever grounds you! Practice self care while keeping yourself busy. Also funny TV shows help the time pass and give your mind something to focus on! The Office literally saved my life when I had a really bad bout of OCD a few years ago
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Good advice all. I am struggling as well. Knowing that we are all together in this battle really helps. ??. Stay strong and good luck.
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Love this so much! Gonna write out a schedule today and start sticking to it. I’ve been meaning to get more into yoga! And love the funny show idea, new girl has really been there for me recently
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@kinzeymarin New girl has been my go to show too! All the good relationships that address so many awkward moments is nice to see
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Hey there! Currently going through the same thing. I know it’s hard, but honestly going on this app and communicating with others who are also struggling with OCD has made it feel MUCH less lonely, at least for me. I’m here if you need to chat! Relationship OCD is something I also struggle with, It’s definitely hard when you have to be away from your significant other for long periods of time.
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I agree!!! Just posting this helped SO MUCH! I hadn’t been on the app in a while but it’s good to be back hahahah
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I’m in the same boat we should talk
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Thank you so much, everyone!! This is all so helpful! And even more helpful to know you guys are going through the same things. Thank you so much for your responses we got this??
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Definitely watch funny shows, it helps! I also have rocd, but we live together and I runinate all day before they come home. Next week their home quarantine starts and I keep going back and forth between happiness and fear of us being together 24/7. Just taking it one day at a time and trying to work on CBT. Hang in there!
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This is literally so relatable, i also ruminate like crazy until my partner gets home when we’re at school together. I totally get what you mean about going back and forth abt being together 24/7, too. You got it!! We’re all here for you and going through the same thing
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Part of my OCD deals with relationships as well. Something that has helped me is starting a new hobby. In preparation for social distancing I've picked up some inexpensive watercolor materials (turns out it's not just for kids). There are lots of free videos on YouTube that can help learn. It has been effect I've at engaging the left side of my brain - I believe some of the unhelpful rationalizing that we try to do with OCD happens in the right side of the brain. Let me know if you try this!
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Do you have a therapist that will do sessions via Skype? Or video chat??
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My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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Im having a OCD specifically contamination OCD flare up all month and I don’t want to feel this way going into March, I’ve thrown out clothes, towels, stayed up for hours doing compulsions, washed my hands till they crack and bleed, I have washing pilling up cause I’m so overwhelmed by all the extra things I’ve added cause I thought it was contaminated. It’s completely draining me to the point where I’ve become sleep deprived and are avoiding part of my home because they are deemed contaminated to me…I only moved in a few months ago, I had a roach problem and using baits and insecticides really messed with my ocd too. anyone have any tips or tricks to make this easier? I wasn’t doing this bad in January :( thankyou in advance :)
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Does anyone else struggle with object permanence in relationships? Like whenever my partner is out of the house I immediately think negatively or I find things wrong with the relationship or him… For background my partner and I always fight over chores (I know it’s common but it’s annoying) I definitely pull more weight than him and I think he has ADHD, which makes him struggle to help and be aware of helping. Lately we’ve been somewhat good with splitting meals and dishes whatever, I know it can change with work stress, fatigue whatever. But last week my partner was out of the house watching his uncle’s dog so he was barely home. He was sleeping over at his uncles house and would come home for meals sometimes and stuff like that. I started becoming super fixated on him not helping with the dishes before he left and would constantly feel urges to yell about it. Even though the week prior everything was good when it came to that (sometimes with my ROCD I’ll even question myself and be like was it?) so I have started 4 separate fights arguing about dishes and chores and mentioning that he doesn’t help enough and if this continues I’ll have to leave… it’s so hard for me to snap out of it and just realize that he was going back and forth and didn’t think to help because he was busy with helping his uncle. And then I get such a negative view of him in my head that I nitpick his appearance, I make comments, etc, because my underlying fear is he doesn’t care to help, he will never change, and we will fail. So it’s almost like I’m looking to have a reason to run before I actually need to? It’s a constant cycle for me and I’m truly so exhausted by myself. But also relationships are so hard for me because I struggled SO much with trying to depend on others that I almost don’t let myself depend on others…. Any advice is appreciated but also just like do you also experience this? Thank you & pls be kind 🥺🥺🥺
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