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Go test?
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It would be every night then lol
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Getting tested frequently sounds like a compulsion. Facing bthe fear would be accepting the possibility that you are sick without trying to find out
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Sounds good but my brain will later build habbits and life style depanding on that, and it will become a fact, am sorry I don't mean to confuse you , but I feel am stuck somehow spically times am down I feel that isuee
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@SHIFTER You get to choose the habits you build. Habits are patterns of behaviors. If a habit is going to negatively impact your well-being, don't practice it
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@NOCD Advocate - Katie Sorry for many questions can you plz when u get time give me small live example on behaviour pattern and how to choose between em
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@SHIFTER That's a great question. No need to apologize. One fear I have is that my teeth are loose or cracking. Running my tongue over them again and again was a habit that reinforced the fear. To reduce the importance of the fear in my mind, I needed to stop checking. I mad a habit of accepting statements instead. When I had the thought "oh no, my teeth are loose" I'd respond with "yep, maybe" and then continue eating my meal
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Yes yes finally someone like me, I tottaly get you , do you know when I tottaly lose control to do such a thing and reassure my self when for example if I had 6 hours of sleep two days in the raw I would lose control to assure my self so altho now I know it's bad but I ask some one else for assurance like a family member who know what am going thro but am trying to stop that now and also trying to get to bed early and get my 7:30 min of sleep
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Some sleep hygiene strategies might help
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For sleep am taking a pill for over a year now and I really want to stop it, however am waiting for a time with least isuess and free time to do that, who knows with what's going on in the world looks like pharmaces are running out of my med soon so it might be God way to tell me stop it, so basically I will follow what you tough me I will reassure my self, can I get 3 reassurance from outsiders per week as I live alone like fully alone no social life so sometimes I use this reassurance not only for obsession matters but also to sure about our decisions , steps , that I want to take sometimes, genrally I can't plan in my head I rather be speaking to someone when I plan somthing important sort of brain storming but the other party will be either listener or even sometimes participate does that count as part of the obsession or it's another isuee ? Those might be two subjects again apologies, you can just reply whenever u get time no hurry cuz I have extended the conversation.
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It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
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I don't know what to do anymore, the fear of psychosis and schizophrenia is so bad in so hyper aware of everything I hear and everything I see, I've always had eye floaters now I convince myself that it's really me hallucinating, I've always had tinnitus but now I'm convinced it means I'm going to go crazy soon, I can't sit in quiet because all I'm focusing on is what I'm hearing, and searching for any sounds I can't distinguish, when there's background noise I get so anxious if I think I heard something but im not sure I did or I'm just anxious, I'm terrified I'll start having delusions and sometimes my brain confuses some sounds for other sounds for example say I'm hyper focused and I breathe and my nose makes a whistling sound my mind interprets it as a scream and I freak out thinking I'm hallucinating only to focus closer and realize it's my own breathing, earlier I was so anxious that I couldnt tell if I had an intrusive thought or heard something, I don't know how to make it stop, I've been through this theme before I just forgot how hard it was I'm having a panic attack please help
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