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- Evelyn4416
- Date posted
- 4y ago
- Username
- CantankeroussparrowCantankerous...
- Date posted
- 4y ago
This is one of my main obsessive themes, so maybe I can help. I’m also hypersensitive to my environment and find myself searching for sounds and checking if I’m hallucinating or not. How did I move through it? Lots of ERP. Face your fear and run towards it, not away from it. Am I hearing things that are not real? Maybe, I do t know for sure. The uncertainty around this thought makes me feel anxious and uncomfortable, because I truly do not know for sure. I am going to keep telling myself this any time I feel myself doing a compulsion...including mental compulsions like mental reviewing and scanning.
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- ccgccg
- Date posted
- 4y ago
It’s hard because I know my ocd will obsess over it ?
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- Evelyn4416Evelyn4416
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I completely get what you mean. Looking at it from an ERP standpoint, we’re supposed to just sit with that discomfort of avoiding checking and have that anxiety slowly decrease. But it’s def hard!
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- lulu23lulu23
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Battle what fears you have. You can start slowly. Don’t avoid anything that may trigger you. This is one of my main fears and I let it get to the point where I couldn’t be alone. And had to work my way out of it. It gets better if you live your life by your standards and don’t let your fears control it. I couldn’t even say schizophrenia now I can watch those who have it online and realize that their life isn’t over like I feared mine would be.
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- Evelyn4416Evelyn4416
- Date posted
- 4y ago
That’s so amazing. I’m trying to not let myself get to the point where it is controlling my life, but I do notice it’s something that comes up sometimes and I need to not give it the power and meaning it wants.
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- lulu23lulu23
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@Evelyn4416 Keep up the good work! Ocd is powerful but we are stronger.
- Username
- ccgccg
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I was just reading something about it too and freaked myself out.....I’m on the same page...
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- Evelyn4416Evelyn4416
- Date posted
- 4y ago
We should just make a pact to not search out or read things on that subject ?
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- SandriSandri
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Ooooof my biggest OCD. I have a lot I could say but at the moment all i got is that you’re not alone and things truly do get better if you work your treatment — whatever that may be for you individually. “The only way out is through” Lots and lots of love
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- O
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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- hannie
- Date posted
- 5y ago
How do I know that this is OCD or not something else? I really feel like it is just OCD but my mind is so convincing I’m gonna develop schizophrenia or become delusional. I’m so anxious cause I have other themes mixed into this (such as harm OCD) Any tips?
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- hannie
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Does anyone else struggle with the sub type of getting other mental illnesses? I don’t know why but out of nowhere I have now been struggling with thoughts of developing schizophrenia. Now I spend my time checking and making sure I’m not having any symptoms but the weird thing is my brain is like mimicking symptoms and then I end up with an anxiety attack because I feel as if I’m going crazy or I’m having delusional thoughts. It’s kind of put me in a funk and I’m hoping this passes. I’ve had something similar happen a few years before and was able to get out of it but if I have what I feel is a bizarre thought, I convince myself the thought wasn’t normal and I’m going crazy. Does anyone have any tips? Or similar situation?
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