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this is a hard one! i struggled with it too! Exposures exposures exposures. the OCD stories podcast has a great episode on this called " existential ocd" it helped me alot..eventually i just had to say " okay so what if it isnt real "
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I completely forgot about existential OCD! I’ll have to check out that podcast for sure, thank you!
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that is exactly what you have....
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Thank you so much like once you said that I was like yup there it is!
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Perhaps there's a way you can turn those thoughts into positives or neutral ideas. I'm not sure in what scenario we could say that life definitely "means" something. So perhaps if it might not be real, that could be a motivation to take risks rather than avoiding, and live life to the fullest. I don't have existential OCD, but I do think about this topic a lot and have some mixed ideas and, of course, no answers, as it can't reasonably be solved. I find I live my life best when I think of life as a game, rather than taking it too serious. After all, none of us get out alive. Some people win, some people lose, for most of us it's a combination. It's still best to play the game now that you're here. It's an opportunity.
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Hey there! I’ve also been struggling with these thoughts the past few weeks! It can be pretty distressing.
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How have you been managing and coping? It’s really messing with me :(
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@Evelyn4416 And it really doesn’t help the suicidal OCD I have either ?
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I’ve been focusing on things that bring me joy like gardening and spending time with my dogs. I know it’s scary, but keep your head up! What I learned in ERP was to “egg on” those thoughts. For example, if I were to get thoughts like, “nothing matters” or “what’s the point” I’d simply respond with maybe there is no point or maybe nothing matters - and carrying on with what I was doing! It’s all uncertainty. I hope this makes sense?
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Thank you yes that makes sense, it’s all about uncertainty!
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Happy Tuesday friends. Question for you all: I have recently started ERP therapy (about one month ago) and I feel in a way it has helped. But I also notice that I feel the thoughts I do have are SO intense that I feel like I’m gonna explode and then I’ll cry and get upset but then feel better after having a “freak out”. Does this happen to any of you guys? Also, I told my therapist yesterday some of the exposures we had been doing made me uncomfortable. Like really really uncomfortable. She made me feel a little bad about not doing it and stated this would prolong my progress if I didn’t do it. I’m not sure if I should push my self to do this exposure because she told me to or to stick up for myself and move at my own pace. Thanks everyone.
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I’ll list some key things with my main subtype, and I hope that I can get some erp advice, but it’s okay if not, I know nobody is my therapist..! 1. I have this thing where when I feel false attraction about a k!d, I will be immediately convinced and say “that means I am?” “I am attracted” “I feel attracted?” “He’s attractive” not to be weird but I panic and say these because I don’t want them, and I feel like I agree with it, this makes me feel like a bad person when I say them (sometimes I can’t help it when I get really stressed) what can I do for this to be better? 2. My brain will give me an intrusive question, asking if I’d do this,this or that, and I feel like agreeing or saying yes to this, sometimes I will hear a yes and I’ll freak out 3. When I get triggered by a photo, I have to keep checking and checking (this will always last forever) till I’m sure that I think the photo is cute or adorable and not in any way that I feel false attraction Whenever I feel convinced, I feel bad that I feel convinced and it’ll say “well if you were a good person, why do you allow yourself to get convinced even if you know you aren’t this”
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