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Never give up my friend You deserve an amazing life for everything you've been through
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Thanks! this group has been my best support so far
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Never it's too late to go and live ,because living with OCD and not knowing it's ocd is a freaking nightmare,it's not a life ,so come on and trust in your therapist
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I’m soo glad to hear that you are finally with an OCD specialist!!! It sounds like those previous counselors just made things so much worse :( but you are FINALLY in the right spot and that’s so exciting. I had very similar feelings to you when I started OCD therapy. I thought it would work for everyone else, but that it could never work for me. I’m really excited for you because I know this will help you! ps I also have POCD and I can’t imagine how hard it would be for me to have counselors treat me the way your previous ones treated you ? I’m so sorry you went through that.
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It’s so hard because you finally feel brave enough to tell someone what’s been bothering you and that’s the response you get that it’s something fundamentally wrong with who you are how you’ve lived your live or how what happened to you as a child. And of course I started believing it and now I put down every aspect of my life and pick at where this could be coming from. I just feel I need so much more support and once a week isn’t going to be enough with the OCD therapist.
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Can I private message you or is that not aloud on here?
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No, I don’t think there’s a way to private message. Maybe with the therapist and with using this app to talk to other people who have POCD, that’ll be good support! Some counselors also do twice weekly sessions, because yours could offer that? Yeah that must’ve really messed with your head. It’s SO frustrating how many “mental health professionals” just make OCD worse because they don’t understand it!
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*maybe yours could offer that
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Yeah I think my OCD is telling me don’t trust this therapist either because I’ve been down so many unhelpful roads with the other ones. I just want some sort of life back!
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That sounds really difficult ? OCD sucks. I really think this one will be different for you!!
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I can't stop thinking about ending my life. I feel like I'm not even living, I'm just surviving. Everyone is capable of being a person and functioning and I'm just stuck here avoiding everything. My psychiatrist said my ocd is severe and it will all take time and I'll start erp and I'm already on medication but I just feel so depressed and like I won't be able to handle erp and it's already too late for me. I feel inhuman, it's debilitating. My major theme is just fear or contamination, I can't even make myself a meal I can't touch anything in the kitchen. I get stuck in the shower for 2 hours and when I don't shower because I'm depressed I feel like a walking germ. My hands are a mess, my school work is shit, I avoid and avoid and I'm just so tired of "living" like this. My psychiatrist said they don't have any therapists available right now like.... excuse me? What do you mean u don't have any 😭 I honestly don't even know why I'm typing this becuase nothing helps, nothing ever will. I'm so deep into this I can't get out, my room looks like shit, I can't live in this body anymore, I really can't. I let everyone down, I am and will be such a dissapointment. I don't have any dreams or goals or passions I just wasn't made to be here. I don't know how or who to ask for help like there's nothing anyone can do, I'm already on meds. I can't keep being like this, seeing everyone judge me for acting insane.
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I feel like I’ll never lead a normal life again with OCD, my thoughts have begun to be convince especially about POCD. I feel like so sad and down that this will be my life forever. I’ll never get to fall in love again without intrusive thoughts. I’ll never be worth falling in love with. I can never be intimate again. I’m just done, my life is over. I can’t even look at my nephew and niece anymore without the smile fading. It feels like I’m so nasty and then my brain convinces me this is how I feel. That there’s some part of me that is a p*do and that’s it. I’m a disgusting human being for that. I just feel hopeless
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Please read this. I’ve had ocd pretty much a lot of my life but never knew what it was until my senior year of highschool. I’m 21 with 2 kids and i believe i’ve had pocd a little bit before my daughter was born (which was 8 months ago). It made me start looking at all kids differently and i hate it. But it really started triggering me about 3 months ago. I’ve been thinking if i’d intentionally touched or harmed my kids the wrong way, or any kids for that matter. This started giving me false memories (or at least hope they are). I’ve been having panic attacks, yelling at myself, punching walls, praying, and even thoughts of ending my own life. I grew up in a severe toxic household throughout my childhood and teenage life. I’ve never wished that on my kids since i became a dad. I wanna give them the life i never got. I look back my photos of my children and i feel like i’m a complete fraud of a dad. I cannot look at my kids or be around them a lot of times. I can’t hold my daughter right. I can’t change their diaper when they need it. Even my son came and was hugging on me the other night while i was watching tv and i acted like a stranger to him. I can very little do this stuff sometimes because it’s either i get relief or i push my thoughts as far back as i can. I get scared if i did something to not just my kids, but any other kids in the past. I have such a a great life and such a beautiful family. It was hard and stressful at first being young with a family but i couldn’t be more thankful at all for them. I’m just so lost and stressed right now that i just don’t know what to do anymore
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