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I am, struggling a lot tonight ❤️
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I know exactly how you feel I had been having an entire month where my pocd wasnt bugging me but it decided to come back twice as hard during the weekend and usually I’m able to bounce out of it but recently it’s been hard
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I was just properly diagnosed with POCD and I’m very scared and feeling very alone. I tried to talk to my parent’s about it tonight but couldn’t tell them the theme. They didn’t really understand the torture it is causing me. I’m really struggling with believing I can ever have a normal relationship this has been so hard and effected every aspect of my life.
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Honestly just know you’re not alone and sadly parents won’t understand mine never understood and although it did hurt knowing they didn’t understand I don’t blame them because sadly people without ocd never understand. Just know you’re not alone and if you’d like yo talk about what your pocd bugs you with I’m always here
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For sure im seeing that now. how long have you suffered from this? I have a hard time because this is my only theme and I’m still struggling to believe it’s actually OCD because I know a lot of people have many themes and it starts when their children where mine started in my early 20s.
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Ocd starts either when youre young or in your 20s and I’ve had ocd since I was 7 but it went away and came back extremely hard in my 20s
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Whats your ocd theme if you dont mind me asking
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I just started with an OCC specialist afew weeks ago
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OCD*
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POCD and I don’t remember it when I was a child but I do remember obsessing over death and doing afew things that I would say now we’re compulsions. I was diagnosed with depression and aniexty at 16 aswell.
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Ive had POCD for about a year and I know it’s scary have you gotten any intrusive thoughts those are the worst
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It’s just very scary
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Yes now that im working with an OCD specialist and stuck at home it’s all day long it’s just sits with you telling you to figure out what’s going on and do mental checks or tells me I’m a bad person for my thoughts and I need to be locked away.
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Yeah just make sure you dont over analyze these intrusives theyll turn into false memories its the worst literally makes you believe you’ve done something bad when you haven’t
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*trigger warning*I have a question..And I'm sorry if this sounds like reassurance seeking but its bothering me too much..I had an awful intrusive thought not too long ago.. it was like an uncomfortable scenario in my head that was triggered all of the sudden. And then a voice in my head said "would you even be able to resist?" (Acting out my fear it means) I felt horrible. It felt like I was letting my guard down and my "true feelings" were coming out.. thinking about it now makes me feel sick. Can ocd really do this to me?? Make me feel like I want to act out these fears even though I really want to think that I dont? That feeling lasted for a split second then I fell into panic.
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Honestly ocd will make you feel that way because remember ocd feeds on fear ive had moments like those but it’s important to understand its an intrusive not real the fact that you feel disgusted by it goes to show its not real
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@Ella_O Sometimes I fear that I'm not disgusted enough, or that the disgust is just a front to hide my desires.. but that is also ocd isnt it? It seems like it never ends..
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But I cant tell you how many years I spend combating this, looking for proof that I'm not a bad person. Looking back into my childhood remembering that I was always interested in men. how much time I spent in bed praying to god and crying repeating "I wanna be good" over and over.. well I can tell you. I'd say 7 or 8 years I've spent on and off struggling. I'm tired of this and wanna live my life..
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Are you referring to POCD? If so, I have a very similar story. I also was into men at that age and struggled. Now I have pocd and it’s brutal.
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@figuringitallout Yes.. it really is brutal isnt it..sometimes I wake up and say "really?! Of all things in the world you're worried about THAT?! That's dumb!" and some days I wake up and am constantly worried about it. And there were also times when I went months without intrusive thoughts. I was definately a more content person during those times. Even up till recently I was ok. Then boom, here it is again. I hate it so much
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Yesss! I was doing great but then I relapsed in this coronavirus sfuff. do you ever feel like being gay makes you pocd worse?
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I'm a straight female, so i guess no matter what it's always hard
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@em1997 I personally have a false memory that bugs me to my core to the point where sometimes I just don’t wana live anymore
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I keep waking up, overwhelmed with anxiety and I feel like an awful person and I don’t know why…? But I feel like it’s because of POCD, I genuinely feel like a bad person because of all of my false attraction experiences, I feel like it’s my fault, I feel like an awful person and I’m spiraling, it’s so hard to look at myself in the mirror, i can’t bare it, I just feel so awful about myself and I don’t know what to do anymore. I genuinely can’t do this anymore.
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Hey today I’m feeling very tired because of my OCD I’m just so tired of it. I feel I’m doing everything to get better. I disregard the thoughts, I’m trying to do things like I don’t have ocd but it doesn’t want to go away. I was doing fine for a long period of time and now I feel like I’m back a square one. It’s been almost 2 months now I’m battling with OCD and I’m just tired. Sure I have moments where it’s better than others, I also have days where I barely have OCD but I also have really bad days like today where I just don’t want to get out of bed. Last time I had a relapse it took my 4 weeks to get out of it I don’t understand why this time it takes me more. I’m starting believing that I will never feel better again. Anyway I’m gonna try to find the strength to get out of bed and to start my day. But I just wanted to share. It’s such a horrible illness.
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POCD has been the worst thing I've ever been through. I feel like I have always sort of experienced it but not to the degree I do now. I used to plan being a mother to a beautiful family. Now I don't know if I'll ever have children at the risk of having a girl. I used to have intrusive thoughts that would make me feel weird but I could just move on from them. That was until I had to babysit my niece and change her diaper. I want to throw up thinking about it. I got a horribly strong groinal response and I didn't know what to do. I didn't understand why it was happening. It bothered me all day that day and later on I did the disgusting deed of testing myself. I regret it everyday. It's a horrible compulsion and it haunts me. I tested if I was getting off to the thought of her. And of course there was stimulation because of the groinal response. But I hated doing it. I just felt like I had to be sure. After that and since then I haven't wanted to be around her. I stopped planning being a mother, I stopped watching cute baby videos like I used to enjoy because they trigger disgusting intrusive thoughts. After a while I stopped being intimate with my boyfriend and haven't done anything with for months because the thoughts take over and make me feel like I may enjoy the deed more if I was thinking of children. I worry that maybe I do enjoy these thoughts and I'm just denying it. I wish I could be sure. I feel so disgusting and ugly, I've never hated myself this much. It takes over most of my days. I wish I had never changed her diaper. Some times in moments of clarity I am so sure that I'm not a predator, but when I am vulnerable OCD sneaks back in and tells me I enjoy my thoughts and that I should think them. Sometimes it gets so overwhelming that I have to test. I wish I could stop. It ruins my entire week. I feel like a monster. I want to love my life again. I miss life before this. I feel so hopeless most of the time and I can't imagine a way out. I'm scared to start therapy because what if I found out I am a monster? I can't live like that. I won't. I want to cry and scream. Am I alone in this?
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