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1.) I would say it’s about a 7. I feel good about myself most of the time and when I get attacked by ideas of worthless or something I tend to remember it’s the OCD talking. 2.) Nope. I had it once or twice where a guy would bug me but I wouldn’t call it bullying. 3.) Yes! For the most part I do 4.) I would say so 5.) Hmm I think so? I’d need some examples of what you mean
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1. Between 7-9, depending on the day 2. Yes :/ just middle school though 3. Yeah! About most things 4. Oh for sure, it can be really hard, I care a lot about people and how they feel. 5. I’d say my moral standards are very high
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1. 8, but I feel like I get worried about anxiety and OCD holding me back which lowers it. 2. Yes massively for a couple of years. 3. Yes. 4. I feel like I'm pretty empathetic. 5. Extremely high
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1. Middling to low, it varies. I prefer to go with self compassion than self esteem but I'm not amazing at that either. 2. Yes, age 8 to 11. 3. Yes, pretty much. 4. I don't really know what you mean by this question. If someone is sad it doesn't automatically make me feel sad, no, that would be pretty awful internal boundaries. Compassion is a better idea. 5. Yes for myself, not really for others. I don't like being around judgemental people either.
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1) when I am not plagued with anxiety, I would say 8-9! However, during the hard times it can drop to as low as like a 2 or 3. 2) Kinda. People made fun of me behind my back for a while. 3) I think so, but I would need more clarification on what would that would qualify. 4) Yes. Definitely. If someone I love is going through a hard time I usually suffer with them. 5) I try to keep them to my spiritual standards as much as possible.
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1. Hmm my self esteem is really low these days.. maybe 3/4/5 depending on the day I guess 2. Not too much, no. I have always been in the nerdier less popular friend groups but I have never been singled out and bullied. 3. Gee I hope so ? my ocd says otherwise.. 4. I think I’m pretty empathetic, yeah 5. Again I would hope so but my ocd is always trying to convince me I’m bad sooo idk but hoping yes, it’s something I value Interesting questions thank u ❤️
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I have OCD around being a bad or a “weird,” person. I use to be in therapy twice a week for two hours at a time because I was in such bad shape with it. Eventually I moved to once a week at two hours at a time, and now I’m down to just once a week, an hour at a time! I was also put on Lexapro, stayed on it for a year and just weened myself off in Nov. I do feel proud of myself, but today someone said something that was pretty triggering and I’m feeling funny now. Since I was a little girl, if I find someone I liked a lot, I wanted to know everything about them. This typically only happened with older adults and always women. It was always very harmless. I just lived in my head a lot with them always on my mind. Then Facebook came out where you could find out anything about anyone. I could go on to someone’s Facebook page, scroll through their page, pictures, and if I was really interested in them, could find out who their family was through their friends list, etc. Then I’d visit their families FB pages all the time out of just interest (or I guess you could call it being nosy, I don’t really know.) If I really felt interested in them, Id google them, look up their house, just weird stuff like that. I could end up knowing everything about them or their family. It had never caused me any harm or them any harm. I never really thought about it being weird or anything. But one day I woke up and was like, “what if I’m a stalker. What if this person knew that I knew who their parents are, their siblings, etc., etc.?” I got in to an absolute downward spiral about it and felt like such a weirdo, a creep, a freak. Seriously, I’m a pretty normal person. I’m married, kids, husband, stay at home mom, have the same friends I’ve had since middle school, high school, whatever. My therapist didn’t think this was a big deal and I was always scared she was just being nice. I made her promise me to tell me if anything I told her sounded off. Anyway, I was on the phone tonight and the person I was talking to, was talking about someone else and she said, “yeah, I mean she just looks people up and needs to know everything about them. That’s why she could be so good at being a private detective, or something like that. She’s kinda stalkerish.” It hit me hard. I felt like I needed to tell her that maybe she wouldn’t like me either because I can be the same way. I didn’t though. I didn’t get off the phone or do anything with it. If this was a year ago, I’d be in the bathroom vomiting, pacing the floor, taking my anti anxiety med. Today, I just dealt with the uncertainty of her not knowing that I can be the same way. I’m doing ok, but I’m so curious, is it just me that does this kind of thing? Is there anyone else that does this kind of thing? Is this abnormal? I know that it is what it is, but my phone conversation tonight kinda opened up that stuff for me a little bit and now I’m feeling like a freak. Thank you if read this and if you respond.😊
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What’s on your minds?
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feeling alone & scared : how is everyone doing ? 🥹
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