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- 6y
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- 6y
Don’t stop using the app but try to perhaps turn the Compulsion into something else such as replying to the ones you read And only reading 5 a day.
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- 6y
Thank you. I’m also concerned because as I read others, I notice that I do the same thing. It reminds me on what I need to work on because they’re not as severe as my checking and contamination fears so it doesn’t occur to me that they are problems. For example, I knew I always reread things. But I had to be reminded by another person’s post about it. Do you have those feelings when you read others? It really sucks because there are so many themes. :(
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- 6y
I can definitely understand, sometimes I get the same way with things where Ill be enjoying it until OCD gets its claws into it and ruins my fun. I would try to set boundaries? Like I’m only going to read the first few posts that come up
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- 6y
Right?? I already have my compulsion to write all my dreams for my dream journal that I started out of fun. I thought about reading first few posts too but then I start to feel guilty. I don’t know when to stop. It’s like one more, only one more. But here’s another thing, I scroll down to where I last commented and work my way up to the most recent. So if someone posts something new, do I read that too? I’m like overthinking and stressing over something that’s so silly. You know the “all or nothing” it’s “black and white”. I feel that if I don’t read and try to respond then I shouldn’t read at all. Like I should’ve never started. Sigh.
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- 6y
I completely understand! This is OCD at its finest, trying to take something that is suppose to be enjoyable and turning it into an anxiety causing event. I have such trouble with the grey areas too, I hate having doubt and want everything to be black or white as well. That’s when things become ritualized for me, when I try to remove doubt and make things black or white. I have to sometimes physical and/or mentally remove myself from situations like that or it can down spiral. I hope you can find something that works for you!
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- 24w
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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- 16w
Finding this app has helped me a lot in feeling like I'm not isolated and I've definitely met so many kind and helpful people here. You guys have helped me on my darkest days. However, because of my fragile state of mind, I think scrolling on here is becoming a compulsion and I feel like I end up triggering myself more by scrolling through some posts. I think it just ends up adding more to my intrusive thoughts and more ammo for my false memories and POCD to latch on to. And I know exposures are good for treating OCD, but this level of exposure seems to be doing more harm than good. So I will try to be less active (maybe I won't, who knows lol).
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- 14w
Ok so I just downloaded this app like two days ago because I was looking for a OCD specialist. Maybe this is just my opinion but the posting’s on this app can be super triggering. If feels like even sharing your experience on an app like this can contribute to fueling OCD. So many people I see reassurance seeking, confessing and posting the same things multiple times to gain certainty. Makes me wonder if this app is counterproductive to the point of OCD treatment. I’m guilty of spending hours scrolling through the post trying to find people who relate to me, but in the end it makes me more anxious and fuels my OCD. Idk what do you guys think.
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