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- 4y ago
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Hey friend! Common symptom in OCD, particularly if your theme revolves around health OCD. I have the same theme currently, and I’ve dealt with your particular issue in the past—although now it’s morphed into something else. The best part is I was having hyponopomic hallucinations upon waking up during that time as well. Like with all other obsessions, the answer is ERP therapy. For me, that meant exposures where I’d stare at images that cause visual hallucinations, or I’d set up screens to flash things in my periphery at random. Eventually, I stopped caring and focusing on it at all.
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- 4y ago
My main concern is how do I know that if is 100% my OCD. I sometimes sense movement in the corner of my eye and that my be because after some recent experience with seeing spiders moving in my peripheral vision I associate that experience with everything now. A stain on the carpet sticks out to me and I’m scared that it will move before I realize that it’s just a stain with my own eyes and that is whats driving me crazy. I don’t know if this is a form of hallucinations but my peripheral vision seems to heighten my whole environment to a degree that wasn’t there before and I don’t know how to manage it.
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- 4y ago
@midnightlight You can’t know it’s 100% just OCD. Not anymore than you can be 100% certain something bad won’t happen. The risk of being in a car accident is exponentially higher than the risk of developing psychosis, yet we still ride in cars every day. The same is true here. It’s just your OCD has latched on to this particular thought/awareness and you’re hyper-focused on it.
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- 4y ago
@NOCD Advocate - Carl Cornett Is seeing spots crawl in my peripheral vision part of being hyper aware?
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- 4y ago
I am terribly sorry you feel this way, I also have this issue with my OCD. To be honest, I am glad I found someone else with it as that provides assurance nothing is wrong. I talked to my therapist about it, the visual field is quite tricky. Our visual mistakes things for other things all the time, especially out of the periphery. You must first ACCEPT that you’re anxious about this. Rather than being afraid of the things you may see, know that everytime it occurs it’s an OCD thing/typical occurance with your visual field.
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- 4y ago
I totally agree with both replies above. You said "how do I diagnose this". To me, that question appears misguided. Perhaps you can change it to "how can I respond to this effectively?"
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- 19w ago
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