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I strongly urge you to call a crisis line, or if you have a therapist a lot of therapy offices have on call counselors you can reach if you call the office number. Sometimes it takes a moment to explain what ocd is, but seeking help if you feel you might hurt yourself is important. You are a valued and important person and I know it’s hard, but life can get better and you’ll be so happy that you pushed through this dark place. I’ve been there before and I’m sorry that you feel stuck there now. But it’s never hopeless, even if your brain tells you it is.
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i’m so sorry:( you’re not alone and it really does get better!!!! is there anyone you can talk to about how you’re feeling?
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Thanks for your kindness. I want to believe you, and one year ago I would have believed things will get better. But last two years, it did not get better. Everything became worse. I also have nobody who I can talk to. I just don't have any reason to life. Every day is a battle and I want peace. I'm done with having OCD. What's the point of living a life that I hate?
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You are not alone! You can get through this!
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I know your message was not directed towards me but, I’m not going to act like I haven’t felt how you are feeling right now, Because I have.. and I sometimes do. But just know that you are stronger than this, you are better than this. This does not have to define your life. And it definitely does not define you. It is a mental battle and it feels like we won’t ever find peace . I know exactly how you are feeling. I’m struggling myself . I will pray for you and I. Don’t let OCD win.
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Thanks for your kind responses. I'm sorry you also felt like this before. I just don't know what the point of life is anymore. Everyday battling your own stupid mind is a nightmare. I'm exhausted and don't know how much longer I can take this. It seems so me that the only way to stop this nightmare is to end it. This is really fucked up ?
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Are you connected to a therapist? If you are having thoughts of harming yourself I would urge you to seek immediate help, I apologize in advance if what I am saying is off base
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I second everything that has been said in responses so far. Especially reaching out for professional help for the suicidal ideation. If you're up for a conversation that might untangle some twisted beliefs, try reflecting on this question: what makes a day "ruined"?
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My day is totally ruined because I was searching thinks up on Google for more than 90% of my day. Even at work I get my phone and start looking things up. In addition, I feel anxious and terrible all day. I'm exhausted of living this way. I wish I could stop to look for reassurance, but I can't deal with uncertainty. I wanted to stop these thoughts for two years now, and there are still getting stronger and more meaningful. I hope am not the only one who sees it this way, but thinking about suicide is not weird under these circumstances right?
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@bm99 Spending ninety percent of the day doing compulsions is certainly distressing. I imagine that there were loads of things you'd prefer to have done instead. Coupled with feeling anxious and terrible, I can see why you'd conclude that the whole day was bad. I'm curious about the ten percent of the day you didn't do compulsions. Can you tell us about those? Those moments are successes to build on
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@NOCD Advocate - Katie Well because I was at work, I had to work of course. The 10% was the time that I was working. While working I got thoughts which I had to check out and proof not to be true, so I went outside and started to Google things about POCD and HOCD. When I went home I had to study for my exams. I managed to study for one hour and that was it. The rest of the day I was laying in my bed looking for reassurance and feeling very anxious and terrible.
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Did you complete some portion of your work?
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Yes I did. I just sometimes slipped out to seek reassurance on my phone. I only worked in the morning, so most of the reassurance seeking was in the mid-day and evening. Apart from one hour studying, I was constantly thinking of ways to reassure myself. I think it's probably more than 13 hours of being busy with these thoughts
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@bm99 Can you give yourself enough compassion to recognize the moments of success (work, the hour of studying) without canceling them out by thinking of the hours of OCD? Good and bad parts of the day exist separately, they don't negate each other
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@NOCD Advocate - Katie Yes I can. But the thing is that always giving in to seek reassurance makes everything worse. But I just can't stop it. I just want to know that these thoughts are not me. Today is also a shit day. I'm very anxious again and my mind is telling me I'm just in denial. I hate this..
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@bm99 Perhaps delaying reassurance seeking can be a halfway step to eliminating it
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I feel awful that I keep coming on here whenever I’m down bad but oh my gosh OCD is the most painful shit that I have EVER experienced in my life and I have a physical chronic illness…. I hate to say it but I hate living right now it’s too painful… im crying as I type to the point where my stomach is hurting, I have pretty severe ocd I do have generalized anxiety and idk if that is connected with ocd but because of that I have most of the subtypes REAL EVENT OCD,POCD,ZOCD,ROCD,SOCD HARM OCD, you name it and I got it!!! a lot of also why I have have those theme is trauma growing up and involving those things^ as of right now i’m 25 and a women with the most loving boyfriend in the entire world before my ocd hit me I NEVER questioned my love and care and attraction with the love of my life I always knew I was going to marry and be with this person the rest of my life! Now with ocd it confuses me soooo much and now I think I’m gay and didn’t realize or indenial and listen I get it “don’t look for reassurance!” “It’s not the thing ocd is attacking that is the problem ocd is the actual problem!” Here’s the thing with that if I’m in a relationship and I’m gay that would mean I would have to leave that said relationship and to say that “oh yeah that stuff happens and you’ll move on” is absolutely devastating to me this is THE LOVE OF MY LIFE and your telling me that iv been lying to myself this whole time or that I didn’t realize?!?!? And that sexuality can change (even though some say it can’t google says otherwise and some people have said it can’t idek anymore) and all this other BULLSHIT I can’t take it WHY?!?! why does this have to happen why can’t I just be with my love the rest of my life?!? and yes before anyone says anything I have been attracted to girls more so when I was younger watching lesbian porn liking the body’s and fantazing them sexually it stopped when I got older but I still don’t get disgusted with women who are pretty it just makes me uncomfortable because I’m with the love of my life and before I remember talking to my partner and discussing certain childhood things I experienced and we discussed that we both could be a little bi and for certain I’m (demi sexual so I don’t even really care about looks) and I truly didn’t care!! NOW I do care even with being bi because again I don’t like thinking about anyone else but my partner but I do also know my parents are homophobic and I do think about if I am gay they wouldn’t be okay with that and I also dont want to deal with that so now I sound like in indenial right?!???? I didn’t even care about labels before my ocd it just didn’t matter but now it’s effected my sex life and it’s hard for me to enjoy sex with being so confused I’m so confused I googled everything can you still have sexual fantasies with same gender but still be straight? Can you fantasize about same gender or imagine marrying them all of it !!! And non of that disgusts me it just makes me uncomfortable AGIAN only bc I just love the partner I’m with right now!!! I’m so fucking confused do I have to leave my partner and accept that I’m gay is that going to happen in the future if I get better with ocd and find out it’s been true all along?!???
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Idk if this post is even worth it but it seemed like a normal day for me, called off work due to the weather so I get to just stay home and play games all day. Easy day besides dealing with the constant and unbearable battle with my intrusive thoughts/feelings. Took a shower and I just had constant thoughts, (heart palpitations are pretty constant) ended up breaking down and bawling my eyes out. I was diagnosed with HOCD and ROCD about 2 months ago and since it's just gotten worse. It feels as real as it can get and after talking to my girlfriend about the anxiety attack, it feels even more real. I have no desire or enjoyment from what comes from my brain, and at this point I'm on my knees begging the big man upstairs for my old life back, how do I go from being obsessed with women (sexually and emotionally) to pretty much doing a 180 overnight (with the obvious anxiety and worry behind it. No real desire obviously). I'm just at a loss, I've done a little ERP and it seemed to help with the brain fog but besides that, everything that it does to someone, I have. And again there's the doubt I even have OCD and I'm in straight denial. It just sucks.
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since february i have "POcd". Initial symptoms were thoughts, but then I did a testing compulsion during an intimate time, and I spiraled ever since. I struggle with addiction to smut. I'm cutting that out, but I feel as if it is too late. Ive never experienced this much mental, and emotional anguish in my life. On my time on this application I have given advice to others, and helped around, but I wonder if that even applies to me. Millions of times I wish I could turn back time and be more careful. I want to prevent many things, including what led me to spiral into OCD in the first place. I'm surely having an OCD episode. I have gotten a diagnosis, but I'm still not sure. I feel evil, cause unlike many here, I tested on my body sensations and it backfired (twice) I know I'm not supposed to figure out why that is the case, but now I have to live with it for the rest of my life even if its something I don't desire. This is disgusting for me, it is abhorrent. I could've never seen this coming. Day by day I've become more fearful of living with this, "OCD". I was a normal person before this, I knew what I was attracted to, I know my preferences, so why did this come about? This is singlehandedly the most painful thing that has happened to me and I have nobody but myself to blame. I am scared of death but I also would'nt mind sleeping for years on end. My parents and brother were understanding of my situation, but I failed them regardless. I don't want them to see me this way, nor do I want them to learn more of my predicament. I'm cooked. I know it, Fin, thats all folks. I'm only 20 and I already have other diagnosed mental illness so I recklessly brought upon myself another one. Its agonizing to live through, I wish this on nobody, not even my worst enemy. I can't even identify myself at this point. Its tearing me apart.
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