Maxx
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- 5y
CardeaCardea
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- 5y
Actualy cbt might help here. For starters write your intrusive thoughts and worries on the paper. That way you are distancing them from your head so you have space to do the studies. It is good to go to the list after and that way you are letting your brain know that you noticed the thoughts. What you are doing with this is controling when you worry and not letting the worries control you your time etc.
CardeaCardea
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- 5y
I also have troubles meditating but this method helped me a lot especialy when I cant sleep
frenchbadgerfrenchbadger
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- 5y
Sorry to hear you don't have access to professional support :( Could teletherapy with a practician abroad be a possibility? Otherwise, it'll be challenging but you can learn and use self-help techniques and tools to get a bit better :) I don't know if you can order a physical or online version of this book but Dr Penzel's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, A complete guide to getting well and staying well has been useful to me and also offer tips and guidance to do treatment by yourself :) Others here have suggested Jon Hershfield's and Jeffrey Schwartz's books as well. There is also a lot of content online like NOCD and Made of Millions YouTube videos (+ website articles and blog). @anxietyocdtreatment and @obsessivelyeverafter have awesome content on Instagram to educate sufferers and give them some practical tips. OCD and Anxiety also has great videos online which explains clearly some ERP strategies (ERP is the main therapy tool to process intrusive thoughts). Meditation can be very tricky and challenging when our minds are full of negative thoughts but it could help you manage your anxiety a bit better :) Some are using apps like Headspace; you can also google or check on YouTube "cognitive defusion techniques" or "mindfulness techniques". Hope you find a way to get a little bit better soon, you got this and remember you are not alone in this! ♡
ocdillustratedocdillustrated
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- 5y
∆∆∆frenchbadger suggested a ton of excellent resources!
MaxxMaxx
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- 5y
I have been on fluvoxamine for past 7 years but ocd ain't getting better.
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Adi7
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- 21w
Advice please ❤️
Hi ❤️ I’m really struggling right now I’m in my sophomore year of Highschool and I’ve finally started planning or thinking abt my future (for context I was extremely depressed and suicidal from 6-9th grade) After conquering my depression this is a huge leap for me and I’m proud of myself ❤️ But there’s something still holding me down :( and I’m not sure what to do anymore that thing is OCD. Since 6th grade I have had strong and invasive intrusive thoughts all the time they scare me so bad and make me feel as though I’m not even real anymore :( I’m sick of taking the time to do ridiculous compulsions to rid or ease these thoughts it’s a waste of time and energy and it hurts me so bad I feel like I will never get to just live my life without this :( How can I plan my future when I can’t even find myself in this mess of anxiety 💔 I’m so tired of fighting my mental health it’s been years from anxiety attacks to sh to survived suicide attempts (I got help dw❤️🩹) and recovery there. Just to be thrown into a storm of awful scary sickening thoughts day and night-when can I just be a normal teenager and possibly a happy adult? How do I conquer this so I can love myself to the fullest and live my life free and happy? :( ❤️❤️🩹 I’m so scared to talk to my parents about it I’m ashamed of my thoughts and every time I bring it up they just say I shouldn’t be diagnosing myself or it’s just ADHD. It really really hurts me they have no idea how awful this feels and it makes me feel so alone sometimes 💔
Liora
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- 15w
Please help
Does this happen with you also, just few days or a month before exams ocd tends to increase so much that you can't study even when you sit with books after meditating and with a calm mind. Please tell me how to get out of this anxious feeling and study in a normal course. It is becoming harder day by day for me to get out of this.
melissag
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- 14w
Can’t take it anymore help
A couple of days ago I felt asleep on the coach, and it was 12:50 am when I woke up, so I had to go to my room which is in the other floor (my room is in the first floor and the living room is in the second floor, the architecture is weird but my house is a duplex apartment), in order to go to my room I had to walk through the hallway and my 12-year old brother’s room is nearby, so I felt a lot of anxiety and I was recording a video as proof that I didn’t do anything wrong, the problem is my video wasn’t sent, so I didn’t have proof, reassurance, but I still went downstairs to get to my room, I don’t know what to do, frankly I don’t wanna continue, please can someone help me, I think this is false memory ocd and sexual ocd, but please please help me, I can’t do this anymore, I can’t study I can’t focus on Anything else but this, and my mind really thinks I have done something to my brother, that I have raped him or that I have sexually abused him, I seriously can’t stop thinking about that, and whenever I focus on something else, my mind tells me that I shouldn’t focus on anything else because how can I? “If you rape your little brother you shouldn’t focus on something else” and my mind also thinks that I shouldn’t stop thinking about this because If I stopped my memories could become blurry or could seem like very far away memories, and I wanna have clear memories. Please please help me , I honestly don’t wanna go on, don’t wanna live anymore. I live in Peru, so there are not many expert therapists about ocd or false memory/ sexual ocd, please help
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