Maxx
- Date posted
- 4y
CardeaCardea
- Date posted
- 4y
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
- Date posted
- 4y
I also have troubles meditating but this method helped me a lot especialy when I cant sleep
frenchbadgerfrenchbadger
- Date posted
- 4y
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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- 4y
∆∆∆frenchbadger suggested a ton of excellent resources!
MaxxMaxx
- Date posted
- 4y
I have been on fluvoxamine for past 7 years but ocd ain't getting better.
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Sage._
- Date posted
- 21w
I don't think I can handle my ocd anymore
I can't stop thinking about ending my life. I feel like I'm not even living, I'm just surviving. Everyone is capable of being a person and functioning and I'm just stuck here avoiding everything. My psychiatrist said my ocd is severe and it will all take time and I'll start erp and I'm already on medication but I just feel so depressed and like I won't be able to handle erp and it's already too late for me. I feel inhuman, it's debilitating. My major theme is just fear or contamination, I can't even make myself a meal I can't touch anything in the kitchen. I get stuck in the shower for 2 hours and when I don't shower because I'm depressed I feel like a walking germ. My hands are a mess, my school work is shit, I avoid and avoid and I'm just so tired of "living" like this. My psychiatrist said they don't have any therapists available right now like.... excuse me? What do you mean u don't have any 😭 I honestly don't even know why I'm typing this becuase nothing helps, nothing ever will. I'm so deep into this I can't get out, my room looks like shit, I can't live in this body anymore, I really can't. I let everyone down, I am and will be such a dissapointment. I don't have any dreams or goals or passions I just wasn't made to be here. I don't know how or who to ask for help like there's nothing anyone can do, I'm already on meds. I can't keep being like this, seeing everyone judge me for acting insane.
ConstantPain
- Date posted
- 20w
Dealing with a lot. Need support and company.
My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
Anonymous
- Date posted
- 14w
Please help me.
I am very sad. I have obsessive thoughts from night to morning or in a week. I am scared. I am 23 years old now. I have been suffering from obsessive thoughts for eight years. I am not from a rich family. Please someone help me. I can't do anything because the thoughts don't make me progress. I have no friends at university. No one talks to me.Help me, help me, please.
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