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Sending all my love give yourself grace at this time
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@crazy.cat.lady yes it’s always hard to be compassionate and loving to others than yourself. I sometimes think I give myself love and grace but when I really think about it I really treat myself and am disappointed in myself more than I am any other person in my life. Theres a website called getselfhelp.co.uk and there’s some good things for OCD but also self compassion and compassionate thinking. I’d really recommend it xxx
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Always happens to me during this time of year. I’m always missing family dinners or skipping the food because I can’t stop throwing up from stress and anxiety.
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Thank you ❤️ I feel better now. It’s kind of silly when I imagine myself crying and still doing compulsions. It’s like I’m Cinderella slaving away to stepmother ocd and the nasty anxiety sisters. @ocddreams. My ex said the same thing that it’s seasonal. I tend to be the worst in winter and nighttime. I’m sorry and I know it’s really frustrating. It’s like double guilt right? Guilt from your ocd and anxiety and guilt of not being able to enjoy time with your family. I know it hurts. I had to skip out on a lot of the events too. I hope you can somehow manage it so you can at least be with your family. @em2695 thank you for your kind words. I don’t know if it’s just me but after struggling with my meltdowns and get kind words I feel a stab in my heart, almost hurts to read kind empathetic words. but I know it’s positive. I don’t know why I feel that way. Do you ever feel that way?
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@Em2695 I didn’t realize that was the reason. Thank you. It’s really hard to be nice to yourself when your brain pretty much tells you you’re a terrible person and then you see it’s true how people you care the most are affected negatively by your illnesses.
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@Em2695 thank you for the link. I will look at it.
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i’ve been doing okay lately. but then tonight, my stomach started hurting and obviously that set off an anxiety spiral for my emetaphobia. and it went on for about an hour or so when i started feeling better and being more rational with myself. then all of a sudden, i’m hit with a second wave because my stomach started hurting again that i’m still going through. i’ve been having second waves of anxiety recently when i get anxiety attacks and they’re probably worse than the initial hit because i start to think “oh wait, maybe i am sick.” and i’m still not out of it and i’m currently terrified. i know the anxiety is making my stomach worse, but i cannot calm myself down when it hits. so i have an ice pack on my neck, heating pad on my stomach, turned my lights off, turned my fan on and have my tv on for background. i’m trying my best not to take a zofran but it’s getting hard
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So I’m severely emetophobic but these past few weeks have gotten SO bad. I had a bad reaction to an SSRI that made me feel like I was gonna throwup, I stopped taking them over two weeks ago but ever since then the fear has got even worse. I haven’t left the house properly in weeks because I’ve convinced myself I’ll be sick. I feel nauseous even indoors a lot of the time (there are hours when I don’t, like for example this afternoon I was fine). But I challenged myself to go for a short walk this evening and omg it was so hard I really thought I might throwup. The thing is I KNOW it’s anxiety and not real nausea because it feels completely different to when I was actually nauseous from the medication. This feeling is more like a tight throat/sensation of a lump in my throat that makes me feel like I’m gonna gag. I also have RCPD (I can’t burp basically lol) so I just feel like I have trapped air in my throat that’s gonna make me puke. The phobia has gotten really really bad. I have started therapy recently but I’ve been scared of throwing up since I was a kid and I’m now 31 lol wtf. I remember last Christmas my mum said someone at her work had been sick and I was so scared my mum had caught it and would pass it on to me that I refused to leave my bedroom without wearing gloves and a mask and wiping everything with anti-germ wipes. But right now it’s so so bad because I have literally gotten to the point where I’ve convinced myself I feel nauseous pretty much 24/7 and I am taking anti-nausea meds almost every day. Has anyone else dealt with/has tips for this??? I’m literally desperate 😭
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- 7w
Hi guys, I need help/advice/comfort. My daughters have been sick with a stomach bug, and I went up to the doctors to give them some BRATs food and clothes. I’m afraid I am sick, and that I picked up something from the hospital. I was eating a burrito and it tasted like toothpaste, I immediately spit it out, and began feeling dizzy, out of breath, and started shaking. My brain started to worry I’m having a stroke, or a severe case of COVID, and now my stomach is upset and I’m nauseous. Please someone, please tell me how to handle this. The anxiety is making me miserable.
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