- Date posted
- 6y
- Date posted
- 6y
Sending all my love give yourself grace at this time
- Date posted
- 6y
@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
- Date posted
- 6y
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.
- Date posted
- 6y
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?
- Date posted
- 6y
@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.
- Date posted
- 6y
@Em2695 thank you for the link. I will look at it.
Related posts
- Date posted
- 22w
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
- Date posted
- 21w
Today I woke up with severe panic attack. My heart jumps out of my chest. As I do every morning. When I wake up and my brain is awake it automatically goes straight to intrusive thoughts about my partner, my life and everything else. That I don’t love her, I don’t want to be with her and she’s not the one for me and I should break up with her. This all happened from TikTok comments I saw that triggered this. Since then I haven’t been able to stop my thoughts. I know she is the one for me I know I love her I just can’t stop the thoughts. It feels so real. The voices feel so real.
- Date posted
- 16w
Hi, I have been under extreme stress since about March this year, and from that started suffering from very bad health anxiety which has caused panic attacks etc. I’m in the middle of a spiral right now though because I am certain I have stomach cancer. I am 31 and female. Last week I had a very good few days anxiety wise and almost felt like myself. But on Sunday morning I woke up having to rush to the bathroom (TMI sorry) and felt very nauseous. I am emetophobic so this scared me too. Since then I have been having bad stomach cramps, had to rush to the toilet once a day, and some nausea. I have no appetite at all (last week I had a very good appetite but this week I am having to force myself to eat). I am thinking about my symptoms constantly which I think might be making them worse. I have had a bowel screening done which was clear so no blood, and a calprotectin which was very slightly raised at 53, but my GP said she wasn’t concerned about it but would refer me for further testing if I wanted. So I do have more tests booked but not for some months yet. I’m just really scared because of the stomach cramps, nausea, and having to rush to the bathroom once a day for five days now. I have also had bad acid reflux but that only tends to happen when I have taken propranolol. I also have IBS so maybe my anxiety has flared it up but I’m not convinced. I’m just so scared to the point I can’t leave the house and I have been lay in bed for five days thinking about my symptoms and that I could have stomach cancer. I have also been referred for CBT in the near future to help deal with this, but I’m scared that I’m brushing something off as anxiety and giving time for the illness to spread. I just feel constantly scared. I thought I’d had a breakthrough last week but this has just hit me like a tonne of bricks. Has anyone else dealt with anything like this? I just want to feel okay again I am freaking out so bad
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond