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So many reasons, family, friends, pets, but most importantly, because you never know how happy your life may be after ocd recovery. What if (see what I did there) life can be fulfilling what if you CAN recover and live a normal life. Ocd what ifs are negative, but what if we can make our what ifs be positive?
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The future you :)
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Things get better. I know you’ve heard it hundreds of times before, but they do. I seriously considered ending it a almost two years ago, but what I did instead was call a friend. Best decision of my life. Then I looked at my life and found places where I could be taking better care of myself and I tried to improve. My sleep schedule was a mess, I was doing too much at once, ect. Also therapy helped a lot. If you need help talking to parents and are a minor, school counselors are an excellent resource. I know that can be scary, but I had one who changed my life. If for whatever reason therapy isn’t an option, it’s still possible to get better. Here is a list of self help books: https://iocdf.org/books/ Here are some articles on practicing erp by yourself: https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/expert-opinion-self-directed-erp/ https://www.get.gg/ocd.htm An article for self help if your in a crisis: https://www.helpguide.org/articles/suicide-prevention/are-you-feeling-suicidal.htm Also don’t hesitate to call or text a crisis line. Also I’m here to chat I’ll be up for a little while.
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thank you.
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@abbirose Of course! Do you need someone to talk with right now? Are you able to keep yourself safe? (I can talk either way).
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@Nikki1809 i’m ok. thanks
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@abbirose Ok. Take care. ❤️
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It seems obscure but neuralink is going to be able to cure OCD in largely the same way as deep brain stimulation does. Currently deep brain stimulation, which is very effective, is only used in very treatment resistant cases because it requires invasive brain surgery, but neuralink is not invasive, much less risky and in future may not require surgery at all. This is likely 5-10 years away, but I do think it would be worth waiting. There is going to be a big livestreamed update on the project on Friday, so maybe you could check that about if you need something to give you hope.
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****check that out
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id love more info on this
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@luchalysol The short version: https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/elon-musk-s-great-and-terrifying-brain-machine-interface-neuralink/ Assessing the claims, including OCD: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/neuralink-what-we-know-about-elon-musk-s-brain-startup The long version, with a very detailed (but easily understandable, and you can skip bits) explanation about the evolutionary history of our brain, how the cortex works, BCIs in general, and how Neuralink will be able to affect & empower it: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
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there are so many reasons, think of the things you enjoy. what do you like to do? is there anything that brings you comfort?
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not anymore , nk
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is there a place where you can sit without being disturbed to meditate? What helps me is to remain in the moment and conscious of my breathing. i use a meditation app which is super helpful
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set an on my family is trying to sleep and I have screen time on my phone so I can’t do anything. I tried to ask my mom if I can borrow her phone so I can watch something that will call me down but she won’t let me and just yelled at mw
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I feel like there’s no way out of this. everyday i’m anxious and depressed from these thoughts. i feel like i have to constantly question if it’s OCD or not. the panic attacks are insane and i freak out. and a compulsion i have is looking eveything up on the internet when im stressing to know that it’s just my OCD and im not in danger. but looking things up add on to my thoughts and i start thinking “what if” actual suidcal people think. do others with this theme whenever they do something like if im taking a picture it’ll be like “yeah you look happy people will wonder what happened when your gone” LIKE i DO NOT want to end my life. or even as simple as cleaning my room, “yup keep it clean so when your family goes through your stuff” then i panic and can’t even do anything. those thoughts distress me so bad. i’ll sit there and think how good my life is or when im having a good day my thoughts will be like “NOPEEE what if your just saying that to convince yourself” it never shuts up and genuinely makes me think i have SI or something. i hope this reaches the right people just to know im not alone. Even when i do get better in the back of my mind it’s always “people who want to are the same a day before too” im genuinely scared and im scared one day im going to just snap and do it because its “too much” do i need to go to a mental hospital! i feel insane.
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Really bad theme right now is death, I keep thinking about how one day or at any moment my heart will stop my brain will stop & my memories & everything I know will all fade away. It is giving me so much anxiety I’m only 18, but I realize it all happens to us it is bound, we are born to die. I know it’s a silly thing to be scared because it’s not helping the quality of my life worrying about it and even when I do die, I won’t care , if you don’t have a working brain then how can you care 🤷♀️. It is tainting my everyday life currently & honestly making me terribly depressed & it is giving me derealization & making me feel nihilistic, I’ll remind myself it’s okay but then with my ocd i don’t stop thinking and thinking about it and it’s seriously so hard to stay present in the moment because this thought just feels like I can’t scrub it away it’s miserable I struggle with religion, but I do pray to anything that’s out there possibly listening, because it is comforting, it just feels like this whole experience Is pointless & I am afraid of the unknown and what is to possibly happen but I’m subjected to it anyways so why should it matter
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i’m having a full on panic attack, i never used to be like this, what tf is happening to me, why am i like this, i’m so convinced i’m a horrible person and i deserve to be shut out forever because of my thoughts, i’m tired of struggling with harm ocd, i’m scared that because i have mental health issues i’m gonna end up ki!!ing someone someday or end up on the news, when i was at work earlier i kept thinking “how easy would it be to ki!! someone and get away with it” someone help, i don’t feel normal, am i crazy?… 😭😭i know that with ocd you’re not supposed to have reassurance and you have to be “okay” with the situation but.. how am i supposed to be okay with feeling like i could hurt someone…
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