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What have you done in the past to cope with ocd? Mostly I ask this question so I can figure out what’s worked for you and what hasn’t and that helps me give better advice. Also, have you ever done or heard of ERP?
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Greetings. helped me talk to a psychologist about it, but at the same time, the conversation could serve as a trigger. Usually, I don't get hung up on obsessions, but go straight to compulsion. I do a lot of compulsive acts and rituals. basically it is counting something with special numbers. there is good and bad. earlier, in childhood, there were two numbers. now ... at about 18. in August, the first constant 24/7 compulsion appeared. I do not move my jaw when I speak or eat. and when I am not trying to meditate or breathe. but I can't, though I try. I was prescribed many antidepressants and neuroleptics. but none of the remedies worked consistently. now I go to a psychologist for group therapy. I tell her about the problems. turned to a psychologist for a personal consultation. he advised to see a psychotherapist and a psychiatrist. seen by a psychiatrist with a diagnosis of f 20.004. I am taking venlafaxine, zeldox and midantan. I do not live in the USA. How can I contact you? my name is Nye. in childhood, when I was two or three, I had a brain contusion. then I was diagnosed with epiliptic convulsive syndrome and I was seen by a neurologist for a year. at the age of 11, I hit my head on the floor, and sometimes I still have a headache. I don't know if this pain is related to a blow or a bruise. used to be sick up to three times a week. now once or twice a month. experienced violence from her stepfather. I didn't talk about it with anyone. sorry to write so much. trying to show the whole picture. there were delusions and hallucinations, auditory and visual. now there is depersonalization and OCD. I'm rigid and a little rational. maybe frigid, maybe I seem quiet, withdrawn and cold, but inside I have many feelings. I live with my mother and a neighbor, my father died last summer. I didn't feel anything because of it. did not feel. ERP? No. I don't know.
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First: sorry for taking so long to reply I was driving all day. What country do you live in if you don’t mind me asking? I’m a lot more familiar with resources available in the US than anywhere else. I can try and explain a little bit about how ocd is typically treated. We usually use a therapy called “exposure response prevention.” I have a link to a workbook that helps people do this type of therapy. https://www.pdfdrive.com/the-ocd-workbook-your-guide-to-breaking-free-from-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-e157834125.html Can you give me some examples of things that trigger your obsessions and compulsions? That will help me to maybe explain erp a little better using examples relevant to you.
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@Nikki1809 I'm not sure if I should write. I'm writing for the third time and it's not saved in my notes. I write there first and then copy it... my mom has obsessive-compulsive cleanliness syndrome. she's very fanatical about cleaning. he can go into my closet without asking and move things his own way. washes the floors in the apartment 6-7 times a day. sometimes he brings unwanted items home and stores them. we have a lot of plastic bottles and lids. lots of single-use bags. she uses them and erases them. a lot of children's unnecessary clothes for anyone from the family. she can't pass by a functional item or device and not take it home from the trash. her favorite color is green. we have green doors and almost the entire apartment has green walls. the green window. but she was never treated or visited by specialists. and she doesn't think she needs to. she also had a twin sister, my aunt. she was treated in a psychiatric hospital and was a believer, even living in a monastery for a while. my mother used to be a Jehovah's witness. when I am in contact with the world and with people, I need to count and perform obsessive actions. when I try not to think or think too much. when I try to calm down or meditate. when I get scolded or someone swears next to me. when I'm touched. when I cook.I take a shower and get dressed.wash face.breathing or walking. or I hear noise, music, repetitive sounds, heartbeats. when engaged in monotonous activities. if I need to leave somewhere. where I feel uncomfortable. when I go into myself. I am writing this now and I am uneasy. I move my jaw under the bill. but at the same time, when I experience something, I don't experience anything. I frown and frown specially. although I am alone in the room and no one sees me. I behave like a program that needs to restart and adjust itself to every emotion. play it. but I'm also very sensitive and vulnerable. rigid. and lonely. I feel very uncomfortable right now because I write and communicate so much. it's not like me. now, as usual on the border of summer and autumn, I am active socially and emotionally. and as long as it holds.but not so bright. I strive to have time to subtract, find, understand and overcome myself. OCD. while I have the desire. emotional energy. I am a closed, closed person. I control myself and my feelings. sometimes I feel like a rock. sometimes I feel like a different stone. at school, they called me a robot. I can't look people in the eye. I'm comfortable not being disturbed. criticism, threats, swearing at me or at someone near me disturb me. and I start thinking and making obsessions. obsessive actions.when I think about my problems. when I force myself not to think about them.to forget. when I remember childhood moments. I communicate with my family. I have two sisters and a mother. I communicate with my family purely on a domestic neighborly level. I've never been honest with them. trust nobody. hiding the truth behind the truth. when we drew on the group, what kind of weapon we imagine ourselves to be, I drew a blade. when I hurt the world, I hurt myself. double-edged ... double-edged sword. double-edged knife. you will save me. you'll kill me. I live in a Russian-speaking country. English is not my native language. I apologize for any errors or inaccuracies. and for being talkative.
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No need to apologize...I’m sorry if I have trouble understanding any of what you’re trying to say here. Generally when we treat ocd we use a thing called “Exposure response prevention.” One way to do this is to just spend a day paying attention to obsessions and compulsions and then write them down. Then you make a list of things that worry you and how much they bother you, usually on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 bothering you the least and 10 bothering you most. Then you expose yourself to the things your afraid of and avoid doing compulsions. My main theme is religious ocd. One fear I used to have was going to the church on my college campus because I was afraid I would have bad thoughts about God while I was there. So I would start by just walking past the building without doing any compulsions, like praying and telling God I don’t mean the bad thoughts. Once I got used to that, I worked my way up to being able to I would go get my lunch in the cafeteria by the church, and eat outside. It got to the point where eventually I was able to go into the building and spend time in there, even with my intrusive thoughts. You said one of your compulsions is to avoid certain numbers right? So what we would recommend is that you don’t avoid those numbers, but expose yourself to them. It causes anxiety at first, but you learn eventually you can handle the anxiety. A therapist can help with this process, if that’s an option for you. Also, I’m not sure if I read this wrong, but were you talking about suicide? Please do not kill yourself, life can get better.
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Being yourself is unbearable, so you need to be someone else. Well. Thanks.advice is valuable. Downloaded the book. I had a psychotic suicide attempt. But not serious. Stop me. I'm prone to self-harm. We need to write about the scales. How are you now? TW... . . . . . . . . I wrote this the last time I had autoagression. You can not read if it is difficult. Sorry.very personal.<br> I don't remember if I was sick before and I don't know if I'm sick or not. I won't learn it at last. That I'm not like that. I will not begin to live and not to live. I should be happy. I would like to communicate. Have friends and so on. And away from the closed circle. But no. It's a witch's circle. It will protect you from Viya. And that the Wii is me.I don't see. I can't see or hear anything at all. and in an effort to see and hear, I only close my eyes more tightly and cover my ears. Why don't I wear a dress? I took it even tried it on because I even imagined myself in it on the street among people there is no it is on the shelf and such things are already a whole wardrobe. I can't accept a dress. Why don't I smile back at a person?. he is waiting for my response to his positive attitude to his good location and benevolence to his love of the world. I will walk with a stone for a face and only a cursory nod shaking my head not even stopping not pausing for a second for a moment because if I do it is all over the earth will stop the sun will go blind and the moon will be swallowed up by a blue whale. Why do I mint words like change coins a coin press clearly quickly dryly verified almost on a ruler why do I write Yes and I want to say no why do I sit with my face buried in a small screen and my hands tremble and nerves on my lips. the eyes are inflamed in their bulge. and I write clearly like a marching soldier. I write Tanya and want Tanya write clearly understandable and so sverbit in the throat of mental print a detailed answer. How I want to have the face to do psychotherapy on this lifeless stone. Strike a spark of life. And anger is why a double-edged attack is my defense. Why is it worth only one part of the puzzle to stand up incorrectly as I immediately take up the knife and cut the leather straps that bind the weak chest. Eleven. The word has eleven eleven letters. In the word three three. I don't have enough vitamins and the world of apples. Apples I block, I block myself somewhere in the side and gut in the zygote crushed in the Bud desperately trying to suppress a smile cry cry laugh I'm a freak they account for six of the seventh day as usual output and this account well as you can't touch me don't yell at me don't be silent on me don't stand around do not cry do not abuse or I will be forced to pretend to be deaf. And eight why all the time this figure is eight years Aha the first time well what's so worthwhile about it it's not first love it's not a wedding night it's just a body that wants another body that doesn't know what it wants yet it hasn't grown up he called me a Princess and I was in pajama pants with giraffes that his hands were already taking off. You liked that constant nagging question of his. My whole life is one continuous one continuous obsession don't go don't take don't do don't think don't breathe don't be just forget don't worry and survive. Don't cry don't cry. Don't cut your life don't cut it don't cut yourself don't cut it...
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