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- boymom87
- Date posted
- 4y ago
- Username
- tonytiger82tonytiger82
- Date posted
- 4y ago
With OCD, the things that you value the most (such as your life) are doubted/questioned with OCD... If your thoughts deal with with compulsions and not wants/idealiogies, you are truly okay... People with and without OCD have suicidal thoughts all of the time... The difference between people like us is that we tend to question our safety or want 100 percent certainly that our thoughts are false...
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- DianaaaDianaaa
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I get what ur trying to say tonytiger but "if your thoughts deal with compulsions and not wants/ideologies you are okay" is kind of giving reassurance, and also prompting that "checking our ocd thoughts to make sure we don't want to do it" which is a compulsion. All this persons ocd will do is "but you do want suicide dont you"? Which will continue his/her suicide ocd theme. We have to accept our suicide ocd may be real and may not be real. We have to (even though itd agonizing) accept we may do it and we may not. That (and resisting compulsions) is the only way to recover. This method is also proven so please believe that uncertainty is the only way!
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- tonytiger82tonytiger82
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@Dianaaa You are absolutely correct! I truly need to change my thinking process in regard to my overall obsessions. I was very anxious and scared earlier after ruminating on a thought and messed up and went to Google... I truly need to get hold of my reassurance(compulsions)
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- DianaaaDianaaa
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@tonytiger82 No you're good! No shaming here, don't apologize. Ocd can be very tricky. Im just trying to help point out things I seem to think you are doing so you can get better quicker! Recovery is VRRY hard tho so don't feel bad for giving in a bit!
- Username
- tonytiger82tonytiger82
- Date posted
- 4y ago
So it causes it to obsess over our thoughts causing us anxiety
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- Ocdmomma Ocdmomma
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I go through the same thing
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- DianaaaDianaaa
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yes! I am recovering ocd sufferer for 16 years and this was my last theme. I had tk expose myself to suicidal posts, movies etc, then feel the anxiety that they would produce. No compulsions. Then I had to listen to a loop tape of me saying "I may or may not kill myself. I will never be certain if i will eventually do it or not" accepting uncertainty and no compulsions, (not being alone for fear of harming urself) and feeling the intense anxiety that comes with ocd is the only and quickest way to recovery! :)
- Username
- boymom87boymom87
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Thank you so your post it gives me some faith that I’ll get over this. Sometimes I feel like it’s never going to get better
- Username
- DianaaaDianaaa
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@boymom87 It does feel like it won't get better. And then the "what if suicide is the only way out and im forced to do the thing i fear the most!?!?!" Thoughts come. but even those thoughts we have to treat as maybe true, maybe not. Who knows? This in itself will eventually help you get better
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- tonytiger82tonytiger82
- Date posted
- 4y ago
*us* not it
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- Ocdmomma Ocdmomma
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Have you recovered from this?
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- T123
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Is anyone here dealing with Harm OCD? What helps you the most when the intrusive thoughts are there?
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- artsygirl
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Tw: Anyone out there go through Suicidal ocd ERP? Mind mentioning some of your erp that you did with an ocd therapist ?! Anyone out there who has suicidal ocd have tips for dealing with intrusive thoughts ?
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- Kenzie Madison
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Those with Harm OCD
Hey guys. I’ve been dealing with Harm OCD for around 3 and 1/2 months now, and it’s been extremely difficult to experience. I’ve had OCD my whole life and some of my family members do as well, one of my cousins actually has the same main subtype as me, but he was diagnosed almost a year ago when I didn’t have it myself. I’ve been going to an OCD & Anxiety Treatment Center the past week and I’m really struggling with the exposures we do there, as well as the ones we do at home. I constantly feel like I’m judging myself and I genuinely feel worthless, like I’m a horrible person to have unwanted intrusive thoughts like these. I feel like it’s so difficult to stay mindful and to not judge any of the thoughts that surface. Those with Harm OCD, have any of you here gone from debilitating OCD to living fulfilling lives? If so, what was the process like for you, if you’d like to share? Thanks and I hope you’re all doing well, or are continuing to improve.
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