- Username
- darneilious
- Date posted
- 4y ago
ERP and Medications (SSRI) work!! Really helped me
How do I do erp?
@darneilious You start by experiencing or directly exposing yourself to something that would trigger you, but the therapy is that you have to sit with it, no matter how uncomfortable. This can be used to train your brain and train your reactions to the thoughts, because OCD sufferers cannot control how they react to their thoughts, but can train themselves
@Ecuadorre Then like document how you were feeling or how you felt etc. I reccomend the ERP feature on here, just click the tools option :)
@Ecuadorre Thank you!
Give it time, I had OCD thoughts on almost any fear you can think of, couldn’t look at people or be around my family. Pacing back and forth, shivering, looking online for reassurance, nightmares, Sexuality, etc.... overall thought I was a bad guy. It is because you fear these things that make you a good person. My episode lasted for months, now it’s at a manageable level but still seeking therapy so I can maintain that and how to handle it if another one occurs. For me, an episode started with a stressful event. Prozac, Time, and family helped me.
It’s just so hard, it’s everyday every minute I never have a break and it sucks so much I just want it to end so bad it’s like having a backpack full of rocks on
Don’t feel alone, I’ve been going through almost the same thing. Hang in there. Everything is going to be okay.
@darneiliois try to stay away from scary movies, or anything that might cause you distress. It takes times but eventually your brain will get fed up and it will fade away. It’s important that you keep yourself busy and don’t try to avoid your family. Be around your family and spend time with them. This will prove your OCD thoughts even more incorrects than they already are. Not sure what your beliefs are. However, praying and reading scriptures from the Bible also help. The Bible speaks a lot on thoughts and the mind. Listening to motivational speakers such as Joyce Meyers also help because she talks a lot on similar things like these.
I really hope it passes I’m not a bad person at all :(
@darneilious I know your not a bad person. OCD tries to make you believe that. I’ve dealt with scary thoughts like what your having when i was a kid. It passed and sort of came back 10 years later and I’m dealing with it again now. Only this time I’m much older and know how to handle it better than when I was a kid. I know it will pass again eventually, it’s just running its course. Hanging around my family and communicating with them helps to take my mind off of the untrue ocd thoughts. Remember that you are not your thoughts.
@darneilious I think you should go on YouTube and listen to Joyce Meyers: moving beyond worry and anxiety. She has a lot more videos but check that one first
@Sunflower2456 Okay I’ll check her out
This APP (NOCD) can set you up with a therapist to guide you. Honestly...for me...SSRIs and ERP were the treatment that worked best.
But I’m young and don’t have insurance:(
I agree it is hard. I don’t wish it on anyone, feels like the mind is trapped and slowly torturing you. I thought I was going crazy, I admitted myself voluntarily to get help, Doctors diagnosed me with either ADHD or Bipolar Never OCD. They all share similarities in symptoms but you can tell them apart if you know yourself and your past. Finally I did have OCD in the end. I put away knifes too btw. And couldn’t hold tools of fear that I would hurt someone My OCD episode started after I watched a horrible movie. Went into shock/panic mode then it started
Mine started when I was watching YouTube videos and I delved waaaaay too deep into those awful crime reports and scary stories.. been staying away from that for a while
@Ecuadorre How long has it been going on? Mine lasted for over 3 months I think. It can vary per person though. Your solution is Time trust me. You slowly start to feel back to normal. But yeah stay away from the news, porn, and PG-13 and up films. Working out keeps the mind busy. And don’t smoke any marijuana as that can make you have another episode if you’re already in a shocked state.
@Ecuadorre Sorry thought you were the other user, but this response can work for you too lol
When did yours start? How long has it been going on? Anything stressful that happened at that time?
Mine started when I thought I was having a heart attack, very stressful event
@darneilious Yeah I used to dab wax, and thought it got soaked with chlorine and when I smoked it I thought I was going to die. Ambulances came, it was embarrassing to say the least.....
@JohnnyisMe Yep very embarrassing. When the doctor told me that I was perfectly healthy I was really embarrassed. In the past I had sexual orientation ocd
@darneilious How long since then? Your episode might be coming to an end if it’s been 3 months but again it varies per person. The brain has a way of resetting itself at 3 months, creates newer pathways and brings in newer information
@JohnnyisMe It’s been like 6 months, it was that then Schizo ocd health ocd now this
@darneilious Give it more time. Prozac helped with the intrusive never ending thoughts. Also fear is the core to OCD. I know the right solution would be to avoid these things but you need to be strong and face them. This is why Exposure and response therapy is there, to get you so tired and bored of the ideas that they won’t even affect you anymore.
@JohnnyisMe I’m so scared to face them :(
@darneilious I know and understand you but that’s the most effective therapy out there. Unless you can train your brain by yourself which I did. Try this method: Don’t resist the ideas, resisting them only causes worry then it turns into a never ending cycle. Try accepting the possibility but at the end of the day you know who you are. For example If you have Sexuality orientation OCD then tell yourself “Ok I’m gay” or with Harm OCD try “Ok I’m a bad person” accept them and don’t fight them. Then the thoughts usually go away
I don’t know what to do anymore, I’m failing school because all I have on my mind is ocd and ocd thoughts. I’ll I think is “what If I’m a murderer” “what If I hurt someone” “no no no I don’t wanna do those things I really don’t”. I feel like it’s getting worse I can’t focus on school anymore and I’m gonna fail this quarter. I wake up and I just wanna sleep because I keep having these thoughts, I’ve been getting nightmares too and I just feel so hopeless and I’m always so anxious about being a bad person. Please help me out here
if any responds to this, it would save my night. Just knowing there is someone there who understands. This past week my ocd has been worse than usually. My harm ocd is so terrible, violent thoughts and images fill my head and I can’t make it stop and the thoughts constantly are centered toward my family members. It’s so terrible I just feel like crying and I’m so heavy and empty inside. Does anyone else understand? Know what it’s like. All this fear and doubt. Are these my own thoughts? Why am I having these? Am I a psychopath? Do I want to do these things? And so on. I just want to scream. I’m so so scared and I feel sick to my stomach and I don’t want to be anywhere near my family right now. Help me please
Sorry this is long I don’t know where to begin but, at the beginning of the year I went through something that was hard. And I was so mad at God bc I was so hurt and I felt like I was in so much pain and I was so alone. And I remember I had some bad thoughts. I don’t remember these thoughts exactly but lietrally months later I was sitting down all normal and dealing with other forms of OCD that were so painful, but less painful than this. Anyways so then since then I have been stressing that I might have acted of these thoughts. I don’t have a memory but my brain keeps telling me I did that. Anyways I have been having intrusive thoughts since and it hurts so much. It hurts so bad and I can’t do this anymore. I don’t wanna do this anymore. I keep having these thoughts and it makes me stress so much and want to throw up. It makes me hurt myself. I have bruises all over my body and I’m just so done with this. And sometimes my brain will bring these memories of these intrusive thoughts into my mind or say my trigger thoughts and it makes me hurt so much. And then I start to go over these thoughts bc I feel so bad and I don’t want to have them. Sometimes when I am stressing about theee things they pass by and it makes me panic so bad. I was lietrally just eating and I was punching my hand so hard while thinking about all the thoughts I have had and the things my OCD had made me believe I did, and while I was doing that a thought came to my mind about what my OCD keeps telling me I did and I panicked so hard. I had to eat so fast just so I can lock myself up in my room. I didnt want to have the thought. I think I was just lost in listening to my OCD and then I started talking to myself about what I think I did and when I had the thought I was punching my self so hard that I didn’t even have time to shake it off straight away. I have this conclusion where whenever I have a bad thought I write it down bc my brain tells me that I’m a bad person and I should forget about these thoughts so I grabbed my phone as soon as the panic set in. Sometimes I question whether I had those thoughts intentionally or if i forget them and then I remember the wrong thing and it makes me feel even worse. My brain tells me that if I don’t panic staright away and hurt myself then it means that I mean the thought. I’m in so much pain. I’m really don’t want to think about it but it happens and it feel so real and that it comes from me and that I did something bad. I know this makes no sense but I don’t want to be like this. I go to bed most nights hoping I never wake up. I really don’t mean theee thoughts, sometimes they come when u I’m justify thinking about all the bad things my OCD has made me believe I did and then I panic over remberinf these things. What if im thinking this on purpose? What if the thought I had is so much worse? What if God will never forgive me? I don’t want to live anymore I hate my life and im never going to get out of this. I was just trying to have a normal dinner but my mind never stops. Whether it’s me imaegnitn things or thinking about my thoughts and going over them, I feel so guilty. I can’t even get any help bc I can’t afford it. No one knows I go through this. Ok all alone. Im all alone .
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