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- 6y
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It’s the other way around. You won’t be able to make any progress if you or them keep following those rules. In order to progress, you have to start doing some exposures, like leaving something “dirty”, or not washing your hands after you touch something that you consider infected or dirty. If you keep washing and sterilizing everything, you’re just falling in the never ending ocd cycle. It’s hard, trust me, I know, but it’s worth it. Start with something small, sit with the anxiety, and then move on. The anxiety will eventually go away.
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- 6y
me too ???
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- 6y
The thing with ocd, is that it is never satisfied, maybe for a while you’ll be ok, considering you’re not gonna live with them forever, but what happens when you move out, or have a house for yourself, ocd is gonna find out a way to mess with you, sadly it always does. Besides, we can’t always control the people around us, something’s gonna trigger us eventually, that’s why we need to fight. I don’t know how old you are, or how long you’ve been dealing with ocd, I’ve had it for more than 20 years, and just found out about exposure therapy a couple of months ago, and I’ve been able to have some “ocd free” weeks for the first time in a long long time. I’ll be lying if I tell you that it has been easy, cause it is not easy at all, and some days I can’t deal with the anxiety and I end up doing my compulsions. This last couple of days have been really hard, and only because I keep feeding this ocd monster by giving into my fears and doing compulsions. Ocd is the worst. ?
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- 6y
Right now I'm able to cope with not washing my hands or cleaning for a while and touch mostly everything that bothers me as long as it doesn't interfere with the few things I absolutely need to keep clean. The main thing that bothers me is the chance of anything touching what I want to keep clean. I feel like as long as I can prevent that from happening I'll be ok considering I don't have to live with these people for much longer but that's also hard to do and considering they aren't very supportive is probably annoying to them. I don't know if it's worth it to cause myself so much anxiety for only having to deal with this problem for a short amount of time
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- 6y
Thank you for your advice I hope all goes well for you in the future?
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- 23w
I can't stop thinking about ending my life. I feel like I'm not even living, I'm just surviving. Everyone is capable of being a person and functioning and I'm just stuck here avoiding everything. My psychiatrist said my ocd is severe and it will all take time and I'll start erp and I'm already on medication but I just feel so depressed and like I won't be able to handle erp and it's already too late for me. I feel inhuman, it's debilitating. My major theme is just fear or contamination, I can't even make myself a meal I can't touch anything in the kitchen. I get stuck in the shower for 2 hours and when I don't shower because I'm depressed I feel like a walking germ. My hands are a mess, my school work is shit, I avoid and avoid and I'm just so tired of "living" like this. My psychiatrist said they don't have any therapists available right now like.... excuse me? What do you mean u don't have any 😭 I honestly don't even know why I'm typing this becuase nothing helps, nothing ever will. I'm so deep into this I can't get out, my room looks like shit, I can't live in this body anymore, I really can't. I let everyone down, I am and will be such a dissapointment. I don't have any dreams or goals or passions I just wasn't made to be here. I don't know how or who to ask for help like there's nothing anyone can do, I'm already on meds. I can't keep being like this, seeing everyone judge me for acting insane.
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- 17w
I live in my parents’ house and they are currently redoing the roof and the insulation in the attic. My parents’ house is at least 50 years old. The only way into the attic is through my room. I knew I would have to relocate but now I feel like my room is contaminated and can just never been clean. I feel like everything needs to be thrown away that was exposed to the old insulation or touched by the workers. No matter what I do I just will always think that my room is dirty. Does anyone know how to push past getting stuck with these thoughts? Or dealing with people making you feel worse because they don’t understand?
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- 17w
Earlier I posted about trying to get back to sitting on my sofa without a blanket covering it. And I did it, but now my day has been ruined. I left for two seconds and my cat decided to sit there, so now it's not clean anymore. This is because sometimes she's had number two stuck to her and no longer trust that she's clean. It took so much for me to just do that and sit without a blanket and now I'm just so done. I'm also scared to walk anywhere in my house. We sometimes get slugs in our conservatory and I don't walk in there anymore because there can be slug slime trails (it's carpet). The thing is, my mum regularly goes in there, my dad too. And then they proceed to walk around the rest of the house without changing shoes or anything. I'm just panicking because I was having a good day and now I feel like I'm isolated to my bedroom.
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