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I watch adventure or suspense movie. I can forget my ocd. Do breathing, exercises are great and medication or call a friend
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I’ve had to deal with severe anxiety my whole life and I’m sorry you suffer with it too. What I do to try to help myself to calm down with whatever I am worried I draw and listen to music. Both are two things I absolutely love to do. If you can try to find something that you love to do as a hobby or that you’re into, maybe it can help you to relieve some of the stress you have to deal with. Going outside for walks can help too. I tend to do that the most and just put in my earbuds and just let myself escape into the music and out of the real world for a bit. It personally helps me a lot. Hope my tips and my experience can help you. Take care.
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Painting or any form of art such as drawing too is very good and therapeutic. You can allow yourself to create with colors and make abstract art to express your emotions and how you feel or whatever you love to paint.
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I get that way sometimes. Usually what works for calming me down is 4 square breathing - breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, out for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds. This usually de-escalates me enough to be able to calmly look for my missing item. If I can’t find it, sometimes I ask a friend or family member.
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Yeah I get that. I don’t feel that way about this but I do for other obsessions. I tend to try and fight it by reminding myself that everyone does things like that. So maybe a mantra you could repeat could be something like, “Everyone loses their keys. It’s not stupid of me or bad of me.” It won’t work immediately but I’ve found that if I repeat it enough, I can get through to myself and past the OCD.
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Thank you for the advice I will try this method
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I hope it helps you!!
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breathe.
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I tried the painting guys it’s helping
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I’m very glad it is:)?
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Thank you ?
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I tried mindfulness last night to fall asleep the first time it helped. But when I lose stuff I feel like I won’t get back and I start calling myself stupid and how could I do such a dumb thing like that
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@ohkay
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Thank you guys for the advice ?
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I wanted to start painting to see if that will help
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No problem:)
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I have a lot of compulsions that seem hoarding-esque but I can’t figure out which subtype of OCD they fall under. The two major drivers of this for me seem to be a fear that I will forget about them or the memories attached to them or that the things and their significance will be lost to time, and that I might need or want them in the future. I compulsively make lists of things (ex. things I like, things I don’t like, who I am, the contents of my ideal fridge - very plain with lots of fruit) just in case. I heart nearly every song I hear on Spotify (except the ones I actively strongly dislike, of which there are not many) just in case I will forget about them later on (and because I feel guilty about not hearting the song and supporting the artist if I have no valid reason not to but that’s a whole other can of worms). I have a couple containers of “good” boxes of all shapes and sizes that I’ve collected that, as it turns out, I never actually look at or use. When I was very little, before my family and I knew I had OCD, I had a “sticker book” in which I would put every sticker I ever got - because I didn’t like the idea of putting them on anything that I might lose access to. I even found my mother’s stamps and obsessively put one of each kind in my sticker book (there were soo many, it took me hours). I have trouble letting go of things, especially if I have any sort of memory attached to it whatsoever. Because, my mind says, what if I forget? My camera roll consists, in large part, of an enormous amount of screenshots of far too many little things that I encounter, and it is extremely rare that I actually look back at them. But the other data I was looking for something I thought I took a screenshot of and I couldn’t find it, so this compulsion is back and much worse. On my computer I can’t open the photos app without it crashing and the number of screenshots I have on there is shown in eight digits. I also have tens of thousands of tabs open in my browser at any given moment (I can’t close them, what if I forget?). I really wish I were exaggerating. I also take an excessive amount of photos of many things throughout my day (I counted once and I took 46 pictures of the same tree when I went on a walk). These are just some little examples of how this obsession manifests in me and my life. Does anyone else experience something similar? I’d love to hear about it.
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