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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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whenever i loose something literally anything anyone has given me even if it is just the packaging that came with a gift i will start crying and get so mad at myself. i think the person who bought it for me will hate me. especially when i loose jewelry i look around my room for literally as long as possible and the whole day if that’s what it takes and it keeps me up at night. At camp, i thought i lost my waterbottle (when it was in my bag) and i went in my bunk bed and started crying. it was super late at night and everyone was sleeping and i feel bad bc i had to turn on a flashlight to look around the entire cabin for it. i even walked outside to the bathroom to see if i left it and tears were literally falling from my eyes when i couldn’t find it. the whole night i was crying and couldn’t think about anything else. it was just a water bottle that i could just buy again.
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This is a repost, only because the last post had no responses lol. Please if you have any advice share. I’ve been trying hard to sit with the feeling of anxiety. Actually that’s the problem, recently I’ve been trying to sit with the thought (and I’m able to for a few hours or until the next morning) and then my anxiety comes back so strong and it’s like I need to clean everything off. I see images of gross laundry getting on everything or my hand and then I need to clean everything off to un contaminate it. Sometimes the thought happens later at night so I just sleep through and the next morning I will wake up with intense anxiety about contamination. That happened yesterday and I had to clean everything off and since then I’ve been traumatized so I’ve been doing compulsions like avoiding the bathroom and being around people so I know I couldn’t have done anything wrong. Actually recently my biggest compulsion has been recording every time I get up to go eat, etc so that I know I couldn’t have done anything. Any advice or help???
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I’m trying to get in with therapy right now, but I’m most concerned on having issues with not eating. Intrusive thoughts and anxiety make me nauseous and distracted from eating. It took me an hour last night to eat instant ramen. Does anyone know what I could do about this? I’m only eating around 1 meal a day and I’m afraid of how this could affect me medically.
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