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I have a lot of rituals that I do in the morning, shower and night time and a lot of compulsions during the day
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Do you? I thought I was psychotic for having these rituals. I’m on medication and see a counselor but I can’t seem to get rid of them. They are the same rituals and I have to put my mind somewhere of in the past like a past hotel room or something. How do you work through them they are getting stressful. Also if I don’t do them I feel like I won’t be the same person
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I’m also on medication and I can’t get rid of them as well. I keep doing them if they get stressful. Some of the rituals get checked once some more.
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@hanajade That’s about how it is for me to. I continue to do them even if it takes me sometime 2 and half 3 hours in the bathroom. Do you think this is just ocd? If so it’s bad what I have. Sometimes I stop and think should I do all of these rituals but if I don’t I will have problems in my life. What did they give you for medication? My dr gave me prozac
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@Espresso16 I have 20-30 minute shower due to contamination fears and I do rituals as well. I got prescribed Zoloft.
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At least your shower can be 20-30 mins. My showers even when I set a timer they go for 1 hour or 1 hour and 30 mins with the water on. I use to have rituals before shower but I cut that out also with therapists idea. But when I’m in shower it takes me about an hour. Brushing my teeth at night takes me an hour rituals before I start to brush my teeth it’s really stressful. Sometimes I can go into shower at 8pm and come out at 10pm it’s stressful and hard.
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When I brush my teeth I have to rinse my mouth 4 times. I’m sorry to hear that. Maybe try and reduce your rituals bit by bit until you don’t have anymore.
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My rituals take up almost all day , so hard to stop .i also noticed they got so much worse after the pandemic started .. I also have health conditions and I will do them and do them until feel it's right or count has to be even and feel right ..lately gotten worse and health passed out in bathroom month ago doing rituals ..and almost several times since.. For me it's hard because due to my health a lot of meds won't work I just throw them up ..and lost my therapist due to missing a couple telehealth appts because rituals to get out of bed that I do.plus not feeling well ..
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Wow finally someone that actually gets it. Mine got worse after the pandemic started also. It’s like a constant worry about covid or that my kid will be sick in a Covid unit. I have to have hand rituals to get covid off of me. I have had 2 horrible panick attacks in the bathroom were I felt like I was losing my footing and racing heart like I was going to fall with a heart attack. Anything I do in the bathroom involves a ritual except peeing I don’t know why. My wife says I got worse of a couple years. But I know I have gotten worse sense the pandemic. I can tolerate most meds and I take my medicine everyday. Just can’t seem to get out these rituals. The pandemic dosent help because it’s been months on going with no vaccine so that adds to my anxiety and ocd. I have lost therapist telehealth also good ones to because of my rituals also. It takes me 20 mins rituals before I lay me head down to go to sleep. I have the same ritual every night
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@Espresso16 My ocd got worse due to covid and the death of my grandad.
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@hanajade What about covid has mad it worse for you?
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@hanajade Mine has gotten way worse
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@Espresso16 I was scared that I was going to get covid, that I would pass on covid to someone else which made my hand washing worse. It’s still an issue at the moment as well. Until covid has been eradication and there has been a vaccine they I am going to still wash my hands due to contamination fears.
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Ps you'd think they'd get it but she didn't know much about OCD anyway
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I’m sorry about your granddad. I lost my father 4 years ago and still struggle with his loss today
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@Espresso16 I’m sorry for you loss.
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@hanajade It’s hard he came to visit me and went back home and 2 days later his girlfriend came home and found him dead
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@hanajade What about covid has made your ocd worse? Mine seems like it’s gotten a lot worse sense covid. I was given extra prozac to help. I also live in a legal state so I have cbd but I don’t ever take that I’m worried it will mess my ocd up worse but I heard a lot of good things about it.
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@Espresso16 I wrote it above
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@hanajade I saw it now. Covid has had me doing more ticks and ocd rituals. My counselor calls it Wilbert in my head and he is a big tough guy that tells me what to do these rituals. He tells me to stop feeding into Wilbert but it’s difficult
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I have pure ocd i think , i always gotta make sure i do certain things like tap things , light switches on n off , shut things few times and re open them till it feels right . Walk in a room go back out and back in out in in till my mind is right Its exhausting
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Im having a OCD specifically contamination OCD flare up all month and I don’t want to feel this way going into March, I’ve thrown out clothes, towels, stayed up for hours doing compulsions, washed my hands till they crack and bleed, I have washing pilling up cause I’m so overwhelmed by all the extra things I’ve added cause I thought it was contaminated. It’s completely draining me to the point where I’ve become sleep deprived and are avoiding part of my home because they are deemed contaminated to me…I only moved in a few months ago, I had a roach problem and using baits and insecticides really messed with my ocd too. anyone have any tips or tricks to make this easier? I wasn’t doing this bad in January :( thankyou in advance :)
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I am having a really hard time with ocd and anxious thoughts and feeling extremely uneasy. I'm home alone today so it's really easy for me to get stuck in my thoughts. I'm on day 4 of prozac. I felt like yesterday I had a period of time of about 30 minutes where I felt really focused and like the anxiety lifted completely. But then an obsession started and it brought me right back down. Hopefully I feel relief again today. I'm going to go get some house work done to take my mind off of things. Does anyone have any first hand experiences with prozac? How long until you felt any relief? Any really bad side effects? Any unforseen pluses? Much appreciated.
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