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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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So I’m 16 years old, currently going through my sophomore year of highschool. I’ve recently quit nicotine and weed after chronic use for about 4 years (has affected my development extremely). I quit because I wanted a better life for myself because I knew that I was using nicotine and weed for short term happiness and long term made me very depressed about this life. I was also experiencing trouble concentrating on simple tasks and what I wanted to do currently in my life. Which was learning about life and having more knowledge about life in general so i could feel more comfortable and happy in the future. So I quit nicotine I thought I was going to be able to overcome it and be more comfortable with myself knowing that I’m not in a constant loop of short term happiness, long term making me less happy overall. Although I have quit nicotine and haven’t touched it in about 3 weeks I expected to have some major withdrawals because I’m still in adolescence and used nicotine about everyday for 4 years. Sorry I’m rambling about this but through those years of always suppressing my anxiety with nicotine when anything came up that triggered it. I started noticing that on vacation in very stressful moments like at the airport and there were people around me when using the bathroom I felt as though it was nearly impossible to go but after sometime I eventually went and shrugged it off. Now that I’ve quit though I’m my 4th week it’s almost like my brain really latched onto that fear of not being able to go around people publicly (paruresis shy bladder syndrome) and that’s also what addiction does to you I’ve acknowledged. But when I started coming home from school I started thinking about not being able to pee more and more to the point i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since which now every time i feel a slight trigger of having to use the bathroom i start obsessing over it like everything I would try and do that i usually do my brain would draw me away from it and go back to the fear of not being able to go which created a lot of anxiety and thoughts like “would if im not able to stop going” which made me think about it more and more I would just wake up with that thought in my head each day to the point where i was really thinking about killing my self because I thought i would have such a better life without nicotine and weed but ultimately made me feel like i was going crazy and I really wanted to go back to vaping and weed but i knew that this was the cycle of addiction and that i may have a more underlying problem here i need to overcome somatic ocd. I haven’t been diagnosed with it yet and I know a lot of people go through a cycle of self diagnosing. But as I’ve slowly started to mentally figure out ways to get through this obsession over peeing and fight it, it’s like my brain is now trying to look for a new bodily sensation to obsess over. My breathing. I noticed this as well while using that sometimes I would think about my breathing a little bit to much for example saying to myself am I breathing right should I breath this certain way would if I can’t stop thinking about it. But as I was thinking about that I just hit my vape talked to my brother about it and just slept it off. Now that I don’t have a vape I’ve had to go through these expierences but with it feeling more real and not really having something to run to, to suppress like my vape. I’m writing this today as I feel better to myself talking about it and opening up about it as I’m trying to not respond to this fear with anxiety and go throughout my days ignoring these obsessive thoughts leading to extreme anxiety that I don’t have anything to suppress it with anymore besides my own mental. Maybe someone here will have some more knowledge about it than I do and can give me some advice to try to keep me more motivated to deal with this ocd I feel as though I’m having so I don’t end up in a dark place. Thank you.
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