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- Espresso16
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I have a lot of rituals that I do in the morning, shower and night time and a lot of compulsions during the day
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
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.
@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
@Espresso16 I have 20-30 minute shower due to contamination fears and I do rituals as well. I got prescribed Zoloft.
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.
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.
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 ..
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
@Espresso16 My ocd got worse due to covid and the death of my grandad.
@hanajade What about covid has mad it worse for you?
@hanajade Mine has gotten way worse
@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.
Ps you'd think they'd get it but she didn't know much about OCD anyway
I’m sorry about your granddad. I lost my father 4 years ago and still struggle with his loss today
@Espresso16 I’m sorry for you loss.
@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
@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.
@Espresso16 I wrote it above
@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
my ocd is controlling my life. I can’t stop washing my hands and I always think they have to be clean before I go anywhere or else my whole day will be ruined. I hate the thought of being unclean and I don’t want to spread germs. I wash my hands even when I don’t have to. Anyone have any advice please?
My name is Chrisa. I've suffered with OCD for over 30 years. It's gotten worse lately, especially since my elderly kitty has gotten very sick, plus other stressors. It's never been this bad. My rituals involve numbers, counting, among other things, in response to stress and the thoughts of preventing my cats death and other "bad" things from happening. I know there is no logic in this, it's ridiculous, it makes no sense, yet my brain feels what I call " hijacked". There are few people that know I have OCD. My own husband doesn't know. I've learned how to hide it well over the years after being ridiculed by family members when I was a child with OCD symptoms. I'm in a tremendous amount of distress. No drugs have worked for me, nor has RBT or CBT.
Prisoner to contamination OCD here and the "things" I "have to" do to stop the. feeling of some imaginary plague overtaking me just keep multiplying. The whole Covid lock down and sanitization really made my OCD spiral. I'm still wiping groceries. I can't touch anything public or money without sanitizing. I wipe any surface I come into contact with or have some kind of plan of how I will conduct myself (what to wear, if I can cover my head, come home change, shower) just to make it through, say a dentist appointment or a manicure. Yes, I can complete the tasks, but the thoughts of the ritualistic washing just looms and makes me more anxious and depressed. I know not to go into specifics here, but can anyone chime in? I only have a good day when I don't have to come into contact with things or use my coping compulsions. Unfortunately nocd doesn't have an available therapist that accepts my insurance. Anyone here have success with ERP? I just think it would be extremely difficult.
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