- Username
- MandyM
- Date posted
- 3y ago
please do not do this. i have gotten out of a very bad part of my life in january and february because ocd made me feel like nothing would get better, then march-may were literally some of the best months of my life where i have never felt so alive. life is just a combination of good and bad and you have to get through the bad to earn the good. as hard as it is you have to keep fighting, the good you will experience when you get out of this will be so so worth it. it’s so much easier said than done but i believe in you.
Yeah that’s super scary. The fact that you know those thoughts are wrong and they disgust you, shows that you’re not a bad person
With real event, the memories just came up and these memories were years ago that I have forgotten about.
@AmandaM Yeah I've got these too. I get them basically every single day. The reminders never stop and I always think one day I'm going to jail for the mistakes. I feel like I deserve some kind of punishment for the mistakes, even if at the time I feel like they weren't mistakes.
Hey you’re ok. Breath. Remember the things you are looking forward to, because you can still have them! Think about how fucking strong you are! You’ve gotten through this, you CAN do this. I know it’s crippling and feels useless and you just don’t want to feel anything anymore. But it will get better. I was in the place this summer where I wanted to hurt myself and end it all too. But I didn’t. And it got better. My head feels better, I’m not constantly sick to the stomach, I can breath, and I have things in life to work towards. You can do this, and you can talk to us, you know we understand and will work through this with you
It's just extremely hard. Tbh, I don't know if I could make it 😔
@AmandaM Well I’m heat for you. You have harm ocd and pure ocd, yes? I also have harm ocd. Do you want to talk about it more?
@Madison Yeah
@AmandaM Ok well tell me about your harm ocd. What is it specifically?
@Madison Well I keep on having intrusive thoughts about harming my family. Also dealing with real-event ocd
@AmandaM i deal with real event ocd too, it’s very hard but we can get through it!
@annonymous What’s real event ocd? Sorry I’ve never heard of it, I’d like to learn though!
@Madison i’m pretty sure i have it bc i am pretty sure this is it, it’s basically a memory comes up and it’s like a past thing that you’ve done and people without ocd would normally be like “oh i did that oops” or just look back and be like that was a stupid mistake and go on with their day but people with this ocd will overthink it and think they are the worst person for it and it will like haunt them. it works hand and hand w my confession ocd.
Please don't do this, lovely. I've been through so many times where I've felt at such a low ebb with my OCD and every single time, the anxious feelings have passed after a while (even if it's weeks). ERP will help reduce the anxiety if you stick with it. Please keep fighting — there are people out there who care about you, myself included
Tw: suicide but please help if you can . . . . . . Today I was accidentally exposed to something waaaaay too high up my hierarchy and I cant handle it. I'm at the point of planning suicide. I've come up with a new plan and I really feel like it would spare me the pain of ocd and my fear playing out. I was already on a crisis line today but cant share the urge to hurt myself. The crisis worker tried to help me but I honestly felt like I was just wasting their time and they could have been helping someone else so I said I was fine and got off the line. I'm not, I cant stop this overwhelming urge. I know we are supposed to sit with discomfort but this one is a lot. I keep imagining different ways to hurt myself and I'm itching to do them.
TW rant: suicidal OCD So this has been my major theme for the past year since my onset started. For clarification: I just have suicidal OCD, I’m not actually suicidal Incase there’s confusion about that. Anyways, I am so SICK of hearing about the topic of suicide which seems to be everywhere. You hear a story on the news that some celebrity did it, or other stories that people they knew did it or they themselves attempted it. You hear that people with mental illnesses or those who went through trauma or just being a middle aged white man have higher risks of suicide. On my explore page on Instagram, thanks to the OCD support pages I follow, I get suggested posts about other mental health related things and there’s usually posts about “signs of suicidal people” or whatnot. I’m soooo sick of it. Having suicidal OCD has been extremely hard and scary to have. It seems like anything is a trigger and the unwanted thoughts of it keep popping up (as OCD normally does). A lot of the time it’s aimed toward myself, but a big chunk of it is aimed toward my loved ones, like what if they decided to commit suicide? If I haven’t seen a family member in a little while (they’re chilling in their room or whatever) I get scared they might have killed themselves so I feel the compulsion to check on them, ask if they’re okay and happy etc. But it’s mostly at myself and I hate it so much. I think overall, whether this attack is aimed toward myself or others, it just absolutely terrifies me that anyone could just decided to do it and then just do it? It’s not like fearing a murderer coming to your house or an outside threat, but you’re the threat! And you can’t seem to protect your loved ones from it! I get these fears that I’ll become depressed (I’m not depressed) and eventually desire it or that I’ll spiral from fear and pain and eventually desire it, or that it’ll be like the movie Bird Box where the people in it (after seeing the monster) seemed to go on autopilot and killed themselves. I can’t even see words like “committed” or “attempted” without having my stomach jump. I struggle to get things out of my closet since having an open closet is even a trigger for fear. I just wish suicide never existed, I wish it wasn’t a thing, I wish I’d never think about it, I wish i could move on from this intense fear. (Disclaimer: I’m doing ERP for this and compared to before have been progress, but on my spike days it’s just so frustrating) Thanks for listening 😩
I can't anymore. I feel like life's all about pain. Ecery though there are happy moments, but when sadness take over them i just can't. It's not getting any easier. I'm sick of being yhis way and crying every single day. I told my family that i feel anxious so i want to go to s therapist. I didn't tell them about ocd. Even over this small thing my mum keeps rechecking on me. I'm not liking it. It's keeping me from telling them that i really want to go. My mum keeps asking if i want to go but they won't take me to see therapist. I don't want to live like this. Feelsike I'm not at all living my own life. I don't want to live
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