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- 4y
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- 4y
How did you relapse? It's okay to have these relapses. You should expect them because you are trying to recover. Noticing that you are getting better and feeling good about yourself is what matters!! That matters more than anything.
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- 4y
The stress of the holiday season. I got big triggers around then, and I didn’t want to spend my entire Christmas vacation in the awful anxiety that would come with resisting my compulsions to my scariest obsessions, so I did more compulsions than usual to relieve the anxiety, and I guess that worsened the OCD cycle. My OCD kept latching onto something new and huge every day and I just couldn’t resist because I didn’t want to have all that panic during holiday break. I guess I worsened my OCD, because now everything feels more real and resisting compulsions is much harder. I feel absolutely horrible and I’m so discouraged. I don’t know what to do to get back to how good I felt.
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- 4y
@Madison I guess the holidays pressured you in order to feel good during the time. I'm really sorry to hear that, but I guarantee a lot of us have felt this sensation to not be of any negative emotions during special occasions where we are normally thankful for what we have. Please don't blame yourself for things of that nature. I'm sorry you had felt that way. Maybe now that it's over, you can think of what you didn't do in terms of OCD that made you feel better. You said doing compulsions and trying too hard not to resist but can't because of the panic and pressure. It's fine that you feel the way you feel because those feelings are there for a reason. But, there are ways you can sit with the anxiety and diminish the urges and anxiety you may feel. Again, it's completely fine to have relapses. It's what comes with trying to get better.
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- 4y
@BigGip09 Thanks so much, BigGip! I really appreciate it :) The holidays were definitely stressful for a lot of those with OCD. Glad I wasn’t the only one. Would you happen to have any tips on how to get back to how good I was feeling before?
- Date posted
- 4y
@Madison I might have a few! One tip is to not let setbacks like this make you feel strongly on the negative side. Don't beat yourself up for relapses because most times they are inevitable. Keep doing what you were doing that made the ocd weaker and made you happier such as disregarding thoughts, doing what gave you positive feelings, and not focusing on any kind of pressure that makes you feel forced to feel a certain type of way based on what it is. Disregard that as well. All of your feelings do matter and you should accept them. I think if you stick back to what made you feel great again, you can get back to where you were previously!! You can do so this, Madison. I believe in you!
- Date posted
- 4y
@BigGip09 Thank you so much BigGip! I will absolutely keep working hard! Thanks again for the help and best of luck to you too! 😊
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- 2y
@BigGip09 Hey; did you blocked me? :(
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- 2y
@Saraa Hello. Are you the Sara that I met on discord some time ago? If so, long time no see!! I hope you're doing well and you've improved with your OCD! :) If this isn't you, then I don't think we've met, nor have I blocked anyone on this app.
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- 18w
I’ve been stuck in this cycle for the last month or two and am not sure how to get out of it. Basically, I will work on ignoring the thoughts and not responding or engaging plus limiting/completely eliminating compulsions. After a week or two of constant work, the amount of intrusive thoughts in a day goes down. The anxiety each thought causes also goes down with some, but not all, thoughts passing without notice like they would for a normal person. The thoughts that do stick cause anxiety and make me want to ruminate or do other compulsions but I make sure to limit them. After a bit, I’m in a pretty good head space. This is usually when it goes down hill. I’ll start to question if I even have ocd because some of the thoughts (once again not all) pass without notice. The difficulty resisting compulsions goes down and so does the anxiety, only increasing the questioning. I spend a while questioning if I’ve ever had ocd in the first place and then something sets me off or the questioning itself becomes a trigger and I get stuck back into the same ocd cycle with constant rumination, anxiety, and other compulsions. This lasts for a week or two before I know I need to stop and try and work hard to get back to ignoring the thoughts. And the cycle just restarts over and over again. Does anyone have any tips to stop this from happening? It’s really harming my recovery as every few weeks I dive back into the same negative place I was.
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- 15w
Im struggling with false memory pocd sexual what if thoughts. I discussed it with three therapists. Did CBT and ERP. Ive been free of this intrusive thoughts for 11 months and now its back and i feel like at square onewith doubt. Redoubting things ive already did therapy on and disproved. I felt inner peace and fine for almost a year and now back to feeling stuck ruminating questioning whats real memory and whats false memory even though deep down i kmkw its false memory i have evidence against the thoughts and its so ego dystonic theres no proof as my therapist said.
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 13w
I’m trying to do ERP therapy, but I keep thinking my subtype of ocd is the worst there ever is. I tried going on a walk tonight and the adrenaline in my body along with the shakes and the burning in my chest got so overwhelming. I felt like I was just about to lay down in the gutter along the sidewalk. I’m not trying to be super negative. I just don’t know what to do anymore. If it’s not one thing it’s another and I just wanna cry so bad and I want it to go away but it won’t I almost feel like I have to call a crisis line or something even right now while I’m writing this I’m crying so bad. I can’t enjoy a single thing. I joined a support group tonight, but I just feel like I feel so bad for everyone because of how awful it is. I know what I’m writing right now doesn’t make a lot of sense but I just don’t know what to do anymore. Part of me wants to quit ERP therapy so bad cause I don’t think it’s gonna ever help. if anyone has any advice or suggestions, that would be greatly appreciated.
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