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Sometimes crying it out feels good. I think a lot of people try to trigger themselves. I personally listen to sad music to trigger myself whenever I’m feeling sad. I am so sorry that your family are mean to you, I am here if you wanna chat. ❤️
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I’m not endorsing crying though. Don’t trigger yourself to cry. ❤️
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@BeachedMermaid Thanks so much. I love crying and it does feel good. But I just feel so anxious when I have to MAKE myself cry :/
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@BeachedMermaid And I feel like lately I’m kinda having to force myself to
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@garden Please don't feel that way. You shouldn't have to force yourself to cry. That sounds like it could be painful. Do you feel like you are relying on sobbing as a coping mechanism?
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@BigGip09 Yes deffo. Crying to me means I’m empathetic and a lot of my OCD fears are about empathy so I need to cry to prove I have it. But I feel so fake and awful for almost actively making myself cry instead of it coming naturally
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@garden Ah, jeez. I'm so so sorry to hear that. You're a very sweet person and you are caring of others. The fact that you worry and you feel you have to prove to literally cry shows you have OCD alone. You're not fake and you aren't awful. You can't let OCD make you believe that. And everytime you do force yourself to cry, you're just feeding the OCD just so it'll doubt you again. I know it's confusing and I know it sucks, but you HAVE to refrain from doing such a thing to yourself. You don't deserve that, pal.
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@BigGip09 Thank you. That’s so kind. It’s just hard since I’ve been doing it for so long. Like if I don’t try, maybe I’ll never cry again! Me and my OCD are just one person
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@garden All emotions are felt at their own times. You should never feel that you have to force an emotion to prove something or to feel it whatsoever. When someone or something saddens you, you'll know. And that goes for all emotions. It's what makes you human!! Your OCD really has you in a lock at the moment but you can reverse that! I believe in you, Garden. :)
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@BigGip09 Thank you. You’re very kind :)
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@garden You're welcome! Right back at you! :)
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I cried today and felt much better after. Sometimes you just need to let it out. Try to be a little nicer to yourself :)
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Yeah!
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I'm here to tell you that it's alright to cry. The whole point of crying for humans is to take the pain away and feel better afterwards. However, don't make crying a compulsion as damning as that sounds. Another thing that makes mammals feel good is masturbation, but it's a terrible compulsion for me that I need to stop obsessing with. I hope you feel better!
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Thank you :)
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@garden You're welcome! We can get through this day by day. No matter what we will handle things.
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@BigGip09 You’re right. I’m just so paralysed by fear these days lol. But we’ve got this. Need to cut down on compulsions 💪
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I feel so horrible and guilty, I've been pretty depressed lately and I don't know if i'm doing something wrong or not but my mom keeps getting mad at me, and I keep getting snappy with her. The other day she tried to take a selfie with me and I kinda got mad at her because it was in front of everyone and I didn't want to get anyone uncomfortable if they were accidently in the background so I told her stop in a kind of mean way. She stopped talking to me for the rest of the night and she keeps bringing up how disrespectful I am. I tried to explain to her I didn't mean anything mean by it?? It's triggering my OCD so bad and tonight i'm going to see a band I really wanted to see, and i'm super afraid shes gonna start bringing up how mean i've been lately. I've been really depressed and upset because of school and how much work their giving me, and I've been in my room for mostly more than 10 hours a day doing nothing but watching TV because I can't bring myself out of it, I don't know what to do anymore and the guilt of me possibly being a mean and aggressive person is haunting me.
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I’ve been triggered so bad this week I’ve had bad anxiety and feel depression coming on. Last night I had a thought oh let’s plan it and I immediately thought why would I think that and started crying bad. I’ve had these thoughts for 7 months I really don’t know why I’m having these thoughts, if I knew I would work on it. Like people say has something happened in your life for you to have these thoughts and nothing has happened, it all started off from what if thoughts , like “what if I’m a psycho” because I saw this fb post saying introverts are more likely to become psychopaths and it all spiralled from there I started getting thoughts about harm towards others and myself. What do you think guys should I treat it like ocd or do you think there’s something seriously wrong with me.
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Recently I’ve been getting these very intense episodes of feeling extremely annoyed, irritable and touchy. I start to think narcissistic thoughts like feeling extremely entitled, envious of others and just overall snotty and rude but also horrible about myself. I take everything personal in these moments even though I know it’s stupid to do so. with harm ocd it also makes it 10x worse because they urges are worsened by the anger and intense emotions and sometimes I feel like just crying or this deep pit in my stomach of fear and dispare about the future like where am I heading and who am I becoming? I’ve excessively been on Gemini asking about covert narcissism, because my family disagrees with the idea of me being a narcissist along with my therapist but I just can’t let it go because I actually genuinely believe it. When I want to make things right it feels so self centered and I don’t know the right way to genuinely care about others. Maybe I already do?? I can’t tell if this is all just anger, intense fear and overwhelm, from med changes (went from lexapro to buspar) or processing grief (grandpa died in February) but sometimes I feel even worse because in my head I believe the grief only effects me and I need total attention and care 24/7. and start wondering if this is a subconscious way of thinking for me that I just assume is ocd and anxiety. I feel so tense and when I get in these moments I feel like I’m about to combust, I dissociate, feel like sobbing, isolating, or yelling but can’t tell if it’s all caused from an “ego blow” or something that someone did that made me feel bad about myself and that’s why I feel such high self pity. idk anymore but this feeling is terrifying especially the more I believe I’m a narcissist everything is evidence. I even start wondering what if this is rage, or hatred or resentment? like deep down dark feelings?
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