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Taking breaks from social media is really good!! And you're right, if it's for avoidance of compulsive reasons.. then that Is a compulsion. But yes. I take breaks from social media all the time. When I'm on my PMS stage I tend to be depressed about my OCD. And I think PMS affects OCD sometimes because of the hormonal changes. Social media can leave weird affects on mental health. So take care of yourself!! And I'm not sure if I answered your question. But ya :)
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Exactly the same, I deleted my Instagram because things were too triggering. Sticking with my therapy and ERP but currently bleeding right now and my SOOCD is definitely more intense.
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Insta effected my religious ocd because since I did so much religious compulsive research.. my ads had a bunch of religious stuff. So I had to read each ad!
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Thanks, absolutely! Yes, during PMS I get sucked into rumination and irritated so easily and social media really supports this OCD pattern of getting from one thing to the next none stop. I don't want to vilify social media because it has positive sides as well but especially during PMS I am not really using it in a healthy and benefiting way, I just waste time by getting stuck on something or another. I
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That's what I do!! I go on it even when I don't want to be on it.
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Idk anymore it feels like being on here is a trigger. Every time I see a minor post on the app, my intrusive thoughts go haywire and then my brain says maybe you should comment something inappropriate and i literally don't wanna fucking do that. It's the last thing I want to do. And now im scared that I commented something crude on someone's post. obviously, when I went to check there was nothing now my brain is saying "you commented and then deleted". I want to think it's something I wouldn't do, but why are the images in my head so real. Children should be safe. I feel like I need to be locked away. Someone please help me.
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like the title says, i also suffer from cancel culture OCD, even more these last two months in which i have noticed that several people have been deleting me from social media, in fact two days ago i had a spiral as someone recently blocked me. i won't go into it to avoid the compulsion to confess but basically i had issues before with my ex and some of his friends that he himself ended up involving, even though we are on good terms he made sure to make me look like i was the problem and several mutual friends have been detaching themselves from me. the thing is, i see many people say that to fight their cancel culture OCD they delete their social media and then just. disappear. but i don't want to do this - i don't want to hide, i want to stay in the public eye and create things, in fact, i am an artist. but since the last year now i live in constant fear and also somewhat sensitive to what others think of me thanks to the rumors about me and i'm afraid that one day i might be "exposed" or something like that; and i also feel like i'm "pretending" to be a good person all the time. so, with what i already said, how do i deal with this without having to resort to deleting my social media? i think that exposing myself every day and continuing to post things on social medias despite the constant fear and guilt i feel would count as ERP, right? thanks.
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I feel like I’ve had a lot of different categories of ocd. Some categories stick with me more and are repetitive. I’ve been doing well with mental health - not having anxiety stick around. When the physical feeling of anxiety sticks around, every thought is horrible, but when the feeling of anxiety is gone the obsessions don’t really impact me. If I can keep anxiety at bay, my life is good. I’ve been doing well lately, although this week I was scrolling through tictok and watched a video about someone in a coma and wondered if I was in a coma right now and didn’t know it. I had a panic attack for about 15 minutes. Anxiety, sweating, etc. It didn’t take ahold of me and it quickly lost its impact on me. It still shook me and I was just like “wow” where did that come from. Now I am staying away from social media. Is that avoidance? Should I make myself keep watching social media? Many ocd problems have come from social media or watching a movie or show that triggers something and then spirals. I am limiting what I watch, which I believe is good because I shouldn’t be watching that stuff anyway. What do you think?
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