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- 6y
- Date posted
- 6y
Yes oh my god I thought I was the only one... I can't do anything without feeling like I'm being watched. Can't even get up at night to go to the bathroom without thinking about some insane scenario where someone snuck into my room while I was gone for like a minute. I have to have a night light on and have to check under my bed and in the closet almost every night to make sure I'm safe (in my mind). It's a constant struggle especially with going out and being around other people, especially men as you said. With all the news and media spreading these violent and sick stories you can't help but think that you'll be next :/ I'm always worried about being assaulted or kidnapped etc and it affects my trust in other people and who I'm surrounded by. I feel crazy, that there's no way to prevent it happening to me at least once in life since it seems so common.
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- 6y
my body is constantly tense and on edge and i’m always exhausted from it tired i wish i could make it stop but nothing ever makes it go away i can never get rid of the feeling. i never go out at night or try to go anywhere alone and if i do it’s basically like i can’t even enjoy myself or have a nice time bc my mind is racing the entire time w thoughts of like yep this is the time it just is really exhausting and it sucks especially that no one IRL actually can understand this
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- 6y
I faced similar thoughts after a period of harm ocd, these are kind of the flip side of „What-if I hurt others“... quite common for OCD sufferers and to be treated with therapy...my therapist explained me that all OCD thoughts are rubbish and mean nothing but to scare us...face and accept them as OCD thoughts and try not reacting or giving them any meaning. NO matter what the theme is...
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- 6y
yes exactly i am the same way at night especially i am very on edge and panicky and it’s like my mind is constantly flighting with itself like i think of it like one half of my brain is like oh it’s over ur done or whatever other bs it makes up and the other half is like god stop it’s not real yknow? like i feel crazy cause i’m so aware that it’s so insanely unlikely that anything would happen in my own home especially after every night i check over and over again to make sure i’m safe... and i have no idea what caused this but it’s been like this for as long as i can remember every night when go to bed or am alone at home or alone anywhere at night i feel vulnerable especially when i sleep alone and it’s drainibg
- Date posted
- 6y
yes exactly ohmygid
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- 6y
thank y’all for getting me wow this is nice to know other people do this
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- 6y
Are y’all in treatment?
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- 6y
no! i’m on zoloft but it really only helped with my depression.. have any of you had success with any other meds?
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- 24w
I feel like there’s no way out of this. everyday i’m anxious and depressed from these thoughts. i feel like i have to constantly question if it’s OCD or not. the panic attacks are insane and i freak out. and a compulsion i have is looking eveything up on the internet when im stressing to know that it’s just my OCD and im not in danger. but looking things up add on to my thoughts and i start thinking “what if” actual suidcal people think. do others with this theme whenever they do something like if im taking a picture it’ll be like “yeah you look happy people will wonder what happened when your gone” LIKE i DO NOT want to end my life. or even as simple as cleaning my room, “yup keep it clean so when your family goes through your stuff” then i panic and can’t even do anything. those thoughts distress me so bad. i’ll sit there and think how good my life is or when im having a good day my thoughts will be like “NOPEEE what if your just saying that to convince yourself” it never shuts up and genuinely makes me think i have SI or something. i hope this reaches the right people just to know im not alone. Even when i do get better in the back of my mind it’s always “people who want to are the same a day before too” im genuinely scared and im scared one day im going to just snap and do it because its “too much” do i need to go to a mental hospital! i feel insane.
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- 17w
I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
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- 14w
does anyone else get really vivid intrusive thoughts of the person who you are talking to (or close to physically) just randomly striking you violently? i keep getting them when i’m just talking to my dad one on one in the car & i get a flash of intrusive thoughts of him grabbing my hair & shoving my face in the dashboard. it gets me so anxious :’)
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