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@dess no prob pal, eating well will help I work as a personal trainer, try eat lots of veg and lean meats some carbs are fine as they give you energy. Exercise is a must if you can, even just a brisk 20min walk can help. Just try your best not interfere with your thoughts as hard as it is. Just carry on your day as you normally would. I have to to really force myself to get out of bed in the mornings and but when I do I try keep busy. The more you do this the better you will feel.
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Check your diet. Start exercise , especially leg exercise. Nothing too heavy just work towards something. Stay away from carbs and sugar.
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I was working out every day for 2 weeks and now I just can't
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I can relate! You are not alone. I have both adhd and ocd as well.
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What's your medication routine like? I miss vyvanse... but it made my ocd worse lol
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@Dess I notice the same...makes tics worse for me...but not as bad....I’m on a low dose. But lexapro didn’t help :(
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@Domi Low dose of vyvanse? I'm sorry or a pro didn't work I hear ssris are trial and error!
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@Dess 30 mg vyvanse went to 5 mg lexapro seeing how that goes
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Hang in there buddy, I have depression anxiety and ocd too, and it’s been very bad lately. I know exactly what you mean by not being able to do anything, every time you start a task your mind wanders off. Do your best to carry on with your daily tasks, force yourself out of bed and go for a walk. Medication will tend to make you feel anxious at first but try stick to it and your body will adjust. Try not to isolate yourself, carry on as you would do if you didn’t have these problems, get therapy if you can, and I promise you will slowly drift out of this phase. Iv been dealing with it for 8-10 yrs now.
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Thank you so much for this message. It really means a lot and I'm glad I'm not alone. I'm sorry you go through it too. It just feels never ending I wanna feel okay again
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You can really fix a lot of that with lifestyle changes. Not saying you can cure depression or anxiety or ocd because god knows it’s a struggle for me. You can learn tools though. “Dirty carbs” mixed with a screen to look at is like poison to our minds and body. Remember most of our seratonine comes from our gut.
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I know I wish our fda wasn't so messed up. It's expensive to eat healthy in America and half the stuff on the shelves is so bad for you
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@Dess In combo with a pandemic and cold weather, lol
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I’m taking vyvanse and lexapro...thinking of switching😢 the lexapro made a dizzy...didn’t help with ocd. Ocd is a little worse with just vyvanse but I can deal with it...but I’d like to have a different med combo .seeing my psychiatrist in 2 weeks to see what I can do
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Nice I hope he/she comes up with a good routine for you!
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My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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I can't live with OCD anymore. It's ruining my life. I feel like I'm being constantly bullied in my own mind all day everyday. I don't know if what I think and feel is ever real or normal or okay, what is me and what is the OCD thoughts. I don't know if any of my experiences are normal. I'm exhausted from picking apart every single conversation I ever have with anyone until I'm strung out by a vague and ambiguous feeling of guilt. I'm tired of feeling like I'm a bad person and feeling scared all the time and not knowing why and having my brain spin me out on an endless spiralling train of thoughts that never goes anywhere and just makes me feel disconnected from everything and everyone around me. I don't know what I feel and if what I feel is normal or if anything I am doing is real and actually me or if I'm 'losing my mind.' I don't even know if this makes any sense. I get into these states of mind where every thought in my head and everything I feel and perceive makes me question my own sanity. I don't know if anyone likes me because I have absolutely no concept of what I am actually like. I feel completely lost and confused CONSTANTLY.
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First off - I’m sorry, I post here a lot. My thoughts are going to be scattered because I have the adhd/ocd/executive dysfunction wombo combo. Im so embarrassed I am THIS neurodivergent. I swear my brain couldn’t pick one struggle and settle with it. I’m not making these diagnoses quirky personality traits by any means, in fact, in this post im venting about how exhausting and embarassed I am living with a brain like this on the daily. I need to hear someone’s advice please. I love hearing everyone’s advice on posts because it’s so useful, and brings me back down to reality. Everyone on here gives advice so tastefully in a way where it doesn’t feed into the self reassurance compulsion, but it’s also been thorough and constructive enough where it’s reminded me to ground myself in a healthy way. I love seeing others helping others, it soothes me. This community has been so kind, and I’m so happy I found it. I wish I could ask more, but I have so many questions I think it’d drive everyone here crazy lol. I am doing erp therapy now, and it’s been teaching me so many amazing techniques. I’ve been making progress. However, I sometimes have my moments of vunerablity. I’ve been experiencing this especially now more than ever because I am going through a breakup. He did it through text after nearly 9 months together. I’d do anything for him and love him through anything, and he broke my heart when I least expected it. I’d make his bed for him multiple times, but I haven’t done that for myself in years. I’d sit with him for hours to watch and do anything he likes, but he’d never do the same and I’d never do the same for me. I’m also at fault because I was too scared to speak up so I let a lot of disrespect slide. Why did my ocd do that? Why does ocd make me people please even when I don’t want to? Why does OCD make me care so much about things that will never effect me (like wanting validation from a random person on the street and hoping they’ll think I’m pretty enough to look at), but then when it comes to my future or positive wellbeing (like focusing on college/doing well in classes/personal hygiene/health), forces me to not care/neglect myself and those needs? I don’t understand it. Ocd makes me think everything’s a setup or a trap. I can never believe that I am fine right where I want to be. Why am I so hard on myself? Why do I even think this much? I care and feel so deeply but it becomes unhealthy so fast because ocd makes me fixate and I stay there for a while. For some reason I let this breakup define my self worth. I let it topple into the ocd fear that I will never make it in life - that I won’t be successful, I’ll never get the career I want, the love I want, or the life I want. My OCD’s version of “logic” isn’t even logical. Yes, I understand how the breakup means feelings of low self worth which will then topple into feeling bad about other things. But why has my brain been wired to think this way? Why does it seem so easy for everyone else to function normally with life but not me? Honestly this is the first time in my life where I’m dedicated to focusing on myself and learning more about myself instead of others in my life and it’s a very odd and bizarre feeling. I’m excited of course, but I’m also scared. My ocd makes me ruminate like “what if I will never make the most of this life I’ve been given”, “what if I truly have no worth and the most I will ever be in other people’s lives is a background character”, “why do I care if I’m a background character or not? I should feel guilty and ignorant for assuming everyone will automatically like me”, “are people lying to me when they call me pretty, smart or kind?”, “I need to look and sound perfect in both pictures, videos and in real life. I will never be satisfied for accepting who I am now”, and a bunch of other annoying questions. But sometimes it’s like I just can’t take the reality for what it is but at the same time, but I also acknowledge that I know this is ocd talking. This is so, so difficult. Do I make any sense with what I’m saying? Can anyone help?
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