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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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Hi ❤️ I’m really struggling right now I’m in my sophomore year of Highschool and I’ve finally started planning or thinking abt my future (for context I was extremely depressed and suicidal from 6-9th grade) After conquering my depression this is a huge leap for me and I’m proud of myself ❤️ But there’s something still holding me down :( and I’m not sure what to do anymore that thing is OCD. Since 6th grade I have had strong and invasive intrusive thoughts all the time they scare me so bad and make me feel as though I’m not even real anymore :( I’m sick of taking the time to do ridiculous compulsions to rid or ease these thoughts it’s a waste of time and energy and it hurts me so bad I feel like I will never get to just live my life without this :( How can I plan my future when I can’t even find myself in this mess of anxiety 💔 I’m so tired of fighting my mental health it’s been years from anxiety attacks to sh to survived suicide attempts (I got help dw❤️🩹) and recovery there. Just to be thrown into a storm of awful scary sickening thoughts day and night-when can I just be a normal teenager and possibly a happy adult? How do I conquer this so I can love myself to the fullest and live my life free and happy? :( ❤️❤️🩹 I’m so scared to talk to my parents about it I’m ashamed of my thoughts and every time I bring it up they just say I shouldn’t be diagnosing myself or it’s just ADHD. It really really hurts me they have no idea how awful this feels and it makes me feel so alone sometimes 💔
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I dont know what to do anymore. I think Ive had the 'pure O' version of OCD for more than ten years. I feel like so much of my life has been wasted from this disease. For the longest time I just tried to ignore the intrusive thoughts, and push them off as anxiety, and basically dissociated for years of my life. Feels like Ive just been on autopilot and a shell of myself for nearly 15 years. Its actually hard to even imagine of all the experiences, emotions, connections with others, and personal growth that Ive missed out on- if I do, I think it would be too much to handle. I think Ive even forgot and dont even know at this point what it is to live a normal life and experience positive emotions. Now that I sought treatment for it specifically, it feels like it's gotten worse. Like by acknowledging that part of myself, suddenly added focus just makes it more real and in the forefront now. I wonder if I am actually going insane. Will not go into details for reassurance but the thoughts just rip my soul out. Its so difficult as well because I will get random 'clarity moments' throughout the day where I feel like Ive solved something, then get completely derailed by another OCD thought stream and forget everything. It feels like Im just on a merry-go-round of hell, not going anywhere thinking I am at times.
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i’ve been dealing with SOCD for 5 years and truly believe it has altered my life completely😀. i haven’t been properly diagnosed but the child therapist I had when i was in hs kind of hinted to me i had something more than just plain anxiety. i’ve also dealt with intrusive thoughts all throughout my childhood and as my family life got worse my anxiety got worse annnd i started getting more and more thoughts that wouldn’t leave me. I remember spending months not swallowing right and practically starving myself bc i kept thinking i was going to choke. i also rmbr spending months worrying ab death and dying EVERYDAY. it woke up with horrible anxiety and it was all i could think about. i can still rmbr sitting in my grandpas chair and just staring off and thinking “im going to die one day” “idk what’s going to happen” “is god real” “i don’t want to die” “what if there is no heaven” and so on. when the socd thoughts started i was 15. i searched around online for help and found reddit and i was like “omg yes finally people who understand and are going through EXACTLY what im going through.” finding that community and this app has helped me so much. anyway i had such a horrible time during my teenage years bc of all the intrusive thoughts about my sexuality, my relationship (glad that’s over), and some other things here and there. i was so so depressed and i felt no one around me understood how fucking awful i felt. i woke up everyday anxious, depressed, numb, and exhausted. when i started college i told my old therapist that even tho im extremely afraid of death i just didnt like living. i would cry in my car before class and just sob ab how awful i felt. although my mental health has gotten SO much better as time went on and the thoughts haven’t been as frequent im definitely not doing well. i am literally stuck. i’m still in college but i don’t know what to do with myself. those years of anxiety and depression have left me STUCK. im so much happier? and i can manage the thoughts way better but i don’t want to do anything. i only talk to 2 friends (literally lost so many great friendships), i RARELY drive bc im afraid ill die in a car crash (only to school and back), i don’t go out, i don’t ask for help at school, i avoid conversations, i avoid ppl in general, i don’t put in that much effort into school, i don’t have hobbies, i don’t want to do anything, i literally have the worst social anxiety now, im afraid of everything. i feel like the only reason im “ok” now is bc i’ve avoided literally everything. i’ve basically spent three years of my life doing nothing. i’m not happy with where i am in my life but im so scared to do anything. i miss who i was before all of this. i’ve been dealing with anxiety all my life and ik my childhood and early teen years made me like this. i didn’t know how to deal with the things i went through/saw as a little kid and i guess everything exploded in my teen years. but i want to be better i want to start LIVING. i’m definitely happier than before but im not living. what frustrates me is i refuse to do anything about it. i know a big reason why i don’t experience as many intrusive thoughts is bc i avoid everything 😭. ik what i have to do to get better and turn my life around BUT I WONT DO ANYTHING. idk how to explain this but its not laziness i feel like my body is exhausted. i think im just so traumatized from feeling so fucking horrible for so many years i just shut down ykwim?? i don’t have any libido, i don’t find ppl attractive, i can’t get myself to do the things im interested in (so many books r piled on my floor), i rot all day, i push off my responsibilities till the last minute, i can’t even get myself to go on a small walk. i don’t know where i was going w this but if someone who’s going through the same thing sees this ur not alone. i just needed to get this out. hopefully one day things will get better.
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