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I'm scared of going outside, too. I gave myself homework to go and take a walk every day. My grandparents always insisted on me not talking about my mental health (Ocd and depressive episodes) but I just recently started to question them making decisions over my head. Fuck that. A lot of people that I don't know very well but still trust them, know about my disorders. I think it's key to not talk about it as if it's something you need to be ashamed of. If you do that, people might really continue to think that it's shameful. But it's not. Even mentally healthy people have their traumata whether they realise that or not. So if you decide to be more open about yourself, give a fuck about yourself and don't give a fuck about their opinion about your mental health, in case it would only consist of destructive criticism and prejudice.
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- 6y
I'm not sure if you're asking shirekat or me. My obsession when I go for a walk is, that I might release my thoughts into my surroundings and become vulnerable to people who could read them. My compulsion to this was to control the ground whether I could see thoughts that I might have dropped. It shares similarities to symptoms that occur with psychosis but it is part of my Ocd. I talked about it with my psychiatrist and he explained that this is a fairly rare symptom but it exists.
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People will judge you know matter what. I think as long as your happy who cares
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Unfortunately, I'm not happy. I panic outside but I'm unhappy inside. I miss seeing people. ?
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Can you do it gradually? Face your fears
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I was starting to but my safe person just recently gave up on me. I feel like I'm back at square one.
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What happens when you try to go outside? What makes you panic
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Therapist, meds and goals, even if baby steps,to habituated to the anxiety of getting out.
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Habituate
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- 24w
I can't stop thinking about ending my life. I feel like I'm not even living, I'm just surviving. Everyone is capable of being a person and functioning and I'm just stuck here avoiding everything. My psychiatrist said my ocd is severe and it will all take time and I'll start erp and I'm already on medication but I just feel so depressed and like I won't be able to handle erp and it's already too late for me. I feel inhuman, it's debilitating. My major theme is just fear or contamination, I can't even make myself a meal I can't touch anything in the kitchen. I get stuck in the shower for 2 hours and when I don't shower because I'm depressed I feel like a walking germ. My hands are a mess, my school work is shit, I avoid and avoid and I'm just so tired of "living" like this. My psychiatrist said they don't have any therapists available right now like.... excuse me? What do you mean u don't have any 😭 I honestly don't even know why I'm typing this becuase nothing helps, nothing ever will. I'm so deep into this I can't get out, my room looks like shit, I can't live in this body anymore, I really can't. I let everyone down, I am and will be such a dissapointment. I don't have any dreams or goals or passions I just wasn't made to be here. I don't know how or who to ask for help like there's nothing anyone can do, I'm already on meds. I can't keep being like this, seeing everyone judge me for acting insane.
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- 23w
It's been a year since I've been able to stay home alone. I don't know how to fight this. I feel like the world will collapse on me. That the house will cave in. Or I'll just lose my mind and scream and run outside screaming and saying the world is falling type thing. I don't know how to help myself. I'm to scared to even try to be alone. I have to have my son 18 stay home with me or my aunt stay with me when my son does leave. It's horrible. I feel like I'm holding my son back from so much. I don't know how to beat this. Please help
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- 18w
Earlier I posted about trying to get back to sitting on my sofa without a blanket covering it. And I did it, but now my day has been ruined. I left for two seconds and my cat decided to sit there, so now it's not clean anymore. This is because sometimes she's had number two stuck to her and no longer trust that she's clean. It took so much for me to just do that and sit without a blanket and now I'm just so done. I'm also scared to walk anywhere in my house. We sometimes get slugs in our conservatory and I don't walk in there anymore because there can be slug slime trails (it's carpet). The thing is, my mum regularly goes in there, my dad too. And then they proceed to walk around the rest of the house without changing shoes or anything. I'm just panicking because I was having a good day and now I feel like I'm isolated to my bedroom.
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