- Username
- cmaconochie
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I've been trying to figure this out myself and I've been finding myself desperate to cry, but unable to. Recently, I heard someone mention watching dramas/movies helped her to distract and to cry. Though I'm unsure if it will be a solution, I plan to try this out and I hope to see a result.
I hope that you can figure this out as well! Good luck!
Let me know how it works! Stay Strong, and God Bless!
I have a similar theme. Yes I think they are both connected. I just recently found out about derealization. I always thought my ocd thought was that I’m in a dream and my life is going on somewhere else, but I’m thinking that that how I associated the anxiety at the time. I think it was derealization. Was was fine for like 10 years. I even had moments when I was like” omg I can’t believe I used to think that” and then it started again about a year ago
Hi! When it went away was that because you stopped thinking about it? Because even when I'm not anxious I feel like this! Also did it come back due to increase in anxiety? Thanks and stay strong!
@cmaconochie You know the saying “time heals all wounds”? Well over time the thought faded as time went on. But it’s a different feeling I’m having now. At first it branched off into a bunch of “what if’s”. But In my case “well then...... “. Ex if I’m in a dream well then I can have cancer right now. If I’m in a dream well then I could die any minute blah blah blah. ..... I am on medication so that helps but this time around it’s more of a “feeling” Like I’m lonely. I mean I know I’m not in a dream but shit it’s scary a no d disappointing that it reared it’s ugly head
@Michelemybelle I want to add that I always had ocd thoughts when it when away over the 10 years (other themes) etc, but. I didn’t get the anxiety. So I’m going to say from experience not having the anxiety but still having thoughts is better. The ocd feeds off the anxiety.
That was my biggest fear and anxiety for many many years. I remember myself at the age of 11 having this horrible feeling or thought that i was not living in reality. It was so weird and i immediately started being afraid and extremely stressed. For many years I was not telling anybody because i thought it was stupid and they wouldn't understand me. I believed that I had an extreme imagination and that was causing that thought,but that was not the cause of course. I spent long periods of severe depression until.one day I spoke about it to my husband and he told me just not to worry or be afraid and that it is ok to just have weird thoughts or feelings. I think just the thing that I finally talked to someone about my worry helped me not feeling alone and helpless. Speak to anyone you think can just listen to you with love and support. If you cannot get over your thought you can try to visit a therapist. We deserve a better life!
I have the same problem. I have physcosis, ocd, rocd, and really bad anxiety. I try to pay attention to everything around me at all time. I pay attention to all of my senses. If I'm around a blanket I feel my blanket and it helps me somewhat.
Thanks for sharing! I try to focus on my senses, but it can be really difficult to stay focused on it. I probably need to try and make it a habit. Stay Strong and God Bless!
You may actually have a theme on this if you obsess and do compulsions. With me, I used to wake up in the morning and tell myself 'it's fine' and sometimes I felt fine, sometimes I really didn't deel fine and it was all so unreal. After s couple of months I was really just crying and want this all to end. Eventually it went away but not because I stopped thinking about it. But when it did went away I stopped.
I’ll feel fine for a few weeks, then get a scary thought like “what if this isn’t real” or “what if this is a video game or made just for me” scary things that I stupidly read one time can indicate “psychosis” or things like that. Now I know it’s not truly psychosis as the thought scares me and isn’t a “belief” it is an anxious intrusive thought but my mind always is like “but what if you have other mental illness”. I’ve been told by countless psychologists that I have anxiety and occasional OCD thoughts. But my question is has anyone else experienced that before, and if so how did you get through it and not focus on it? The anxiety sucks because the body sensations that go with it, but it just makes me hypersensitive and overly aware of everything. Advice?
Hey been going through some stuff the past few days and I just wanted to know some tips. I have been struggling with terrible intrusive thoughts about many different thing I feel like it’s something new every few weeks and I feel like a slave to my own brain. The new thing that has been happening that has been so mentally exhausting and has taken over me is constantly thinking that I’m not real and that I’m living in a dream and I just feel disconnected from reality. I can still socialize and stuff with people but it has been hard to focus and honestly just enjoy my day to day life because I’m constantly in my head
Do people with existential ocd have this terrifying fear that people aren’t real and then they start to feel detached or dissociate only making it worse??? Along with this, do you fear that even though people can relate to you, what if that’s what you’re supposed to hear to help you move on, but really what your fearing is true??? I feel like I’m going insane. I sometimes get these questions, but they go away within minutes. However, these have been staying because I started asking the question “well if people aren’t real then hurt them”. I have other things ruminating in my head, but they’re either too hard to explain or will literally make me sound like I’m going crazy.
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