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- pluto
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Same here
Same. I've said again on this app what my experience was. I grew up in a city where I was a popular boy. Everyone wanted to be my friend and I had plenty of crushes who liked me back. After one of my parents died we moved to another town where I was ignored, set aside, bullied and one rejection came after another. In the scope of my bullying, the entire school heard rumors that I was gay - which was of course false - and I even received a rape threat. All these events, along with other things that happened created a deep wound. And although I was able to repress the memories for a long time and pursue the life I wanted, that later caught up and is eating me up again. I really hate this, but there's not much I can do to change it. I wish there was a pill that I could take to forget all of it and simply reboot.
Do you think some of this is trauma deputy? A lot of good stuff is coming out about EMDR. Some of my issues I find that I can not obsess yet feel intense fight or flight arousal despite knowing deeply there is no problem. I’m happy to feel the anxiety but certain things are hard to do in that state. I’m thinking more EMDR will be useful as part of my brain is not getting past some trauma by itself. Frustrating I know, because it feels like part of our brain is so stuck when the rest of our brain knows it’s so unhelpful and stupid?
I think most of it is trauma. I eventually moved away from that town where all this happened. A few years ago I was going to visit back and I broke down into a full blown panic attack and ended up not going. I've never heard of EMDR. I'll have to do some research on that today. Have you ever done it for yourself?
Yes but I don’t think I did it enough and for enough things. I actually think I need a lot of therapy for a lot of stuff, and need to change a number of things that limit my life. It will be a long road. It took a while to develop the mindset that led to ocd i wasn’t born with it.
That sucks. Do anything it takes to help yourself. Have you noticed EMDR helping you? The little I read about it sounded kind of scary.
I think it needs to happen. I’d rather live the right life or not live. Existing is not living.
anyone else had ocd from a very young age? I’m talking like, I remember obsessions from when I was 6. and my family remembers my symptoms from even earlier. I didn’t get help until I was 15 because my family isn’t big on mental health. anyway, it frustrates me that I genuinely don’t know what it’s like to live without ocd. Sometimes I hear/see people talk about how they just wish things could back to how they were ‘before,’ or that imagining what their life was like before onset helps motivate them in recovery. But I don’t have anything like that. in fact, it’s almost scary to think about recovering completely because I don’t know anything else? it depresses me
Hey guys so i wanted to see if this could possibly be ocd or maybe something else idk lol and im not trying to like get reassurance km just curious cuz i’ve never thought about this until now. So my whole life especially recently since i’ve moved to college, i always analyze whether or not i fit in with people. I’ve always been pretty hard on myself my whole life aboit feeling different than my friends or just feeling like i don’t understand how everyone can just be themselves so easily and not anxious or how i think people are just more likable than me. i don’t know if that makes any sense, but i feel like i’ll hang out with a group of girls and then afterwords i’ll be like why do i feel like i wasn’t the same as them or why do i feel like they’re better than me etc. just constantly trying to figure out what’s wrong with me and why im different then them. I think that may have been ocd itself or maybe not im not sure. recently i’ve been struggling with trans ocd and my mind often likes to think back to that and how my whole life i’ve kinda worried about how i felt different than all the other girls . it scares me cuz it makes me think that maybe i really am not a girl and i just haven’t realized it until now. but now im realizing that those worries from my whole life might have just been ocd to begin with. idk if any of this makes any sense and im just rambling on and on but im just curious to see what u guys think
So cuz of my ocd I dissociate a lot. I don’t feel present often, but like I’m always lost in thoughts or sensations. I try to act normal. But even when I do, people literally treat me like “ok this girls a little weird”. I can’t explain it, but people literally think I’m off! Idk it’s very hard for me to be normal when I don’t feel right…. It’s very hard for me to maintain relationships/friendships now. I just always feel anxious x 100000000 Ugh does anyone understand or can relate?
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