- Date posted
- 6y
- Date posted
- 6y
Yes I’m trying to learn kickboxing and most of the time I feel really embarrassed and I’m getting anxious if it doesn’t work out perfectly :/
- Date posted
- 6y
Aw yeah :( I feel you
- Date posted
- 6y
Yeah I ruminate over past things I've said all the time and it stresses me out really bad.
- Date posted
- 6y
You’re onto something here hales. I think there is so much about our thinking process we need to change of which intrusive thoughts are the symptom that send us to therapy. As an example: I had to confide in our IT manager about my condition when he had to have access to my home pc and he saw a document entitled ‘harm ocd script’ lol. He was very understanding but said he reckoned the therapy was working because I no longer got SO stressed out from loosing or playing badly at ping pong. Since giving up, truly giving up the need to be good or impress, my brain is more responsive, relaxed and in the zone so I’m playing better than ever. This is much harder to do with horrid content like ‘what if I’s goes crazies and start buttfucking small girls......OH I’S IMAGINIZINGS IT’ Process is the same though. Fuck fear. Fuck the thoughts it produces. Fuck our avoidance of horrid content. Get back up. Try again, practise being happy ENOUGH with the progress you make. Happy enough. Not happy with some stupid ass bar you set for yourself. One of these days I’m going to write out my worst intrusive thought 100 fucking times in this app and then hope it triggers everyone else. I’m so done being controlled.
- Date posted
- 6y
Dude I understand your frustration but try to use trigger warnings at least if your going to write this stuff. It might not trigger me (still extremely uncomfortable to read) but it will trigger other people real bad.
- Date posted
- 6y
I’m going to reject trigger warnings. Maybe I’m being insensitive but trigger warnings = avoidance = ocd maintenance
- Date posted
- 6y
I come across as a right tw@ I know. But I genuinely do it because we need to get triggered. The more you chase triggers the more the brain gets a chance to process and REFILE the information. Every time you interrupt that it can’t do it’s job. Think of it like defragging your hard drive. It has to pull all the files out to rewrite them in sequential order so at the end of it, stuff loads quicker and crashes less. Or even spring cleaning your house. During, it’s a tip. After, it’s organised and fresh.
Related posts
- Date posted
- 23w
I want to go do something I enjoy so badly but I feel like I don’t deserve it. I’m full of guilt, shame, and anxiety. I wish I felt okay like I did a few days ago. I feel so awful right now. I hate OCD. I HATE pocd. I hate all of it. I wish this was easier. Sometimes I have the thought that I wish I was the things my OCD makes me afraid I am out of desperation to stop the anxiety, but then that thought makes me panic bc I don’t actually mean that or want that I just want the anxiety and urgency in the compulsions to stop. I’m so tired
- Young adults with OCD
- OCD newbies
- Relationship OCD
- "Pure" OCD
- Older adults with OCD
- Mid-life adults with OCD
- Harm OCD
- POCD
- Date posted
- 14w
Does anyone struggle with feeling like their ocd issues are not ocd enough compared to other peoples ocd? Is this an ocd thought itself lol
- Date posted
- 10w
I never heard about people with OCD who have messy living conditions. Maybe this is why it took so long to accept my diagnosis. Although I really dont like how OCD is percieved at by the majority of people, I feel like Im weird or something because I dont fit into that stereotype. I understand that a lot of people with OCD have this issue, but why do I feel so different? If anybody else has/had this belief, what helps with feeling more comfortable? Everytime my mom points out my room, and how its messy- Its like I feel so lazy and useless. So then I often plan out everything I was going to do, step by step, always having a reasoning behind everything, because logic always comforts me. When I start tidying up my room, I go full out (Sheets, Laundry, Clorox, Candles, Vaccuming, Then I start going through the guinea pigs cage to rearranging all of their stuff) Yet always somewhere after doing a few things, I start feeling disgusting and almost shameful of myself. 99% of the time I end up laying on my floor sobbing, noting every little thing about my room. How my furiniture doesnt match, how i would rather have solid floor like hardwood or vinyl instead of the carpet, usually things i cant change… and then barely anything gets done in my room. I start to have a meltdown and often dont take care of myself even more afterwards. A piece of me feels like my thoughts are just me being a spoiled brat and wanting everything i dont have- meanwhile others dont even have a roof over their head. The other piece of me is just tired, just emotionally exaughsted. Please comment any thoughts or recomendations to maybe improve motovation and attitude towards doing long tasks.
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond