I got really triggered the other day because I saw someone say they used to “scream and not be able to calm down” from their OCD and I’m in no way trying to talk bad about that person cause idk what all they were going through, but for some reason that triggered the idea of my thoughts taking over me and possibly doing what my thoughts are about since my thoughts are about harming myself.. cause if you can’t get your mind to calm down then what are you supposed to do? :/ I’m just SO tired of this taking over my life

Hebi

Date posted: 4y

Don't worry my dear, that's still OCD. I have harm ocd towards myself too. Ocd can say whatever it wants to. A lot of people with OCD are afraid to do what they fear most whenever they're feeling like losing control, or whenever they're feeling like go crazy, etc; but it still OCD. What does make you go in a state of mind where "you are not able to calm down", is anxiety, but anxiety has a limit, once that limit is reached then anxiety will go down and down, also, anxiety can't hurt you, you just have to stay and feel that kind of uncomfortable feeling or sensation and then do nothing, and you'll notice that it'll pass in a few minutes, and you'll also see that nothing terrible happened after all. Remember that OCD is a really intelligent issue, it'll do anything to trick you and get you into fear, so that you can do reassurence

Anonymous

Date posted: 4y

Thank you so much for this. I have that sense of “urgency to figure the thoughts out” that feels really intense like my head gets super tight and my anxiety just skyrockets and sometimes it can last all day.. the only thing that really calms me down is Ativan ugh. I’m so scared of antidepressants because of the black box warning.

Hebi

Date posted: 4y

@Anonymous Answers for OCD means nothing, because logic doesn't work with OCD. You could say to yourself: "well I don't want to die, because I love my life and I have a lot of things to do, death makes me feel afraid, It scares me" or "well If I did developed OCD about this specific theme, then it means that I don't want to act on that kind of thought, that's why I got so scared that I developed OCD about it!" But after that just wait 15 minutes or less and OCD will hit you again with the same thought, and you'll react in the same way, because whenever OCD hit you, its feelings or sensation or whatever will comes on autopilot in the exactly way that you felt when all of this caos started. But OCD is a lie, and even if we know that, we still tend to believe it, but that's because of anxiety, because, without anxiety we wouldn't be so concerned about the content of our thoughts, and without being concerned about the content itself we wouldn't be so afraid of our mind and without that we wouldn't have developed OCD. Understand that your minds is trying to protect you, it sends you all of this things because it thinks that you find them important, that's because of your reaction that you had at first, when the first thought popped up. Don't look the content of the thought, because that's not the problem, the problem is how you chose to react, change your reaction and things will get better, even if it seems difficult, do it the same, with time you'll be less afraid of your thoughts, and then, one day, you'll wake up without any kind of fear or interess on your thoughts. For the meds part, I can't help you, since I don't take them

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