Tips for overcoming rumination?? I ruminate alllll the time. All the time. I worry about my suicidal thoughts and wonder if they're actually me or not. The only thing I know is I don't want them and I want to live. These thoughts just keep going over and over and over and over in my brain. or the thoughts pop in all the time like "you can't enjoy this cuz of this thought" or "what if they mean this" or "you can't enjoy life hahahaha!" Yeah worrying has taken away a lot of my enjoyment.

Yes? Kinda I guess

@Rozzie Stop doing that entirely. That’s what helped me the most

@Aussiemama The more thought you give it and the more energy you bring into it the longer it tries to stick around

@Aussiemama Thank you! I'll stop doing that. It takes over my brain. It's taking over my brain now. I just can't let it go. My brain makes me think I need to think/worry about it

@Rozzie Yea just stop giving into the compulsion to begin with

@Aussiemama Thank you so much! I just need to learn that my only job is to not figure it out. I can do this! I wish you luck!!

This began today. I got disagnosed with mild depression and that's what really scared me into thinking that maybe these thoughts are real. I have suffered from a bit of dp/dr, especially like the last three days. It's been weird. New experiences for me (not the thoughts, I've had those for ten months, but the dp/dr) I just wanna get through this!

@Rozzie That’s exactly what happened to me too I went to the doctor and they told me the same thing and about a week later I had an anxiety attack that I was sucicidal and then after that I had dp/dr and the intrusive thoughts got so bad and were all the time! I’ve been dealing with this for about 6 months and the Intrusive thoughts have gotten better and sometimes still deal with dp but now I have ocd on my ocd and figuring everything out and like why I feel a certain way or why I think some type of way now

@Bryce OHMIGOD I feel like we're the same person. 🤣 I am so scared I'm suicidal. I don't want to die, I just want to get through this (a great thing my brain liked to tell me if "well of you die you won't have to deal with this anymore") THEY SCARE ME SO BADLY. I WANT TO LIVE, BUT MY OCD TAKES OVER MY ENTIRE LIFE. It's like I can't have fun or anything anymore without an intrusive thought and intense rumination. (Right now it's SO MUCH checking - am I suicidal, or is it just ocd? I had this thought, but also this, etc...) How did you get better?? Any tips to get through this?? Thank you!

@Rozzie I haven’t gotten through it 100% just my intrusive thoughts only come when I’m having a bad day or feel down and like Ik deep down I don’t want to have a sucicidal thought but when I feel like tired in the morning for school that’s when they come and it freaks me out but when it does happen I just think to myself “it’s just ocd” and try to move on with it but sometimes it leads me into thinking more deeply into it but as of recently my ocd is about figuring everything out like stuff in the past why I feel off all the time, why I don’t like hanging out with my friends wether I’m depressed from the ocd or wether I don’t like my friends so it’s a lot rn and I have strayed to go to an ocd Therapist recently to get some better help because a normal therapist just kept giving me reassurance and I’ve realized that reassurance is only a temporary fix and something always comes up that I need to figure out!

Very welcome! I also hope that we can go back to feeling normal again very soon! Also i get what u mean when u say u ruminate a lot, I would say over 60% of my thoughts during the day is either trying to figure out why I have some type of thought and figure out what it means so I get it and it’s very annoying!