Anonymous
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babs7119babs7119
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- 4y
Yes! That thought keeps me up at night. I feel defeated.
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 4y
Oh yes. I felt this way often. I felt that life couldn’t possibly be worth living if I have to feel this way all the time but the grass really is greener and if you hold on and get help, you will get to that side just like I did and be in awe of how far you came. I know how it feels to be in the thick of it. It feels so impossible but you are so incredibly brave for coming here to get help. You’re not alone. This is only the beginning of something you will live with forever but that you can take control of and maybe even one day be thankful for. Because it will lead you to so many people who need your help in the way you needed. You will be a God send for them. And you’ll be at peace and in control of your OCD.
Anonymous Anonymous
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- 4y
Thank you so much. What has helped you?
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 4y
@Anonymous Therapy is really helping so keep on doing that! I know it’s hard but you can do it. Having a relationship with God is crucial for me. Reading the Bible and praying often. He gives me peace and strength and hope! Staying busy. Watching things that make me laugh. Getting rid of caffeine COMPLETELY. That’s a HUGE one. Guided meditations to help me fall asleep and giving myself permission to worry later so I can really get some sleep or meditate. Sometimes I would take stock of my fear and let myself have a day to relax from it and let myself worry later. Sometimes I wouldn’t even go back to it because I was able to let my mind and body rest and it made it easier to work it out logically. Time with friends and family. Exercise is huge! Inositol (powdered B vitamin) helped a lot. I worked my way up to 6 grams, 3 times a day over the course of a few weeks. 1 mg methyl folate. 2 mg methyl b12. Pure encapsulations Sero Plus. A lot of times people with OCD or other mental illness are highly deficient in B vitamins and the vitamins and minerals essential for sending Serotonin to the brain which is what anti-depressants do. Supplements, exercise, and time outside is CRUCIAL. It’s so hard to sleep when your constantly worrying. Try writing down your worries and give yourself permission to worry later so you can get some much needed sleep. Maybe give yourself a week and just add to the list if something pops into your head. The mental rest will do wonders and you might be able to approach those fears with more strength and the ability to see them logically. Prayers for you my friend.
cmac1339cmac1339
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Science and medicine is always making discoveries so i have hope that maybe they’ll figure out the true root cause of OCD and maybe even find a cure. Believe it or not, many mental illnesses can be cured (take depression as an example)
MiroMiro
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But don't they say that mental illnesses never fully cure?
cmac1339cmac1339
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@Miro Depends on the illness. But what I’m saying is that certain illnesses that were previously thought to have no cure may turn out to be curable someday.
MiroMiro
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@cmac1339 Hopefully
LucyA5118LucyA5118
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- 4y
Yes this is my biggest fear... and I feel like the only way I can get out of it (through crazy ruminating) is to sit in a room of my house for 24 hours straight.... unfortunately the way I do my rumination and compulsions has caused this to be the only answer to being happy again
em887766em887766
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I’d love to chat, I relate to that so much. I have to be forced to leave my room or house
babs7119babs7119
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@em887766 Me too
LucyA5118LucyA5118
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@babs7119 Let’s set up a convo!
LucyA5118LucyA5118
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@em887766 Let’s set up a convo !
em887766em887766
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- 4y
@LucyA5118 @emidrew_xo on IG (:
c.catc.cat
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- 4y
Yes. It used to bring me immense panic. But I’m slowly accepting it and working towards recovery. It’s similar with depression and anxiety as it’s not something that can be cured, but someone can recover from it and live a pretty normal life, only difference is that just like anyone we have bad times- but typically our bad times are related to ocd. The channel ocdrecoveryuk talks about how there is a chance to not have chronic guilt/anxiety/intrusive thoughts/etc and live and not even notice you have ocd most of the time
babs7119babs7119
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On YouTube channel?
c.catc.cat
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@babs7119 Yes youtube! They also have an Instagram
babs7119babs7119
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@c.cat Thanks
c.catc.cat
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@babs7119 Of course!
babs7119babs7119
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@babs7119 Why don't these OCD channels hardly ever mention my theme, illness anxiety OCD or like mine biggest obsession is fearing cancer and death.
MiroMiro
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- 4y
Yes absolutely. The feeling that I'll never be normal again and the thoughts will never go away. And I'll feel that especially when my anxiety is at it's peak. It's so overwhelming.
babs7119babs7119
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Where is this channel? YouTube?
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anxiousashhh
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- 25w
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I feel like I’ll never lead a normal life again with OCD, my thoughts have begun to be convince especially about POCD. I feel like so sad and down that this will be my life forever. I’ll never get to fall in love again without intrusive thoughts. I’ll never be worth falling in love with. I can never be intimate again. I’m just done, my life is over. I can’t even look at my nephew and niece anymore without the smile fading. It feels like I’m so nasty and then my brain convinces me this is how I feel. That there’s some part of me that is a p*do and that’s it. I’m a disgusting human being for that. I just feel hopeless
Kammy
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- 22w
This is draining
I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
Vangogh00021
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- 9w
Any OCD over comers ?? How long did it took ?
I’m so scared I’ll be stuck in this forever soo soo scared
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