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I know from personal experience with my own OCD and intrusive thoughts that reassuring yourself and trying to “ignore” the thoughts only make them worse. I would encourage you to face your fears and seek ERP treatment to help you know that you don’t have to live in fear of your worries ❤️ You are strong, stop running away and face it girl! Good luck
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- 3y ago
Viewing workouts as an exposure is such a good idea, BUT you have to do it while accepting the uncertainty. "Its possible my heart could stop while i do this but im doing it anyway" as opposed to using the workouts to prove to yourself that it wont happen, thats kind of a compulsion. A really good piece of advice i got once from Chrissie hodges was that you have to say "maybe this is true" but you dont have to believe it. Its not about convincing yourself either way, its about accepting that possibility even if the chance is 0.0001%.
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- 3y ago
I completely understand that mindset shift and I can see where my thinking has been wrong. I’m going to work on that during my workout today. Thank you!
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- 3y ago
I understand what you are going through, i battled this a few times throughout my life, the palpitations, the panic anxiety, EKG and stress tests, blood tests all normal, just like you. I run, weight train, eat healthy, etc. Stress triggers the palpitations, once I had them nonstop on a 4 hour flight home, the worse experience ever, that night I came home and ran 5 miles thinking if there was something wrong it’d show up there. My ocd manifests itself via intrusive thoughts about my health, my heart, colon cancer, the latest is my eyes, I have floaters (I’ve had them for years) so tomorrow of course I’ll have a detached retina or spiderwebs all over my vision, etc, etc EVEN THOUGH 2 different doctors have told me my eyes are fine and I got scolded by one for taking up an appointment slot. Find people you trust to talk about it, try to manage your triggers, admitting that it’s OCD has been liberating , it’s a pattern that I recognize. I’m going to get help, I thank the Lord I found this app.
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- 3y ago
I can relate so much to this. You’re right. I only recently realized that I have OCD, and it’s been freeing to know that I can do something about it. Thank you for sharing.
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- 3y ago
@JustKeepSwimming Me too, I’ve always joked about it but it’s real it was an epiphany of sorts today
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You can do this, you will be ok. Be strong.
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- 11w ago
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