- Username
- strongerthanthis_
- Date posted
- 5y ago
100% , I always do better when I am fully engaged/ distracted . Driving in the car alone is one of the hardest places for me with ocd
Of course! Then you don’t give these thoughts time just because they are that unnecessary as they actually are. It’s important to give your brain chances to rest by doing these things you mention. However, the goal is to feel safe with yourself and not scared to be alone. I mean, you shouldn’t be worried about that. So what I’m trying to say is that it’s good if you can distinguish between distractions that might be a compulsion or just natural things you do that’ll take your focus from these unnecessary thoughts :)
Same here
Same!
Totally
Yep same!
I am pretty sure my OCD went dormant for twenty years because I was just too busy for it. One day it decided to stop me in my tracks though. I guess it got sick of waiting around for me to make time for it. I am learning to take back the things I used to enjoy in my free time. For the last few months anytime to myself has been spent on my OCD for the most part. I have started listening to podcasts and audio books in the car.
That’s exactly how mine is, I’m usually very engaged in conversations and fairly happy go lucky when I’m with other people. The few people I have told about my OCD always found it hard to believe that I had it due to never seeing me stuck in my head or doing my compulsions
I have experienced that too. Though at the worst times its difficult to get out and get active. Also i think that i have also had staying active and going out to bars as a compulsion, which i guess can be a risk. That one never dare to stop to feel at all.
I guess it’s hard sometimes to know what activity could be an eventual compulsion. Things that make you feel happy is good for you (except alcohol and other drugs). I think if you feel that you have to force yourself to not be alone because you feel scared to start thinking thoughts; that’s a compulsion. Or if you feel that you really have to distract yourself in a moment when you feel the thoughts are coming, then it’s a compulsion. These are just my theories, better if you figure that with a therapist :)
My OCD/anxiety gets really bad when I’m alone, but sometimes I can’t prevent being alone. I don’t know how to get my mind off of it without others around me
OCD worse in fall/winter: Does anyone else's OCD get worse in the fall/wintertime? I think maybe it's the combination of it being shitty and dark outside all the time, and always having to just be in the house. My friends are at college during that time of year too, so basically I just have zero distraction and it gives my brain too much time to overthink and create issues. I used to think I had seasonal affective disorder until I found out I had OCD, but I don't.
Does anyone else feel like they’re OCD turns off for a couple days? Like you go through an intense period of having intrusive thoughts and feeling the need to confess and then you only start to get thoughts here and there? And you try to keep yourself from having the thoughts but you’re not sure if it’s avoidance? Like I have felt sooo much better the last couple of days, especially in the morning, I live for those times of quiet in my head. But I still haven’t been able to accept myself for the things I might have done, like I can’t accept myself still because of my OCD. This probably sounds a little jumbled but I would like to think someone can relate lol
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