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It might sound a bit too zen, but when I was at the worst point of my ocd experiences it helped me a lot to take very long walks, perhaps with a friend or family member. Just exercise in general. Also do something you enjoy! Play music, write, dance, read, whatever makes you feel good, and preferably something where you need to use your brain a little more than usual - so you take it away from the ocd. A good exercise is, when an intrusive thought pops into your head, to imagine taking the thought out of your head and looking at it from an outside perspective. In that sense you are distancing yourself from the thought - it doesn’t feel like a part of you (because it isn’t)!❤️
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Thank you, it really does help to know others are going through this and have gone through it and come out the other side all the better I think I'll talk to my psychiatrist and see if he actually specializes in ocd if not I'll look on iocdf web site and see if I can find someone there
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That sounds like a great idea! Really hope it will help you
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Thank you that helps a bit
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what kind of ocd, do you think, you are experiencing?
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Mostly harm ocd or fear of becoming psycho. It's really scary
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I know how you feel - It is the scariest. Went through a rough patch just like that, a couple of years ago. And yea, I mean it’s rarely something you get through in just a couple of days, but I promise it will get better! Seeking help from an ocd psychologist as quickly as possible is one of my biggest pieces of advice. Helped me so much! But otherwise, speaking about it in general, acknowledging what it is and not trying to suppress the thoughts has helped also. So when a thought pops into your head, try to think: “alright, this is a scary thought, I don’t like it, but I know it’s not me” and then let I pass. Cause trying to push it away, will only make it worse. I know it’s not easy done, but that’s the goal, I am also still seeking!
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I am dealing with feeling of becoming psycho. Or fear that I already am and just don't know it. Constant fear. Constant terror it's exhausting
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@Anonymous I feel ya but listen to Olivia we are not alone and as one of my friends has told me before psychos don't care or worry about being psycho
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@Anonymous And harm ocd as well
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@Anonymous Some times I forget that I do know how to handle OCD and need to be reminded
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@Anonymous Yep
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@Amber92 I hear you and understand your fear! It can feel so horrifying:( But yes, what Ashley is saying is so important: When being psycho you don’t worry or fear being psycho - that’s what we do
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I know that separating myself from my family is one of my compulsions and sleep is another but I got 4 1/2 hours of sleep and I think I need more not sure what to do
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I’ve been stuck in this cycle for the last month or two and am not sure how to get out of it. Basically, I will work on ignoring the thoughts and not responding or engaging plus limiting/completely eliminating compulsions. After a week or two of constant work, the amount of intrusive thoughts in a day goes down. The anxiety each thought causes also goes down with some, but not all, thoughts passing without notice like they would for a normal person. The thoughts that do stick cause anxiety and make me want to ruminate or do other compulsions but I make sure to limit them. After a bit, I’m in a pretty good head space. This is usually when it goes down hill. I’ll start to question if I even have ocd because some of the thoughts (once again not all) pass without notice. The difficulty resisting compulsions goes down and so does the anxiety, only increasing the questioning. I spend a while questioning if I’ve ever had ocd in the first place and then something sets me off or the questioning itself becomes a trigger and I get stuck back into the same ocd cycle with constant rumination, anxiety, and other compulsions. This lasts for a week or two before I know I need to stop and try and work hard to get back to ignoring the thoughts. And the cycle just restarts over and over again. Does anyone have any tips to stop this from happening? It’s really harming my recovery as every few weeks I dive back into the same negative place I was.
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I’ve recently been having the spiraling intrusive thoughts coming up out of seemingly nowhere. Well not exactly nowhere, having some relationship issues but the thoughts will just randomly show up when I’m clam home reading a book.
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