zoed
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- 4y
zoedzoed
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- 4y
Thank you all! I felt so low and worthless like I really want to ruminate and live like that. Anxiety is my best friend and i cannot believe i can live without it. I wonder many times how other people can live in peace without caring about intrusive thoughts.
OliviaOlivia
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- 4y
Yea it’s quite a mystery, how they are not bothered by their thoughts💭 Sometimes I like to think, that we just care a little bit more, and that is not only a negative thing<3 Are you currently getting therapist sessions?
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Lindsey3Lindsey3
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- Date posted
- 4y
yes I am proof that it gets better. I'm on zero meds. they wanted me on like 20. I solved it through nutrition. your vitamin d is most likely low if you're on antidepressants. try seeing a naturopathic doctor if you can or functional doctor. they care more.
Morpheus 75Morpheus 75
- Date posted
- 4y
I totally relate to your post bc I feel exactly the same way honestly I don't know I assume we'd feel better if we accepted our thoughts. That's the big difference between us and people considered as "normal".
Lindsey3Lindsey3
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
from another perspective I thought this way but then found the obsession to heal myself. found that vitamin d deficiency is very common..I had it and caused severe ruminating thoughts. then I had low magnesium and that caused mood swings and anxiety
OliviaOlivia
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- 4y
If you seek and get the right help, it will definitely not be with you forever! I had a small amount of ocd therapy a couple of years ago, which helped me a lot. I wasn’t as scared of the thoughts afterwards, cause I knew how to handle them. Now it’s coming back a little bit, and I am gonna go to therapy during the summer again. Honestly the best thing, you can do for yourself! We didn’t choose to have ocd<3 One thing my therapist told me, that I think is good to remember is, that the intrusive thoughts are not a symbol of your values - quite the contrary! They are a symbol of the things, you don’t want to think and feel. Idk that helps me a lot to think about:)
zoedzoed
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- 4y
I started some weeks ago but did not find it really helpful. I think we have to do personal work jn order to see some changes. I gave birth recently and staying at home with the baby, not going out so often, makes me even more anxious and worried. My hormones are crazy now and my body changed in a way so my old clothes won't fit right now. It's like I have one hundred issues running inside me and cannot find peace and a way out. Do you also think vitamins deficiency can make ocd worse?
OliviaOlivia
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- 4y
It’s definitely all personal work! The therapist cannot heal you, but they can help you with working on yourself. What helps me, is that my therapist have had ocd, and is now “over it”. It feels so much more helpful, when the person you speak with, has experienced the same, and knows exactly what you are talking about and what helps. I don’t know about the vitamins and ocd, but I think that vitamins are a good thing in general. I would speak to my therapist about it, if I were you!<3
Lindsey3Lindsey3
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
1000% yes have your doctor check iron panel with ferritin, vitamin d, thyroid tpo and tgab antibodies (if those are positive cutting out dairy and gluten will fix the issue) , then have b6, b9, and b12 checked. those are all the nutrients I was low in right after having a baby.
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