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Sometimes! It can be a trigger for me, but also a beloved practice! I find that it helps if I focus less on thinking certain thoughts and more about envisioning what I’m trying to call in for my highest good. I also practice my exposures by saying the feared thing I’m afraid of manifesting.
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Does it feel like you're a different person with OCD but a whole different person when you manifest your desired life? And it's overwhelming?
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Cause I feel if I manifest, I am doing a compulsion to feel good. I am stuck.
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@ibeatocd I wouldn’t say I feel like a different person, I’m just in a different mental space. When I practice manifestation, it’s usually when I am not having an OCD episode. In the past, I would simply treat manifestation is no different from any other form of self inquiry. I find what helps me now, is to not put manifestation on such a high pedestal. Essentially all it is is settling your mind on something that you want. And I like to imagine myself getting that thing that I want, or enjoying it. But as soon as my OCD starts to latch onto it, I stop and I do my exposure. I wants had an OCD spike that really scared me because I started to fear that I would genuinely call in the thoughts that I was thinking. And they were not fun thoughts. But something someone said once about manifestation is that it’s less about what you think and more about what you do to move towards what you want.
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@ibeatocd Ah! This is called a “two tale spike”. If I’m remembering correctly, one psychologist who specializes in OCD talks about this. Are you wanting to manifest but it’s now become a compulsion? Or is the manifesting a compulsion against bad thoughts?
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I think I got ocd because of LOA
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After I started practicing it and being obsessed with it
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Omg. How are you doing now?
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@ibeatocd Still struggling with it, it was amazing practicing it before I got ocd :( so sad I can’t that now
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@Magg_77 Can’t do that*
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I was doing some research and saw about the narcissistic traits that OCD can create. Is this after the person knows they have OCD? Because I always knew I had it. But it was the classic one, with little quirks. Years later I developed false memory and intrusive thoughts whit my present theme. I was reading this because I was thinking about attraction. And I think I'm only attracted to two people in this life. But I remember from times by I had the feeling to please people. Without any interest and without even having the intention to do it, it was very automatic. So I was constantly focusing on how I was apparently being. I never acted like I was interested, but it was always like I was dealing with people's focuses. To tell you the truth, I've noticed that I do this even in other social interactions. I feel like I'm being watched all the time and so I have to act the way I'd like to be seen, like a sweet and delicate person. To be honest, I thought it had to do with my childhood issues because I was very careless and that got me bullied a lot when I was little kid. So I thought I was super focused on my appearance because of that. And I thought that the agaradar came as a consequence precisely because I was always seen as a grotesque girl because I took little care of myself. I even remember that the compliment that made me happiest was when someone said I was delicate. It made sense to me that it really was that. But after researching more, I realized that there are a lot of impulsive and repetitive things in my actions. And never with any intention. But in a very strange way. So much so that when I was younger I swore that I had some kind of personality disorder because it was very common to act one way one day and another way the next day. Maybe I was just an unstable teenager? Thank u for the help!
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My ocd gets so loud in the silence and right before bed when there’s no distractions. I always struggled with anxiety since my teens and guided meditation used to help… until OCD. First time trying guided meditation with OCD I had an intrusive thought of “what if you actually lose control and can’t follow these instructions?” And got even more anxious 🫠🫠🫠 had to stop, and haven’t tried to meditate ever since. Just curious to know. Sometimes I feel like I have the worst type of OCD. It will latch onto anything to make me anxious!
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Hello, I was diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 25 years old. I attributed my overthinking to autism but I realised a few months ago that Pure O OCD is the most meaningful explanation for it. I am also an asexual, so I am, simply put, a shitshow of symptoms. I constantly review the past - particularly painful memories. I have a consistent fear of getting cancelled. When I was 18, some YouTubers I followed got accused of sexual misconduct and cancelled. I was obsessed and concerned for them. Others found my obsession strange. I did not like how their lives were ruined over accusation and no trial. (I was naive then to why public accusations are happening, as it is because the legal system often fails to address predatory men.) Even 6 years later, I googled one of them 240 times between January 2020 and April 2020. It was plain obsessive. When I burned bridges, I continued to search the people involved in my past dramas. Often multiple times in the same day with nothing new to see. They would likely be scared if they knew how obsessed I was with them. I have started doing ERP exercises. I wrote a script where I receive public false allegations and my life is ruined. It is forever googleable and I am a complete pariah. Completely unemployable, unliveable, even my family abandons me. I listen to it for 15 minutes on loop per day. What else would you recommend to tackle the ruminating? I wish I had this information at 18. I should have been solving these issues then and enjoying my life, not figuring it all out so much later in life.
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