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- bruisedfawn
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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- NazarNazar
- Date posted
- 5y ago
There is nothing to be ashamed of. Ocd is a pretty common disease. Don’t be afraid to seek help - it is much easier to fight it when somebody supports you. The decision to seek help was one of the best decisions of my life
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- ramennoodles97ramennoodles97
- Date posted
- 5y ago
There IS life with OCD! I promise. It might be embarrassing or hard to seek help at first, but think of it an opportunity to get better at being vulnerable and seeking help when you need it. There's a lot to learn and grow from when fighting this. On a personal note, I've had harm OCD, religious OCD, all kinds of sexual OCD, contamination obsessions, relationship obsessions, scrupolosity, you name it. And I've found therapists and other resources who helped me. There's so much help, so much hope. Get help, keep fighting, it's worth it!
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- ForryForry
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I read a book by Claire weekes, mainly about general anxiety but she talks about not fighting it but accepting your anxiety, have to say changed my perception of my OCD. You can be happy and have OCD, I am.
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- axolotlaxolotl
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Hang in there! I’ve had this diagnosis a long time and will have periods of time when it’s really bad, and other times when I feel normal and fine - I had a stretch of 7 years when I had only mild symptoms! Now I’m in a bad flare up, but I know that eventually I’ll come out the other side again - you will too! For me, it’s a combination of SSRI and ocd-specialized therapy that create long term success (I’m off the ssri right now - long story - hence the flare up...can’t wait to go back on it in a few months!!) Have hope & seek help - you can have a full life along with ocd!
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- bruisedfawnbruisedfawn
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Thank you so much everyone!!!!
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- ladybug
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I hate ocd! Right now it is draining every piece of energy or happiness I have. I’ve been struggling for so long and feeling like the worst person ever forever. I’m falling into a depression, I’m hardly functioning, can’t sleep, can’t eat. Thoughts constantly in my head that maybe I don’t have ocd or that even if I do, it doesn’t matter. I want to live so badly for the people in my life that love me but in the past week from feeling this way I’ve lost over 10 pounds. I live in a really remote area and I feel like don’t have treatment options unless I move. It’s just so exhausting and I don’t know what to do anymore.
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- js94
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Everyone says to me when I say, I have ocd i hate my life, that many people live with it, but everyone that I meet with OCD is miserable and barely surviving, so aren't we all just doomed with a chronic condition ? I mean even "recovered" people say they still struggle with it so honestly, whats the point? Im being a realist. Opinions are welcomed. Maybe I am missing the bigger picture
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- MyLifeIsOCD
- Date posted
- 1y ago
OCD 24/7 for years
For 13 years, OCD is not just a part of my life; OCD IS my life. I cant work, Im having intrusions all day, anxiety all day, afraid of my own mind, it even caused me chronic fatigue syndrom because I did only sleep a couple of hours for years because of the compulsions I did on repeat every awake hour of every single day, no pause, not even for 5 minutes. Ive had a couple of months where it was better, like I was able to live life a little more and not being tortured 24/7. Sometimes I feel like Im the only one with OCD for so long and the only one on whom OCD has such a big impact... 😔
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