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- Agate
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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- The_MooseThe_Moose
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I get it, school is really rough for me too. I'm in my freshmen year of highschool, and it controls me sometimes. Whenever I notice myself obsessing about thing, I just close my eyes and breathe deeply, and tell myself I'm ok. If you can, you can also calm down by going to the bathroom and being alone, I know it's easier for my when nobody is watching me freak out about things. Also, if you can, listen to music. It really helps me just forget about what I'm stressing about. I usually listen to music during lunch, and it gives me a mid-day boost where I can just calm and think.
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- KaltaKalta
- Date posted
- 5y ago
^^ <3 what Moose said
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- KaltaKalta
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Yes! Happy Birthday!! Remember that OCD likes to attack what you value most, so it VERY OFTEN makes an appearance at special events. Don’t fight it off, just pull up a chair and tell it, “Hello OCD my old friend, I see you’ve come to visit me again, but I have a life to live, so you can sit right there but you don’t get the driver’s seat.” Let the OCD thoughts co-exist in your mind with your regular thoughts because the harder you resist them, the stronger they’ll cling. But if they see that they have no power to bother you, they’ll get bored and go away.
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- KaltaKalta
- Date posted
- 5y ago
OCD is a bully. It can follow you around and yell things at you, but you just keep living your life, doing the next thing.
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- AgateAgate
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Wow thanks for all the support guys you really helped me out I appreciate it I hope you can help make others feel better like you did with me
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- KaltaKalta
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Thank you! And you are going to be able to help others out immensely with all the wisdom you are gaining through these struggles! Keep living your beautiful life and know that a beautiful tapestry is being woven, thread by thread, through every joy and heartache. Here’s to a new year of living and growing! You are a warrior!!!
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- KaltaKalta
- Date posted
- 5y ago
p.s. Start reading Jon Hershfield’s work at OCDLA when you can. He’s funny and has LIVED the struggles and now is a therapist for others!
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- AgateAgate
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Ok thx
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- SumSum
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Can anyone help me. I am having trouble with my parents understanding how my OCD and other mental health issues effect my school life. They don't understand how harmful my OCD is for me. I feel like I have no one. I am so sad and exhausted. I feel like I can't live this aspect of my life anymore. It is killing me.
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- roses_are_rosé
- Date posted
- 5y ago
This is just too much...and it just sucks because no matter what I do... in reality ocd doesn’t care about what it’s doing to me... it’s gonna keep doing this. My brother is sick with something that causes diarrhea...he was sick with it 2 weeks ago, got better last week, and we all got the stomach flu this week which caused his sickness to come back...he’s playful and doing normal 1 year old things but ocd keeps saying he is going to die. I don’t completely understand how a 1 year old would just magically die from watery shit, but just because this worry makes no sense, it doesn’t mean I’m still not scared.And it showed me a scenario of his funeral and it’s so fucked up.I think the worst punishment God has ever given me was ocd... ocd hurts me more than anyone else can... it’s so fucked up... I used to ask God for help but I guess mental health wasn’t that saving worthy so I just stopped praying about my mental health BC I’d be “wasting my time, he doesn’t answer you.” I just have so mu ch in. My life that isn’t going right and I’m started to get low key sad and miserable about my life at this point. I need help lately but I’m really depending on some sort of relief... just thought control and to get rid of bad people in my life and to get some of my grades up and...to be happy
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- Maxx
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Please help! I am a medical student and I failed exam because of OCD. whole day passes by without even touching the course books. I can't focus on studies because of intrusive thoughts. No therapist is available in India. All psychologists advise me to meditate but I can't meditate with all the trouble going on with my mind. Please help!
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