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OCD attacks the things you love the most, thats the terror of it all. Doing compulsions to lower anxiety is OCD. CBT therapy and ERP therapy do help, yes! Thats the #1 treatment for OCD. You sound young and aware of what youre dealing with which is great! The sooner you face this OCD monster the better. Youre a strong person keep reminding yourself of that. I dont see you asking for reassurance, more so wanting to know if others are in the same OCD theme as you and thats okay to ask!
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I rarely ever see anyone with my same obsessions on here. So you’re not alone with that. I even ask sometimes and the only replies I get are people saying they dont deal with what I deal with.
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Thanks! It feels good to just open up sometimes! Anything you want to talk about? Feel free! I’m listening :)
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I also haven’t been on this app for a month because I was trying not to get reassurance and then I had a massive breakdown the other day and I just came on here.
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The thing is I haven’t done any compulsions since September and I still get bombarded with thoughts and I just can’t see a way out!
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What do you think is feeding the thoughts? Are you possibly doing any mental compulsions just not physical?
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I’m not really sure what’s feeding them, there’s something feeding them but it’s not jumping out at me which is frustrating because I’ve tried to stop everything that was feeding them and because I still keep getting bombarded with thoughts, it feels like it isn’t OCD and it feels like it’s just me and it makes me feel like I am evil and want to do these things
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Hey just a tip :) do you think this post is a compulsion? It can be very easy to get sucked into compulsive research and get reassurance from posts
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I think hes looking for someone to relate to. Seems like hes alone with all of this and no one gets what hes dealing with. Thats what I got from what I read. Its hard when you have multiple themes and cant relate to a lot of what you read on here.
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I did go through a stage where I would sit in bed all day and read up about OCD but I sort of realised it and managed to stop that as well
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So I really don’t know what is keeping the thoughts going
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I’m starting to face all of my fears that OCD has gave me but the thoughts just won’t go and it makes it worse that I’ve never seen anyone else with the same obsession with me and it makes it harder and makes me feel alone
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@OCDBoy55 When youre having a thought, try to “throw” it away. Imagine youre taking the thought and throwing it in the trash. If youre unable to, pay attention to what youre doing thats feeding the thought to keep manifesting. I use to have “magical thinking”. That if i didnt do something the right way that something would happen. That went on for YEARS. Once I started to tell myself that I couldn’t control reality and focused on what I was doing and didnt reinforce my behaviors it slowly went away. It took time but Its possible.
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I’ve had that as well, I used to have it where I needed to put socks in the right order every night before bed and if not I would get anxious because it didn’t feel right and it felt like something bad would happen.
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I’ve had OCD for about 4 years but I didn’t suffer with intrusive thoughts for the the first 4 years! It’s only since September they have started. It may be something to do with I had a lot of stress with my Dad nearly dying and my Grandad also in hospital, the thoughts started after those two things in my life occurred.
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Yeah I have my main obsession and then I read about other people’s obsessions and get triggered by them and they are like side obsessions if you get me, when I feel like I get my main one under control for a bit, it sort of throws the side obsessions at me and it’s just a never ending cycle!
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OCD picks up when a stressful event happens in your life. Youre on the right path though, youre aware of what’s going on. Now its about finding the right therapy and ways to manage the OCD to get back to a normal life. Youre strong, youll get there! ?
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Have you tried talking to a specialist?
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@uglyjd Yeah I have but they diagnosed me with anxiety and OCD traits and then he said I didn’t have to come back after 1 session when I was and still am clearly struggling with this. So I am trying with another service and I have been offered 1to1 CBT therapy
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Are you in the US? If so the OCD foundation website is a great way to find therapists who are trained in CBT/ERP. https://iocdf.org
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That therapist seems he doesnt know what hes doing. Im glad youre trying out another service, just be sure they use erp!
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I’m not, I’m in England!
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Hello, I unknowingly have lived with ROCD or OCD (not sure what one. I’m new to this). It has ruined so many amazing romantic and platonic relationships and I am so sad that just now I am finding out what the hell is wrong with me. Maybe life would be different if I have known. My OCD and anxiety is at an all time high (ATH) due to some horrible events that have happened in the recent months. I am at the point where paranoia has taken over my life now. I had my first panic attack a few weeks ago where I fainted. My anxiety attacks are so extreme I go thought cognitive distortion that has lasted days. My girlfriend of 3 years is my emotional guardian and she no long has the energy to be that and honestly it’s not her responsibility to be that. She is bi and wanted to have an open relationship and for someone who has OCD this has not been good for me. She also was assaulted in my own home by a good friend of ours when I was out of town but it’s not a clear situation because it sounded consensual at first. I just left my very high paying job. I am financially secure but the job was emotionally abusive and looking back made my OCD worse. I am taking some time off to get my head right…but now, all I have to do during the day is live in my OCD. I’m very happy I finally figured out why I act the way I do but I don’t know if I can get better quick enough to save my relationship. I have never been so worried about myself (M 28 years old). I am a confident young professional and never thought I would be writing on a page like this. Anyway…I hope it gets better.
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Hi, I’m new to the app as of today. I’m 20 years old, and wanted to get some stuff off my chest about the types of OCD I’ve been experiencing over the years. I’m not entirely sure how or when my OCD was brought up, but I’ve been a perfectionist for as long as I can remember. Anywhere and everywhere I go, if I see things placed in an order/angle that my brain doesn’t approve of, next thing I know I’m “fixing” it to be in the placement I feel looks better. I’m not aware of why I feel the need to do that, but until an object is in the “right” placement, I won’t take my eyes off of it. My eye will even twitch. Another form of OCD I have is in relationships. I spend each day overthinking and over-analyzing every one of the relationships that are important to me. Friends, family, significant other. Another one is what’s considered “Pure OCD” . When I get an intrusive thought of something devilish, whether it’s randomly seeing my great aunt naked bc my grandma considers her “fat” even though she’s not, or it’s seeing something demonic and traumatizing, I immediately tell myself, “I don’t wanna see/think about that” over and over and over until the thought is gone. Or I’ll try to replace one mental image with another. One other form of OCD I face every day, is religion. I got baptized for the first time in my life earlier this year in January. I had finally started to repent for my sins, and now I’m constantly feeling afraid that I’m letting God down due to my depression/lack of motivation and vaping/smoking. I also fear excessively that He’ll banish me from His kingdom, or just turn a cold shoulder. I know that what I’ve just typed up is probably all over the place. That is my brain unfortunately. How do you go from being a mentally disorderly and seemingly erratic young woman, to a more well-established, successful woman? I’m all ears!
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