EtOCD
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- 4y
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 4y
Yes!! I have done a pretty good job at ignoring the girl. I mean our brains are incredibly powerful and dreams can feel so real but that doesn’t mean that it’s connected to our character. How do you cope?
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 4y
When I first experienced synptoms of OCD in the form of intrusive thoughts, a lot of them were sexual themes and with my family. I was homeschooled and not socialized very well. So, anyway, the themes were arrached to family. I had dreams about my sisters of all things, that seemed real and left me feeling guilty. What I know now is that my brain was misfiring and all the while I was assigning meaning to the feelings and thoughts which gave them power. TODAY I know that I am in control of what power I give a thought and that even if I am decieved for a moment and agree with the feeling &/or thought it still does not make it true but DOES make me miserable. I hope you are able to take the power back ♥️
EtOCDEtOCD
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- 4y
Thanks for the advice! I realize that this is what OCD is but when Im in the middle of a spike that logical thinking just goes out the window I revert back to living in fear of my obsessions being true!!
PinkRose1111PinkRose1111
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- 4y
Watch the live from last night, they were talking about past memories and how ocd attacks them.
EtOCDEtOCD
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- 4y
What is the Live? Is it a show?
EtOCDEtOCD
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- 4y
I haven’t quite learned how to cope with it as of yet... my brain connects the feelings with my obsessions to make me think that they’re true. I just don’t know what to do about it!!
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 4y
Idk why i typed “girl” 🤣 i’m queen of typos
PinkRose1111PinkRose1111
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- 4y
Omg this is me right now. I could just cry. I want my life back but the intrusive thoughts I get are so disgusting and fucked up it instantly makes me feel so upset and physically sick
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 4y
I’m so sorry for the overwhelming feelings of guilt, shame, and disgust. I guess at some point I had to decide if I could forgive myself for trying to understand, check, and investigate the thoughts which made me feel like they were a part of my character. I decided to give myself a break, knowing Inhad “survived” for all of my life. That was the first step, and then I reminded myself of who I am, my true self, the self that hated my own obsessions because they were the worst things that I could imagine would happen to me, but was still obsessing over them. My clue here was that I was not comfortable and therefore this could not be me. I didn’t want to sit in that mess but I felt like I was drowning. Without playing the victim, I did realize that OCD was a separate entity of sorts and I had been the subject or torture. As long as I knew it was not my true desire to stay where I was I was able to let the thoughts, feelings, urges, and sensations carry on without giving them the energy of my whole self. This is the basis of my belief and although I have bad days, I know today they are as meaningful as I give them attention.
EtOCDEtOCD
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- 4y
@Anonymous Thanks for sharing! This definitely really helps, I think it’s just hard for me because my OCD likes to target past memories of mine and keep asking what if until I constantly worry about this worst case scenario in my head, and I often feel so defeated because my OCD becomes so strong that I can’t think logically.
PinkRose1111PinkRose1111
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- 4y
@Anonymous I just saved this because it’s quite inspirational. Thankyou
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