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It is. Its super common with OCD, like most people with OCD experience it when their anxiety is at a 10. Ali greymond did a video on it. The light sensitivity is the worst part for me
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Some other symptoms that can come with dpdr are visual static, hazy vision, mild lagging, and after images. Its all cus the visual cortex is overloaded during high anxiety
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I experience something in my visual field that looks like static 24/7, could that be bc of my OCD? If you know, I am genuinely curious
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@🌺Dem🌺 So i did a poll on reddit a while back (def a compulsion) and i asked to see if people experienced all these symptoms listed and 1/5 people with OCD said they experienced all the symptoms and like 3/5 said they experienced most of them. So i would say yes this can all come from OCD
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@🌺Dem🌺 Alot of people describe it with other terms too like your color perception can go completely off, so some colors can be too bright, some too dull. Or it can be like looking at the world behind broken glass
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@AJDCTX12 That does happen to me occasionally, as well
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@🌺Dem🌺 Like i said its super common. On ali greymonds channel she said almost everyone with OCD will experience it when their anxiety is at a 10. So the key is doing ERP and finding ways to lower the anxiety. But if you have chronic dpdr, which is common in severe OCD, it can take up to 6 months or so for things to truly chill out. Its cus ur body is in the freeze response. It thinks its in life threatening danger so its keeping you there
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@AJDCTX12 I am not sure what I am experiencing really is dpdr, but maybe all the static is bc of that?
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@🌺Dem🌺 Id say its gonna be really hard to accept that it is, cus ocd makes us doubt everything. But most people with dpdr have some static.
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@AJDCTX12 I just don't want to say that I have it without knowing that I actually do, yk, I don't want to "misdiagnose" an issue
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@AJDCTX12 Thanks for answering tho ^^
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@🌺Dem🌺 Ocd also can affect your feelings, thoughts and even perceptions. Meaning, whatever you fear, itll latch onto and use doubt against you. So like other people may have dpdr (75% of all people do at some point) at some point, but it goes away cus they dont take it seriously. With OCD we attach significance to it and start to go down thought spirals, focusing on every symptom and seeming them as something scary when we never used to
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@🌺Dem🌺 Luckily dpdr isnt really something that needs to be diagnosed. Its an ocd symptom. As long as its not for reassurance, you can look up ali greymonds video on derealization
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@AJDCTX12 Oh, alright, thank you :)
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anybody else deal with this?😔
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Someone please respond to this, I really feel like I'm losing my mind. This is what I've been going through the past few months: - Been unable to stop googling obsessively about my behaviors - Feel unable to control my emotions - Constantly ruminating about being a bad person - Avoiding best friend and some relatives, feel super on guard around them, like they'll see I'm awful. - with my best friend, feeling resentful but arguing with myself that she's not a bad person, but still feeling irritated. - Easily irritated, feeling resentful of others in general - making up arguments in my head, then telling myself I'm crazy for thinking it - Struggling to be present with others, listen, and empathize. Mask and try to offer support then feel bad later. - Can't self regulate, always need to vent to family/friends/therapist - Always tired - Can't control thoughts - Analyzing my behavior constantly - Questioning my beliefs and motivations and if they make me a bad person. - Always finding new bad traits about myself/constant guilt - Social anxiety, people pleasing, and avoidance - Want to be alone but can't handle being alone for long, emotional dumping on people then isolating myself because I feel bad - Crave connection - Little enjoyment of anything - Feeling bad about my negative traits but feel overwhelmed about changing - Awful memory/brain fog - Crying a ton I feel like I have zero control anymore. Everyone says I'm not a bad person and I'm fine, and that used to help, but now it doesn't. I've reached out to friends, family and therapists, but I feel like I'm not getting anywhere. I'm extremely desperate.
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