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My mental compulsions often time make my anxiety even worse even though usually compulsions make you feel better (for a short while). My mental compulsions revolve around making myself feel certain and reassuring myself. Often time if I notice I’m doing this I try to stop and just let the bad thoughts come. From the tags it looks like we have a similar theme. Once those bad thoughts come I just stick with the anxiety and tell myself that feeling this anxiety in the long run is good for me. There are time though when it’s hard for me to stop with the compulsions. In that case don’t be hard on yourself it happens to all of us.
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It’s so constant and annoying! Ugh
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@ahxllz I feel you. There are days where I’m not even that anxious but the thoughts are still there and it’s soooo frustrating!! It’s okay to be annoyed and frustrated I just try to not let it get me down. It’s all part of the recovery. We got this!
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@dommy So true. If you ever want to talk I can give you my discord or WhatsApp!
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@ahxllz I think that would be awesome. I’ve got discord idk if there’s a way to pm on here lol
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@dommy I’m new to discord - how do I share it!
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@ahxllz If you have the app it’s in the bottom right hand corner you tap the little icon and you can see your username and you need the numbers after it too
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Sarcasm helps .
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How so?
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@ahxllz I had pure ocd and harm ocd . So my brains like “you’re responsible for the murder “, and I’m like yeah definetly . Totally . Ted Bundy wishes he was me . And that seemed to make it seem like a trivial matter
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@lucy.wilefirr Bahahahahah yes okay that makes sense. My biggest issue is I’m constantly looking for my thoguhts. Like on guard for them if they come in
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Yes I relate to all this too
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My ocd is hard today- it’s been two weeks focusing on the same ocd thoughts and countless checking repetitively. Any suggestions?
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My OCD is continuing to have me constantly check and check and check! I keep doubting and am very confused! How can I get out of this trap!!!!!
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I’ve been stuck in this cycle for the last month or two and am not sure how to get out of it. Basically, I will work on ignoring the thoughts and not responding or engaging plus limiting/completely eliminating compulsions. After a week or two of constant work, the amount of intrusive thoughts in a day goes down. The anxiety each thought causes also goes down with some, but not all, thoughts passing without notice like they would for a normal person. The thoughts that do stick cause anxiety and make me want to ruminate or do other compulsions but I make sure to limit them. After a bit, I’m in a pretty good head space. This is usually when it goes down hill. I’ll start to question if I even have ocd because some of the thoughts (once again not all) pass without notice. The difficulty resisting compulsions goes down and so does the anxiety, only increasing the questioning. I spend a while questioning if I’ve ever had ocd in the first place and then something sets me off or the questioning itself becomes a trigger and I get stuck back into the same ocd cycle with constant rumination, anxiety, and other compulsions. This lasts for a week or two before I know I need to stop and try and work hard to get back to ignoring the thoughts. And the cycle just restarts over and over again. Does anyone have any tips to stop this from happening? It’s really harming my recovery as every few weeks I dive back into the same negative place I was.
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