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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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I cannot for the life of me stop ruminating or checking how I feel about thoughts or focusing on thoughts or creating more thoughts. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I want to scream. I try not to ruminate about the thoughts, but trying not to just makes me think about them more. I try not to check, but somehow, I still check. I want to let a thought sit in the background, but the more I try not to focus on it, the more I end up focusing on it. I don’t want the thought to expand because that feels like engaging with it, but I can’t just stop it from expanding. It feels impossible. People keep saying I’m in control of my compulsions, and maybe that’s true for the physical ones. But when it comes to the mental compulsions, I swear I have no control. It feels like I’m missing something that everyone else seems to have, like there’s some tool they’re using that I don’t have. Controlling mental compulsions has never felt possible for me. I’m starting to fear them. And every time someone says I’m in control and can just choose not to do them, I end up beating myself up even more when they happen. Or when I *choose* I guess. I don’t know anymore. If this is my fault, if I’m responsible for this, then what does that make me? I feel like a monster. I am at my wits’ end. How am I supposed to control mental compulsions when it feels like they control me? I freak out when they happen. They don’t bring me relief, they just make me panic. I want it to stop so bad.
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I have pure ocd i think , i always gotta make sure i do certain things like tap things , light switches on n off , shut things few times and re open them till it feels right . Walk in a room go back out and back in out in in till my mind is right Its exhausting
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