Milkshake1
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- 3y
LoominLoomin
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- 3y
Hi milkshake. Do you practice meditation? I use the headspace app and sometimes learning how to observe how you feel and think but not get wrapped up in those feelings can be helpful.
jharm14jharm14
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- 3y
Post certain situations and let’s talk about them, other people have/are going through the same things and it helps to talk about it.
Boss34Boss34
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- 3y
I’ll add one, I’m going on 60, great wife two great sons, I have everything to look forward to, but sonething not letting me feel happy like usual? Im scared of the future, been with my wife since 16, can’t imagine life without her, or my kids, or them without me..,. Fills me with anxiety and leads to ocd I think or the other way around? It’s been on and off twice in the last 6 months, idk why but it hit me
Milkshake1Milkshake1
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- 3y
Yes I have tried meditation but after doing it, I’m back to square one. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. It works for a bit and then it stops
LoominLoomin
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- 3y
As I understand it, it’s not so much about achieving anything, as it is about cultivating space in your mind, and learning how to sit back and observe your thoughts in every moment of every day. I find it very difficult, but I’m slowly getting better at the practice
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Ellen_l
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- 24w
Advice?
I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!
johnnn
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- 24w
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whats up guys what are some tips dealing with ocd and what to do when a thought makes u anxious ??
ConstantPain
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- 24w
Dealing with a lot. Need support and company.
My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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