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My therapist suggested that I try counting the bottles in the shower, noticing the colors, counting the shower curtain hooks, or imagining a stop sign to remind myself that I’m getting too much in my head. I had to do it often but it helped me a lot and now it feels easier to shower.
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We break the, “you have OCD, so you should love showering” stereotype
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Literally 😂
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It sounds like you are ruminating- that’s a compulsion and you need to stop yourself
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I’m really trying. I think about my obsessive thoughts all day everyday, when I get in the shower it makes them even worse.
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@lh2000 Look up defining rumination by Michael Greenburg
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Yes!
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Soooo maybe a bit TMI, but I just struggled to take a shower because my mind was convincing me either a shark or, and this is just recently, that a ship propeller will just come out of nowhere and kill me! Does anyone else have these wild creative messed up images? It got so bad I had to cut my shower short!
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I know I keep talking about This but I’m too tired :( I’m really struggling and I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like I might be the only person who experiences this in the way I do. It’s gotten so bad that during intimacy or self-pleasure, I feel like I’m acting on a thought — like my body is moving because of it. It’s terrifying and deeply hurtful. The moment it happens, I immediately panic, try to rewind everything in my head, and ruminate to figure out what I was thinking at that exact second… but I can never remember. That makes it even worse. feel so lost and hopeless, like I’ll never be able to heal or move on from this. People tell me “it’s just OCD,” but it doesn’t feel like OCD to me. It feels like I’m the exception — like no one else truly experiences it like this, especially the part where it feels like I physically responded to a thought. I know people say “others go through this too,” but my mind keeps saying, “not like this, not this specific thing.”Sometimes I just wish I could go back and relive those moments so I could be sure what happened, but I know that’s not possible. I feel so stuck in guilt and doubt that I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m scared I’m a bad person and that I’ll always feel this way. I’ll never be free or be the same again everyday I live with deep depression
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does anyone else constantly suffer from intrusive thoughts? it makes my head ache & i can barely think straight.
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