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Honestly you have to realize that keeping track is a compulsion. And doing a compulsion makes your ocd worse. You’ll mess up sometimes and that’s okay but little by little and I mean LITTLE BABY STEPS LOL stop even for a full day then increase it
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Because the more u expose yourself and don’t do the compulsion the more u get to sit with the uncertainty and feel the anxiety and then let it pass. Telling yourself you welcome the thoughts help and then letting them know it can only stay a while but then has to go has helped me!
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Thank you, both these comments help. I'm going to try what you suggested. I hope I can, just the thought of welcoming the thought is giving me a little anxiety. Maybe as I escort them out I can experience the calm.
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It’s ok, I still feel anxious lol I’m even having a hard time right now since I been doing good. It’s super hard at first but just little steps like I said :)
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I know a few of you saw my posts about my ERP and the googling urges. That didn’t end up going well. My therapist actually decided we needed to halt it for now. The thing is it’s almost like I learned googling is harmless from those few exercises and my brain keeps generating more things to google. Normally I would just spiral and be done but now I can barely hold back from searching for long. I eventually give in. I’m horrified because it feels like I want to find illegal content. I swear on everything I am, I don’t want to find anything even close to it. I’m freaking out because I don’t understand what’s happening. I keep compulsively searching/testing/checking or idk. I keep remembering details and I feel like I need to google again to be sure of something. I feel absolutely insane can someone please help me??? I’m petrified I’m going to get in trouble.
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- 23w
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
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How do you guys get past the anxiety? I feel like my thoughts are the only thing that control my mind. So often I feel like I should just leave my partner even tho I love them so much because I just feel like these thoughts are too much. I over analyze everything. I feel so stuck and defeated. I just want to be normal. I feel so toxic for the thoughts that I have
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