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Yes! I experience it the majority of my days unfortunately. I do also have extensive trauma
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It can't make you go crazy right ? I'm scared it's gonna make me go into full psychosis
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@Amagicmarie I'd say no, but you have to practice ERP to the thoughts of psychosis. Once you let go of the fear of becoming psychotic i think the DP DR symptoms will hopefully start to decrease :)
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@alexisrae1999 It's just hard bc dissociation makes me see things in a weird way and lose my memory
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@Amagicmarie Oh I totally feel that. It makes things feel like they never happened, right? Or that you're kind of observing the world and not actually living in it? I have been experiencing this for over 10 years. I just now learned about it and for the longest time I thought there was something severely wrong with me. Nope, just trauma/ocd. If you try to focus yourself and remind yourself the DP DR is just a symptom and is not actually you fading into existence, I promise you youll feel more in touch with everything. I was shocked at how quick the response was after doing ERP to it
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I believe so, Im sure Im experiencing some form of dissociation, Like I feel totally out of it and not enagaged in anything. My emotions, feelings, perception all feel weird.
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Medication for OCD? Hello all, 19 male here, this seems like a cool community that isn’t nearly as triggering as reddit. I have pretty severe bouts of existential thinking or fear of going crazy ( psychosis ) after some pretty heavy mushroom trips a few years ago, I know logically I should be fine but I do know what it’s like to lose it and it’s scary. Currently I deal with relationship focused OCD, it’s all day from before I even open my eyes. I want things to work out with my girlfriend badly. Also I can come close to a panic attack sometimes which perpetuates everything. Anyway, I mention the fear of going crazy because the way my anxiety/derealization makes me feel is that I’m not mentally stable cause I feel out of it or unreal. I saw that a lot of anxiety and depression medication can cause psychosis and I feel like I could use some help in getting ahead of my OCD because the compulsions are had not to give into when I’m in such distress/not knowing. Plus overall I just feel like I have no idea how I feel about close to anything. Anyone relate about that ?
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Hello! It has been well documented that OCD can manifest itself in the form of religious rituals. There is a fine line between genuine piety and OCD. For those of you who have struggled or are still struggling with this, have you sought the guidance of a religious figure in addition to a therapist? Meaning, that you attend therapy with a therapist who works with you on ERP exercises, but also have a rabbi, priest, or imam who you use for guidance in determining what is actual piety versus behavior that is OCD?
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I think we have to separate our OCD from our personality in order to treat it properly, yet at the same time some people say it's neurodivergent. And thats more accepting view, like when people say autism is just a different way of looking at things. But OCD makes you miserable so how can it be part of neurodivergent?
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