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Everything you fear, everything that torments you is completely normal, everything comes out of ocd. You should, and you will be alright. What is happening is that you are getting intrusive thoughts and the issue is that you engage with them, argue with. What are those thoughts and what do you do with them? I'm here to tell you that those thoughts are something that ocd pushes into your mind without you realising it just yet, it tells you illogical, bad and wrong things about yourself that you think they are your own and you get scared, anxious. What do you do about it? You acknowledge their presence and let them roam free without you replying. "Wait a second, are you crazy, what are you trying to say?" Ignoring the thoughts and leaving them free will make them roam and then leave the same way they joined. Thoughts are only ideas, they have no power, they are meaningless, they don't have the power to change the future neither the past, they won't change you or harm you. You should let them be there, embrace the feeling of anxiety. It might sound crazy but this is the cure, you need to stay anxious and see that there is not an actual danger, the anxiety will go down by itself, the process is called habituation, you will get used to it and gain tolerance to it which will help you recover! Your thoughts telling you those bad things are nothing, don't let them hurt you, Don't reply to them or argue with them, just leave them alone and they will leave as soon as they join. You are an amazing person, a kind person, what if a stranger, comes in and tells you that you are dumb? You won't listen to him, you will reply: yeah yeah, whatever you say then move on! Obviously you won't become dumb just because it told you that. Take care!! I will support you further if you need me
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Thank you so much❤️ but what if I’m not getting intrusive thoughts lately? I used to get them a lot but now I don’t and that’s part of why I’m worrying so much, because intrusive thoughts are a part of ocd, but how am I supposed to have ocd if I’m not getting intrusive thoughts?
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@random_person Intrusive thoughts do not come as a DLC with ocd, haha. The thing is it might still be present and you don't realise it, it is the lies it tells you and you think they are your own. You don't have to worry! Imagine it would say what it normally does to you, you will agree with it. So what? What if you are what it tells you? It is not their business. Admitting to those "ideas" won't make you act in real life! It might feel like it will become real but it won't!
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Going through the same theme for the past day- no sleep because I don’t deserve it obviously
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It’s the worst. It’s gotten to the point where I envision my future as a literal p. I’m sorry you have to go through this
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My counselor told be today that OCD can manifest as images, urges, or thoughts. It can sometimes be tricky to identify what exactly it was that triggered you.
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That is one of the most common things, dangerous, that we find disturbing and try to suppress it.. Which is not very healthy
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@Gabbriel Having a hard time with that now 🥲
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@kathernyr As I tell everyone and repeat, ignorance is the key but it needs time to take shape and develop a healthy habit!
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@kathernyr Get well soon!
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If you are scared of what will happen, fear not, everything is fine and you can laugh at those silly thoughts, they do not define you! Nobody is able to do it but yourself. Follow your heart desire, you know you really aren't what ocd says, so follow what you really want!
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If you want further help and want some personal space, you can add me on discord, it is located in my profile's biography, a the bottom. I understand what you are going through and I could try and fix whatever you fear the most.
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Thankyou❤️
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So my OCD has been bad lately. I’ve been ruminating and obsessing over my sexuality again. And it just keeps getting worse. I hate it so much. I try to sit with the discomfort but then my ocd does the backdoor spike. And the groinal response is what keeps me looped. It SUCKS. I am not attracted to men, but my OCD is trying SO hard to convince me that I am. There have been days where I’m just so mentally exhausted that I “accept” what my ocd tells me and I just walk around a hollow, lethargic shell. But then I rethink it and I feel better. It feels like I can only find my TRUE self when I tire my nervous system out enough that it literally breaks down and has me suicidal and hopeless. And then accepting my OCD’s “truth” (that I’m attracted to men) feels like a burden and a chore. I woke up today from an OCD dream, tried to go back to sleep, and my stomach kept cramping bc I was so anxious and ruminating over my intrusive thoughts. I’m starting to doubt it being OCD anymore. My brain is too tired to fight and cry about it anymore.
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I sometimes see posts on here of people saying their OCD fears becoming true and it’s so so triggering for me. It makes me question if I ever had OCD and if I’m just faking it. I’ve tried to accept that my fear was real. Okay? Before I knew this was OCD, I really TRIED to accept it as a part of myself because I figured if I was even having those thoughts, it must be true. But in reality it just made me feel worse in the end. It wasn’t until several hours/few days after accepting the thoughts as true did I realize they were not and how uncomfortable it made me identifying with them that way, so eventually I went back into the rumination cycle. And I’ve done this multiple times. No matter how much I’ve accepted it as real, I never come to a conclusion in the end and I just get 10x more miserable. And I am still so scared of my fear coming true as those peoples did. But I know that’s what we all fear, otherwise we wouldn’t be here. And with a new fear I just developed, (all in the realm of the same theme) I’ve also tried to accept it as real when I felt SUPER convinced and even though it felt excruciatingly real, there was a part of me that couldn’t fully believe it, because I just know viscerally that it’s not. But the feeling of it being real is just too powerful and it overmastered any ounce of insight I had left. It wasn’t until my OCD spike calmed down when I was able to see through the viel. I hate this. I have no desire to do anything that my thoughts tell me. I know what I want to be, want to do, and it’s the opposite of those OCD thoughts. But these triggering posts won’t leave. (Not really the publishers fault, it’s my ritual that I engage in). They make me come all back to square one (if I wasn’t there already) and question if I’m using this as an excuse. I don’t want to do what my OCD tells me to do, but my brain just spits, “you’re just convincing yourself you don’t want this!” as it so often now does. I’m so tired. Please give me my old self back. Please give me 100% certainty that none of this is real and my fears are not at all based in reality. My brain cannot accept uncertainty and will not leave me alone. My brain is raged and powerless without knowing why, and spiels that anger back on me to get a reaction, and when it gets what it wants, the cycle continues. And goes way longer than I had bargained for :(
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i feel the need to say sorry because i’m posting yet again. i’m having a REALLY DIFFICULT episode of ocd that i haven’t had for a few months now. i experience contamination ocd everyday and have constant anxiety attacks, however because that’s so normal to me and doesn’t affect anyone but myself, it doesn’t affect me in the same way harm ocd does. i haven’t had to deal with really bad harm ocd thoughts for a good bit now so i’m struggling so bad right now. if anyone has seen my previous posts (which i’m sure you have), this came about over a small change that happened a couple weeks ago. it’s now blossoming into a full episode. it’s making me feel paralyzed and not want to do anything, but i know in the past i had to force myself to distract myself by actually doing things. i’m supposed to hang out with my friend tomorrow, but i’m so close to cancelling because i feel like i can’t do it. my physical symptoms are also worse than what i feel like i’m used to and it’s terrifying me into thinking i’m gonna get sick. i just don’t know how to get through it. it feels like impending doom and constant panic. i just want to feel like myself again and happy
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