Is it just me that have some moments of clarity? Anxiety never completely vanishes, but it's just enough so I can see clearly my situation, and see that this isn't who I am. And then, I realize: omg, I stopped worrying! But shouldn't I be trying to solve this? And then BAM! Anxiety kicks in again, and I'm no longer able to discern my thoughts, and I keep worrying if they're true, like those moments of clarity meant nothing or didn't happen at all.

personnn

Date posted: 6y

omg. yes. every single day. it’ll stop for a little and i laugh and i’m like wow i knew these thoughts were fake. then bam it hits me and i’m like oh shit what did i just do haha

Jake12

Date posted: 6y

Every. Day.

Jake12

Date posted: 6y

What I’m trying to do is just be content. I find that if I look for that EUREKA moment, I get worried and anxious that I won’t keep it. Trying to find the happiness is keeping the anxiety alive. So what I’m trying to do is just be content with everything, live my life before this happened, and then hope and pray happiness will follow.

Jake12

Date posted: 6y

I completely understand, really I do. And I wish I could say something to make you feel better. But the best thing I can say is this: once you get your anxiety under control NOT ELIMINATE IT, but manageable, our OCD makes us prone to worry, whether we won’t hold on to the happiness, whether it’ll come back, etc etc, but once you get it to manageable, be satisfied with that. And you will. Don’t look for that happiness feeling, don’t look for solutions. Trust the uncertainty that happiness will follow.

Lavander

Date posted: 6y

It's a very hard thing to do, though. Life isn't the same, no matter what I do. I don't care about normal things like I used to. It's really saddening for me to think that I'd rather not having been born. I used to love being alive, and having so much beautiful expectations for the future. Now I'm in a dark pit, and I can't see the light.

personnn

Date posted: 6y

do anxiety medications help with ocd? like i know it calms the anxiety down and everything and i’m going on lots of medications soon and so i was wondering if some of the meds will help calm down ocd

lou47

Date posted: 6y

Well some do but I changed from paroxetine (was on it 10 or so years) to fluoxetine for the last 6 weeks. I am going back to paroxetine because although I had flare ups of my OCD I never had this Mich anxiety. The Prozac (fluoxetine) has given me SO much anxiety I can't believe it. Never again will I mess with my meds!! Over 30 odd years of having OCD I have never had diazepam to calm me down because I have refused it......but now I have!! Xx

Pushingpissed

Date posted: 24w

Feeling “normal” again

Anyone else feel that when they aren’t experiencing a theme that their ocd is almost non existent. It almost makes me feel like I’ve been faking it, and also makes me feel ridiculous for obsessing over things. I feel sorry for myself :/ I know that my themes are valid and felt very real in the moment, but after I “get over” them I just can’t believe that I was obsessing over something that either wasn’t true or didn’t apply to me. I would also like to know how to prevent themes from reoccurring. Health, religion and existential OCD themes tend to take turns throughout my life, I just didn’t know that was it ocd. Trying to break the cycle.

eb123456789

Date posted: 22w

Relief followed by questioning that relief

Does anyone else experience a moment of clarity where you feel strong relief that the intrusive thought isn’t true, only to then immediately start questioning if you’ve only convinced yourself that because you don’t want the thought to be true? I’m pretty confident it would take some crazy mental gymnastics to actually successfully convince myself I didn’t do something that I deep down knew I did, but every time I resist the compulsions and try to sit with the uncertainty or tell myself to think about what is logical, I usually briefly know that this probably didn’t happen but am unable to move on out of fear I’m just in denial and have convinced myself of that.

Aldxma.steph

Date posted: 18w

Anyone else has this happen?

Anyone else just have days where they feel more calm and don’t have as many intrusive thoughts? But then later at night time it just comes back so you only had relief even for a little bit 😞😞 I feel like even when I’m not having my OCD send me intrusive thoughts, I always have a feeling in my stomach that something is wrong/off or a sense of doom. I always just feel on edge and anxious as if my mind is always preparing itself for the next horrifying intrusive thought to torment me with ugh 🫠

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