Lavander
- Date posted
- 6y
personnnpersonnn
- 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
Jake12Jake12
- Date posted
- 6y
Every. Day.
Jake12Jake12
- 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.
Jake12Jake12
- 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.
LavanderLavander
- 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.
personnnpersonnn
- 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
lou47lou47
- 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
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