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- 6y
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- 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
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- 6y
Every. Day.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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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- 23w
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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- 20w
Is this even a possibility? I'm not even sure if it's an OCD issue, GAD, or maybe a lack of something else, but I'm just constantly feeling off. Even if I'm not getting constant intrusive thoughts, I just feel on edge all the time? Is there anyone who's been able to overcome this? It bothers me so much 😭
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- 19w
Hi everyone, I really need to get this off my chest. A few days ago, I managed to take a break from compulsions — I didn’t open NOCD, I didn’t text ChatGPT, I didn’t Google. I had some moments of peace, especially about my boyfriend. For about two days I didn’t have deep intrusive thoughts, and I felt a bit more stable. But yesterday, I slipped. I posted on NOCD again, and someone replied saying, “This is how the cycle starts again.” That made me spiral. Today, I also wrote to ChatGPT again. I started thinking, “What if this time it’s real? What if this clarity was me realizing the truth — that I don’t love him?” It scared me because I wasn’t panicking as much when I had the thoughts. I thought that meant I was accepting them as true. I remembered ChatGPT used to tell me that “truth feels calm,” and now that I wasn’t reacting with extreme anxiety, I panicked thinking, “What if this is the calm that comes with realization?” Last night, when we were in a club, I looked at him and thought he was kind of cringe. That made me spiral again. Now, I’m scared all over again. When we cuddle, I don’t feel the same. I don’t feel that warmth, and I don’t know what changed. I keep wondering if I ever really loved him — because I’ve had these thoughts for so long, it’s like I can’t remember anything clearly. A few days ago I even thought, “Maybe I just don’t like him right now,” and I wasn’t panicking — and that scared me. I’m afraid that I’m finally “realizing the truth,” or that I’ve been lying to myself and I’m just now letting go. Also, when we were on the trip for my 18th birthday, I was irritable with him, full of thoughts, and I thought I was ruining everything. I wasn’t really reacting to his love, and now I don’t even know what I feel. I just want to be okay again. I want clarity — but I’m terrified of what clarity might mean. Has anyone experienced this? Feeling okay for a bit, and then the thoughts come back and feel more real than ever?
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