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Hey I know that this time is really hard right now. I have that same hopeless feeling. But please know that there are people who care about you and want to help you get better. Whether it’s a stranger on the internet, or a family member in real life. There are people who care about you. Are you on medicine or in communication with a therapist? I have harm ocd (and have dealt with pocd themes) and I value my family and society more than anything in the world. I understand that awful feeling. Know you aren’t alone. Know you are resilient
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i’m on a waitlist for a therapist :/ trying to practice helpful techniques tho
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@cyb3rgurl Try talking to a doctor aswell. Meds can do wonder for people. Sad they are stigmatized
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Same boat
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I’ve felt this way a lot too. But if you stop ruminating and stop paying attention to the thoughts and stop trying to figure things out, it will get easier. You need to commit to doing that. Just because you have a thought doesn’t mean it’s true. I would keep calling around for therapists and make them aware it’s pretty urgent. I would also see your primary care doctor if you can’t get it with a psychiatrist right away and get on meds.
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- 22w
some days I wake up with so much dread and guilt. It makes it so hard to keep going. I open my eyes and I’m hit with a wave of nausea and terror. I feel ashamed of my compulsions and my OCD. I feel like a monster for my checking compulsions. For momentarily sexualizing things that shouldn’t be sexualized out of anxiety. I’m ashamed of a lot that I give into because of anxiety. Confessing things that are meaningless to my boyfriend. I feel so awful and unworthy of existing and of love. I feel hopeless I don’t want to keep pushing, the more I push the more meta my OCD becomes and the more guilt I feel for this mental illness. The more confusing it becomes to do ERP. If compulsions are a choice, they feel like life or death and it’s driving me insane, I beat myself up so badly over them I’m scared of compulsions, I’m scared of thoughts, I’m scared to be awake, I’m even scared of sleeping because my intrusions and compulsions haunt me there too. I spend my dreams trying to explain or justify my OCD and compulsions to people. I’m exhausted, I want this to stop so badly. My severe OCD isn’t feeling any less severe and it’s been months. I don’t want to keep questioning my every move but I’m so hyperaware of everything I do. I’m so tired. Some days I don’t even have tears to cry with. I’m just so full of despair and shame
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man these few weeks have been so hard. i’m in the process of getting diagnosed with ocd, im almost positive i have it because everything on here relates to me on an insane level. but im just so scared dude. these thoughts of me harming someone are so scary and im so scared im gonna eventually act on them and i know i never want to but its still so scary. like sometimes when i talk to my mom about it i think in the back of my head “you know you want to” when i dont, and it makes me think or gets me scared that i do. these thoughts literally just happened out of nowhere and it messes me up so bad my literal perspective on life in general is just messed up. like i view life as its more common to be a bad person and its rare/hard to be good. can someone please just pray for me or just wish me better days. i dont even like looking at myself anymore and im scared i give off creepy vibes to myself or others now, this sucks so much
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WHY is it so bad?? who was gonna tell me 16 was just DREAD, my ocd has flared up worse than ever and i can’t go to therapy weekly anymore. im getting worse and i can’t do it. I just want to give up.
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