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I’ve been doing self erp and I must say it feels like he’ll feel like giving up and throwing a blanket over my head my anxiety shots up but at times it feels doable . I’ve still got a loss of attraction that’s abit discouraging
Ive been also pushing to accept that these thoughts are not who i am. I have good moments and bad moments, but im trying my best to resist the compulsions and good with the bad we can make it through
Congrats! I wish you the best. Keep pushing through recovery!
i’m glad!! sometimes there’s days where it’s really bad but we just gotta remember everything’s gonna be okay in the end. just might take a little bit to get there!
Loss of attraction messes me up constantly. I’m tired of it. My mind says “do a man, do a man”
Yea that’s the whole point of erp so I was told I do self erp and it’s hard but that’s how you over come it
Ive also experienced the loss of attraction. On good days, i feel like it returns briefly and i get a fleeting moment of feeling like myself, but then its crushed again by everything else. I understand how hard the back and forth is definitely.
Congrats! It’s always nice to see when people here are feeling better!
awe thank you!
Are u on medication for this? Asking because I just started meds and I’m so terrified they won’t help!!!
i’m actually not on meds yet. i think i’m starting them soon but i had to get everything sorted out with my adhd meds because it made my heart beat too fast and gave me dizzy spells so i need to get my heart tested before i start my anxiety and depression meds. i’ve heard good things about anxiety meds calming down ocd a lot though but i heard for about the first week your body needs time to get used to them so i heard the first week is usually pretty bad. have your meds helped you or is it still too early to tell?
Well I’ve been on trintellix for 12 days. I see a little improvement. The intrusive thoughts are still driving me nuts!!! That’s the hardest part.
Hoping the longer I stay on it the better things will get.
I was on Prozac and I couldn’t sleep most of the time and it has been extremely hard I’ve stopped taking meds because they all give me side effects and it’s crazy
Has anyone overcame this hectic cycle of sexual orientation Ocd
Totally know how you feel. I’m just scared that it’s going to stay stuck on something I don’t want...
That’s the risk we all have to take
The risk? What kind of risk?
????
To face our fears and hope for the best
Iwazi, I had to stop taking Prozac, even though it worked great for me a reducing me anxiety, my obsessive thoughts, and my anger, but when I had a hard time sleeping. I would have these really bad vivid dreams and I would wake up in the middle of the night the night, crying and having panic attacks; I've woken my boyfriend up quiet a few times doing this and it freaked him out so much because I've never been like that.
Samm jc so what are you using now
Iwazi, I'm not anymore. I went one paxil but that gave me really bad tremors. My doctor thought adding tamezapam would help with my sleeping but when I was having my vivid dreams, I was able to get out of them. When I was on tamezapam with Prozac, I was trapped in my dreams, there was no way for me to get out of the unless I was woken up.
I went to my therapist last monday and... wow I feel so good these last days. The more I talk with her about hocd, the best I feel. And the less Im thinking about this. I mean. Is still there, but it doesn't disturb me like before. I don't need to make a compulsion about it. And sometimes I have relapses and I'm going to have them in the future too because Im not perfect, but I really feel less anxiety than before. Im starting to feel like before, like who I am. Like the world is not ending and even if I am angry or frustrated sometimes because I have doubts or I don't know what is going to happen... you know, I'll be okay.
Don’t know if this is a part of ocd recovery or what but my hocd thoughts don’t give me anxiety anymore. Sometimes it feels like this tapped into my feelings. I don’t know how to explain it. Like when I get the thoughts now my mind is like “you’ve always been like that” but I feel no anxiety. I’m also regaining some attraction for the opposite sex and that feels great but at the same time my mind says I’m lying to myself and I get this weird feeling in my chest. Idk what this is.
I do really feel like personifying my OCD really helped relieve a lot of the anxiety. That and finding a community of people who are having similar thoughts! Being able to take a step back and name a thought as OCD helped me so much. The anxiety is there as MUCH as it was along with the thoughts but knowing that they’re not MY thoughts helped me with direction on where to go from there. I can now get a thought and tell myself it’s ocd because I know it is even when I’m doubting it. I can say to myself even when I’m doubting the ocd that it’s called the doubting disorder for a reason and feel better. I grew up always feeling ~different~ because of my thoughts but never knew they were ocd related and knowing that felt like putting the last piece of a 600 piece puzzle in its place. It helped me put a name to my problems and be like “wow, that explains sooo much” like honestly a weight has been lifted. For that reason,I know I can get through this gross and horrifying disorder.
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