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i’m struggling with something similar, it’s especially hard when OCD latches onto a specific person in your life that you truly care about. but i believe in you, and trust me we ALL feel doomed and like ERP won’t help us lol. but you never know until you try.
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I feel like I can’t live in that house I have so much guilt and so much anxiety. I feel like I’m a walking danger in that house and I feel like my mind is going to twist it into it happening even though I know I didn’t. I cry knowing I could of her hurt her I always wanted a little sister now I have one and this is what’s happening I feel so terrible. I just want to leave that house and go somewhere where I feel I can’t do no harm. It fucking sucks
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@Anonymous🤷🏽♀️ i know the thoughts and feelings associated with the thoughts are horrifying and feel so real. but i’ve found that the more time i spend avoiding the person involved in my intrusive thoughts, the worse they get. if i spend some time with them, the thoughts are still in the back of my mind but i realize i’m not acting on my thoughts and it starts to feel normal. and if you aren’t acting on the thoughts, you’ve done nothing wrong. the only thing the thoughts are hurting is yourself.
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Ok, so your distress just proves you don’t want to do it. I understand that reassurance doesn’t always make us feel good. & generally having the thought its torment. What you need to do, to at least alleviate your anxiety about harming your little sister, is you’ve got to spend time with her. Even if thoughts get scary, you’ll realize over time you just don’t want to actually do it. That will seriously help you.
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Yeah it makes me so sad I never had thoughts like this before. And I was just crying saying I could never and than a thought came but what if I want to and it scares because I feel like idk what is real. I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore I’ve been like this for two months and it’s only getting worse. I just want to end it all forever because I don’t see it getting better anytime soon and I don’t think I could live like this forever. I’m really afraid of myself right now
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@Anonymous🤷🏽♀️ when my ocd gets bad i feel the same way u feel. i have been dealing with the same kind of thoughts for several years. i thought it was just depression i never accepted it was ocd. but in reality it’s ocd it’s an illness u will get better just hang in there. also know these thoughts bother u soo much and make u uncomfortable. in reality if u was really a p or liked your sister this situation wouldn’t cause u this much stress or worry. i tell myself the same thing. it’s hard but hang in there we got it. only we can be our biggest help. i never comment but felt the need to. i hope this helps u and whoever is reading and struggling ❤️
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I've had these thoughts too, about my 2 year old nephew. There is nothing worse. But that fact that it repulses you so much? Proof you're not a p. Praying for you!
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I feel that man reaon your walking back in forth cause your having a panic attac bro I have same thing thought same thing and reason why keeps happening you keep thing about it just breath I tell self ik I would never do these and if you ever want to talk lmk cause I sure to need someone to talk to
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How do you deal with that it feels like I get urges and I am not sure how to handle that. I always feel like I need to get out of the situation.
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Hey friend, that is so so so scary. I’m sorry your in this moment. I’ve had times like that too. Do you have a therapist?
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I was going to a regular therapist but I stopped going because of the intrusive thoughts I was getting and I just been really depressed and too busy to go back into regular therapy
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(Long post warning) Hi, I’ve been struggling with severe OCD for six years now. it started in 2019 with my theme being getting sick/emetophobia. it devastated my life. I almost didn’t graduate high school from it. I remember washing my hands for three hours one day until they were nearly bloody while crying and asking why I could not stop doing it. I remember id have to write and rewrite sentences when I did my English homework and that’s why I nearly failed that class. I remember how I would spend up to thirty minutes to an hour pacing the halls of my apartment while my mom was asleep until I neutralized the thoughts about throwing up and I could finally go to bed. I don’t know when it happened, but my theme switched. Sometimes in late 2020 or early 2021, it switched to POCD. It started with a single thought, and I focused on it and it’s been my theme since then for four years. It has been absolutely destroying me. I feel so disgusted and lost and just tired. My compulsions are severe now. I thought they were bad before, but now they’re ten times worse. I can’t eat, drink, change my clothes, walk, or even do things on my phone normally. I’ve developed so many mental compulsions that it’s so intricate and complicated yet at the same time I’ve done them so much that they’ve become normal. An example I have is if im putting on a shirt and I have a “bad” thought, I have to take it off and put it back on two more times (that’ll make it 3 times I put the shirt back on - odd numbers are my safe number). I have to have a good thought on the third time otherwise I have to take it off and put it on two more times to make it five times I put on that shirt. If not that then I just put on a different shirt because the original is now tainted with my bad thought. I can’t open apps on my phone. It’s with the numbers again. If I open TikTok once while having a bad thought - I have to close it and open it two more times and so on. Sometimes I do it up to 30 times. So I just don’t do things usually. I don’t turn on the TV because I know I’ll redo it. I don’t open a book or grab it off my shelf because I’ll have to repeat the action. I can’t even lay in bed without getting up and redoing it even if im exhausted. I just feel so helpless. I don’t know what to do. I feel disgusting and even now my minds screaming at me that I am dirty and what I think is true. I just wish I was free of this, I wish I could just live my life. I’ve wasted hours and days because of my compulsions. I mask it so well around my friends. I don’t do them in front of anyone or I’ve learned to hide it well. But when im back home alone, it goes haywire. I just want to live again.
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