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I’m totally fine if I drink but the next day is always guaranteed to be full of intrusive thoughts and urges along with anxiety which is happening right now.
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- 3y
I wouldn’t use alcohol to cope but there are often times in the moment where alcohol REALLY helps. Often when I drink too much, though, the next day I’m much more anxious so it has its ups and down. But in the moment WOW does it make me feel myself again. Wish I could drink all the time LOL too bad I wanna keep my liver.
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I think many use it as a tool. I used coffee and booze together. Rather like an "upper" and a "downer". If things were really bad then I would use lots of booze to get out of it. But I do think coffee might be a hard one to fathom. There appear to be some reports that suggest that coffee may actually help. Again how and why might need some refinement. Personally, I am reducing both to almost zero. Alcohol likely has some very poor health issues - which when your primary fear is getting cancer and then you take a substance that causes cancer, it does seem rather a bit inconsistent.
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Tbh it makes it better i don't get the thoughts but I know for some people it gets worse I need to be very drunk in order for it to black out my thoughts completely and I wouldn't recommend it
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- 3y
I very rarely drink alcohol. Maybe once or twice a year. I will have one drink. My cousin got married at the end of August. The reception really triggered me, so I was already in a major OCD spiral. I think the alcohol made it worse.
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- 21w
I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
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I want to beat OCD because I have seen and felt the benefits of clearing my brain from unnecessary, pointless, thoughts. OCD is like 0 calorie food. It’s pointless. No nutrition or benefits come from my obsessions or compulsions. I don’t care to have answers to everything anymore. I catch myself just trying to stress myself out so that I have some worry to feed on. But like I said, it’s a 0 calorie food. I get nothing from it but wasted time and energy. My brain feels more spacious when I’m not consumed by OCD. I’m present. My personality has room to be herself without making space for bullshit. I tell myself now that worry is poison. I think Willie Nelson was the person I got that quote from? Anyways, that imagery of worries being poison for the mind has been transformative for me. I’m evolving. 💖 Thanks NOCD community.
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- 17w
Hello! It has been well documented that OCD can manifest itself in the form of religious rituals. There is a fine line between genuine piety and OCD. For those of you who have struggled or are still struggling with this, have you sought the guidance of a religious figure in addition to a therapist? Meaning, that you attend therapy with a therapist who works with you on ERP exercises, but also have a rabbi, priest, or imam who you use for guidance in determining what is actual piety versus behavior that is OCD?
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