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SUPER common to feel this way. It’s your OCD trying to pull you back into the doubt and uncertainty.
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It’s like I thought knowing I have ocd was going to solve my problems and it actually made my life so much worse because now idk what real feelings or not and what’s ocd or not 😅
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And it’s especially hard with my ROCD I just don’t see hope right now
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@ocd_ I have ROCD and the pandemic just made everything spike. Watching Dr. Patrick MCGrath’s sos video has really helped me when I’m spiraling. Love is not a feeling but our actions. We can’t know anything for certain and that’s where OCD gets us because it demands certainty. ERP literally saved my life when I literally had lost my mind and wanted to leave my husband and children. The thoughts can be so powerful at times that they make you physically ill and think “is this my subconscious demanding to be heard?” You can really spiral. ERP, breathwork, and meditation can really help. Again, you are not your thoughts you are your values and actions. Hopefully that helps a little bit. I have been where you are and it feels completely hopeless. It comes and goes in waves and know that the feeling you’re feeling won’t last forever.
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@NOCD Advocate - Chelsea G. Thank you, this honestly helped a lot. Unfortunately I just have made a lot of mistakes and regrets in my relationship so it wasn’t the most stable once ROCD kicked in. Which has made my life even more complicated and hard to figure out.
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@ocd_ If you’re willing to fight for it, you still want to be there. Try to push through.
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Yeah unfortunately I kinda let my ocd pull me back in a bit, just gotta keep going forward!
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Lately my OCD has been very horrible, it’s been more convincing than ever to the point where I’m genuinely convinced that I like this stuff, when I get a thought, I’ll hear my intrusive thoughts go “oooh, I like that, I’d do that.” and I just don’t freak out nor feel bad, I just feel like I like it even more, and feel like I would do/act on it and like it, and the feeling is strong and it lingers forever? It genuinely feels like I do, and I’m just lying now, i can’t tell if I make these thoughts worse or anything All I remember mostly just being like confused sometimes when these thoughts happen, but since I’m getting strong emotions that I like it, my brain says that means I did and I’m worried about that being true because I don’t understand nor know It’s like I am resisting to like this stuff now, it’s even tougher now than it was before
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I want to go do something I enjoy so badly but I feel like I don’t deserve it. I’m full of guilt, shame, and anxiety. I wish I felt okay like I did a few days ago. I feel so awful right now. I hate OCD. I HATE pocd. I hate all of it. I wish this was easier. Sometimes I have the thought that I wish I was the things my OCD makes me afraid I am out of desperation to stop the anxiety, but then that thought makes me panic bc I don’t actually mean that or want that I just want the anxiety and urgency in the compulsions to stop. I’m so tired
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I think when people are saying OCD is egodystonic is really triggering me and I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I’m going through a really bad relapse and right now I’m trying to figure out if my thoughts are truly egodystonic, like I how do I know I won’t act on them, how can I trust my emotions and everything. I feel really confused and I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore or how I carry on with life because it’s so long and I’m so unsure of everything that’s going on in my head. Like how do I know that this is OCD and true desires/urges. I’m so confused.
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