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- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 3y ago
i’m doin better with my ocd too and triggers have eased up a bit! i’m havin a little bit of a rough time right now but we’re doin so well, you got this
I used to feel like that. But for me I've gotten to a point where I don't really get triggered by movies or things like that anymore. Avoidance is a compulsion don't forget that. So maybe use exactly those movies (on your own) as an exposure. Do it bit by bit and eventually you'll be able to watch a full movie. You will get there. I just to think I could never have conversations about relationships again (rocd). And now I can and it hardly bothers me :)
Thank you guys I really needed that
I used to have a major fear of knives. So one of my exposures was to watch a slasher movie. I picked Scream because the killer uses a knife. My counselor was on Zoom with me while I watched it. She had me watch it in 5 min segments. The first two were brutal. My anxiety went crazy high. I had to do a total of five 5 min segments. My homework was to finish watching the rest of the movie. Counselor told me I could continue in 5 min segments. But I didn't need to. Watched the rest of the movie with no problem. Even went back awhile later and rewatched the scenes that triggered me so bad the first time. And I had no anxiety.
i’m glad you’ve been doing better!! remember healing is a long process so it’s ok if it doesn’t feel right to watch those movies or shows. maybe talk to your friends about it and say you’re not comfortable with that and if they’re really your friends they’ll respect that even if they don’t understand. you got this <3
Movies could be a good exposure for you- are you in therapy? I watch and read certain things for exposure myself
Yes I'm in therapy I haven't made an qppt. In a while tho
Make an appointment!!!
Also I really want to watch dear even hanson but one of my anxiety thoughts is that I will hurt myself and that has suicide in it
Yeah I'll tell my mom
Thank you
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When it comes to ERP, there are two things you always want to keep in the back of your mind. Its best to start slow and gradually work your way up. Trying to do too much too soon will backfire. The exposurevi just described was a mid level. The other thing is the key to a successful exposure is not doing any compulsions during or immediately after the exposure. The urge to do a compulsion will be very strong. But you CAN resist it.
Thank you
th at helps
Ocd is like this bully that leaves you alone for a while and then come's back worse every time. This morning I just switched my tv on and for some reason I had this thought pop into my head that what if someone on the tv told me to harm someone... what if the ground is lava, man... I was doing so well last few weeks... then this. Worst thing is I feel alone in having these weird thoughts... feels like everyone's thoughts are normal or can atleast happen in reality while mine is totally out there... and I just started getting motivated again to enter modelling, now I'm scared AF is I can even do it with my mind always doing this shit.
I want to be normal.. i dont want to have arguments with my mind.. i want to be a normal 12 year old.. i found out that i first started showing signs like 5 years ago maybe more but why does everyone else look so normal and act so normal and i dont? What did i do? Why do i deserve this? I just want to meet my friends and act normal ive planned when im older for me and my friend to get a tatoo and have late night drives and go to starbucks snd get nails done but that'll never happen you see people on instagram and they do all of these things but i wont be normal enough to do things like that and i really want ocd to go away im suck of crying all the time and not being able to tell people why i hate hate HATE IT god if there is one must have chose favourites
Okay, so for the most part, if you have harm ocd/intrusive thoughts, you’ll understand (hopefully). If you haven’t seen, everyone is talking about the Netflix documentary “Dahmer”. Most harm ocd sufferers (myself included) that I’ve gotten to know all struggle with fears of being evil in any way (like a sociopath/narcissistic, etc). Do we need to make ourselves watch it? Even some of my friends without OCD say they couldn’t do it. The reason I don’t want to watch it is because I’m afraid it’ll trigger me. I’ll look for any common traits (this is what I do) and it’ll send me into a panic attack. But aren’t we SUPPOSED to on purpose watch things that bring us distress? The series has everyone talking about mental health and it SUCKS because OCD is considered “mental health” and I feel like it lumps us all into a giant category. Everything true crime triggers my harm ocd. I don’t even want to know humans are capable of such things because then it reminds me “it’s all possible”. I don’t know if I explained it well, but does ANYONE understand where I’m coming from 🥺🥺🥺🥺
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