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- 3y
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 3y
OCD doesn’t mean you are doomed. Many go on to live normal life’s after treatment
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My advice is to pay attention to what things may your depression feel better. For me it was adding in long outdoor walks every day (30-60 mins) while listening to a favorite podcast or music. It might be a hobby that still holds your interest. Or getting together with friends. Once you know what helps, I'd recommend you share with a close friend/family member to see how they can help. My partner pushes me to take my walk if I'm feeling low, and will arrange get-togethers with our friends since I don't always have the energy to coordinate.
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- 3y
I guess I didn't know I was really depressed until today. Knew I had anxiety, but until my therapist told me I was depressed I was kinda hoping that was all I had. Since she told me depression and anxiety go together my non depression balloon burst. And putting that with OCD really took the cake. I believe you are going to get through this. I have had the anxiety for 3 years now, ready to get rid of it. I know it will be hard/the ERP/ but I will get through it. And however you handle your depression and OCD, you will get through it too. Remember God's got you and He is in Control.
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- 23w
I am 16 and struggling with OCD. It is causing me to do irrational things that I wouldn't normally do and cause issues with my parents. I feel like a terrible person and want to take back things that have happen and don't know how to make it better. The OCD causes things to get stuck in my brain and my questions have to be answered and talked about. I don't know how to let thoughts go and ways that would be healthy for myself and my parent when this happens. Any advice?
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- 17w
(Long read) hello everyone. i was out of the country for about 3-4 months and traveling. my ocd was not that bad at all and I was able to handle it even if it came up. on my way back home, it immediately started. i have learned how to handle it better, but i am more sad and just “awaiting” for something bad to happen. for example, i have sexual themed ocd. pocd and family related stuff, and also my ocd targeted my pets for about a year and it manifested into compulsions that disturbed me and made me not want to be around my cats. now that i am around my cats, i feel like “what if i harm them or do something bad?” or “what if you do those weird compulsions that happened before?” , when i look back on the compulsions that happened, it doesn’t feel like me and it was clearly driven by ocd, but it makes me worry i am just a sick person. i know myself and i know im not, but i had such a weird childhood and then ocd from 15 years old and up. so when these weird compulsions had happened , whether it was for the pet ocd theme or pocd or the family ocd, it feels like some sort of proof. anyways, i feel a bit for content with myself but i know how real ocd can feel and i just remember feeling so hopeless and suici da l, i just don’t want to go through that again. i take a more spiritual route of life and healing, and i wonder if anyone has some deep spiritual warmups or practices i could do to maybe open up my mind more? maybe to realize this is all in the mind? but also to not fight it… Not fight it meaning not let it take over my life. i racked up so much debt in therapy and i truly think i can get through this alone i just need a bit of help. but i dunno. any advice would help! thanks everyone ☀️
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- 17w
I am having a real hard time with meta-ocd and thoughts about feeling depressed and be like this forever. Or the thought I never feel normal again or never feel connected to normal life things and normal people. The intrusive thoughts are here like the whole day and they are all about my mental health. And I obsess about how I feel and what I feel with everything I do. It’s so hard to explain. If someone- a therapist or someone who dealt with this has tips or word of encouragement right now, that would me great. I feel like everything I want to learn myself about ocd and coming to this forum also is a bit compulsive. It is so confusing 🫤
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