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Your behavior is the RESULT of your OCD not the cause of it. OCD is believed to be caused by a malfunction in the brain. Its not something you can create. That being said, can you do things that make your OCD worse? Absolutely. Every time you do a compulsion, you increase the intensity and number of intrusive thoughts and make your OCD worse. BUT that doesn't mean that's its your fault you have OCD. Its really important that you find a therapist that specializes in ERP and understands OCD. Traditional talk therapy does not work for OCD. In fact, it does more harm than good. Prior to realizing I had OCD, I did about 10 years of talk therapy. I went weekly, opened up, and did my homework. But I never made any progress. Even changing counselors didn't help.
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Cbt didn't work out for me I just have one psychiatrist and she is pretty good
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It's not your fault!!!
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Definitely not your fault. No one is waking up and thinking "I should get OCD". View it like this: Your brain is a harmless thing inside your head, trying to "protect" you, from irrational things and is going all in and over the top. It’s a trained reaction, which you can unlearn. This process is called neuroplasticity.
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Neuroplasticity that's a fancy word what is this process and how is it learned did you learn it in cbt
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Been dealing with OCD for quite some time now. Doing a couple of online courses and a ton of researching. Because I am from Germany and OCD isn’t a thing over here. Therapist aren’t familiar with it yet. First two therapists I have been to made it even worst. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to adapt and form new patterns. As you "learned" reacting with fear/OCD to certain thoughts you also can "unlearn" them and form new behaviors and thought patterns.
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It is! Also meine Therapeutin weiß zum Glück was eine Zwangsstörung ist, aber ja glaub allgemein hast du da schon einen Punkt 🥲 da gibst noch viel zu tun
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@harabix Kommt vielleicht auch noch ein bisschen darauf an wo man wohnt;) Wobei ich kurz vor Hamburg wohne und irgendwie ist der Wissensstand um OCD hier noch sehr dünn bzw. denkt man hier eher an Zwangsstörungen und so. Sowas wie ROCD kennt keiner der Therapeuten bei denen ich war. Die wollten immer ganz viel reden und analysieren.
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@Olaf Okay now I am curious about what y'all are talking about 😂😂
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@ammu123 Just about how Germany needs to up their game in terms of OCD hahaha
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@Olaf Dude Germany atleast has free health care nd stuff...even though OCD is common in india the health care system sucks it's too costly 😬
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@ammu123 It depends. In the end it’s not really for free. We pay for it by taxes, a part of our income is used for it. But I get your point. I myself am self employed and need to pay it myself. For my health insurance as well the therapy sessions. German bureaucracy is so wierd and unnecessary complicated hahah
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Cool y is OCD not a thing in Germany it's pretty common where I live even though I barely know anyone with mental health issues
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I don’t know. It’s like living behind the moon😀 But I see/know quite a lot of people with OCD behaviors getting misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all.
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@Olaf My OCD doesn't even feel like OCD it's like I have a lot of werid annoying thoughts that's it...😂😭
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@ammu123 I know absolutely what you mean. If remember correctly it’s called meta OCD. Obsessing if you have an obsession.
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So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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Hey, so idk if I have ocd, I would like to think I’m a very self aware person but I don’t wanna self diagnose at all, lmk what you guys think. So pretty much my whole life since I was young I remember having irrational fears im sure it was all trauma induced but when I was a kid I thought my father was poisoning me until I asked him, he started crying and was so shocked that I could ever even think that, my parents broke up when I was legit fresh out the womb, mom worked two jobs and disciplined me, dad let me do whatever on the weekends and got me snacks so I was obsessed with him so obsessed that it was mandatory for me to kiss his picture 20x everyday before school. Growing up I always felt followed by cameras or like someone out there was recording me waiting for me to do something embarrassing to expose me in front of the whole world and my life was over 🤣🤣 I thought my abusive ex bf was stalking me through my I phone camera after we broke up and it would truly stress me out, it made me believe that it was the reason he never reached out again bc I probably looked ugly in the camera he was stalking me through. If I fall out with a friend Ill over analyze everything to see if I did anything wrong and god forbid while I’m self reflecting I realize I did something wrong I feel like an evil person, verbatim the people I fall out with is bc they’ve done me wrong in some way and it has to b something hurtful or repeated mistakes for me to really stay away for good, so I’ll beat myself up for making mistakes with another person who’s made the same amount of mistakes if not more and in most cases I always fall short, and this when I question if it’s ocd or I’m just to self aware and see the ugly in me bc I’m not perfect and it’s just makes me feel so unsettled but again that’s a normal feeling and the next step is to forgive yourself and do better moving forward, not obsess over it like your trying to convince yourself you’re a good person. I’m also hot tempered and will say hurtful things when I’m mad I’m definitely a crash out in the way, you push my bottoms way too many times and I will shred you, and I’ll say things ik will hurt you and that’s just so low, then the anger goes away and I have to face the guilt, which makes my “ocd” 100x worse, it almost feels like I have to do everything right to not trigger it yet again I don’t have the self control to do it all right, I actually have a lot bpd tendencies again not diagnosing but I’m just trying to understand my brain. I worry about dying, getting a terminal illness. uti turning into kidney infection then into cancer kind of thing, knowing that life in general can b tragic is so scary to me, like what will be my story? What will be my life experience?. I believe that people see right through me and discuss it amongst each other, I always tell myself I am not that important but I can’t seem to shake it off sometimes. When I would break up with my ex I would have pre written paragraphs ready to b send if he ever decided to reach back and I would do this to make sure I didn’t forget a single thought, that every point i felt I need to prove was there, and that bothers me bc do I want win an argument or fix the issue. All of these feelings make me feel so pathetic and embarrassed people move on with their lives and I’m still stuck on something that happened 3 yrs ago. Then I’ll get manic get a tattoo, change my hair, go out clubbing do what I can to b the sexy young girl that I am and it helps in the moment but it worsens my mental after the euphoria is gone. I’m currently staying home, not going out, have only 1 friend so I feel like ocd progressively got worse now, I don’t remember it getting this bad in a while. lmk what you guys think don’t judge or think I’m embarrassing I’m actually so cool and if have to convince you I’m cool I will LMFAOO no but fr help
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I don't know what this is, I don't know enough about OCD, my psychiatrist put me on a medication and told me I have OCD and a mood disorder but I didn't ask any questions because I didn't want to be annoying. I have "evidence" that every year, when I think about death, the world kills someone I love, and it always happens twice. I have nothing to help change that, like, I don't do anything with my thoughts or anything numbers or ritually, so I wasn't sure if it even was OCD, but I do move my hands in certain ways to make my friends happy or improve their lives. Also I cant turn off my fan or something SA related will happen (i dont know how) I think that the world is threatening me, and that if I do something wrong or involve myself with certain things, the world will punish me and the people around me, so all I can do is apologize I've tried looking into the different types of OCD, and all of them are things that I've been anxious about before, but I haven't really been so anxious about any one of them in particular or held onto it for so long, or done any rituals, that I would probably not even say I have OCD. Like, I worry that I'm a nazi, I worry that I like kids, I worry that I killed my friend, I worry that I have schizophrenia or am somehow giving myself it, I worry that I'm going to abuse someone, I worry that I've already abused someone, I worry that somehow I might die, I worry people can hear my thoughts, I worry about ignoring my friend when he cried out for help, I worry that God has already rejected me from heaven, I worry that I like women, I worry that if I don't hit the hammer 9 times on the wall when Im using it that just something bad will happen that I dont know what and I don't know why, and I feel like I don't have a single compulsion that can even "fix" or bring relief to any of these things besides saying sorry, because if I say sorry at least people know that I am apologetic for the crimes I've committed, but saying sorry doesn't fix anything except my own guilt so I'm just a bad person looking for sympathy or seeking attention I don't know enough about OCD, and I don't know how to seek help for my condition because I don't even know if that's really what I have, if I'm not just simply anxious, or possibly schizophrenic Does any of this seem familiar to anyone? Can it be this varied and unfocused? Does this really sound like OCD, or can it be anything else, because I don't want to bark up the wrong tree when I could just be taking medication for something else.
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