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- 3y
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- 3y
If it wasn't so frustrating, it would be almost funny. But my OCD tells me this so often. This time it will be different. This time you will actually hurt someone. This time your fear will become true. This time your compulsion will work. On and on.
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- 3y
i get the same way, but in a different context! every time i tell myself i need to take a break, my brain goes "but what if this is the time that something actually happens?" and i feel myself needing to check/reassure in order to feel safe again.
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@pamela97 Yeah, I get a whole cascade of what ifs too. OCD sucks. 😟
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- 3y
I LOVE THIS. It is so important to ask ourselves what is the function of coming to the app? Is it to feel good, to feel like we aren't alone, to try to maybe help others? Or is it because we *just want to know*, because we feel we have to solve this problem super urgently, and if we don't open our app and find this information or get this response then we won't be able to carry on with our day? It's so important to check in with ourselves regarding the "why" behind what we do - the app in and of itself isn't bad, but anything could be a compulsion. It can be so hard to read these posts and not be able to stop, but being able to catch yourself sooner rather than later will help you not go so far down the rabbit hole.
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 3y
You’re totally right girl I’ve been on the same boat
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Thank you for this! You're so right! We need to hold each other accountable on here. It's so natural to want to help each other by offering reassurance, but we're just contributing to OCD that way.
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- 24w
Is it just me or is reddit and quora the worst things to be on when you’re in a spiral or just in general when you have OCD? Why is it always mostly negative replies on there or just ‘move on, get over it’ ‘break up’, ‘what’s wrong with you?’ responses? I’ve accidentally made it a habit/compulsion to go on there when I’m freaking out about something and it always makes me worse - especially when it comes to ROCD! It always make me doubt my own thoughts and emotions :(
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- 23w
My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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- 19w
Finding this app has helped me a lot in feeling like I'm not isolated and I've definitely met so many kind and helpful people here. You guys have helped me on my darkest days. However, because of my fragile state of mind, I think scrolling on here is becoming a compulsion and I feel like I end up triggering myself more by scrolling through some posts. I think it just ends up adding more to my intrusive thoughts and more ammo for my false memories and POCD to latch on to. And I know exposures are good for treating OCD, but this level of exposure seems to be doing more harm than good. So I will try to be less active (maybe I won't, who knows lol).
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