- Date posted
- 3y
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- Date posted
- 3y
A lot of professionals in the field actually don't see any functional difference between obsessions and worry. They serve the same function (or dysfunction, rather) which is at first to try to protect us, but it ends up being done too much to the point that it is maladaptive and we have dysfunctional coping as a result of it. At the end of the day, they are both treated the same. Worry/obsessions have to be met with an acceptance of the uncertainty and engaging in effective problem solving rather than avoidance / rumination
- Date posted
- 3y
But it feels as tho I want the thoughts I'm having and I'm not sure how to cope
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- 17w
i’m a new user on this app, I downloaded it just cause I was curious, I don’t really know if I have OCD. Because in school all I learned about OCD is things being out of place and having it to be perfect almost like perfectionism, but I’ve just recently realized there’s a whole kind of different types of OCD, some things I struggle with daily is a fear of bad things happening or almost like an impending doom of when is it gonna happen? I’m always in my head thinking feels like I’m having multiple conversations at once. Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like I’m having a conversation with myself. I have horrendous anxiety about everything and anything talking to people being around people. It just feels like it consumes my everyday life and I don’t know what to do. I can’t clearly remember anything from my childhood and some things I feel like I may be imagining I just don’t really feel like a person. I’m always thinking the worst in my relationship over analyzing and stressing out thinking of scenarios or thinking, my boyfriend‘s cheating on me. It almost all feels out of my control.
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- 14w
Does anyone struggle with feeling like their ocd issues are not ocd enough compared to other peoples ocd? Is this an ocd thought itself lol
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- 14w
Cause I don't have those Extreme cases where I Need to wash myself 100 times, or check things like light, all I have are my thoughts.
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