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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
This isn't really an OCD related post. I'm just venting because this is a lot.
Question, if any one can answer: should I tell my friends that she's in the hospital and for an attempt? One of them knew she was suicidal last night and I think just thinks everything is okay since I talked her down earlier. The last thing I want to do is tell people when she might not want me to.
Don't tell anyone she hasn't cleared. She's most likely in a 5150 hold right now and will be for the next 12-48 hours, during which time she has limited to no contact with anyone. After talking to a members of county mental health she'll probably be transferred to a "secure mental health facility." It sounds like you have a good relationship with the mom and she'll tell you where if you ask. Give her an hour or two once she arrives to get settled- there's paperwork, meeting the social worker, food, getting her room set up/meeting roommates, and group therapy. Then you can call them, get the right number, and ask for her-- it's up to her if she wants to answer your call.
@excalibre-hotmessexpress But for the record, I've spent 4 separate stays in a mental hospital and the last time it happened, in June or July of this year, I had overdosed on my medication and told my friend, who is always high, what happened. I didn't want to make it a big deal. My friend who is TERRIFIED of cops and has a large distrust for doctors called my mom and the cops. She saved me. From someone in the position of your friend, I have never been mad at her- without her, I may not have survived, and I never would have gotten better. Even my 1st 3 stays, for 2 other times I was feeling suicidal and an OCD flare-up, I was never mad at the people who brought me forward, even when the stays brought me no coping mechanisms and more trauma. I'm so sorry you're going through this.
@excalibre-hotmessexpress Thank you so much. Your experience really brings me hope. Though I am scared, I don't feel as guilty now. Thank you for sharing and for all the information. I will be in touch with her when I can and respect her boundaries as well
Do you have Instagram? I have to send you a helpful post.
do you think you can just link it in the comments? Thank you by the way
@nicocd You're welcome! ππ And I'm actually not sure how to do itπ wait I'll try
@itsAnna if you go to the post and press the three dot button on the top right, it should give you an option to copy the link!!
@nicocd https://www.instagram.com/p/B-feYIPpaga/?utm_medium=copy_link Here's the link. Please read the caption too
@nicocd yessss I did hehe! Thank you so much!π
@itsAnna Thank you!!! I appreciate it so much. I was scared she'd hate me but I would rather her be alive and mad at me than dead.
@nicocd You're so welcome!!!!!!!!!! Yes exactly!β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈπ
I feel so horrible and guilty, I've been pretty depressed lately and I don't know if i'm doing something wrong or not but my mom keeps getting mad at me, and I keep getting snappy with her. The other day she tried to take a selfie with me and I kinda got mad at her because it was in front of everyone and I didn't want to get anyone uncomfortable if they were accidently in the background so I told her stop in a kind of mean way. She stopped talking to me for the rest of the night and she keeps bringing up how disrespectful I am. I tried to explain to her I didn't mean anything mean by it?? It's triggering my OCD so bad and tonight i'm going to see a band I really wanted to see, and i'm super afraid shes gonna start bringing up how mean i've been lately. I've been really depressed and upset because of school and how much work their giving me, and I've been in my room for mostly more than 10 hours a day doing nothing but watching TV because I can't bring myself out of it, I don't know what to do anymore and the guilt of me possibly being a mean and aggressive person is haunting me.
My mind is telling me I'm the only one who is dealing with something like this. Idk why I did my biggest BIGGEST fear. I was put on a new medication when this happened which caused me to spiral, my thoughts to be more often, and have insomnia. I have been diagnosed with POCD as well. I woke up in the middle of the night when my child was laying completely cross my chest. I was breathing and having groinal sensations. My mind told me that I assaulted her by this, and I was going to prison for it. My thoughts started going like this, "you're already bad might as well do something else", "no sense in stopping now" "you can finally do what you've always wanted", "what would you do if you could do anything to cause harm" So I had to think of what to do in the moment. The only thing I could think to do was move my elbow towards my child's groin. In the moment it felt like I really wanted to do this. I proceeded to do so, and my elbow touched her groin. I immediately told my child to move off me. I then went back to sleep. When I woke up, I began panicking, confessing to a family member what happened, and crying immensely. I feel like I failed as a mother. I'm in such distress since I started sleeping on the floor to avoid it from happening again, and I got off the medication. I'm so much better OCD wise since I got off the meds. I was the BEST mom months ago before this happened. The thoughts have always bothered me, and I was always scared I would give in and act on them. I'm living my worst nightmare. I feel alone. Felt so so wanted in the moment and SO real. Which I don't understand. Ugh. Could someone just give me some support?
17f Basically I made a post about POCD, saying that one phrase people often say as a reassurance is not true and it never helps me because I know it's not true. At the beginning of the post I made a warning, saying that this will be triggering for those with POCD. So I warned. And then in the comments someone started seeking reassurance and freaking out. And she said stuff that are not true again, at first I argued a bit cause well... I made a post and I wanted to defend my position, so I defended what I said. Like what I needed to do? Lie to her? Now i think that I should've just ignored that user But then after we talked she said that because of my post she now thinks she is a pedophile and will off herself and then spammed me with comments asking for reassurance At first I was trying to calm her down, saying that if her psychiatrist said that she has POCD then she is not a P and stuff, but then I just realized I can't do anything so I just replied to every one of her comments "I'm not a therapist. I can't help you. You need to seek professional help and shouldn't rely on the opinion of the strangers on the internet" Now I feel so guilty. I mean she was the one to start asking questions, and sometimes when I argue I feel too passionate to defend my position in the argument and forget about people's feelings so I said a very harsh truth to her after she started arguing with me and I made it worse for her Even though I knew how suicidal you can feel because of POCD I still argued
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