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Oh yeah I can definitely relate. OCD for me is most noticeable with how often I interact with my thoughts and often feel the need to ruminate with them or do some type of mental ritual. This includes mental checking as well.
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r u doing ERP?
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@ocdbarb - Yeah I do erp. I try to force myself to not excessively interact with my thoughts or do the mental rituals. I think I have gotten better, but the thought patterns are still in the back of my mind, so I still have to fight the urge to ruminate.
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@Wes8 i am hopefully starting w nocd in the end of the month n for me i am still struggling with figuring out where in the thought patterns im kinda getting stuck
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@ocdbarb - Good to hear that you plan to start with nocd! Hopefully you will figure out how to free yourself from these unwanted thought patterns.
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*thought
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I would say to try your best to not analyze this. I read an article yesterday by a Dr. Greenberg about rumination and it really covers how even asking things like are typically forms of rumination. So instead how about you sit with the doubt, discomfort, anxiety, and get back to whatever it is you were doing before. We’re you reading, eating, excercise good, go and do something for yourself, or to avoid thoughts…but to focus on what actually matters to you.
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Sounds like you are spending more time ruminating. Try not to find logic in your thoughts. Let them just be thoughts.
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no clue if this is compulsive, but I’m interested to hear any obsessions others have that aren’t the “common” ones you see online about what ROCD is? a few for me: - thoughts about their partner being with someone else instead (sometimes a specific person) and then trying to analyze your reaction to it? e.g. does it *feel* more right than us, do I actually feel happy for them, etc. - trying to imagine your partner in your current situation or maybe a specific future situation (when they’re not around) and trying to decide if they “fit” in it? - being super scared of losing them, then suddenly feeling like you don’t care much for them at all, and just constantly cycling? - I almost never fully enjoyed sex because I was constantly obsessing about whether or not I was turned on, turned on “enough,” if I was just having groinal responses and wasn’t actually turned on, looking at his face just to decide if I find him attractive enough, comparing my experience with how I feel watching content alone, etc.
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I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
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Any one else deal with this? Like from the moment they wake up to the second they fall asleep, the intrusive thoughts are there?
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