Today i have a cold sore on my mouth i think its from dirt ...
I feel i need to wash all the things that i use for eating and not have anyone else touching it
My husband says i don't need to do this as things are already clean
But i feel i need to clean everything to stop me having a panic attack
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your husband is right. you don't need to clean everything, certainly not to the level that you want to. if you want the anxiety and fears to go away in the long run, you can't reinforce your fear by giving in to the compulsions
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The magical part: They NEVER run out, so borrow some any time you want.
Can I enter this thread? I have OCD. I'm on Sertraline for it but I still have overpowering problems with it.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
Made my husband buy gloves for making food and for me to use my key board with... My husband feels that am being over sensitive about bugs ...
But i feel i have to have the gloves and keep everything clean
Stop Cruelty To All Beings Including Yourself
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wearing the gloves is feeding your ocd... i know you feel that you need to, but you don't. actually, if you want things to get better, you need to not wear gloves and push through the discomfort over and over until you don't feel like you need them. its like learning to ride a bike. the first few times without training wheels (i.e.. gloves) is really scary, but after a while you will know you don't need them
this is my magical medicine cabinet. Left to right they contain: courage, hope, calmness, and strength.
The magical part: They NEVER run out, so borrow some any time you want.
Hi, I haven't really posted in here because (I think) I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but my therapist says I have obsessional and intrusive thoughts and hyper responsibility for the safety of others. It does have a large impact on my life as it leads to self harm and a lot of distress.
We've been trying to do some exposure therapy together which is really tough going.
I hope people don't mind me popping into this thread x
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Exposure therapy is very hard, but I believe in it. My psychologist got me to touch a public door handle without washing / disinfecting my hands afterwards. I felt sick and disgusting but I did it.
I suffer from schizophrenia as well and I think my psychotic symptoms are encroaching onto my OCD because I keep seeing slime, grease and dirt on my hands, even though I wash them over 50 times a day. Does anyone have any advice as to what I can do about this potential hallucination?
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
angeldevil: i'm not a psych or doctor or anything, and i can see how that might be ocd but it seems like it might be more of an ED in some ways too... have you talked to a doctor about what you're experiencing?
this is my magical medicine cabinet. Left to right they contain: courage, hope, calmness, and strength.
The magical part: They NEVER run out, so borrow some any time you want.
gah, i'm having a rough day. feeling physically ill always makes my ocd flare, just because i'm too tired to fight... just spent ages walking back to my dorm from the dining hall because i was avoiding cracks and splotches on the sidewalk. don't know how i'm going to get a paper written...
this is my magical medicine cabinet. Left to right they contain: courage, hope, calmness, and strength.
The magical part: They NEVER run out, so borrow some any time you want.
Katie, is there any way you can contact your psych or doctor tomorrow? Or perhaps your parents tonight just to have a chat? It sounds like there's been a lot of upset recently which has stirred up all the anxiety/OCD.
It doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you go.
No-one gets remembered for the things they didn't do.
We won't all be here this time next year,
so while you can take a picture of us.
We're definitely going to hell,
but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
I'm sorry things are so difficult for you at the moment Katie. I'm glad you're seeing your psych on tuesday, is there anything you can put in place to help you cope until then?
Let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table
- T.S. Elliot
I find walking on the pavements hard too, because I have to walk in a certain pattern with prime numbers of steps.
I'm on the way to uni now (by my free taxi) and I'm extremely anxious as my OCD is bad today; I am contaminated and everything around me is too.
Does anyone else here notice their OCD flares up when they've got a busy day coming up?
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
Hiiii, pretty sure i visited this thread months ago but i can't remember..
I'm Lora anyway, and i was diagnosed with OCD in January 2011, but i've had obsessions and compulsions for as long as i can remember.
Having things in certain orders is a big things for me, along with germs from other people and food. I'm a counter (3 and 7 are my bad numbers). I have a lot of horrible obsessive thoughts that i prefer not to talk about.
I've always found it extremely easy to accidentally talk myself into developing new fears. For example, I first saw Jurassic Park when i was around 9. Didn't really find it "scary" while watching, but for a good 4 years after, i was obsessed with the idea that a Dinosaur was in my house and was going to come through the door if i didn't close it. And while trying to avoid watching my cousin play on a creepy 'Room Escape' game around aged 10, i accidentally saw (out the corner of my eye) him walk into the bathroom, and a black shadow swept past the mirror. I'm 19 now and still have a phobia of mirrors, especially in dark rooms. It's caused several panic attacks in the past, and isn't really any easier now than when it first developed.
I was wondering if anyone thought this was linked with my OCD? I've wondered this for a while now... because the whole reason i'm still afraid today, is because i literally cannot stop thinking about it. As soon as the idea comes into my head, it's like a broken record, going over and over again and i have no control..
Rarely on here nowadays - I just trauma dump on TikTok instead.
I know this is an old thread but recently I have been noticing a lot of posts from people who have obsessive compulsive disorder so I thought it'd be a good thread to resurrect.
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My sister was here for the night and she has the cold she kept sneezing all over the pc and not covering her noise as she sneezed
So i had to clean it 3 times to make sure it was clean and bacteria free
My sister don't know anything about my OCD i keep that from my family as they wouldn't understand
I cringed every time she was sneezing
Its disgusting
Av cleaned the key board the mouse and the headphones
But am not sure if i should clean the screen or not ... Do you think i should disinfect that too ?
Also my OCD had been getting worse over the last two weeks so much so that i think everything that is dirty will effect my mum so am cleaning a lot
Also i have to pray over and over making sure i pray for everyone
and that i don't miss anyone out
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