Discussion A chat between OCDcels

[Hoppipolla]

Do any other OCDcels have recommendations for things that work for them?

I'll try to write some of mine too although I'm far from out of the woods right now!

 

[Fantasea]

A friend of mine had really bad OCD. a high dose of an anti-depressant and a bit of an anti-psychotic worked wonders for him.

 

[Animecel2D]

don’t have it

sounds really annoying to deal with though

 

[Hoppipolla]

don’t have it

sounds really annoying to deal with though

Yeah it really is.

It constantly gives you this kind of paranoia that what you just did triggered something very bad and so you have to do it again so it's no longer triggered.

There's more to it than that but that's the rough gist of what mine usually feels like.

 

[Hoppipolla]

A friend of mine had really bad OCD. a high dose of an anti-depressant and a bit of an anti-psychotic worked wonders for him.

I'm desperately trying to avoid taking anything for it... at least anything that's not natural.

Back in 2017 my OCD was really shocking. I could barely function at all.

Over time though I at least learned to improve.

The main thing that did it to me was isolation.

 

[Fantasea]

I'm desperately trying to avoid taking anything for it... at least anything that's not natural.

Back in 2017 my OCD was really shocking. I could barely function at all.

Over time though I at least learned to improve.

The main thing that did it to me was isolation.

ur wasting ur time dodging medicine. if ur OCD's bad willpower alone won't cut it.

 

[anotherwastedlife]

Autism and OCD constantly mix, i can have it really bad some days

 

[Hoppipolla]

ur wasting ur time dodging medicine. if ur OCD's bad willpower alone won't cut it.

You'd think though that if my brain can switch to having OCD as an adult then it can switch back.

 

[m3nt4Lbl0ck3d]

It's not as bad as some days, constantly fucks with my mental. I'm not sure, but I find for me trying to stay as routine as possible works the best. When anything falls out of place, due to lack of motivation or depression, my whole world seems like it's going to fall apart. It's crippling shit. it's a long game unfortunately, what works for me might not work for you.

 

[BornToLose]

It's better than it used to be (I do think antidepressants help) but it has massively shaped my life. There are so many nuances to it that no one would ever even think about how it could be OCD. One example is yours, the paranoia stuff (and being obsessed by it). It was also a big part of the self-medicating part of my past alcoholism.

 

[Fantasea]

You'd think though that if my brain can switch to having OCD as an adult then it can switch back.

if u ever feel the suffering's more than u can bare do give medication a try. I have a different mental illness and would be royally fucked without my meds.

 

[XtremeMax]

I made a few threads about mine if you would like to read. Sorry if not.

OCD is HELL!!!

my OCD is a constant hell and i literally left school for half a year illegally because of it. (my mom let me she is nice). some rituals i have had are: recording a clip on games all the time, doing patterns of wlaking around objects and places, clicking/tapping/touching things over and over...

incels.is

im sick of my brain

i feel sick and my head is spinning. today my OCD has been especially bad. i hear random words my parents said before playing back in the silence, i keep thinking "do this" and other things for every fucking object i touch or interact with. I hate it. I am going insane and my head is in so much...

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do any of you have OCD

OCD has ruined my life I'm terrified to do anything I can't even trust my own judgement anymore and I'm stressed out and anxious every minute of the day there is no peace ever. my head hurts all day. I want to cease existing so badly but I'm too scared of fucking up a suicide attempt that I...

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[tayhrdl]

It's bad but I accept it and then ignore it.

 

[poorenglishcel]

I don't think i have OCD but i have had to deal with some with habits in my life(such as re reading some lines ,eg. in a video game, many times like a maniac). I don't even know what they really are. Maybe its me just thinking way too much.

 

[smegma producer]

Nothing works, i just stomach the anxiety. That or give in to the thoughts

 

[Hoppipolla]

I made a few threads about mine if you would like to read. Sorry if not.

my OCD is a constant hell and i literally left school for half a year illegally because of it. (my mom let me she is nice). some rituals i have had are: recording a clip on games all the time, doing patterns of wlaking around objects and places, clicking/tapping/touching things over and over until it feels right or to a certain numebr, i obsessed over numbers for ages but its better now, retyping things thinking that the person who reads it will hate me, obsessing that i will lost all my online friends and being scared of what i say, repeating phrases and words over and over, backtracing where i walk, washing my hands over and over until they are cracked dry bloodied and destroyed and MANY MANY more

Hm

I get them all the time too. Right now my way of pushing through them is to ask myself if it's OCD and then if I decide it is, to push myself to not give in, even if it feels some way outside of my usual comfort zone.

I've tried this approach before and it can work well but... often I'm not sure if it's OCD >.<

I also try to remember that these triggering acts (like how many times I do something small like picking up an object) are so minor that they can't possibly cause anything serious.