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Mental Health Pure O/ OCD/ Distorted Thoughts and Memories/ What If?

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yteek

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Does anyone have issues with that I mentioned in the title?

I've been having issues with OCD, not like hand cleaning, but obsessional thinking, what if scenarios, distorted thinking and such, at this point I don't know what the fuck to think.


I really think the basis of this spawned under the influence of marijuana for years and the paranoia/anxiety/obsessional/racing thoughts that co-existed with that time period, I can do half decent at times and then it is week upon week of bullshit.
 
I have some thinking issues too. If I'm watching a documentary, I sometimes stop to think about something. I explain that thing to myself many times until I feel satisfied, then continue watching. It's annoying sometimes. Is that what happens to you?
 
Yeah, yteek, I definitely have that. It's quite troublesome. I'm still looking for healthier, non-medication ways to deal. Alprazolam helps me, but I've developed a habit to that now. I've been trying mindfulness and meditation which has been helping. When you get the thought, think about it and embrace it for a few minutes. Allow your mind to run wild with the thought, and then just drop it and try your hardest to push it out of your mind after that.
 
As far as obsessional thinking and what if scenarios, yeah definitely. And I've sort of got to the point where I can identify it but it still doesn't seem to help once my brain is stuck in a negative thought loop. Fortunately this doesn't happen all the time, but usually something triggers it. In fact I just recently posted something that pretty much fell under both of those.

I think I actually sort of disregard my OCD tendencies. I pretty much know that I'm bipolar, but I actually do have some physical symptoms of OCD as well as the thoughts. Fortunately the physical things are pretty minor, like scratching one ear and then scratching the other even tho it doesn't itch. Strangely it seems like the few physical symptoms I have have to do with evenness. But I'm not washing my hands 200 times per day or something like that. I can't imagine what it would be like to have that really bad tho. OCD can really mess people's lives up.
 
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Yes I have PURE O......reassurance like what I'm about to do, is say you have pure o OCD......But to accept that you have the disorder and also accept that maybe the outcome can be true.....Over time this lessens the anxiety and obsessive ruminations.....It's the nastiest form of OCD and I also think it was spawned by not getting treatment from past obsessive thoughts that I just thought i was worrying about things.
 
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Not very long but this vid might help some people. Apparently CBT can be a good way to lessen OCD symptoms. I need to do some research about CBT because I've heard that it can be good for a lot of mental problems.

 
^ just described me perfectly! However for me, I never really knew it was "defined" as OCD until recently. Then everything just made sense.
 
^^ Same thing with me. I had obsessive fears that I was going to go "crazy", become "crazy", etc. And id think about it constantly. Like 24/7. And I was convinced that when I had an anxiety attack that it was me turning psychotic or something. I finally talked to my therapist about it and got real answers. I never did in the past because I was embarrassed and afraid. When I got the diagnoses, it was like a weight was lifted from my shoulders.
 
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Pure o here too. Doing quite well with it at the moment.

Think my ocd has been around since childhood- I never really learned how to deal with worries and when brought them up in childhood they were just brushed aside and was told to stop being daft or summit. So not learning appropriate coping techniques meant my problems all just escalated. Because I always "knew" I was different I have always been able to put up a good facade. So much so that people always refer to me as being laid back- that just makes me fucking lol
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Lol. The doctors at the psych ward one time insisted I lied about my social anxiety. As proof they pointed to the fact I was constantly socializing with patients. If a new person came in I'd be talking to them in 5 minutes. However this was just my way of handling what was going on.
 
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