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Suicidal ocd
Can others with suicidal ocd share some common symptoms they noticed/experience with this theme?
Can others with suicidal ocd share some common symptoms they noticed/experience with this theme?
I had this before, I have somatic OCD so I always think about my breathing, but sometimes my mind wants me to hold my breath to make it go away or to see whats the worst-case scenario is. I don't know if my mind is overly curious or it is trying to hurt me. You're truly not alone. I have a relative with suicidal OCD and she got help and they gave her treatments and exercises now she has a new found love for life and enjoys the small things in life.
How I’d do it, when, where, pain in my veins, distress, kind of depression, rumination, seeking reassurance, avoidance etc
Hi are you diagnosed harm ocd?
Yes I am! My first and longest lasting theme.
I had constant thoughts. The what if this or what if that. Then I had more confusing ones. With those thoughts I say oh shut up to my ocd and move on. It's hard just found it feeds it if I pay attention to it..and when I say hard I'm really under selling it.
You're right they do certainly feed off of fear and attention! I'm working on finding the best responses but it is hard when it feels so urgent and scary!
Can I ask what your thought is? Maybe I can help you come up w a good response prevention? Or I can give you mine. I warn you they sound insane. It helps shut up KAREN (ocd) though
I promise no response can sound crazy to me 😂 a common one is what if I'm really actually depressed and will lose control or hope and kill myself 😬
@Anonymous Oh the lose control one. Yup I know that one. I will help you but maybe you could try first. What would you say back to that thought? How would you cast doubt?
@Anonymous Think about losing it. I personally don't think I would know I'm losing it till it's lost. So how could you use that to come up with a response prevention?
@Anonymous That's a good point..I guess I could say "that's a wild idea!". If you got any good/funny ones I'm all ears lol
@Anonymous Yours is pretty good. You could take it further and be like that's a wild thought. I won't worry about it now. I will worry about it if it happens. Also you had depression in there..so I'd be like well I might be depressed or maybe not. I'll deal with it when I find out. Or we'll maybe I might lose hope and kill myself it could happen or if could not happen..I'll worry about it when and if it happens. Funny tends to elevate some of my anxiety and I want ocd to know she can bring it and I'm not going to do one little thing about it. No reassurance no goggleing, no problem solving. I just say above then go read a book, or listen to an audio book. Something I need to focus on to distract me from ocd thoughts.
@Anonymous I keep pushing back on the ocd thoughts CONSTANTLY.
@Anonymous Thank you SO very much!! It seems to ring true that it really is a lifestyle choice vs a one a done thing (would be nice if it were that way!). Do you find it gets easier with practice and time?
@Anonymous For me its gotten so much easier. I've decided to look at the rest of my life as an exposure. I honestly think my progress has been a combination of my meds, nocd therapy and 2 books my psychiatrist recommended. When Bob (ocd) tosses a thought my way I can deal with most of them. I have other mental health challenges I see my doctor for and it'd been progress all around. Try to celebrate those small wins. I hope your in ERP. I fond having the support if my NOCD therapist key to really getting how to do the exposures and transferring those skills to rumination and reassurance. I hope all this helps
@Anonymous I am in ERP on here! You've helped beyond words. Thank for you the encouragement and I pray you continue to kick ass. I'm sure you will!
This theme just started for me literally yesterday. I had one thought while taking my Prozac “what if you just took this whole bottle” and now I’m absolutely spiraling. The thoughts feel SO FU**ING REAL!!! I’ve struggled with harm ocd before about loved ones but never about myself. Anybody else go through this? And the thoughts feel so real like I actually do want to and like I am okay with it but I know that I’m not and that id never actually do it. But my brain is trying to convince me that I will. Please tell me I’m not alone with this?!! I am seeing a therapist and do have med management, I’m currently starting over on Prozac because I stopped it when I started feeling better. Bad idea.. because now I’m back at square one. But does anybody else go through this? And because I’m not like full on panicking about the thoughts, that makes me feel even worse. I mean I am anxious about them and like obsessing over the thoughts and whatnot, but I’m not in a full fledge panic either. Idk… just wanna know if anybody else struggles with this too?
Hi everyone if you haven’t read my latest posting I’m ysabelle & I am 16 years old and this is my on going battle with OCD, depression, anxiety and DPDR. To start off if you want to hear my story of how I first got it I have another post up! I wanted to ask if anyone has every experienced existential intrusive thoughts but has suicidal OCD too. I’ve been trying to find some type of comfort because the first theme I had with intrusive thoughts were suicidal/ harm. I’ve learned how to deal with them where they don’t bother me like they used to, long story short I was having existential intrusive thoughts without knowing it. I thought I was developing dementia because I would stare at my mom and an intrusive thought popped up into my head “ what if you don’t know her “ she was my comfort until that day. I was terrified thinking I didn’t know her or recognize her like I used to. Well I wanted to ask if anyone has dealt with suicidal OCD but existential thoughts like “what’s the point of living if we die anyways?” & how did you cope? I was overthinking because I was trying to figure out if I was suicidal because I would get these thoughts and it made me feel uncomfortable and just more defeated and depressed. I now know it’s the existential intrusive thoughts so I do feel a little better. I was thinking these thoughts were coming from me because of my depression but I’m trying everyday !🫶🏻☀️
I write this down to vent and because i see something that bothers me alot. I searched here "suicidal ocd" to not write a post and see what advices others get and i didnt found same problems and the ones i found were actually my old posts. All of the other posts were different to mine, all were the same worrying, and mine was like its more than suicidal ocd. Im dealing with depression now because of a current life event and i see that after waking up i get worse and thats when fear attacks me. In the pain i got hit by "i cant deal with this i will end my life" thought, and it was intrusive, i was feeling so bad after it. But for me it feels like it was a real thought cause of the situation, you know, i was in pain and i felt like i cant handle it and i want relief. But i dont want to kms... and i see people talking about suicidal ideation, how they have both and it scares me that mine feels more similar to that then suicidal ocd. I keep feel like it comes back time after time cause i dont work on it or accept it that im having suicidal thoughts and i need to work on them...it feels so hard to accept im thinking about suicide. Always i think about when my therapist said its real ideation cause i want to escape from pain but i developed ocd over it...i just dont want to accept that. If its reassurance seeking than just tell me that ocd can be like this or send me videos or something were people talk about this,cause i dont know if it can be like this. I just see myself sharing these kind of posts. I dont know what to do, i even tried to accept it as real before, i couldnt handle it... but even the therapist telling me things... i just cant get over it
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