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Rumination as a choice
I understand that rumination is a choice but it feels out of my control. I cannot stop doing it and I’m driving myself crazy. What’s the best advice you’ve gotten for this?
I understand that rumination is a choice but it feels out of my control. I cannot stop doing it and I’m driving myself crazy. What’s the best advice you’ve gotten for this?
Personally in the long run this I find helpful, if you focus on whatever you’re supposed to be doing the task at hand, the ruminating by just leaving it in the background will wear itself out and be just like a car alarm that you are moving further away from.
I’m struggling with this currently. What I found that works the best for me is to do something else and let the buzzing continue. As soon as I try to stop the constant stream do thoughts, I start to focus more on the one thought that bothers me. I tell myself “it’s ok to be uncomfortable” and go on doing something else. I also have ADHD so medication has also helped a lot with that.
my ocd’s theme keeps switching back to what it was for years (misplacing items) and relationship ocd mostly retroactive jealousy. i think i cured the itch but then one day i wake up and feel angry that my current lovely bf stayed in a 5 year relationship even tho she was awful, i feel pathetic for letting something a year in the past keep me from being truly in the present. its not fair to me nor him.
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? 😅
I have the thought of what if I lose control and do something out of my control like scream for no reason or yelling in a store or just blurting stuff out that’s not in my control and it causes so much anxiety and causes me to feel weird. I always think I’m on the edge of losing control of myself and it’s exhausting living like this. Any tips?
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
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