OCD exhaustion

OCD is so strange because I feel so mentally exhausted 24/7 but i’m so good at masking it that like it’s like i can think double. I’m not sure that makes sense. But i am so used to the OCD thoughts racing through my head that i can respond to my environment whilst completely existing in my head. I can have conversations when intrusive thoughts are taking over my inner dialect. I feel like i am even doubting whether i have OCD and whether it’s all just an excuse. I feel like my rumination hasn’t stopped for the past 3 years. Everything i used to enjoy or look forward to, is now dread and tainted by the thoughts telling me i never knew. I don’t even know what i like or who i am anymore. The thought of getting help and talking through it all scares me because what if i’m invalidated or if i speak about it too much then what if i don’t stop thinking. I’m so exhausted

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 23w ago

It’s extremely exhausting. I once had OCD for 4 years. I then went 15 years with NOTHING. Suddenly came back and struggled for approximately 9 months. I’m finally free of it again. This app/Therapy works amazingly. My best advise is to “accept it” and be like well guess this is how it is might as well make the best of it. Then slowly without even realizing you’ll see it subdue. That’s worked everytime for me.

Username: charlyx3charlyx3

Date posted: 23w ago

I just talked to my friend about a similar thing. She said,that I seem like a person who has it all under control and you would never think how much I am struggling. I think a lot of people with ocd can function so well on the outside, which just shows that you can never tell what a person is going through. I think accepting that you need some time off and need help is so important. Sometimes it is the most productive thing you can do for your Future to make time and effort to get the right Therapy.

Username: Cathrine Cathrine

Date posted: 29d ago

Totally relate. As reading my own experience

Username: Hiii123

Date posted: 23w ago

Tired of OCD

Why is OCD always there?!?! I can’t relax for a minute or my thoughts are seeking things to ruminate about

Username: Jesuslover28

Date posted: 21w ago

Religious OCD

Does anybody else get really tired, like I mean to the point we're you sometimes just don't care. I feel like that right now and it's scaring me. I don't have motivation to pray or do anything. I'm worried that all along it was me and it finally came out and now I'm done for. I still get anxious when I feel the thoughts coming but I just don't have motivation to fight them. Or to pray afterwards. Idk if any of y'all have this happen but I would love to know.

Username: FloralEnvoy

Date posted: 15w ago

This feels like my whole life right now

Please tell me how you get through your days. I haven't been super down, but I feel like I haven't had a true sense of happiness since my mental switch flipped. Actually, the more I think of it the more I feel like I have been pretty down. Does anyone else's OCD feel like it consumes so much of them? I don't remember what it's like to feel like I have my own individual identity, and I think that's a big core aspect of why my ROCD acts up. It gets easier some days, harder some others, and I tell myself progress isn't linear but this is EXHAUSTING. I just got my script for Bupropion extended even though I don't know if its doing much a month into it. I have so many anxieties and such little energy it feels impossible to branch out more than I already am by seeking help. Does anyone relate?

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