Can it possible for ocd to be worse in the morning ? Like suddenly I remember I have intrusive thoughts and urges and have to go through that again. Like I have feeling in my chest and I don’t know what is that feeling
Yes that’s normal :) As we sleep our Cortisol levels rise I heard, which is your stress hormone, but u have control over your mind, u truly are your OCD’s master. It loves to make u think your the victim but it’s a trick. You can rewire your brain into thinking your the one in control, because you are. It’s hard at first but it gets easier and easier. The trick is to not be afraid of your thoughts. And can u describe this feeling in your chest?
@Mental_Warrior How to not be afraid of my thoughts when they feel so real and I have the strongest urge to do compulsions? I will never not be scared. And about the feeling in my chest I think it’s panic and fear but I’m not sure. I’m having a hard time realising my emotions
@OrMsB I’ve personally dealt with thoughts and compulsions my whole life, as far back as I can remember, all my memories I can remember something bothering me but lately I was able to tell myself “no” that’s not something to worry about, I created my own belief system to where I can use “faith” to believe everything is okay despite what my mind tells me, it was hard for me to accept that at first but I think I retrained my brain to be able to do that and now I’m just so used to it, thoughts don’t ever bother me. I really analyzed the concept of faith and why it’s okay to use it. We do things all the time that require faith without realizing it, like driving or literally anything so that’s how I was able to justify using “faith” for my thoughts. Again, being able to say it’s okay. And the compulsions are a trap. Number one thing you need to do is resist the compulsions and I know how hard that can be :( but they will weaken over time if your resisting them. I’m definitely not an expert though, this is just my personal experience and I highly recommend seeing an OCD specialist and medicine is very helpful for me
@Mental_Warrior I’m learning to resist compulsion now, and can I ask how did medication help you?
@OrMsB Its an SSRI, meaning it increases the amount of Serotonin in your brain, which is the stuff that keeps us from anxiety and overthinking and fear, the more serotonin u have, the more carefree you’ll be. So after a few weeks because it takes awhile for SSRI’s to build up in your system, I was able to tell my brain, I’m in control and I’ll decide whether I’m gonna worry about a thought. The key is how u react to your thoughts and to not be afraid of them
@OrMsB I’m on Fluoxetine/Prozac but it all depends on your own unique biology , it can take awhile to find the right medication for you and the dosage amount
@Mental_Warrior So did the meds help to care less about the thoughts? It’s can also help with thoughts that stuck in my head?
@Mental_Warrior And thank you
@OrMsB Yes :) but if they aren’t quite cutting it, doing therapy for ocd is a powerful combination along with meds
@Mental_Warrior Thank you, and also did you feel the urge to get rid of the thought by doing compulsions being less strong? Cause if you don’t care about the thought means you don’t care that she is there and don’t need to do nothing about her?
@OrMsB U never want to fight with the thought, as in, trying to make it go away, it will stick if u try forcing it to go away, just tell yourself it’ll pass on it’s own at some point, basically u must tell yourself said thought or thoughts are a lie created by an overactive, anxious mind. Ocd is nothing but a liar and a deceiver. And it’s okay to let them go because it seriously is okay to let them go. Would u like to keep in touch with me? Like through social media?
@OrMsB And to answer your question, yes my mind tells me a lot that I must repeat actions a certain number of times, or literally anything in order to let go of a thought, my mind will threaten me saying, you’ll never be free if you don’t do whatever it wants me to do. I have magical thinking Ocd
@Mental_Warrior It’s making me anxious and I can’t wait for it to go away I feel like I have to try to force it the thoughts are so annoying like I can’t to let her be there it’s making me uncomfortable and want to throw up. I can’t sit with the urge all day I have to do compulsions. I feel like I’m going crazy. I can’t even be with them for a day im afraid they will never pass. And yes I don’t mind
@Mental_Warrior Mine too. It’s very annoying like really. It’s making me anxious and nothing helps. I will try medication in like 2 weeks and this is my only hope
@OrMsB I didn’t realize how long it had been since I last messaged you and I kept forgetting to check my app, sorry :( do u have Messenger or Snapchat? We can keep talking there, I’m Brooke Thacker on Facebook and on Snapchat I’m Sweet_Intent87 :)
Is it normal when you’re sick that thoughts become more intense and feel more true? But you also feel like you don’t care ?
So my therapist told me to start telling myself every time I have an intrusive thought just say oh there’s that thought again, and don’t try to figure it out or do mental compulsions. Well our usual tactic of “there’s that thought/feeling again” is not working at all this morning. This morning I was having really bad anxiety, it hits hardest in the morning when I am lying in bed with my son and I know the thoughts could come at any minute. Well they did, and I immediately was like no please just think of anything else. Well in pushing away the thoughts, I had this really weird feeling like I couldn’t decipher between reality and images. I was just getting flashes of images that felt so real. Even though I could physically feel my body and know I wasnt engaging in the thought or acting on it. It was like a flash of anxiety that hit and I couldn’t tell what was real and wasn’t. So of course my mind starts trying to figure that feeling out and if what I was thinking about just happened. And no matter how many times I’ve tried to say there’s that thought/feeling again, I can’t let it go. I was physically conscious and could feel my body but mentally I couldn’t. It’s so weird and hard to explain. But I’ve been doubting and second guessing that moment all morning and I’m in a bad spiral, again. 😭 it’s like every time I think I’m moving forward I get sucked back in and feel like I can’t practice my tools anymore. I don’t know what I should do 😩
Damn I hate the intrusive dreams so much. Ever since my OCD flare-up this month, the dreams have gotten worse. I always wake up having thoughts like “why did i have a dream like that” and I feel anxious and distressed. I was doing really find a couple of months ago, the thoughts were tolerable to say the least but they get bad from time to time. But ever since September, it’s been non-stop bad. I get intrusive dreams, thoughts, feelings, urges and sensation that’s been distressing to the point that I always get somatic symptoms of anxiety. I always wake up with my heart rate so elevated and feeling nauseous and my throat tightening. It sucks. Does this happen to anyone else?
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