- Date posted
- 12w
Does your ocd make you deal with nausea?
I have HOCD and ROCD and it makes me wanna puke all day I live with my husband
I have HOCD and ROCD and it makes me wanna puke all day I live with my husband
I am so so sorry. Are you doing ERP? I think the answer is to treat with with ERP just like everything else. Tell yourself, “If I feel like puking, then great! I can feel like puking all day my body wants to. And if I don’t feel like puking, then great. It doesn’t matter either way.” This takes the pressure off of you and allows your body to respond however it is going to respond. For me, I often have a heavy or painful feeling in my chest. It’s a physical feeling almost. I just allow it to be there however long it wants to be there. I don’t try to fight it off. I think for you, the more you practice acceptance about the physical feelings that your body has, the easier things will get. I think over time feeling like puking will also go away. Big hugs ! 💙💙 I know this is hard.
@Tea and Honey Thank you so much for the lovely comment. For how long do you feel like this? For me it’s almost been a month. I hate it. It’s so hard.
@confused writer The answer is this …. it is going to take however long it takes. We don’t know how long it will be, but we have to have an attitude that it doesn’t matter how long it will take. In the meantime, we can WELCOME the physical symptoms to stay however long they’re going to stay. And during that time, we are going to live our lives just exactly the way we want to, no matter what. The more we don’t care whether or not the feelings are there, the more likely they are to go away. But we are not in control of the timeline. And that’s okay. We just keep living our lives.
I remember having a bad OCD episode and going to be at a track meet where would be in the stands for hours. I had heard of some techniques from a therapist, so I had a chance to practice… I had these really sticky, bad, heavy feelings in my chest. And I just said, “ You bad feelings are welcome to stay all day if you want to. I’m glad you’re here.” And then I went about watching the track meet. It was the best thing I could have done.
yes yes yes!! if i’m ruminating or having intrusive distressing thoughts, i get extremely nauseous
I suffer from HOCD as well and live with my wife! Its tough especially when it the thoughts involve her. I went 3 months fully nauseous, it was tough, and painful because I felt like I needed to puke but never did. I even tried to make myself puke and I couldn't. I knew something was seriously wrong and sought help, I learned it was OCD and now doing ERP therapy. Now I feel like I don't need to puke. To help with the feeling, I always drank chamomile tea or tums nauseous relief. Next is accepting the thoughts, don't try to fight them or suppress. That will make it worse. It will get better, take care of yourself
I feel awful that I keep coming on here whenever I’m down bad but oh my gosh OCD is the most painful shit that I have EVER experienced in my life and I have a physical chronic illness…. I hate to say it but I hate living right now it’s too painful… im crying as I type to the point where my stomach is hurting, I have pretty severe ocd I do have generalized anxiety and idk if that is connected with ocd but because of that I have most of the subtypes REAL EVENT OCD,POCD,ZOCD,ROCD,SOCD HARM OCD, you name it and I got it!!! a lot of also why I have have those theme is trauma growing up and involving those things^ as of right now i’m 25 and a women with the most loving boyfriend in the entire world before my ocd hit me I NEVER questioned my love and care and attraction with the love of my life I always knew I was going to marry and be with this person the rest of my life! Now with ocd it confuses me soooo much and now I think I’m gay and didn’t realize or indenial and listen I get it “don’t look for reassurance!” “It’s not the thing ocd is attacking that is the problem ocd is the actual problem!” Here’s the thing with that if I’m in a relationship and I’m gay that would mean I would have to leave that said relationship and to say that “oh yeah that stuff happens and you’ll move on” is absolutely devastating to me this is THE LOVE OF MY LIFE and your telling me that iv been lying to myself this whole time or that I didn’t realize?!?!? And that sexuality can change (even though some say it can’t google says otherwise and some people have said it can’t idek anymore) and all this other BULLSHIT I can’t take it WHY?!?! why does this have to happen why can’t I just be with my love the rest of my life?!? and yes before anyone says anything I have been attracted to girls more so when I was younger watching lesbian porn liking the body’s and fantazing them sexually it stopped when I got older but I still don’t get disgusted with women who are pretty it just makes me uncomfortable because I’m with the love of my life and before I remember talking to my partner and discussing certain childhood things I experienced and we discussed that we both could be a little bi and for certain I’m (demi sexual so I don’t even really care about looks) and I truly didn’t care!! NOW I do care even with being bi because again I don’t like thinking about anyone else but my partner but I do also know my parents are homophobic and I do think about if I am gay they wouldn’t be okay with that and I also dont want to deal with that so now I sound like in indenial right?!???? I didn’t even care about labels before my ocd it just didn’t matter but now it’s effected my sex life and it’s hard for me to enjoy sex with being so confused I’m so confused I googled everything can you still have sexual fantasies with same gender but still be straight? Can you fantasize about same gender or imagine marrying them all of it !!! And non of that disgusts me it just makes me uncomfortable AGIAN only bc I just love the partner I’m with right now!!! I’m so fucking confused do I have to leave my partner and accept that I’m gay is that going to happen in the future if I get better with ocd and find out it’s been true all along?!???
Currently I have several different OCD fears that pop up throughout the week depending on the situation. I've noticed a commonality between all of them are the fears relating to memory/false memory. Today is the ROCD struggle I've been dealing with. I know OCD has been trying this on me lately because of how much I love my spouse. They are my absolute best friend and she's my world. I value our marriage and friendship more than anything. OCD has latched onto one specific female coworker. And I don't even know why because even if I were single I wouldn't be into her. Even still, OCD makes me think I've cheated on my wife every time I'm alone with this coworker at work. Always starts as a what if, followed by imagery, followed by feelings that I must've actually done something and can't remember it. Usually fearing I've kissed her. It hurts because I know I'd never do that to my wife and I love her so much...the idea of losing her kills me, especially if it were the result of something I did. Just wanted to vent. Feel free to share your experiences or vents as well
Hi everyone. I’m having a really hard time today in my relationship. I am just feeling so frustrated by my back-and-forth feelings about my relationship. One day I’ll feel so good, and then the next I don’t at all. I think my biggest trigger in the house is the chores that the two of us have to do in the house. I’m much more of a clean person than my boyfriend is. I’m also thinking that he has ADHD and struggles to remember when to do specific chores and I have to remind him pretty often, but he will usually do it when I ask. Today, I’m on a huge spiral of telling myself that he is never gonna be able to learn to do things on his own, he’s not gonna be able to take care of our kids in the future If we do get married, he’s not gonna be able to help take care of our house when we do have one one day, And I am just exhausted. It’s so hard fighting these thoughts all day and then I feel like I have to sit down and talk to him about chores and obviously that doesn’t go well when I’m not feeling good. Definitely a compulsion… It feels so much better when I can just relax and just let him figure things out on his own, and I can just take care of myself. I also come from a household where I was constantly criticized and controlled in certain ways, so I have that to carry too…I’ve gotten much better at doing that most of the time but today is pretty bad. It always feels a little bit worse as well when I’m on my period and feeling very hormonal as well… Can anyone please shed some light on if they’ve experienced this before and any support they might be able to offer in relation to this? Anything would be helpful and please be kind!
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond