Anonymous #3 3w

yes planning on it! Just trying to calm my mind in the meantime

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Anonymous #3 3w

Thank you sm 🥲 ocd is the bane of my existence i wish my mind DIDN’T work like this

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Anonymous OP 3w

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Anonymous #5 3w

Google OCD real quick

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Anonymous #6 3w

ocd will not make you do all that please be fucking for real

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Anonymous #5 3w

Are you kidding me? For some people with bad OCD, it makes them think something terrible will happen if they don't do what their brain is telling them to. There are people who, for example, genuinely believe that their loved ones will die if they tell a lie.

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Anonymous #5 3w

My OCD shows me horrible images of my mother getting crushed to death by a brick, and it feels so fucking real. OCD absolutely WILL make you do all that

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Anonymous OP 3w

A big part of dealing with ocd is that you need to be comfortable in that uncalm. Trying to reassure yourself just creates a spiral of needing reassurance that what you’re doing is right. You know that you shouldn’t tell your parents to keep your brother safe. You need to tell your ocd to fuck off because you know what your doing is right

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Anonymous #1 3w

OK, but that’s like telling someone with schizophrenia that they just shouldn’t listen to the voices and get used to it

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Anonymous #1 3w

Telling your ocd to fuck off bc you know what you’re doing is right IS a form of reassurance…your comment is a bit of a paradox here. “Don’t reassure yourself you’ll spiral. Reassure yourself instead”

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Anonymous #4 3w

Dude what. It’s actually like saying “stop asking people online what you should do when you already know it”

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Anonymous #3 3w

No, it’s like the difference between saying “I know this food isn’t poisoned and I’ll be fine.” Vs “HEY RANDOM PEOPLE DOES MY FOOD LOOK OKAY??” And then having a panic attack because it took five minutes to get an answer

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Anonymous #1 3w

But the thing is they never ask whether or not they should tell their parents they ask how do I cope with this. They already know what they’re going to do and what they should be doing. They are asking how do I live with this decision?

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Anonymous #4 3w

They live with it by knowing what they’re doing is the right thing

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Anonymous #1 3w

I think the issue here is the OCD telling them. It is very much not the right thing that it is in fact, possibly the opposite of the right thing. I think you don’t really understand OCD or how different mental conditions affect your decision making and reasoning

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Anonymous #4 3w

I have ocd. It tells me I’ll be sick and that I’m being poisoned and that I’m going to die of cancer and I have to sit with the knowledge that I may get cancer, I may get sick, and it will be okay. Asking for reassurance that I won’t will only make things worse

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Anonymous #1 3w

And the only one asking for and bringing reassurance into this conversation, is you the person said word or word “how do I cope with this” not reassure me and not what should I do.

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Anonymous #1 3w

“If I don’t experience this well documented symptom of ocd then someone else with ocd can’t struggle with it either”

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Anonymous #1 3w

And this person did literally none of that minus ask for peoples opinions on how they should cope. You however seem to be venting on an online forum wanting to hear a reassuring answer to your opinion about the original poster and since you whipped out this image it seems you googled something to get reassurance

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Anonymous #1 3w

They haven’t done these things. They’re directly acting for coping strategies which isn’t a reassurance loop unless they’re asking over and over, constant affirmation, or dependent on it. They’re asking once, holding discussions, and looking for independent coping skills. Not using the forum as the cope

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Anonymous #1 3w

I think you’re deflecting

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Anonymous #5 3w

as someone with ocd yes it will lmao… u dont know what ocd is

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Anonymous #1 3w

That’s very helpful

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