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OCD and Rumination (Trigger Alert)

Postby 0cd » Fri Apr 06, 2018 5:32 pm

Hi to everyone and first of all I'm sorry for my bad english because it's not my native language. I don't know is this problem for this board but OCD is making problem that I'm dealing with even worse so I selected this board. So basically I'm dealing with OCD since I was child and had all types of them (HOCD, POCD etc.), recently had a POCD phase. Now I have a different problem that you might find very weird but I'll go straight to the point. The thing is that few years ago I became interested into horoscope and found it fun and interesting. But couple years later I came to a very depressing and desperate state and I didn't knew who am I. So I started to look in a horoscope for answers and there I have read some disturbing things (that I'm going to die from choking in a public place and some more). Right now I'm obssesing and ruminating over thoose toughts and fearing what if these things come true. I also have feeling of not having control beacause of toughts "what if everything is written in the stars and I can't do anything about it" and similar. In past few years I didn't read anything about horoscope but that fear remained and now it became hard again. I don't know do I belive in it anymore since I haven't tought so much of it until now, except from intrusive toughts.

So is there any help for me and did anyone has expirienced something similar, because I couldn't find anything like this on forums and that makes me feel like I'm alone with this. xD
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Re: OCD and Rumination (Trigger Alert)

Postby Snaga » Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:08 pm

Don't think about it.

That sounds trite, but what else is there to do?

I'm driving along at 80mph. What if my hands jerk? What if something grips hold of me and I intentionally run off the road? What if I have a stroke or a heart attack?

I can do this over anything. What's to stop a meteorite from hitting me? It's happened to others.

At some point you just have to try and turn your brain off and live in the now. Take the driving. It will terrify me if I let it. Many times I've wanted to pull over and never drive again. So I just have to stop ruminating on it. Once I can manage that, or to at least distract myself with something else, I soon forget about it.
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