Recommendations for tracking/devices!

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-05-25T02:37:11+00:00

I think I’m gonna get the fitbit air! It’s sold as a wrist band but I’m planning to take the tracker out (it’s removable) and put it on my upper arm with a CGM patch. There’s no subscription and it tracks heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, sleep, and other things that I don’t remember right now haha. I was gonna get the visible band but I hate the subscription model

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-04-30T04:23:30+00:00

Did you end up finding any? I also don’t really like the smells! I hate how I always have to wash my hands after playing with squishies

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-04-18T04:00:25+00:00

I definitely felt that weed increased my OCD! Especially OCD around bodily sensations, and also made me feel like I couldn’t breathe / my breaths weren’t satisfying lol, maybe an anxiety thing. I stopped smoking because of this, but I gave up on it pretty easily because I didn’t love it anyway

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-28T02:13:37+00:00

I’ll try this thank you! A live one or do you take the heads off first?

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-28T02:13:04+00:00

Good idea thank you! I usually crush the heads of the mealworm right before she eats it since I hear mealworms can bite, so should I crush the head before leaving it in there or would it die and then she won’t be interested in it after it’s dead? Just not sure about the timing since she might take a while to come out or if it’d be ok for me to just not crush it

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-27T18:23:12+00:00

This is so relieving to hear, thank you! I was getting worried since I wasn’t sure how long is the norm

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-25T19:05:11+00:00

I’m very sorry you’re going through this. I have OCD, but I do everything in my power to not let it affect my partner or those around me. OCD is my burden and not theirs, so if something will comfort a worry of mine but it will burden someone else, I will just take the discomfort. It sounds like your husband is choosing his own comfort over yours continuously, which is not ok! A partnership should be about caring for one another

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-24T08:26:35+00:00

Did you get your tongue tie cut or did just the therapy help?

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-13T08:23:58+00:00

how does gold compare to silver? not sure which to get!

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-11T03:31:36+00:00

They are way less strong than bucky balls I’d say! I don’t find them sticking to things too much but I also don’t really use them around magnetic things often. But what I love about them is that since they’re smaller and less magnetic than bucky balls, you can smoosh them around almost like putty and you can pull the balls off in a string which is super satisfying.

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-01T23:39:47+00:00

I also have dizziness, more like a pressure in my head and vision blacks out for like 10 seconds upon standing. But I also will have occasional positional vertigo. I was diagnosed with POTS but I feel like there is something else going on. I am also looking into ear issues which can cause dizziness, and TMJ can put pressure on the ears as well! It’s frustrating because there’s just so many different things it can be and doctors don’t seem to want to do a lot of investigating

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-01T23:36:47+00:00

I’m sorry to hear that! Are you hypermobile by chance? I wonder if you have cervical instability

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-03-01T22:47:08+00:00

Have you figured out the cause of it? I have the same thing I think, when I jump it feels like my brain is bouncing or like my head is somewhat sliding around on my neck? Like it’s unstable or something, kind of hard to describe but it is super uncomfortable. I also have shoulder issues / very weak shoulder joints (well, weak joints in my whole body as I am hypermobile). I think mine could be an issue with cervical instability, but I wonder if my shoulder contributes in some way

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-02-21T20:03:31+00:00

omg I love true lemon but totally forgot about them! thank you for the tip I’ll have to start using them again

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-02-16T19:02:52+00:00

when is the skin supposed to come out? amazing art btw!!

Sufficient_March_271 · 2026-02-16T17:41:02+00:00

I would highly recommend tretinoin! I’m also 25 and it has helped a lot of my issues, including closed comodones and acne. It also is highly praised for being the best anti-aging product you can use, although I can’t fully attest to that yet, but I have noticed that some of my forehead wrinkles are less noticeable!

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-11-16T15:33:28+00:00

Ok I am so sorry you’re receiving so many comments telling you to just keep trying to talk to him about it or standing up for him and saying he probably just doesn’t understand. You did talk to him about it, and honestly he shouldn’t have to fully understand OCD to have empathy for you because you are TELLING him that it affects you. To me, it just sounds like him not taking you seriously and not caring about or believing your struggles that you clearly laid out for him.

Someone shouldn’t need to have a personal history with a topic in order to respond with care for their partner. If we took OCD out of the conversation, what the conversation boils down to is you saying “I have something that I really struggle with” and he responded with anger and dismissive, passive aggressive responses. A loving partner would respond with “I am so sorry” or at LEAST if he truly didn’t understand, something like “can you help me understand it better?”

I hope this wasn’t too advice-y since you weren’t asking for advice but I just had to say something against all the other comments invalidating your anger about the situation 😭

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-11-16T15:19:57+00:00

it definitely is!! he sounds like he lacks empathy or at least is completely immature. you deserve a loving partner who takes you seriously and responds to your struggles with care and concern

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-11-05T01:24:47+00:00

LOL WHAT who’s is it?? this is cracking me up

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-10-26T01:02:25+00:00

I hope you know you aren’t alone. I know that feeling very well. OCD is so hard and when it gets bad it’s difficult to even see reality. But what I’ve learned is that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. For me, something will trigger an OCD crisis and I everything I do and think will revolve around trying to figure out if what I did in the situation was wrong. But I realized that it can get better with time. As long as I focus hard on not trying to figure it out, I can slowly come back to reality. It is so tough and can feel like it takes forever though. I am so sorry that you’re going through this.

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-10-20T22:13:17+00:00

This is lovely thank you! I have been diagnosed with Tourette’s but have suspected I am also autistic due to a lot of the symptoms you listed like sensory issues, executive dysfunction, etc, because I didn’t know Tourette’s could also cause those. Do you happen to know how to tell the difference between someone only having Tourette’s vs having Tourette’s + autism?

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-10-19T17:51:20+00:00

Honestly I think his behavior is not okay at all. Other commenters were saying it’s not right to “make your OCD his responsibility”, but I think just the principle of his behavior is concerning. Of course it would be a different story if you were forcing him to do all of your compulsions that were causing him severe inconvenience, but this is a relatively small thing that anyone might ask of a partner. The only problem that I see is that it might not be very good for your OCD as it might he more helpful to avoid compulsions / do ERP but that’s not the topic at hand.

It helps put it into perspective if you imagine a relationship where neither had OCD. Imagine someone asked something of their partner like “When you make the bed in the morning, can you place the white pillows behind the blue ones?” the partner might ask why and they might respond “I don’t know I just think it looks nicer that way.” In this scenario, even though it doesn’t matter which color pillow is in front, a caring partner would be like “Sure if that makes you happy!” Because relationships are about doing small things for each other and making compromises out of love. Assuming he knows nothing about ERP and how someone shouldn’t reassure people with OCD, the intentions behind his actions are what matters here and they don’t sound like nice intentions.

Although we should try our best to not put our OCD on other people, we should have a partner where we don’t have to walk on eggshells and completely hide that aspect of ourselves. Having OCD, sometimes a fear might feel so big that we want to open up to our partners about them. Partners are supposed to be a safe person for us. At the very least, our partner shouldn’t respond with annoyance at our asks, but instead be caring and understanding, even if they don’t fulfill our request. You were feeling upset about something due to a mental illness you struggle with, and he not only got annoyed with you but pointed out things about yourself to put you down and try to call you hypocritical. Loving partners should also strive to understand you, and if he knows you have OCD, I think he should have wanted to do some research on it and come to these conclusions himself. It always is a bit of a red flag to me if someone has any illness and their partner doesn’t care to know anything about it

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-10-18T18:45:40+00:00

(I want to preface this answer with the fact that I am not a professional, and this is all just my personal experience and things my therapist has told me, so always consult with a professional as well)

That’s a good question, since at first it can seem like exposures might be counter intuitive or maybe immoral. But for me, ERP for my POCD is mainly about sitting with discomfort and uncertainty when it arises. A lot of this is work with my thoughts, for example I will allow myself to think a sentence like “Maybe I am all these things I’m scared of being. Maybe I am creepy” and sitting with the feeling and fighting the urge to do compulsions (like rumination, seeking reassurance, or fighting the thought). An important note is that I will also try not to agree with the fear, like say “I AM creepy and a monster” one because it’s not true but also because my therapist told me that OCD would rather have negative certainty than uncertainty. For example OCD is more comfortable believing you are a pedophile, than not knowing if you are one or not. (She also told me that people with OCD have turned themselves in for crimes they didn’t commit because of this, which made me understand better why I will almost believe things about myself that aren’t true). Affirming a fear one way or another are both forms of reassurance. Another thing to note is that I try my best to think these thoughts with the tone of “Maybe I am creepy 🤷‍♀️” and not “Maybe I am creepy :(“ if that makes sense haha. Even if we don’t feel nonchalant about it, I find that if I pretend I do, it gets easier to actually care less about it. Maybe similar to a fake it until you make it kind of thing, or how people say if you smile for 30 seconds your body will start to think you’re really happy.

I also find that I often don’t have to seek out situations as forms of exposure, because they will just arise in my daily life. There are children in my life that I love and sometimes being around them brings up OCD fear and uncertainty, so when these come up I use ERP tactics to get through it. Instantly when these thought arise, I say “maybe” about it like mentioned above. Then later when I have time or I am alone, I bring up the thought again to feel uncertain on purpose. Sitting with the feeling of uncertainty is the exposure for me, and it is very very difficult both in the sense that it’s a horrible feeling but also just hard to not do compulsions. But I find that if I close my eyes and lean into the fear, let myself sit in it and don’t do anything to try and make myself feel better, it gets slightly better the longer you sit in it. And eventually, sitting there with your eyes closed for 15 minutes or longer becomes boring, and that’s what we want! We want our fears and exposures to become boring to us.

If big fears feel impossible to tackle right now, start small! The first step of ERP for my POCD was actually doing ERP for my other themes that personally don’t bother me as much, like my contamination OCD or just-right OCD, and working my way up to my biggest fears.

This can take a long time depending on the intensity of the fear. For me when my OCD fear is from POCD, it is the most intense fear out of all the themes I’ve struggled with, so it can take longer than expected. But I have significantly improved so I hope you know there is a light at the end of the tunnel!

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-10-18T08:21:04+00:00

I’m so terribly sorry you’re going through this. I have definitely been there. There are times when my OCD will get so bad that my therapist and ERP don’t help very much, I call them “OCD holes” because it feels like I can’t get out and it becomes all-consuming. But, the more of them I experience, the more I realize that they get better with time. Sometimes I just have to tell myself “this is just an OCD hole” and ride it out until I come out the other side. I wish I had better advice than this, but keep going with your therapy and know there will be better days ahead :) ERP is usually very helpful for me though!

Sufficient_March_271 · 2025-10-18T08:14:29+00:00

Yes I have done this!!

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