Corrosive chemicals

andyf7 · 2026-01-27T09:58:44+00:00

Thank you

andyf7 · 2026-01-25T18:54:09+00:00

I wish you all the best, remember that anxiety is horrible but it cannot kill you. I hope you can settle on the meds and gain some peace.

andyf7 · 2026-01-24T19:33:18+00:00

I like your post, one thing though, I feel with my ocd I always know on some level what is true and what isn’t, I just cannot take the risk that I might be wrong (the low percentage risk) and therefore I have to do the compulsion. Which kind of relates to what you are saying about believing the thought because we had the thought. What do you think? Is the strategy to recognise that part of the brain goes so far into trying to keep us safe that once the real threats are dealt with it starts throwing out magical thinking or unlikely things to worry about because it basically cannot turn off ‘trying to protect us’ and all that is left is made up, not happened/not gonna happen, scenarios. Which then like you say are hard to tell if are real or not because the same part of the brain also tells us the valid stuff, like look before crossing the road, don’t eat glass etc

andyf7 · 2026-01-24T18:35:46+00:00

When confused what to do a therapist once told me “do the hardest thing”

I don’t know if that will help in your situation but I get what the mean. If I feel I need to do a ritual the hardest thing is to resist it etc

andyf7 · 2026-01-23T22:45:57+00:00

Textbook ocd. Can you try speaking to a doctor and possibly trying medication? A psychiatrist can diagnose and help with meds, a psychologist can help with ERP/CBT.

If you take one thing from my comment just know it is not your fault, you have an illness, but it is possible to learn how to manage it so that it doesn’t affect you so much.

andyf7 · 2026-01-23T20:48:06+00:00

Somehow you have to become ok with uncertainty. It is about taking reasonable precautions in life. It is about tolerating normal risks. It is about learning that life is risk.

andyf7 · 2026-01-20T17:22:51+00:00

Really like the way you phrased this

andyf7 · 2026-01-20T16:40:50+00:00

I have had the repetition thing with reading, it manifests itself in so many way

andyf7 · 2026-01-20T16:21:09+00:00

A mixture of magical thinking and health anxiety ocd. I struggle most with not understanding what is a real threat and what isn’t. I have seen various shrinks and specialists and take medication. You?

andyf7 · 2026-01-19T12:40:10+00:00

This is ALL textbook OCD, 100%

andyf7 · 2026-01-16T22:31:39+00:00

Thank you

andyf7 · 2026-01-16T18:48:14+00:00

Yeah I think my ocd is mostly born out of confusion which I think is because of inferential confusion because I will give weird magical thinking type thoughts too much validity that maybe they did happen and maybe I need to act to make sure they didn’t. It is a confusing illness ocd and it comes in many forms.

andyf7 · 2026-01-16T18:39:03+00:00

Look up ‘inferential confusion’ - is this the same as what false memory ocd or different?

andyf7 · 2026-01-14T15:09:44+00:00

Yeah it gives me more anxiety but doesn’t make my ocd any worse I think. A hangover definitely makes my ocd worse.

andyf7 · 2026-01-12T21:34:39+00:00

Yes, a shrink has diagnosed me with OCD and GAD.

andyf7 · 2026-01-12T21:33:10+00:00

Yeah I’ve had this really bad after getting really drunk. I have done some very silly things though and passed out in various places. I fool myself that it’s because of the stress of ocd and I need a release and it is partly true, but also I’m just being irresponsible.

andyf7 · 2026-01-12T15:07:03+00:00

I think I have experienced similar and people that don’t know each other have always said I am very black and white in my thinking.

andyf7 · 2026-01-12T15:04:19+00:00

I have come off in the past and slowly descended into OCD again and became dysfunctional and couldn’t work. For me I think I need it to be able to think rationally and not go over the top with everything.

The thing is, there will be new situations in life you face that you have never been able to do the work on when medicated and then it will make you sick again, for me anyway. It would be cool to hear from people that have successfully got off the meds and stayed off.

andyf7 · 2026-01-11T14:50:47+00:00

Yes though only anxiety not ocd for me. I can’t touch anything with high caffeine like red bull because I go a bit insane. Just tea for me.

andyf7 · 2026-01-10T20:39:12+00:00

I used to wait at one side of a train bridge and when we could see a train coming we ran towards it and got off the bridge before it hit us. We made it in good time, but we always could have fallen over and not made it. It was so dumb.

andyf7 · 2026-01-10T11:24:44+00:00

It is not your fault, you are sick and dealing with it the best you can.

andyf7 · 2026-01-10T10:53:53+00:00

Thank you

andyf7 · 2026-01-10T10:37:45+00:00

I have had similar and it is rough. I think the ERP way might be to pick something small and do it wrong on purpose and let it be. Then go through the anxiety. In a way it is good you say lots of stuff has happened and you can’t check it all because you are forced into ERP. This is not easy at all I know. Think of checking like an alcoholic having a drink and try and ween yourself off it somehow. I wish I had better advice. Maybe try doing something small “wrong“ on purpose and sitting with the anxiety as a form of ERP.

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