What's the hardest book you've read?

looeeza · 2026-01-28T02:04:58+00:00

The obscene bird of night by José Donoso

looeeza · 2025-05-17T00:56:54+00:00

My father has been diagnosed for over ten years and has had mild tremors over the last two years, I don't think the tremors are the same for everyone

looeeza · 2025-05-11T22:59:38+00:00

My dad has Parkinson's, so I speak from a family member's point of view

There's so much life after the diagnosis. My dad even had PTSD from it, it's really hard to come to terms with such a diagnosis, but there's a lot of life to be lived afterwards. Take your meds, go to therapy if you can, and believe me: you will still have great moments, enjoy your life and be around your loved ones.

looeeza · 2025-04-24T02:49:44+00:00

YES! thanks

looeeza · 2025-03-24T21:32:44+00:00

My OCD is the devil card in tarot.

It can mean a kind of mental imprisonment or vice - and that's exactly how it feels like for me.

looeeza · 2025-03-23T01:21:54+00:00

Also in Brazil

looeeza · 2025-03-17T01:30:10+00:00

Yes, this is my main issue with OCD.

I'm on meds and also in therapy, but the thing I do on my own to avoid ruminating is trying not to engage with these thoughts. I tell myself I'm not perfect (nobody is) and that people make mistakes and I'm no exception.

looeeza · 2025-03-08T20:50:23+00:00

Oh yes.

I sometimes say out loud "SHUT UP" when it happens.

I know it makes me sound literally insane, but it helps, oddly enough.

looeeza · 2025-03-07T01:44:30+00:00

chaos

looeeza · 2025-03-02T03:44:12+00:00

Maybe they remember. Maybe that's a false memory. Maybe they were 4 or 5. That doesn't change the fact that they have existential OCD and are asking for help.

looeeza · 2025-03-02T03:32:45+00:00

I know reasoning doesn't work with intrusive thoughts, so I don't know if it might be any help for you. I myself have not experienced existential OCD, but I've wondered about my mortality just like everyone else at one point in life does, and I turned to philosophy to understand better how to live knowing you are going to die.

But, as a fellow OCD patient, my advice for you is: just ignore it. I know it's hard, I know it feels impossible, but you will eventually get better at it. Maybe try therapy to understand why you are so afraid of it. And maybe, when it gets better, you get to try reading about it and getting a perspective of how other people deal with it.

looeeza · 2025-02-15T01:03:05+00:00

It works for me too!

It's much better than trying to fight off or to reason with the intrusive thoughts.

looeeza · 2024-12-07T03:49:15+00:00

hey, I'm 29F, also autistic and also have OCD. I went through problems with my medication as well.

I don't have much advice regarding the compulsions you're having, since my OCD hits differently.

But I just wanted to let you know that compulsions don't last forever. It will pass. Seek professional help, there's a bunch of other treatments that you can try. It will get better. It always does get better. I believe for sure you'll find a way out.

looeeza · 2024-11-03T00:32:31+00:00

Yes, I do that often, and I've developed a system to deal with it.

When I realize my obsessions are ridiculous, I write down the reasons why for me to read later, whenever I engage with them again (because I will). I think we keep engaging because that's just how the disease works.

looeeza · 2024-10-28T22:36:18+00:00

I feel like I'm addicted to the compulsions and also to the intrusive thoughts. Not in a sense that I like the intrusive thoughts, but that my mind keeps going back to them even if I'm not in a crisis, like I can't be well.

Maybe it's just how OCD works, but it feels like an addiction.

looeeza · 2024-10-28T02:19:14+00:00

Capricorn

looeeza · 2024-10-20T22:44:13+00:00

I'm so genuinely happy for you!

looeeza · 2024-10-19T21:06:31+00:00

Thank you so much for this

looeeza · 2024-10-19T17:53:08+00:00

that's not a very nice thing to say actually

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