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re: Ocd diagnosis
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:35 am to RandySavage
Posted on 4/23/26 at 11:35 am to RandySavage
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Got diagnosed with ocd yesterday, anybody else deal with this and have found effective treatments/ways to cope? The intrusive thoughts are crushing me right now.
Sorry to hear that brother, I truly wouldn't wish it on anyone. I've found most of my success comes from radical acceptance. No matter how dark, twisty or upsetting the thoughts, I just let them be. I don't agree or disagree with them, I just let them be. It seems asinine when you're in the storm but resisting the compulsion to do whatever you're anxiety relief comp is does lessen their grip on your over time.
I almost hesitate to post this next part because I don't want it to become a reassurance compulsion for you so I'll preface it with the fact that it may not work for you and you can't be sure it will one way or the other.
In my experience, when I stopped assigning value to the dark thoughts, stopped really considering them to be important at all, they lessened over time. Here's the key though, I wouldn't allow them to sit in the hopes of lessening my anxiety, that became a compulsion in and of itself. I truly had to just strictly sit with it until my brain moved on on it's own. I now have really long stretches of remission and it doesn't own my life.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 11:40 am
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Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:16 pm to RandySavage
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Got diagnosed with ocd yesterday, anybody else deal with this and have found effective treatments/ways to cope? The intrusive thoughts are crushing me right now.
Ivermectin.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:32 pm to RandySavage
Been dealing with this forever. Whoever said it is not bad like drugs needs to try to work, have a relationship, and raise kids while taking 3 hour long baths a day, never letting foods touch, having rituals around everything including sex and get back to me. Or when coworkers know and rearrange your desk everytime you get up knowing you have to put it all back. 
Take only trazadone at night. I am assuming your propranol may be 3 times a day which makes it more difficult. If it is not don't take it at night.
Take only trazadone at night. I am assuming your propranol may be 3 times a day which makes it more difficult. If it is not don't take it at night.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:39 pm to RandySavage
I was diagnosed with OCD in high school. They put me on an antipsychotic that is usually for schizophrenia (Risperdal) that changed my life. There are still some debilitating parts of it, stickers drive me absolutely insane. I don’t buy bananas or fruit with stickers for instance.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:50 pm to RandySavage
I’ve never been diagnosed with OCD and I think there are probably different levels of it that people can experience, so I may have had a small or moderate case.
But there were things that I use to have to do like keeping things in a certain order or leaving the radio in my car on a certain number. And if I didn’t do this I was convinced something bad would happen to me. I finally got tired of worrying about it and just weaned myself off of the compulsions.
But there were things that I use to have to do like keeping things in a certain order or leaving the radio in my car on a certain number. And if I didn’t do this I was convinced something bad would happen to me. I finally got tired of worrying about it and just weaned myself off of the compulsions.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 1:37 pm to RandySavage
Yoga helps relax
Posted on 4/23/26 at 1:45 pm to madamsquirrel
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propranol
I've seen this mentioned a few times & wondering how a highly flammable alcohol help with anxiety?
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:43 pm to This GUN for HIRE
I dont know how to spell it and I am all confused. The beta blocker one is for anxiety and the amnesia one for an endoscopy I had an allergic reaction to.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:22 pm to RandySavage
Yeah, my entire life. But I'm not a pussy.
The best thing I ever did was get off social media. I also try to just do other stuff. Workout, play sports, gardening. But if you are struggling right now, log off bro. Stop looking at a screen. Stop trying to get validation from losers on the internet.
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This most recent one is the strangest though and honestly it prob stems from the ot lol.
The best thing I ever did was get off social media. I also try to just do other stuff. Workout, play sports, gardening. But if you are struggling right now, log off bro. Stop looking at a screen. Stop trying to get validation from losers on the internet.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:24 pm to RandySavage
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Got diagnosed with ocd yesterday, anybody else deal with this and have found effective treatments/ways to cope? The intrusive thoughts are crushing me right now.
Therapy and medication should help you. Good luck
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:24 pm to This GUN for HIRE
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propranol
I've seen this mentioned a few times & wondering how a highly flammable alcohol help with anxiety?
Are you mixing up propofol (milk of amnesia) with propranolol? Propranolol is a beta-blocker. But then I am still confused since propofol is a phenol, not an alcohol.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:26 pm to dgnx6
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Yeah, my entire life. But I'm not a pussy.
Apparently you are too much of a coward to ask for help. Good luck with that. I’m sure you are a joy to be around. Probably don’t have many friends.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:27 pm to Sofaking2
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Apparently you are too much of a coward to ask for help. Good luck with that. I’m sure you are a joy to be around. Probably don’t have many friends.
Or I don't find ruminating with some dipshit therapist as helping.
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Rumination in OCD is a mental compulsion that feels like problem-solving but actually reinforces anxiety, doubt, and distress by trapping you in a loop of trying to achieve absolute certainty
Try not to be such a cocksucker
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:32 pm to RandySavage
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This most recent one is the strangest though and honestly it prob stems from the ot lol. I have been teaching for almost 25 years and never had a remotely inappropriate interreaction with a student. However, lately when i see on here something about a teacher and a student i somehow insert myself into the position and fear I'm going to end up the teacher on the news.
This is no joke. One of my friends lost his teaching job having nothing to do with sex, but basically breaking up a fight. Being a man in education puts a target on your back that women don’t have to deal with. There was a woman involved in his incident and the charges were dropped for her, but not him.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 4:34 pm to dgnx6
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Or I don't find ruminating with some dipshit therapist as helping.
Then don’t. No need to be such an a-hole towards people who choose to get help.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 5:11 pm to Sofaking2
Best thing I ever did was get a therapist and tell people I had it. Trying to hide it and failing was exhausting. Now I just laugh about it and my family calls me out. Whoever said exposure therapy hit the nail on the head. It helps.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 5:12 pm
Posted on 4/23/26 at 5:18 pm to dgnx6
Idk why you are being such an a-hole here.
Therapy has never really helped me because I can rationally understand how irrational some of my thoughts are, yet they still persist.
When I was in my early 20s I went to some OCD exposure therapy program for a couple days and couldn’t take it. I was asked to list some of my irrational fears. One of them was getting into car accidents. The “therapist” then proceeded to tell me to start hoping I get into an accident on my drive home. I get the point he was trying to make (that thoughts don’t cause things to happen), but telling a suicidal person to intentionally get in an accident seemed astoundingly stupid.
Therapy has never really helped me because I can rationally understand how irrational some of my thoughts are, yet they still persist.
When I was in my early 20s I went to some OCD exposure therapy program for a couple days and couldn’t take it. I was asked to list some of my irrational fears. One of them was getting into car accidents. The “therapist” then proceeded to tell me to start hoping I get into an accident on my drive home. I get the point he was trying to make (that thoughts don’t cause things to happen), but telling a suicidal person to intentionally get in an accident seemed astoundingly stupid.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 5:38 pm to TheWalrus
Oh my gosh!!! All I had to do was not take a bath when the compulsion was driving me. Basically incrementally wait longer once the thoughts start. I understand logically a lot of things that my brain obsesses about. So making me purposely think about getting in a wreck would do nothing but ramp up my anxiety. Ask my husband how fun it is to ride with me obsessing that the car is going to go off the road (especially in mountains). He likes to remind me he has never left the roadway not once.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 5:54 pm to Obtuse1
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Are you mixing up propofol (milk of amnesia) with propranolol?
No
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1-Propanol (
) is a colorless, volatile, flammable liquid with a mild, alcohol-like, or sharp musty odor
Its a degreaser
But I think Propranolol is what they mean after looking it up. Never heard of it.
Posted on 4/23/26 at 5:56 pm to TheWalrus
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Idk why you are being such an a-hole here.
Therapy has never really helped me because I can rationally understand how irrational some of my thoughts are, yet they still persist.
Or how about this. I don't believe in mass produced therapy. Everyone is different.
And I certainly don't put faith in people that prescribe children meth and hormone blockers. Everyone wants a quick fix for the symptoms.
And the OP in his follow up post said the OT probably triggers it. So I say, log off. When you have down time from your other obligations, don't doom scroll the Internet.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 6:02 pm
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