Search found 47 matches
- Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:04 am
- Forum: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Topic: Feel like a zombie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2961
- Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:42 am
- Forum: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Topic: Obsessive Scary Thought?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1677
Personally I use this as the barometer for crazy/not crazy: If you think you're crazy, you're not. Crazy people think everyone else is crazy. I've had phrases stick in my head (complete with sound effects) that scared me. I remember once I saw the original "Shining" and the kids voice saying "Redrum...
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:53 am
- Forum: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Topic: Please ... I need a question answered.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2022
I'm a fairly typical GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) type w/OCD tendencies and your story is very familiar to me. I believe you are suffering from hypochondriasis which is basically a form of OCD whereby a person is convinced they're ill, and no matter how many doctors tell them they're ok, or te...
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:38 am
- Forum: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Topic: Need some comfort!! (=
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2946
I used to fear my house was haunted too. When we moved into my house, it was the culmination of an extremely stressful time in my life. Two years before, I had my first child and my husband got the dream job he's always wanted. Unfortunately it meant we had to move somewhere we had no friends or rel...
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:29 am
- Forum: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Topic: Please Help With this one! Ocd Thought.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1934
The scary thought is a distraction, but from what? Here's a few possibilities I have: -Underlying feeling that you're not that emotionally close to her, and may ultimately fail as a mother. -Underlying disassociation with your husband and family in general, perhaps due to over-focusing on yourself b...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:13 am
- Forum: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Topic: HOCD - going crazy.. :(
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3021
I'm no expert, other than I'm a bonafide OCD obsessive thinker, but I'm willing to bet that the fear of being gay is in the top 10 list of obsessive thoughts. They're all distractions, and the scarier or more disturbing, the better. When I was younger I hated going on the second story of the mall be...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:53 am
- Forum: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Topic: Stress and Anxiety
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4481
I'm having a flare-up of IBS right now, which is clearly caused by recent anxiety. I found this link on WEBMD and for some reason find it comforting: http://www.webmd.com/ibs/livin...ibs-6/ibs-and-stress I think the feeling that were not normal, or theres something more at work scares us. This says ...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:35 am
- Forum: Humor for Anxiety
- Topic: Humor for this hypochondriac
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1482
I have a swollen lymph node on the right side of my neck which has been the source of my hypochrondriac focus since late summer. It's been enlarged for as long as I can remember, I was told by a doctor it was due severe ear infections as a child, and I never worried about it. But I started to notice...
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:15 am
- Forum: General Comments/Inquiries about
- Topic: Here I go again...can I do better?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 799
Hello all, I've been gone awhile. I did the program October 2007, and it was the best thing I could have done for myself. The program made me realize how I was causing my anxiety with my negative thinking, catastrophizing, what iffing...It all made sense, and worked. I went off the Lexapro and up un...
- Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:51 am
- Forum: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Topic: angry thoughts toward family and friends
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1725
Hi Dave, I'm very anger driven too. Like you, other's can sense my emotions and get upset when I'm upset, even when I put on my "happy face". I've even started to wonder if I'm some kind of telepath, broadcasting my emotions or something! For me, my anger ebbs and flows, so to speak. Right now, I'm ...