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having tons of sexual obsessions. won't get into specifics but one keeps popping up on top of the other. i've been working on floating through them and accepting them as just thoughts but i was wondering by accepting i should let my mind keep going deeper and more vividly into the thought. for examp...

I recently saw a psychiatrist who has decided i should start weaning off the Effexor XR i've been on for 10 years and the clonazepam i've been on for six. Needless to say this weekend has been tough. Feel so jittery and depressed i hardly got out of bed. She's started me on Viibryd and hydroxizine. ...

I've recently started seeing a therapist because of a huge setback i'm in the middle of. Obviously anxiety and depression are the problem, but the major thing i have an issue with is obsessive, scary thoughts. I've dedicated myself, for the last year anyway, to books by claire weeks about dealing wi...

i'm in the middle of a major depressive bout right now. docs are trying new meds and new cognitive therapies, but most of the time i feel i can't improve because i have absolutely no life. i live in a very small town with minimal things to do socially that don't involve drinking. i'm fighting going ...

Why can't i do this acceptance thing? I've studied and studied and attempted to do what must be done to diminish these scary thoughts, but they just keep getting stronger and stronger. More of them and more frequent. What is it about me that can't let go. I'm obviously putting up with these thoughts...

what is your e-mail address. i'm interested to hear about these logs. thanks.

I appreciate your concern and i know all the things you are talking about. I've been doing this for a long time now. I'm aware of my overreaction to these thoughts, but lately it's one after another after another. Actuallly far worse than any other time i was hospitalized. I do not think they have s...

I don't know how much longer i can do this. It's just one disturbing thought after another. I've tried to accept and float through these thoughts, but there are just more and more of them. I can't have an enjoyable thought without it being interrupted by a gross or absurd one. I've studied this for ...

i just wanted to say that i hope for the best for any of you out there sufferring with this crap! I'm in the middle of a terrible setback right now and i'm struggling to keep it together. It's been almost a decade since i experienced the anxiety and depression at this level. In actuality it's probab...

Obsessive thoughts has been easily the hardest thing for me to deal with though all of this. I work with books by Clair Weeks on how to accept them and let them pass. Well lately it's like my mind is just trying to defeat me. I get over one just to have another weird though, which i knew was coming,...