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Post by edwardjohn on Jul 19, 2024 0:47:51 GMT
You’re welcome, Edders. 🙂❤️ How are you doing now? Better I hope. 🙏 Come tell us when you’re up to it, and are ready. 🙂 (I’ll catch up with things everywhere soon. Had some other things I’ve needed to concentrate on, lately. Some days I just need to make quick posts in the usual places around here, and leave the longer involved discussions for better days. I’m sure you can imagine.  ) Hi, Wolf! Hope you are doing good. Yes, I've been doing better. I'm still going to meet with my therapist and all, but yeah, I'm doing much better, thank you for asking.
And yes, I hope you are doing well too. |
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Post by edwardjohn on Jul 19, 2024 1:02:20 GMT
Thank you again so much, folks. |
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Post by edwardjohn on Jul 19, 2024 1:02:47 GMT
Thank you again so much, folks. You are very good people. |
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Post by wolf on Jul 19, 2024 15:58:02 GMT
You’re welcome, Edders. 🙂❤️ How are you doing now? Better I hope. 🙏 Come tell us when you’re up to it, and are ready. 🙂 (I’ll catch up with things everywhere soon. Had some other things I’ve needed to concentrate on, lately. Some days I just need to make quick posts in the usual places around here, and leave the longer involved discussions for better days. I’m sure you can imagine. ) Hi, Wolf! Hope you are doing good. Yes, I've been doing better. I'm still going to meet with my therapist and all, but yeah, I'm doing much better, thank you for asking.
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Post by edwardjohn on Jul 23, 2024 15:46:44 GMT
Hello, folks, hope you are all doing well.
I was going to tag everyone who has posted here, but I knew I would forget someone and I didn't want it to seem like I didn't value anyone here, you know? I most certainly do value everyone here.
Anyway, so, I finally got my doctor's refferal appointment today with regards to possible medication for my OCD, anxiety, etc. This is in conjunction with the therapy. So, the problem is that there is medication that can deal with the occassional instances of insane anxiety, but unfortunately they can't give it to me because of some other medication I am currently on (its not serious or anything).
So, they suggested an antidepressant. I'm not really sure that antidpressants at the route to go if I'm being honest. Yes, the doctor did reccomend it to me, but that's more if you have a general depression, anxiety and the like. It doesn't seem to be sphecific to OCD, you know?
Anyway, some research and some talking with family and I'll decide.
Thanks again for being here for me, folks. |
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Post by wolf on Jul 23, 2024 15:54:19 GMT
Hello, folks, hope you are all doing well.
I was going to tag everyone who has posted here, but I knew I would forget someone and I didn't want it to seem like I didn't value anyone here, you know? I most certainly do value everyone here.
Anyway, so, I finally got my doctor's refferal appointment today with regards to possible medication for my OCD, anxiety, etc. This is in conjunction with the therapy. So, the problem is that there is medication that can deal with the occassional instances of insane anxiety, but unfortunately they can't give it to me because of some other medication I am currently on (its not serious or anything).
So, they suggested an antidepressant. I'm not really sure that antidpressants at the route to go if I'm being honest. Yes, the doctor did reccomend it to me, but that's more if you have a general depression, anxiety and the like. It doesn't seem to be sphecific to OCD, you know?
Anyway, some research and some talking with family and I'll decide.
Thanks again for being here for me, folks. Good luck with finding anything that helps, Edders. Keeping it all in prayer for you, as always. 🙏❤️ |
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Post by edwardjohn on Jul 23, 2024 15:55:17 GMT
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Post by drawntokatet on Jul 24, 2024 14:56:35 GMT
Sometimes just knowing that you're not alone, helps. 
Hope you're having a peaceful day.
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Post by drawntokatet on Aug 5, 2024 14:01:26 GMT
Know that you (all) are important and what you have to say is valuable.
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Post by edwardjohn on Aug 5, 2024 19:12:15 GMT
Sometimes just knowing that you're not alone, helps.
Hope you're having a peaceful day. |
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Post by edwardjohn on Aug 5, 2024 19:26:07 GMT
Hello, folks, hope all of you are doing great. I was gonna tag everyone for this post but decided not to as I'd probably forgot someone (and I don't want to do that).
Anyway, I was going to talk about intrusive thoughts today. I'll do a brief summary of what they are, but if I don't explain it well, a simple Google search will give you a good idea as to what they are.
So, intrusive thoughts, in my opinion, are thoughts that make you anxious, scared or just make you feel damn bad. Often times, the thoughts are related to a particular situation, but a lot of the time they are not.
They come in many varieties. The most common of which, I believe, is just a general thought of you being worthless.
The important thing with intrusive thoughts is being able to know which ones are valid and which ones are not. That'll be pretty east to determine in most cases as most intrusive thoughts don't make sense if you think about them logically. So, say the thought is 'you totally suck.' You can very easily counter that by saying, 'well, by what metric do I suck?' A lot of the times you'll find that questioning the thought ends up destroying its validity.
I use the comparison of fighting a war against an army that's much better than yours with regards to OCD. Often times, like if you're at war against an army better than you, you have to be clever and know when a thought is valid or ridiculous, which, like I've said, is pretty easy to know.
Of course, that's easier said than done. But I know with the great folks here, I am doing better. |
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Post by drawntokatet on Aug 14, 2024 14:42:24 GMT
Intrusive thoughts is exactly what happens to me too, only I didn't know the name of it.
The other day I kept thinking 'no one told me when to run, I missed the starting gun'. The Pink Floyd song is a good interpretation of intrusive thoughts and how they can make me feel awful. Did I fail? Am I a failure? Truly deep thoughts of self doubt, whe I have been successful at many things. Only the doubt emerges when I least expect it and I'm not prepared to manage it. My interpretation. |
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Post by neesy on Aug 20, 2024 15:13:29 GMT
Intrusive thoughts is exactly what happens to me too, only I didn't know the name of it.
The other day I kept thinking 'no one told me when to run, I missed the starting gun'. The Pink Floyd song is a good interpretation of intrusive thoughts and how they can make me feel awful. Did I fail? Am I a failure? Truly deep thoughts of self doubt, whe I have been successful at many things. Only the doubt emerges when I least expect it and I'm not prepared to manage it. My interpretation. Anxiety has haunted me for quite a few years now
This is one of the reasons I cannot care for Andy at our home - that and also because of my special needs son and because our bedrooms and main bathroom are upstairs. I still feel a wee bit of guilt however which I guess is normal?
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Post by drawntokatet on Sept 5, 2024 15:17:08 GMT
Intrusive thoughts is exactly what happens to me too, only I didn't know the name of it.
The other day I kept thinking 'no one told me when to run, I missed the starting gun'. The Pink Floyd song is a good interpretation of intrusive thoughts and how they can make me feel awful. Did I fail? Am I a failure? Truly deep thoughts of self doubt, whe I have been successful at many things. Only the doubt emerges when I least expect it and I'm not prepared to manage it. My interpretation. Anxiety has haunted me for quite a few years now
This is one of the reasons I cannot care for Andy at our home - that and also because of my special needs son and because our bedrooms and main bathroom are upstairs. I still feel a wee bit of guilt however which I guess is normal?
Totally normal to feel a bit guilty, it is too much for one person to care for a loved one at home. |
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