• ShunkW@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This comment has a lot of gee thanks I’m cured energy. Anxiety doesn’t work that way dude. So you can fuck off with that

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      1 year ago

      They are right though, you have to say fuck it and make yourself do it. That first step is the hardest.

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        1 year ago

        It’s really not right though. If you have a lot of anxiety and try to just get over it this way, it could lead to a negative experience and reinforce the anxiety. The proper response is seek professional help.

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      I have OCD, it’s giga anxiety, I know what I’m talking about. The standard for therapy for OCD is exposure response prevention (ERP), you straight up do (or don’t do for the compulsion) the thing or expose to the thing that makes you anxious until it doesn’t. Which is what I mean by run at your anxiety. You would obviously do this in steps so say you are anxious about being trapped in public and having an episode (agoraphobia, common for OCD). You might first start by stepping outside your house and going for a 5 min walk, next 10 min walk, next drive and sit in the parking lot of a Walmart, and so on. This also obviously takes a lot of time, however over this long time your OCD (anxiety) symptoms will lessen until you can control it.

      Also if you have OCD DO NOT do self directed ERP, get a professional to direct you. Check out NOCD.com if you’re interested in learning more or need a professional.

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        I have OCD as well. You literally said just say fuck it and go do stuff. Then you switched back and said, “do it directed by a professional”. You see how that’s inconsistent?

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          Yeah I’m not really good at communicating, but I was trying to say if you have OCD that is a higher level of anxiety don’t try to self therapy yourself. ERP when boiled down is just saying “fuck it, let’s go bitch” to your anxiety and doing stuff that makes you anxious. Again there are steps to that and should be directed by a professional. However, if you’re a person with low-moderate social anxiety or low self esteem you can probably just say fuck it. That’s what I’m trying to say. The OP sounded like the second group of people so I was directing my response to them.

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        omg I just saw Howie Mandell doing the ads for NOCD! that shit blew my mind, I’m so glad he can finally get the word out cause I fucking hate being plagued like this and not being taken seriously about it.

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      my anxiety didn’t go away entirely but I did work on it and it did get better.

      Surely people can try to get better. Nothing wrong with that…