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thistooshallpass1996

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About thistooshallpass1996

  • Birthday 07/04/1996

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  • OCD Status
    Living with OCD
  • Type of OCD
    Not just one type

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  • Gender
    Female
  • Location
    England

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  1. @PolarBear I know but it’s just breaking the pattern that I’m stuck on. I’m doing things to help myself though like taking medication and starting to meet with a therapist again
  2. @Caramoole The thoughts are bad enough but what really scares me is the false memories that seem so real. I have images of doing horrible things and I can’t convince myself otherwise. I have moments where I feel like I have absolutely no control over what I might do. I lie awake worrying about it constantly. Also I’ve started taking sertraline to try and regulate my moods but it doesn’t seem to be doing much
  3. Yeah agreed, this has been a pretty counterproductive post on this occasion
  4. Also no it didn’t come across as rude or anything, hair isn’t exactly specific to one gender (insert smiley face here) I think I need to sleep, not sure if you’re UK based or not but if you are then so should you
  5. @howard I think if I’m worried, I could take a course of action and maybe go to the doctors or to a hairdresser that actually knows stuff about hair. That way I get get a second opinion from someone who isn’t going to just tell me what I want to hear. working on my confidence alongside that would also help but I’ve associated my confidence with my hair so I need to look at changing that.
  6. I’m also at work tomorrow but instead of sleeping I’m panic posting at 12am woooo
  7. @howard yeah there’s a lot going on at the moment. but yeah I appreciate men also care about their hair which is valid. I think because it’s my hair I notice it more but yeah I have a tendency to obsess. I feel like my posts are usually productive but now I’ve had a minute to read the post back, I think this post was pretty pointless as I’m mostly asking for reassurance that‘s impossible to get. I just don’t want to add this to the cocktail of chaos that’s already happening in my life at the moment
  8. Adding to my post, I think I just want someone to tell me that showering on holiday wouldn’t make my hair fall out but maybe it can. I don’t know, I just know my confidence is really low at the moment
  9. @Worto Didn’t know what it meant but thanks for clearing that up. I’ve dealt with every type of OCD in the book at this point. Could say I’m an overachiever in that way
  10. @Nolightleft I’m sorry to hear this. I’m also offering to listen if you need to speak to someone
  11. @Worto i know you mentioned on my post you were struggling with this at the minute. It can seem scary because it feels real but we just need to remind ourselves it’s not and learn to let go of the thoughts more
  12. @ocdjonesy i literally have this exact issue at the moment. I’m constantly monitoring my hair and on top of that I’m a woman in my late 20’s with ocd. maybe not the Hannibal part though
  13. @PolarBear I’m trying but some days are harder than others. Btw it’s funny because your profile photo looks like my dog
  14. I’m a 27 year old female so naturally my hair is important to me. I used to have thick hair and then when I was a stupid teenager I burnt it all off with bleach. It took a while for it to recover and was never quite the same. it got to a point where I was happy with it again, I had reassurance off boyfriends that it was fine and I just stayed away from dyeing it. I wouldn’t go to the hairdressers either. Recently I went on holiday to Greece and I was reading up on their water and how it’s harsher. I showered every day before going out in the evening, this included getting my hair wet. Some days it would be a quick rinse and other days it would be a proper wash. I was on holiday for a week. when I got back, I could see my hairline looked different. My hair looked thinner and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. All I could think is not This again. I’ve ruined my hair again. Now I can’t even look at photos of myself before the holiday because I’m terrified I’ll be able to see a difference. My confidence has dropped completely. I can’t work out if it’s in my head or if this is actually happening to me. Hoping someone can relate
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