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Hi! Thank you for this. Since upping my medication I feel a lot better:) I hope I stay this way!

Hope you are ok

Hello, I felt exactly like this 11 days ago when I moved house. I had strange feelings and sensations and they did get worse but I told my family and they all got together and I can feel it going away now. Would just like to let you know that it will go away. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

Wish you all the best with everything. Any kind of change is a trying time

I’m telling you you’re not a terrible person. Look in the mirror and tell yourself it’s just an illness- scream it if you have to!

I suffer from horrible intrusive thoughts and for about 3 years my thoughts were focussed on suicide and self harm so I totallt understand you. I feel like there are two approaches that I take and both of them work interchangeably: let the thought pass- it’s just a thought and tel yourself it won’t be around forever try to distract yourself- watch videos/Netflix etc you could also humour the thought.

Honestly it’s not you. It’s just an illness. You’re not an evil person. I would suggest watching some YouTube videos on ocd as they really help me when I have an attack

Just wanted to share some thoughts as I am new on here. I’m 28 years old. I have a beautiful baby girl. I’m a qualified teacher. But I suffer with horrific ocd and anxiety. After the birth of my daughter I became really unwell and I was put on lots of different meds. Eventually I became well but I moved house 11 days ago and had a horrible attack (even though I’m on meds) I was having uneasy feelings and thinking thoughts like: am I real? what am I doing? man I hallucinating? Is everything around me dead? just horrid thoughts. I ended up breaking down To my family and the doctor put my on a higher dose of citalopram. It’s been about a week and I feel a lot more mellow. The thoughts are right at the back of my head and the anxiety drifts away. I just want to reassure everyone including myself that whatever you’re going through, all of it, is just an illness. It will go away even if you feel like it won’t and that you’re in the middle of an attack. It’s a horrible invisible illness.

OCD is a disgusting horrible illness and i feel your pain. I just want to reassure you and anyone who is struggling that ocd is JUST AN ILLNESS. I have struggled with severe ocd and anxiety most of my life and I’m now taking 30 mg ciralopram. I was in 20 mg and my horrible intrusive thoughts and feelings came back when I moved house 11 days ago. I ended up breaking down and questioning: whether I’m real whether there are thousands of problems I need to resolve layers and layers of worry that I am hallucinating that there is something in the back of my head that needs to be worries about. I feel like I’m over the worst of this attach and strongly believe it’s the increase in meds. I strongly urge you to go to your doctors and get treatment. For anyone suffering.. it’s just an illness! We can do it!