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Bowie217
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OCD in the mind and body
Anxiety Support / by Bowie217
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 January 13th
...See more I'm exhausted with constantly dealing with the way anxiety and OCD makes me feel. Its bad enough that my mind is everywhere, but the physical pain it causes me is unbearable at times. Whenever I'm anxious I feel like my body is burning up from the inside and something is twisting my chest into knots and I need to scream or it'll never get out of me. When I try not to do compulsive behaviors when I want to like I'm supposed to it feels like my body is on fire or tainted somehow and I'm just supposed to ignore it. I have to do it with just willpower because I've never taken a medication that had any effect on my OCD, its always just been a shot in the dark and a miss. OCD is so critically under studied and treated in general. I struggle with BFRB and I'm tired of screwing up my face and body because I'm not strong enough to leave it alone. I'm caught in a loophole of using my compulsive behaviors to cope with my anxiety, and being anxious when I over rely on my compulsions and make myself distressed.
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