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  • September 1, 2016 at 3:29 pm #113961
    David Ramirez
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    Hi again everyone,

    I wanna thank you all for your help! I’m feeling quite a bit better about all of this, and if I ever get to a rough patch again, I’ll probably look through your words for confidence. Today was a pretty good day, and every good day helps a little bit with my confidence and feeling of success. So here’s hoping that it’ll get a little easier every day. Like I said, they’re very rarely debilitating like they used to be; now, they’re more annoying than anything.

    monklet80, I think your advice will help me a lot – like I said in one of my other posts, it’s easy to say that we understand advice, but hard to really internalize it. Your words about acting as bored as possible, I think, will really help to shrink the thoughts down to what they really are: just thoughts. After all, if I can’t remember what I was thinking at exactly this moment three days ago, why should I let these thoughts have any more impact on me, right?

    You are all lovely people, and again, thank you so much for advice. Here’s hoping for every day to be a little better!

    September 1, 2016 at 4:43 am #113889
    David Ramirez
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    Hi VJ,

    First off, thank you for your reassuring words. That’s really mostly what I need right now.

    There have only been a few times – two or three – where the thoughts were strong and powerful enough to actually debilitate me for a while, and all of those happened during the summer. They made me lose all interest in what I was currently doing, and I had to get up and go lie down for a bit, or go through a breathing exercise to calm myself down, but they usually went away within the day. These days they’re a lot less intense, and usually just speed up my heartbeat a bit or dampen my mood. If I sit down and just focus on breathing for a short period of time, usually that’s enough to help. Other times, they’ve just stopped bothering me as much. I haven’t been keeping count of all the times it happens, but for the ones where I have to consciously calm myself down, probably once or twice every other day or so.

    And then of course there’s the regular anxiety on top of that, usually based around worries of “when will it happen next?” or something of that sort. That happens probably twice a day.

    Thank you for your help.

    September 1, 2016 at 4:17 am #113886
    David Ramirez
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    VJ-

    I think this site was the most helpful in reassuring me: http://www.drmartinseif.com/resources/intrusive-thoughts.html

    And usually it’s thoughts & images of killing or rape – and I’ve been afraid of really going into that specifically with anyone because I really don’t like how that makes me sound. And when I say “intentionally”, I don’t mean that I go and sit down and actually specifically try to see what could happen; it’s just that the thoughts are so unshakeable sometimes that it almost feels that way. Like I said before, I believe that it has been getting better, and I get a large rush of confidence if I notice that I’ve been doing well on a particular day.

    Thanks.

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