How to deal with repetitive spikes?
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nev_vern
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Are you only on this site to make fun of people for your own perverted amusement?
no, i just didnt understand the question thats all!
youve got to have a wee bit of a sense of humour in life!
nev_vern
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must of misunderstood sorry.
a sense of humour is something i dont have much of and is also a problem for me
The one thing that annoys me at the moment, is their is a few people in work who get jokes over txt messages, and they tell them to people. Always see people laughing and giggling, and when they get to me, and tell me a joke, i just have to do a fake smile or something, never a laugh of giggle. Really annoying when someone tells a joke and their are several people laughing, and i am their quiet as a mouse. usually get replies like "Your boring", or , "You dont get it, do you?" I get the jokes, i just dont find them funny
Some times after someone tells me a joke, and i give out minimum response, i have a feeling that they are saying to themselves "F*ck you then, i will tell it to more interested people..." There are extremely rare cases, where a joke tickles my funnybone and i laugh/giggle, but, like i said, times like that are extremely rare with me.
Dudley
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This happens to me, too. Once something gets stuck in my head it's pretty tough to get it out. What seems to work a little (for me) is to do something that's very involved. That way your attention is focused on that instead of your symptoms, at least for a little while.
getbornagain
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You must pinpoint the different aspects of OCD... Spike, doubt, rumination. Be aware that you are always looking out for [insert obsession here], even when you don't think you're thinking about it... Therefore when you see/experience [insert obsession here] it will cause anxiety. Recognize it is anxiety and nothing more, recognize the doubt your OCD will create following the anxiety-inducing stimulus. Avoid rumination; rumination being your ritual, compulsion or anxiety-reducing routine.
That is the cycle of OCD:
1. Stimulus causing spike=anxiety spike
2. Debate within your mind about cause of this feeling=doubt
3. Ritual or compulsion performed to neutralize anxiety and bad thought=rumination
Once you can identify each component you can greatly reduce the effect of every spike.
Very difficult to explain this disorder. I did my best, hope it helps.
That is the cycle of OCD:
1. Stimulus causing spike=anxiety spike
2. Debate within your mind about cause of this feeling=doubt
3. Ritual or compulsion performed to neutralize anxiety and bad thought=rumination
Once you can identify each component you can greatly reduce the effect of every spike.
Very difficult to explain this disorder. I did my best, hope it helps.
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ocdkindofguy
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I didn't completley understand your first question! But that laughing thing happens to me too. I used to think like: I'm not going to be able to laugh, someone funny is going to happen and everyone will laugh except for me, and I kind of laughed for like a while but forced, but sometimes my friends kept seriously laughing and I couldn't keep it up. If I don't find the joke funny, I try to think of the situation! For example, I see that everyone else is finding it funny but me, and I think that they are thinking that it is hilarious but it's not that funny at all, and that sort of makes me laugh! Then I for example can think that everyone else is finding it funny except for me, and I'm going to laugh at that, and everyone else is laughing at a different thing then me, and that is also funny. There are a lot of things you can think of hehe.
Other thing is that once I am going to start laughing I get intrusive toughts like: "I'm not going to be able to laugh" or "I did something terrible in the past how can you dare to laugh?" something like that. That kind of bugs me sometimes, but if you ignore it and laugh through it it won't matter, you'll later on thank yourself for that.
But the most important to me is that I don't HAVE to laugh, if I don't find it funny. "Too bad you think I'm boring guys, I'm still in a good mood anyways, no reason to find me boring." something like that. And that dissinterrested thing with people happens sometimes too, but I just don't have anything else to say, doesn't mean that I am not receptive. In real life even if that happens my friends usually can tell that I am not dissinterrested, it's no big deal, they still usually want to talk to me, because I always try to be in a mood to have fun. Even if we are not talking we still enjoy hanging around with eachother, because we're all always feeling well, almost every conversation is fun!
That sort of thing (Laughing etc) just happens naturally if you're in a good mood in my opinion! And ignore the intrusive toughts! I don't have like a "script" to explain this one better, but if you improvise on the spot something you can still be fun in any situation! Well this probably hasn't really helped you, but nice to know someone else also has the same situation as you hehe.
Other thing is that once I am going to start laughing I get intrusive toughts like: "I'm not going to be able to laugh" or "I did something terrible in the past how can you dare to laugh?" something like that. That kind of bugs me sometimes, but if you ignore it and laugh through it it won't matter, you'll later on thank yourself for that.
But the most important to me is that I don't HAVE to laugh, if I don't find it funny. "Too bad you think I'm boring guys, I'm still in a good mood anyways, no reason to find me boring." something like that. And that dissinterrested thing with people happens sometimes too, but I just don't have anything else to say, doesn't mean that I am not receptive. In real life even if that happens my friends usually can tell that I am not dissinterrested, it's no big deal, they still usually want to talk to me, because I always try to be in a mood to have fun. Even if we are not talking we still enjoy hanging around with eachother, because we're all always feeling well, almost every conversation is fun!
That sort of thing (Laughing etc) just happens naturally if you're in a good mood in my opinion! And ignore the intrusive toughts! I don't have like a "script" to explain this one better, but if you improvise on the spot something you can still be fun in any situation! Well this probably hasn't really helped you, but nice to know someone else also has the same situation as you hehe.
getbornagain
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Yeah that didn't make a lick of sense dude.
JCS008
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Right now, I'm trying to deal with my OCD with CBT. Something I've noticed is that when anxiety occurs, I just try to deal with it at first. At first, it gets kind of uncomfortable, and you just want to do something to ease the anxiety. But if you just let it pass, it gets easier for you as it goes on. Very hard at first, but its something you have to get yourself to accept.
pufferfish
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i really wish i knew the answer to this question. once i get stuck on an upsetting thought or situation; it literally cripples me and i can't stop thinking about it. i am currently suffering with this right now.