I have been having bad facial ticks lately. My anxiety has skyrocketed due to feeling utterly helpless with my intrusive thoughts. I even stumble and hit things. I feel like I can hardly stand. I can't look anyone in the eye and often have to ask people to repeat themselves several times due to me not being able to concentrate. I almost walked out of my job today due to people asking me why I was acting strange. You may know from my other posts that I have POCD. I am just terrified of life and want to escape and be alone when I am in public.
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dooby-duck
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I've got / had more tics than a clock. The thing is anxiety makes them worse and when I've noticed that I'm ticking it's impossible to stop. I used to think I was good at hiding them until I caught myself in the mirror one day. What little control I have over them disappears and to stop takes too much concentration and upsets my breathing.
Something I've found that works to relieve the intrusive thoughts is to think STOP. To enforce it I usually do a slightly longer than normal blink to help clear my mind. It won't work right away and I was constantly saying (in my head mostly) stop, but it worked eventually. (or the thoughts naturally subsided, I don't know which), but it works now to stop a lot of the thoughts dead.
Something I've found that works to relieve the intrusive thoughts is to think STOP. To enforce it I usually do a slightly longer than normal blink to help clear my mind. It won't work right away and I was constantly saying (in my head mostly) stop, but it worked eventually. (or the thoughts naturally subsided, I don't know which), but it works now to stop a lot of the thoughts dead.