I can't get therapy for... reasons.But my OCD makes me wipe my ass for 90 minutes and have 6 hour hygiene routines (including 60 minutes of showering).Every second day I stay up until 6 or 7 in the morning cause I am procrastinating the routine until late at night and I can't have a normal life anymore.
>>34417359It's almost 3 amit's gonna be a long night again
>>34417590aaand it took me 5h10m
>>34417590>>34418323goodnight...i shold sleep as well>>34417359>But my OCD makes me wipe my ass for 90 minutes and have 6 hour hygiene routines (including 60 minutes of showering).>Every second day I stay up until 6 or 7 in the morning cause I am procrastinating the routine until late at night and I can't have a normal life anymore.there are probably techniques which therapists would teach, which you could learn about online10+ years ago i would tell you to look for some sort of OCD groups online to learn tips, but it's probably gonna be a bunch of unhelpful bullshit if you search for that today..
>>34418342>>34418342I have an elder brother with OCD. Can you please recommend some online content. I’ve tried looking online but to no avail. I’ve talked to my parents to avail a therapist but they’re stereotypical boomers, my father claims it’s just a phase, yet it drives them up the wall when he acts the way he does.
>his OCD makes him engage in physical ritualsYou lucky fuck
>>34418466I had pure OCD thoughts in the past, but they have significantly reduced, especially over the last few years, and then even more over the last six months or so, once I started taking NAC+B12. It also had to do with working out and perhaps age.It's still there every now and then but it is nowhere near as bad as it used to be.>>34418342>10+ years ago i would tell you to look for some sort of OCD groups online to learn tipsThere are online groups but they always do this youtube tutorial shit where they share the most basic information to get clicks, but actual techniques or real programs on how to apply certain treatments are practically completely absent.Everybody always talks about ERP and CBT, but there is no real step-by-step guide or anything. At least not to my knowledge.There may also be a problem with many of these online therapists being women (naturally, since most OCD affected are women), cause its all nice talk and whatnot but I haven't seen a single one of them recommend the most fundamental treatment, which is working out.Oh yeah I got up at 2:35 pm, which of course bars me from any normal world interaction.It's been much worse during winter, when sometimes I would procrastinate until 3am, then have my routine until 10am and then sleep until 5pm, and it would be dark already.
>>34419174My pure OCD keeps getting worse as I get older no matter how much B12+NAC I take lol!!!!1!!!!1
>>34417359convince yourself that you can do it both more efficiently and quickly in a shorter more reasonable amount of time. Shut off your brain and do it all in an hour on autopilot. If afterwards you feel like your brain is winding up again just zone out and ignore it and think about something else. Do this repeatedly over weeks and weeks and the brain wiring will dissipate slowly
>>34420216>convince yourself that you can do it both more efficiently and quickly in a shorter more reasonable amount of time. Shut off your brain and do it all in an hour on autopilot.i dont need convincingi know i could do it in the pastthe problem is that once i am pushing towards it, its like i am physically blocked. its hard to explain but its like in a video game, where you walk outside the map and the game turns you around saying "you cant go there".
>>34420371Yes that is the hardest part. If you want the nuclear option you can always go to a psych ward but I assume you don't want that just yet.Your best shot is going to be resisting your brain in small steps. You are limited by your brain so much so that it feels physical and unstoppable. Trying to go against this will feel nauseating, but necessary. You're probably going to be doing some part of this today, so you have the opportunity, the mandate, to try resisting at least some form of what you did yesterday for today. This will feel impossible, like trying to tell a fish to walk. But you know you've done it before, and you can do it again, you just need to build a framework for dismantling this one night at a time
>>34420399luckily shitting day is tomorrow.Today I go to bed normally
