My dr thinks i may have ocd and wants me to try an anti depresant designed for it, so i pretty much almost have a diagnosis of it. I also have panic attacks, social phobia and depression.
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:37 am Post subject: OCD
I have to shower every night before I got to bed otherwise my bed just doesn't feel clean. I also have to sleep with socks on! haha! I also suffer from emetophobia (the fear of vomiting or others vomiting) which has to do somehow with OCD i'm not really sure why though! can someone explain?
-gobananas
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject: Re: OCD
gobananas wrote:
I have to shower every night before I got to bed otherwise my bed just doesn't feel clean. I also have to sleep with socks on! haha! I also suffer from emetophobia (the fear of vomiting or others vomiting) which has to do somehow with OCD i'm not really sure why though! can someone explain?
-gobananas
You remind me very much of myself!!!!
Just yesterday I got back at one thirty from a babysitting job. Was dead tired, but I always have to take a shower before bed, its just one of those things I have to do. It aggravates my dad because it wakes him up. I didn't really want to do it, but I just knew I wouldn't get to sleep if I didn't.
....Also, when I was younger, fear of vomitting was my main obsession...I had no idea it had a name. Emetophobia, huh? guess you learn something new everyday.
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:17 am Post subject: Emetophobia
It's nice i'm not the only one. Just recently my emetophobia came back at full throttle! It was horrible. Now I have trouble going on Airplanes and eating any food that has ever caused me to throw up before. Is there anything I can do to push it past me?
-Kinz
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: Emetophobia
gobananas wrote:
Is there anything I can do to push it past me?
-Kinz
I wish I knew all the answers.... But I do feel as though I've gotten over it somewhat as I aged. I moved on to other scarier obsessions and they sort of overtook the vomitting thing. I'm sort of embarrassed to write this, but after vomitting, came this paralyzing obsession about sexuality, thinking something must be wrong with me, that I must be a lesbian..... Truth is, I'm positive I'm not. The thought scared me so much that my crazy mind latched on to it and wouldn't let go. After that came an obsession about diseases of any kind....But traces of all my obsessions still follow me around and jump out to scare me from time to time.
One thing that has really helped me with obsessive thoughts is "playing dead" to them. The only thing that makes us OCD is our REACTION to our thoughts. Everyone has the stray weird thought fly through their head on occasion. But a healthy person is able to let the thought go without fixating on it. We attach significance to random thoughts that aren't necessary to us.
So... my point is, everytime you start thinking about vomit, say to yourself, "Oh, look it's that annoying thought again." Then distract yourself with something. I know how hard this is to do, but don't give your bad thoughts power over you. In time, the fear and obsession will decrease, but it takes work. Best of luck!
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But I do feel as though I've gotten over it somewhat as I aged. I moved on to other scarier obsessions and they sort of overtook the vomitting thing. I'm sort of embarrassed to write this, but after vomitting, came this paralyzing obsession about sexuality, thinking something must be wrong with me, that I must be a lesbian..... 
Truth is, I'm positive I'm not. The thought scared me so much that my crazy mind latched on to it and wouldn't let go. After that came an obsession about diseases of any kind....But traces of all my obsessions still follow me around and jump out to scare me from time to time.
Best of luck! 
