Has anyone had to go through previous emotional pain again(that was suppressed with vaping/nicotine) to process it properly? If so, what did you do to help you heal? I’d love to know.
I feel really stuck right now. I’m 3 months vape/nicotine free… I also have ADHD (the inattentive one) and cravings come and go everyday.
How do you trust yourself again? I feel like I’m questioning myself a lot and I feel abit crazy because I have been gaslighted and manipulated so much. How do you heal? What do you do to regain your strength again?
Has anyone had good experience with them? I’m looking to move into a 9 bedroom houseshare.
Tried looking on here on the subreddit but so far nothing so maybe they are alright ? I’ve only seen bad reviews about other companies soo… I read the tenancy agreement but I wasn’t 100% sure and if I’m just over thinking it… If you have any experiences with them please feel free to share and ideally mention how long ago it was? Thank you!
I’m gagging for a vape. I’m trying so hard not to buy a vape, I literally cant stop eating food, I’m experiencing massive betrayal and grief at the same time and it’s difficult to shake off, I want to numb the pain.
My ocd calmed down when i was travelling for a week, or it may of attached itself on other themes but it wasn’t so bad for me to even notice alot as I got different ones that really try to ruin my mood and day to day life. So that’s an unexpected win for sure.
Now I’m back in a emotionally unsafe environment, my OCD has gotten worse. I just woke up the past few days and it’s saying the most horrific things, Idk what it’ll be like when I move out but it is interesting how I didn’t have much horrible intrusive thoughts when I was travelling around a new city for a week+ It was really nice to fall asleep without doing compulsions because I literally had no intrusive thoughts. Perhaps because I was busy and far too distracted by my surroundings… the Contamination theme did try to creep up on me so I did wash my hands a little more but not as much as I usually do again, I was able to think logically more than I had before + not feeling so tensed up, i was even overwhelmed at times and didn’t trigger any of my themes much, I thought I’ll mention this incase your ocd is stopping you trying new experiences, and maybe if you’ve been thinking of travelling, give yourself permission to, go and enjoy yourself. Of course bare in mind when you return to a emotionally unsafe environment it can feel more intense.
I believe that’s your nervous system screaming at you for some self care and throw new experiences into your life, I live in a very stressful manipulative selfish household that actually pushed my ocd up to the surface like a erupted volcano(when I didn’t know I had it before but it makes sense now how it manifested into this mental illness unfortunately) It made me realise I do in fact need to keep pushing myself to do new things despite having anhedonia as well.