Dealing with Anxiety..OCD.. and side effects of smoking

[Emerald]

6 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

It also attaches yourself to the ones you love the most.

For example, I taken a blow with Harm OCD towards my partner.

I've seen that too in my research into OCD that I've done for my daughter where there can be a particular person we're trying to avoid harming or to maintain a relationship with.

There was one woman who has Homosexuality OCD, where she has to check and check and check to try to be sure she isn't gay. 

And it's because she fears that she will realize that she is gay and have to end her relationship with her boyfriend... or that it means she doesn't love her boyfriend.

So, hers is about avoiding the dreaded outcome of hurting her partner and losing her relationship.

I also had a client who had the same thing, who had a fear of disappointing a family member... as this family member would sometimes make homophobic comments.

And there is the compulsion to check and re-check and re-check to make sure that the dreaded loss won't occur.

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[Sabth]

@Someone here 

I've edited it. 

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[Sabth]

They really be watching my phone.  

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[integral]

@Someone here I get a panic attack from hitting a vape just one time that’s high in nicotine.

Your body was being overstimulated by cigarettes and probably causing your panic attacks.

you need to get off the medication to test to see if your panic attacks were just caused by cigarette addiction and coffee addiction.

I don’t know why you’re consuming so many stimulants and expecting nothing to happen.

Our culture is sick and why no one told you how panic attacks work because no one knows that coffee and cigarettes are stimulants

I also suspect you did not exercise with poor sleep and probably you had other habits that you haven’t really realized yet that were causing your panic attack.

maybe you were taking thyroid medication (notorious for panic attacks) I don’t know what you were doing 

A panic attack is not all in your head, it’s mostly a body problem while you’re just not taking care of your body and your consuming stimulants causing panic attacks

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[integral]

On 2025-05-06 at 6:22 PM, Emerald said:

Hapé is a ceremonial tobacco that grows in the Amazon rainforest, and it helps to disconnect from the constant mind-spinning and grounds you more in 3-d, physical relatity.

Have you tried walking on a balance beam for 2 hours once a week?

A balance beam forces you to quiet your mind with a game element so it’s retained much stronger. Which interconnects the quitting with your entire body.

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[Sugarcoat]

You’re strong for going through this. 

[Alex_R]

I cured my ocd by 70% after taking several trips of lsd

[Alex_R]

I feek like what cured my ocd was just working on acceptance and surrender to what is it

[sholomar]

Detox from all screens and simply stop using devices that stimulate the nervous system for a period of time. Read the book "open focus brain"  ... watch how addicted your mind is to that constant stimulation and distraction. Being in a stimulated state of beta brainwaves constantly (narrow focus) doesn't allow the brain to relax, and acts as emotional suppression also, so when the brain does finally calm, it can release pent up stress and make one feel worse in the interm. 

Also, don't be taking stimulants. Ditch aspartame, nicotine, and caffeine. (no diet sodas either except caffeine and aspartame free ones which are rare to nonexistent) 

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[MutedMiles]

On 3/17/2025 at 6:13 PM, Someone here said:

I have made several threads in the past here that I struggle with anxiety and panic attacks.  And also about my addiction to smoking cigarettes. Thank god the panic attacks have vanished.  They were a feeling of I'm about to lose my mind and my sanity and losing control over my whole body and collapsing .I don't want to get into details in describing what a panic attack is to not trigger other healthy people on here.

So..like I said I'm cured now from panic attacks .all thanks to the medication I started taking a few years ago up until today (never missing a single day )..namely:

 Invega..  prozac.. Rivotril .. Zyprexa .

my therapist prescribed them to me .and I'm taking them consistently since 3 years ago. 

However I still from time to time get anxious . I'm experiencing social anxiety whenever I go outdoors to do a simple task like going to grocery to pick some milk I feel tensed around people.  When I go to sleep I feel anxiety and I experience a feeling of difficulty getting up from bed .I wake up at like 7 AM but I slack off and stay in bed doing nothing until 10 AM. It's like I want to keep sleeping for days and not see the light . I feel tired of daily routine .as if I'm 70 years old or something. 

Another problem I'm facing is OCD . I'm not gonna say what exactly is the OCD about or what is the thing that I'm obsessed about because I think it's embarrassing..but I'm confident to say I have OCD around a certain thing .I keep checking that thing repeatedly and unnecessarily even though my rational mind knows that there is no point in doing so but I can't help but check it out . So I need help with that as well .

The final proplem is I stopped smoking for two months now ...no cigarettes..no Cigars ...no nicotine patch ..no vaping etc.. yet I still feel burning sensation in my chest around the lungs and heart area . I know 100% it's the side effects of years of smoking . But like I said I stopped smoking completely for idk maybe two months almost (I don't really count the days ) and I don't plan to ever get back to smoking again. Nobody obviously wants lungs cancer or heart attack .

So..yeah ...these are some things I'm going through and I'm looking for advice .if anyone here can help me out please go ahead. 

Thanks !

Since your medication has been prescribed and it's working so i won't recommend anything else in that area. Whatever the side effects are I think it's worth it.

However regarding smoking, I quit smoking 10 years ago in 2015 it was one of those new year nights where I was able to do what I said I'll do. However, since I quit it due to health. So afterwards I wasn't satisfied since my health didn't improve so after a couple of months i realized that quitting smoking is just the start, I'll have to start eating healthy which I did and with some hit and miss but gradually i improved, which led me to working out and running. So since then I'm on a fitness journey. 

Which definitely added years to my life. I owe these healthy times of my life to those decisions that i made and stick to them. It's very probable that I may not be alive by now, If i didn't start that routine or would have a very low quality life (if any).
I would encourage you to continue with your fitness journey, it will pay dividends down the line.

[Someone here]

Thanks . I stopped smoking completely for a good long period of time. Also stopped eating pretty much anything except high quality grilled sheep steak.