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I posted this under a different category, but someone mentioned that if I posted it here I would get more replies.
Hi All,
I am in bad need of advice. For almost one year, I have suffered from obsessive thoughts mostly as a result of jealousy. When I stop and think about it, I know that I am being unreasonable, but in the moment, my thoughts consume me and I can't think of anything else. I've already lost a good friend as a result - she told me my jealousy towards her was unreasonable and unfounded. I have reasons why I am jealous and in the moment they make sense to me, but later I realize they are irrational.
I have done everything I could. I see a professional therapist, saw a pdoc, tried talking about it with other friends, tried to do other things to take my mind off it. I am even working two jobs now while going to school full time. Nothing works. Even when I am at work, I can't think of anything else other than my obsessive thoughts.
I want to be friends with the person I am jealous of . Especially because we used to be best friends and super close. But I can't be friends with her while at the same time feeling these obsessive thoughts. Any advice?
Hi All,
I am in bad need of advice. For almost one year, I have suffered from obsessive thoughts mostly as a result of jealousy. When I stop and think about it, I know that I am being unreasonable, but in the moment, my thoughts consume me and I can't think of anything else. I've already lost a good friend as a result - she told me my jealousy towards her was unreasonable and unfounded. I have reasons why I am jealous and in the moment they make sense to me, but later I realize they are irrational.
I have done everything I could. I see a professional therapist, saw a pdoc, tried talking about it with other friends, tried to do other things to take my mind off it. I am even working two jobs now while going to school full time. Nothing works. Even when I am at work, I can't think of anything else other than my obsessive thoughts.
I want to be friends with the person I am jealous of . Especially because we used to be best friends and super close. But I can't be friends with her while at the same time feeling these obsessive thoughts. Any advice?
I give my self a time limit. Usually about one hour where I have my own permission to think about it to my hearts content. To get it out of your system as fast as possible.
When that hour is up schedule your next "hour" of obsession time for a later date like tomorrow. Find something else important that needs to be done and work on it. Keep your self busy.
If you forget to think about it tomorrow than move on to your next obsession.
You also have to psych your self out. Tell your self how bored with it you are and you'd rather think about "fill in the blank" and then focus on that for a while.
Also my favorite strategy is to tell myself I'm very busy and I have way more important things to be doing. Make a long list of all the things you can think of that need done and start going down the list and checking them off as you go. Don't for get to add new things to the list as you think of them.
Obsession is hard. I've had to deal with it too. It's hard to break but you just have to keep telling your self, (like scarlet ohara did) "I'll think about this later." and then never do. It's worked for me once or twice.
good luck.
I don't think it's always the same medicine. What works for one doesn't always work for others.
I wish I could remember which meds have been mentioned, but I can't.
You say you 'saw' a Pdoc, but that you 'see' a therapist. Does that mean that you are no longer seeing a Pdoc? Perhaps you should be.
Also, I don't know what kind of therapy you are receiving, but some kinds are better than others, when it comes to treating obsessive thoughts.
There's some good information about which meds are used to help with obsessive thoughts and what kind of therapy works well, at the following site:
http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=7415
Good luck!!! I hope you manage to break free from those obsessive thoughts that plague you!!!! (((((Hugs)))))