Real event OCD .. 2 months ago I made a mistake that while at the time of doing it I felt fine but after I had extreme anxiety I did something wrong and triggered my OCD leading to performing my compulsions of confession and reassurance seeking. Now ever since I am fixating and searching for other “mistakes” I’ve made in the past that never used to bug me or I didn’t think twice about and it’s creating some false event OCD at times by telling me I may have done something worse - anyone else experience for?

kaylanicole01

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 3y

Hi Newbie12! Thank you so much for reaching out on here. I have DEFINITELY experienced what you’re going through. It is so frustrating, exhausting, and time consuming. Have you brought this up with your therapist? I am certain that they will have some good tools for this. You won’t always feel this way, I can promise you that! The more you practice, the less OCD will have a hold on your brain. You’ve got this—don’t give up!

Uncomfortable

Date posted: 3y

Hi Kayla Nicole! Thanks for the reply. I started therapy for the first time as of 2 months ago for anxiety and right away after talking like this to my therapist she recognize this as OCD. I have brought it up with my therapist, we meet once a week and it seems every week it’s a new “mistake” or “memory” that has come up. I’m just really stuck on one of those sticky things right now that my mind is telling me I must confess .. Any tools you can share would be helpful. I don’t want to give up but it’s just so hard this week

ItsMeEli

Date posted: 20w

Real event/ guilt OCD

Hey guys, for the past three months I’ve been obsessing over a mistake I made about 6 months ago, I constantly have panic attacks and wake up in fight or flight mode I have convinced myself that someone is gonna find me somehow and punish me. I have endlessly looked up reassurance that what I did wouldn’t get me in trouble or something, I have filled up 5 different ChatGPT chats and it tells me it’s 100% certain nothing will happen. But then I convince myself well everyone says not to trust it and then I just spiral again. The point is I’m just scared, I’ve convinced myself this isn’t OCD because it’s something I actually did wrong. I can’t stop looking for reassurance because that’s the only thing that makes me feel safe anymore. Everyone tells me, just say maybe, maybe not, but my brain has convinced me the stakes are too high. I’m too scared and I don’t know what to do.

Real Events OCD

J🧸

Date posted: 13w

Do you feel like you can’t live a normal life?

Due to real event ocd and past mistakes? I’ve been actively trying to work on this and try to accept and not pay too much attention to it but the confession thing has been bugging me but I’m also trying to accept that I don’t need to confess every single mistake I’ve made and we’ve all made mistakes Recently I’ve been wanting to work on myself and be more positive but because of my real events in childhood, I feel like I can’t live a normal life or deserve a normal life.

jc33

Date posted: 12w

real event ocd

just wanted to see if others struggle with real event ocd really kicking their a**. i feel like my mind is a constant battleground of every mistake ive made and they feel so huge and life altering to me that it’s hard to continue going on in their wake. just wondering if anyone else feels this way too.

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