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- 3y
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- 3y
Yes I can attach myself to all sorts of new intrusive thoughts all the time. It can last seconds or minutes until I move onto something else
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- 3y
For me It depends, if I read about different types of ocd than mine, I don't get triggered by anything. But even reading about rocd it is very difficult that doubts different than mine flare up my anxiety! I think it depends on what you fear/is more important
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- 3y
Yeah I have ROCD and if I read something related to that, then I get a doubt related to my relationship…
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- 3y
I am so prone to suggestion. I am home for Thanksgiving and my partner was here with me a few days. My mom is not a fan of his personality and has very bluntly told me she thinks his emotional “unintelligence” won’t change and I’ll be unhappy. Because I care a lot what she thinks, this is by far one of my stickiest triggers (9 or 10/10). Because I crave that reassurance from her and I get the very opposite. I tried hard to stay calm while she was criticizing him, eventually it became too hard to resist googling about emotional intelligence issues again. Had 15 tabs open at one point.
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- 20w
There’s something that happens that keeps me stuck in a thought, it’s when I can see some part of myself agreeing with or relating to it in some way. That’s when the doubt creeps in. If I can understand *why* the thought is there, doesn’t that mean it’s not just random? Doesn’t that mean it actually reflects something about me? For example **(TMI/TW)**: I had the thought, *“I wonder what other people’s kinks are (including friends, family, even teenagers).”* And then I caught myself thinking, *“Well, I guess that could be interesting information… maybe I wouldn’t even stop someone from sharing it with me. Does that mean I actually want to know? Wait—does that make me perverted or incestuous for even having this curiosity?”* The same thing has happened with other thoughts, like wondering what someone’s privates might look like. I recognize that, on some level, that could be interesting—but does that mean the thought is truly mine? Maybe the answer is super obvious and I just can’t see through my OCD smoke. This was a bit embarrassing for me to write 🥲, but can anyone provide some insight?
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- 19w
Anyone else feel that when they aren’t experiencing a theme that their ocd is almost non existent. It almost makes me feel like I’ve been faking it, and also makes me feel ridiculous for obsessing over things. I feel sorry for myself :/ I know that my themes are valid and felt very real in the moment, but after I “get over” them I just can’t believe that I was obsessing over something that either wasn’t true or didn’t apply to me. I would also like to know how to prevent themes from reoccurring. Health, religion and existential OCD themes tend to take turns throughout my life, I just didn’t know that was it ocd. Trying to break the cycle.
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- 9w
Whenever anyone starts to feel like their thoughts are less triggering or they feel a moment of happiness/ relief OCD tells you that you want the thoughts back or you actually like having the thoughts and maybe thats just the person I really am? I feel like im going insane😢
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