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I felt the exact same way today. I was eating leftovers from thanksgiving today and felt good but then I started thinking worst case from my phase of using dating apps and just some stuff I saw not too long, and I could barely finish eating, it takes me a while to finish eating and my food gets cold. It’s really tiring, I’m at a point where no amount of reassurance helps me anymore
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I understand I really do. I’m just frustrated and so sad. I hate myself. I wish I could go back in time and do things so much differently. I’m so scared what if I’ve done something terrible and there’s nothing I can do to change it. Maybe ocd is trying to convince me that’s true when maybe it’s not I don’t know but I feel so much guilt and dread
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I’m so sorry I keep talking about this. I feel like I have to confess to my mom but I don’t want to ruin her day. The other day she told me over text that I am “ruining everyday” and it’s tore me up because I feel like I can’t go to her for help anymore. I’m just a burden to her now
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@Just Breathe ❤️ That’s not right for your mother to say at all, I’m so sorry you don’t have someone to lean on. Just know that you’re not alone, I’ve been seeing how stressed and terrible you feel about this on your posts, and you don’t bother anyone here. I try to reply to as many posts as I can, it’s just some posts that others put on here either trigger me or I’m afraid of saying the wrong thing. Do you have any place where you live where maybe there are OCD support groups?
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@Just Breathe ❤️ You are not alone. I'm so sorry you tried to turn to your mother and she did not offer safety and support. You deserve that. Please try to be kind to yourself. I know how you feel- the guilt and the dread and the shame. So many of us do. Are you able to speak to an ocd therapist here? I think it would really help.
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@OCDHaver She’s supportive most of the time. But sometimes I think I just stress her out too much and she’s been through a lot as so have I especially this time of year and she’s the big boss at her job and has so much pressure taking care of my family and working all the time. I just talked to her and she told me to let it go. That’s all she really tells me besides “You need to get healthy” like get on a diet or all the time she tells me to think positive and for someone with ocd that’s nearly impossible. I have a therapist here on NOCD and I thought about joining one of the groups here but I just haven’t got to it. I also haven’t had a session with my therapist because of not really being able to afford it right now but hopefully after the holidays I can get back on track it’s just really hard right now
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@Clearwater Thank you I appreciate that. She’s supportive sometimes but she’s under a lot of stress and I feel like I just make it all worse for her. This time of year is hard because we lost my dad in February to his fight with cancer. So these past few years have taken a toll on my family. I have a therapist but right now I can’t afford it but I’m hoping after the holidays I can get back on track. In the meantime I just need to try to stay strong and work on erp myself
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@Just Breathe ❤️ I'm proud of you and good for you for being so understanding of your mom. That's a strong display of compassion.
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@Just Breathe ❤️ If you need someone to talk to, I’m here, I would say you could add me on Instagram, but remember your old posts said you don’t feel comfortable or too trusting of doing that, which is 100% okay, I definitely have that fear right now too. But just know I’m rooting for you and that you have someone who can relate a lot to the things you’ve posted
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@Clearwater Thank you that means a lot 🥺
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@OCDHaver Thank you I appreciate that and I would add people but when I added someone the other day, don’t get me wrong they were helpful but it’s about privacy reasons for me. I’m rooting for you too and I’m glad that I’m not alone although I wish I could take everyone’s pain away. If you need to talk I’m here too :)
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I've seen some of your posts I'm pretty sure but maybe not the ones you're talking about. Confessing isn't always a good idea because some people don't understand. Just know that you have OCD and you are not bad.
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- 25w
I genuinely feel like the worlds most horrible person deeply for my past actions in childhood and general mistakes I’ve made. I feel like I shouldn’t be here or there’s no hope for me despite doing right ( trying to do right ) I’ve wanted to open up to my mom about things from my past but when I was talking to her about a situation that happened just to share, she was like “Thank God you’ve never done anything like that” But really my past mistakes are worst. It’s like I feel like I should disappear. I don’t know how to deal with the guilt and I feel horrible. I’ve made good and bad decisions but despite this being a long time ago ( which doesn’t erase my stupid actions ) I still keep bringing back into the present and I’m filled with guilt I genuinely think it would be better if I wasn’t here. I wake up think about my past things and I’m filled with guilt and shame that maybe I am a bad person and voices don’t stop, they keep telling me a lot of things that I start to believe. It makes me upset that I did something like that in my past and I try to be understanding but I can imagine the reactions of people and being condemned so much. I literally do this to myself every single day and it’s exhausting I don’t know how you guys can treat me with so much compassion and understanding. It really doesn’t feel real or like I deserve it. Like even on nocd, it makes me feel worst because I come across comments that say “as long as it’s not —-“ or something and I compare it to my past and I feel like a horrible unacceptable person.
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I feel so horrible and guilty, I've been pretty depressed lately and I don't know if i'm doing something wrong or not but my mom keeps getting mad at me, and I keep getting snappy with her. The other day she tried to take a selfie with me and I kinda got mad at her because it was in front of everyone and I didn't want to get anyone uncomfortable if they were accidently in the background so I told her stop in a kind of mean way. She stopped talking to me for the rest of the night and she keeps bringing up how disrespectful I am. I tried to explain to her I didn't mean anything mean by it?? It's triggering my OCD so bad and tonight i'm going to see a band I really wanted to see, and i'm super afraid shes gonna start bringing up how mean i've been lately. I've been really depressed and upset because of school and how much work their giving me, and I've been in my room for mostly more than 10 hours a day doing nothing but watching TV because I can't bring myself out of it, I don't know what to do anymore and the guilt of me possibly being a mean and aggressive person is haunting me.
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- 23w
I would really appreciate it so much if someone took the time to read this and help me. I don’t know what to do anymore. I haven’t posted here in awhile. I had my OCD managed pretty decently for a year or so on medication, but I had to stop taking it, and after around 3-4 months, the OCD has become unbearable again. It used to be much more surrounding existential themes, eating, and others, not really real event/false memory stuff. But now it’s gotten really out of hand and I don’t know how to do it anymore. It’s surrounding a time of my life a long time ago. It was a dark time. I wasn’t myself and I was going through a lot of things, and I did a lot of things I regret. I self-destructed, embarrassed myself, and wasn’t good to the people around me. I was able to get my mind off of it for a long time, even though I would still think about it a good amount. I was able to be in the present, at least moreso than now. But now that I’m off medication, the guilt has become my obsession again. I can’t move on. I can’t do anything without thinking about all of these memories. I’m obsessed. I’ve started hating myself again, so much so that it’s hard to do anything anymore or believe I deserve anything good. The people around me tell me it wasn’t even that bad, but to me it was. To me, I failed myself, lost myself, and failed everyone around me. I can’t stop thinking about every person I said something wrong to or every time I screwed up. I’ve now started to convince myself I did terrible things I can’t remember, and that my mind just can’t deal with it. And that’s why I feel so guilty. There’s nothing to really support this though. But I’m starting to really convince myself that’s true. I’m trying not to listen to it, because I’ve convinced myself I have hit people with my car before and haven’t remembered when I absolutely didn’t and I know I never have. I drive back over and over to check there’s no one, even though I never heard any bang or felt myself anything. I can convince myself of some crazy false memories. So I know that I shouldn’t listen. But it’s hard not to when I have this guilt gnawing at me constantly. I come to conclusions that this guilt must be because I did something terrible that I don’t remember, even though I already think the things I remember were bad enough. But I would know by now right? If I did something bad I don’t remember? I don’t feel like this all the time. But it’s a lot of the time. But maybe that should be reassuring, that I only start obsessing like this when I think to. The past haunts me though. And I can never be in the present. I’ve started to resort to some unhealthy behaviors to distract myself or help me work towards something. I am starting to hate myself so much and feel like there’s no way I’ll ever be able to get out of this loop. I feel like I just can’t do this anymore. Maybe I need to go back on medication. But I don’t know. I don’t really want to. But will I ever fix this without it? Why do I feel SO guilty, all of the time? I do all these things for people because I feel indebted to them, because I feel undeserving of everything. I feel awful about myself. I don’t know what to do. Does anyone else deal with this?
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