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- 3y
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- 3y
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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- 3y
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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- 3y
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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- 3y
@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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- 3y
@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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- 3y
@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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- 3y
@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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- 3y
@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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- 18w
i don’t know what changed, but in the past 1-2 weeks something switched in my brain and now i am obsessing over every mistake I’ve ever made, and i firmly believe the guilt i feel is justified. i am a pathological liar and i’m realizing i may have lied about more things than I ever intended to. i think i tricked myself into believing some things and now I feel awful that I’ve lied to myself and others about so many things. my mind is a mess and i can’t even tell what is a lie and what isn’t anymore. i also feel like i’ve been taking advantage of my boyfriends family who has financially supported me for these past few years, because i had convinced myself and everyone around me that my physical health & mental health was worse than it actually was. i never meant to take advantage or hurt anyone, but i can definitely say that i became complacent and comfortable living these past few years without having to worry about work, school, or really anything. i think i used “not feeling well” as an excuse to not do anything because i was too afraid to leave the house and function in society. i feel so awful and disgusted by my behavior and the guilt is eating me alive. i even feel bad using my phone because they pay for it, and feel bad being in my apartment for the same reason. i feel like everything about me is a lie and they’ve been paying for and supporting a person completely different than they thought. maybe i’m not who I portrayed myself out to be at all. i’ve felt so disgusting and so awful i can barely stand it. this morning i woke up feeling like i was suffocating, my chest hurt so bad and i felt like there was absolutely no way out. i really felt like i was dying. other than the lying, i’ve felt awful about things i did as a child where i didn’t know any better, or i even feel bad about my own thoughts and emotions that I have no control over. my mom says i’m being too hard on myself, and that i can’t help that i lie, but i don’t believe that. i think i deserve to feel this way and that i’m not being hard enough on myself. i lied and took advantage and therefore i deserve to suffer. i caused people to worry for me when it wasn’t necessary, when i was fine. i deserve to feel so guilty that i’m nauseous, i deserve to feel ashamed. i feel like i don’t deserve to eat or feel better, even though i desperately want to. i feel so guilty and so shameful i literally can’t function. i want to escape this feeling so bad, i want to get out of this guilt that’s keeping me from moving on and improving myself. i acknowledge that i have a lying problem, that it’s a mental illness, but i am ashamed of it and feel disgusted that i’m this way even though i can’t help some of it. i truly don’t know what to do or how to have compassion for myself. probably a good idea to share that my dad is a pathological liar and never received help, and i’m pretty sure i learned this behavior through him. not to mention all the stuff i did as a kid that i feel bad about, or the fact that i feel bad about things i can’t control. and i even feel bad about finding certain things funny. the guilt is killing me and i don’t know how i’m ever supposed to become a better person if i’m so sure that i’m undeserving of ever feeling better. in my head i truly feel like im a monster. i feel like i’m having a crisis because i’m realizing i lied about a lot of things without even really realizing it. or i deceived myself into thinking things. and I’ve lied about things for sympathy, for attention, to make myself seem more interesting, or to make me seem less pathetic than i actually am. i’ve lied about some serious things, and i’ve lied about things that don’t matter at all. i don’t know how to keep living. i want to go home to my apartment and be in my safe space, but i feel disgusting being there when i’ve taken advantage of my boyfriend’s family, even though it was never my intention. no matter what I do and where i go, i feel wrong. because i’ve done so many bad things and i can’t forgive myself. i feel so morally wrong i can’t stand it and i don’t see things ever getting better. i feel like I’m going crazy and i feel so alone. i can’t escape this guilt no matter what. and i feel overwhelmed because I know this isn’t something that can be fixed quickly. am i ever gonna be able to live without shame ever again? am i ever gonna be able to do the things i love again? the things that brought me comfort? nothing brings me any comfort, and i spend all day in bed or sitting around doing absolutely nothing because i can’t distract myself. i can’t stop thinking about all the things i’ve done no matter how hard i try. i obsessively read and look up online things to try and find reassurance. i feel like i’m going crazy. and i just feel so sorry. to everyone. and i’m so extremely ashamed of my behavior. i can’t stop obsessing about the past, the present, and the future. don’t i deserve to feel this way when i’ve lied and done bad things? even if it wasn’t my intention, or if it’s a result of a mental illness? don’t i deserve to feel debilitating guilt when i’ve been a bad person? even though i know i never had any bad intentions, i don’t think it matters. am i gonna feel this way forever, where everything i do or everywhere i look, im reminded of the the things ive done?
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- 17w
It’s never been this bad before. I feel like I’ll never get better. Every day I remember new things to feel guilty about and new fears pop into my head. What if I get doxxed? What if I said something online that could get me in trouble? What if I was hacked? What if someone is looking through every post, every message, every account I’ve ever made. I feel like I’ve dug myself into a hole and there is no way out. I’m 21, I keep thinking “no one will have grace for you because of your age. You are an adult. You should have know better. You don’t deserve to get better”
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- 17w
I woke up very late today because my son kept me up all night because he is teething so I didn’t fully wake up until 6am. These past months have been crippling because of my ocd, depression and anxiety. So crippling to the point I have been terrified to leave my bed. Because I haven’t been leaving the room often I am starting to come off as lazy to my mother in law and I have been slacking on helping around the house. My mother in law has surgery on Tuesday and needs us to help out more. I got up to do the dishes the other day and had to stop because I was having a flare up and felt like I was going to over heat from anxiety. I laid down and never finished the dishes. Today she came home really mad at my husband and I because we haven’t been helping and the guilt is eating me alive. I want to apologize but I don’t want to bring up how I have been feeling because I don’t want it to come off as an excuse. I don’t want this to lead to a point where I’m suffering because of it and I don’t want it to ruin her perception of me. I just feel awful that I’m letting this take over my life. Moments like this make me feel useless and I lose hope of ever getting better. what if I never get better. She does so much for me and I’m letting her down💔
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