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- 3y
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- 3y
Right there with you. For me it’s I think more of me subconsciously seeking reassurance by overly being nice because my ocd had me doubt nonstop whether I am a a Cru ally a good person or straight up try to convince me I’m not so I tend to people please to show it I’m not instead of just sitting with the doubt and telling it so what if they think that, doesn’t change who I am one bit or diminish my worth. Similarly my OCD/anxiety doubt will often hinder how I act in public typically because of fear of being perceived negatively by people, so I tend to be more restraint. Again I should just let the thoughts go and neither dwell or try to disprove/seek assurance on them but just tell them so what and go about my day and not let them rule me, which is easier said than done.
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- 3y
I feel you.
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- 3y
I have the same thing! That’s not my main obsession, but it still bothers me a lot! I always get worried that what I type in a text or email or what I say comes off as rude. And then when I get bad thoughts I think, “They believe I’m a good person, but that’s just the outside. On the inside I’m actually really mean!” And then my anxiety surges and my self-esteem plummets. I’ve been working on sitting with the anxiety and being uncertain if I am coming off as “rude / mean” or not.
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- NOCD Alumni
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- 3y
Ditto. I have spent so much type worrying that a type or text gets misinterpreted as rude or makes a loved one or friend mad especially. I used to go back and reread my texts before sending and then reread after as well as any response worrying my intent came off wrong. I do the same with sending and saying to myself so what if it gets misunderstood or comes off as mean or angry or snarky, etc….It’ll either happen or not, either way it’ll be fine.
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- 36w
literally me everyday, i thought i was just a really bad people pleaser but no
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- 22w
recently ive been worrying that im ''secretly'' a narcissist and that im accidentally hurting all of my friends. it really doesnt help that i do relate a bit to some narcisstic traits like having an unstable ego/''needing'' validation, although i suspect it comes from a different source for me (like OCD, maybe?). it also hurts because ive been trying to understand more stigmatized disorders like NPD more and learning more about them so that i don't add to the demonization, but i feel like doing so has also instilled the fear into me that im accidentally harming people i care about or that im not actually a ''good person'' like how i like to think of myself
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- 21w
I look back at various past events in my life where I said or did things that I feel really guilty, disgusted, and ashamed about. I replay them in my head for hours. I feel anxious about crossing paths with people that I've hurt or upset in the past or who perceive me badly, to the point that I will avoid going out in public as much as possible. I go out for work, errands, appointments, and occasionally to eat (even though those all give me a lot of anxiety), but I avoid community events where people might recognize me and I tend to isolate myself. The only people I see regularly are my boyfriend, my parents, and my coworkers. I live in a small community and I'm worried about people confronting me publicly and proving what a bad person I must be.
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- 20w
At the beginning of this year, I experienced false memories for the first time about watching bad stuff online, which I have never done in my life. I then turned to hours upon hours of googling and researching about it and reading articles about it. I'd sometimes google the same articles or topics multiple times a day. I then also remembered that I watched a clip once from Big Mouth (not knowing they were teens at the time). I became so afraid that I was being watched by the authorities or my ISP simply for doing research that I impulsively deleted my Google activity and became extremely paranoid that I was a bad person and a criminal, even though I'd never ever had these types of thoughts before. Then felt bad afterwards because I was like omg what if i am bad because what if it seems like I'm trying to hide a crime. I just really hate myself rn. I know we shouldn't ask for reassurance, but I'm more just pondering this, does this make me a bad person? Is there anyone else who has experienced something similar? Does this mean I still have OCD? or am I truly just only worried about how other people see me? Even while typing this, I'm asking myself, what does this all mean.
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