Date posted: 3y ago

Hi everyone, struggling at the moment with existenal OCD, keep getting thoughts of "how do I know that everything i see, feel and touch is real" ...like literally everything... how do I know its just all not made up in my head? Its the most terrifying thought and not sure how to deal with it? .. anyone else suffer with this same thought?

anxious as heck

Date posted: 3y ago

Yeah it’s a phenomenon people can have without ocd but given how uncomfortable it can make you feel you obsess over it, derealization is common with people that have anxiety or depression and presumably as someone with ocd I can imagine you’re anxious. You’re not abnormal for feeling that way, for me personally just ponder if it even matters if it is or not. Everything could be unreal but as Descartes said “i think therefore i am” even if it’s all fabricated or simulated etc, you still are experiencing something, you don’t have to suffer from a nihilist perspective on it either, i mean if anything if it’s all not real than the weight of your problems in the grand scheme of it all are truly insignificant and you can make the best out of what this experience is real or not. There’s always going to be uncomfortable uncertainties we are completely out of control over, what we can control though is how we respond to them. Hope that can help it has for me.

Can and will🌻

Date posted: 3y ago

Most people with existential OCD have these thoughts I think. And like anxious had said probably even some that don’t have OCD, they just have thought and move on. If you can allow that thought to just come and then go , refocus on anything else it’ll leave just as quick as it came. It’s the energy we put into the thoughts we think need our attention. Everyone has their take on it. I mean I took a philosophy class which is devoted to it. You can choose which thought you want to give attention to though.

Amagicmarie

Date posted: 3y ago

I'm dealing with this right now and it's so so hard.

6756

Date posted: 3y ago

Horrible aint it.. does it terrify u? Do you get exactly the same thoughts?

Amagicmarie

Date posted: 3y ago

Yes, I've been dealing with it on and off for about 6 months

Secretidentity

Date posted: 21w ago

Does any one ever question if their ocd isn’t ocd?

That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.

catnipppp

Date posted: 18w ago

existential crisis

Really bad theme right now is death, I keep thinking about how one day or at any moment my heart will stop my brain will stop & my memories & everything I know will all fade away. It is giving me so much anxiety I’m only 18, but I realize it all happens to us it is bound, we are born to die. I know it’s a silly thing to be scared because it’s not helping the quality of my life worrying about it and even when I do die, I won’t care , if you don’t have a working brain then how can you care 🤷‍♀️. It is tainting my everyday life currently & honestly making me terribly depressed & it is giving me derealization & making me feel nihilistic, I’ll remind myself it’s okay but then with my ocd i don’t stop thinking and thinking about it and it’s seriously so hard to stay present in the moment because this thought just feels like I can’t scrub it away it’s miserable I struggle with religion, but I do pray to anything that’s out there possibly listening, because it is comforting, it just feels like this whole experience Is pointless & I am afraid of the unknown and what is to possibly happen but I’m subjected to it anyways so why should it matter

nevieocal

Date posted: 7w ago

Can someone please help me?

I think when people are saying OCD is egodystonic is really triggering me and I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I’m going through a really bad relapse and right now I’m trying to figure out if my thoughts are truly egodystonic, like I how do I know I won’t act on them, how can I trust my emotions and everything. I feel really confused and I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore or how I carry on with life because it’s so long and I’m so unsure of everything that’s going on in my head. Like how do I know that this is OCD and true desires/urges. I’m so confused.

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