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Thats rocd 100%
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There is a Great online Programm called ocdandanxietycourse from Nathan Peterson
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Thank you, i’ll check it out :)
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100000% ROCD. Try not to seek reassurance and be okay with the uncertainty. I have ROCD too and been through ERP which saved my life. Love is not something that is the same for everyone. There is no textbook that explains to you what love is or how you should feel. There are literally no answers to this question. You are okay ❤, just try and sit with the uncertainty and live life. I know how hard it is, but choose freedom over certainty.
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Thank you so so much for this comment, i dont feel crazy anymore
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@oliviak2305 This makes me so happy to hear. And believe me, I totally recognize myself in your story. My ROCD started when me and my boyfriend were together for 6 months, we are now together for 8 years and just bought a new house together. I am currently having soms ROCD thoughts and that is okay. I just tell myself "maybe what I feel is enough, maybe it is not. Maybe he is not the one, maybe he is, but that is not my job to figure it out. I will just live and enjoy life and embrace the uncertainty!" You can do this sweetheart, you are never ever ever alone 🍀♥️💫
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@roels333 Yeah, It’s like my brain is trying to tell me something is wrong with my relationship and him. I genuinely feel trapped in my own thoughts. I nearly broke up with him because i thought i didnt want a relationship and didn’t want him but i couldn’t do it because i dont want him out of my life because deep down somewhere i know i love him and there’s something pushing me on to stay with him and not give up. I have it in my head that he’s the person i want to spend my life with and it terrifies me that it might not happen
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@roels333 I think i’m also suffering from anxiety with it all too but i genuinely just feel so overwhelmed. Hearing that you managed to power through all the doubts makes me feel more confident i’ll get better. Thank you so much for your words❤️❤️
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@oliviak2305 If I can do it, you can do it. And believe me, I still have my OCD episodes. But OCD also makes you the person you are. Thank your OCD for making you such a loving, caring person. Because that's what you are!
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this is ROCD !!!!! i have it too and empathize with you. my partner is literally perfect and i love them soooo much and yet i still get the same damn thoughts you do from time to time! i've done ERP through NOCD and it's helped so much. what helps me now that my therapy is done, i write in my notes phone my deepest fears and what my OCD tells me is true and it's scary but for some reason it really helps. then i delete it and don't allow myself to ruminate any longer. you got this!
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Yes uncertainty is key
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Hi there! Thank you so much for reaching out on here! I am certainly no professional, but ROCD is a very real thing. This would be a great thing to discuss with your therapist. You can come up with some uncertainty statements to practice daily until your distress decreases! I am so sorry that you are experiencing this distress. However, OCD doesn't have to win! There are ways to fight back and show it that you're the boss. Don't give up--you've got this!
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I’ve had so many moments of clarity with my OCD that I love my boyfriend and I’m beyond willing to go through this to be better and be with him. in the back of mind I’ve in a way known I was at least somewhat sexually attracted to women (I’m a woman) since the start of the ocd it was always like “okay. Fine, but I don’t want to date a girl” I only just realized this after the ocd started, I never really argued with this. my ocd has always revolved around if I’m romantically interested in women and not men. I’ve done so many compulsions through this year and a half and 9 times out of 10 have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be with a woman romantically. I always end up feeling like I know I love my boyfriend. But the doubts don’t stop about whether I want to spend my life with a woman instead, my heart literally breaks to think of not being with my bf and imagining him with someone else. I don’t want to be with a woman I know deep down somewhere underneath the anxiety that that’s not what I want. It doesn’t feel natural for me, unfulfilling. I want to tell my boyfriend about the possible sexual attraction to women (ik it’s still ocd related) but I’m scared that once I tell him, I’ll realize that I actually do want to be with women and not with him. Ugh I’ve spent hours today ruminating about this after being solid in my commitment with him for a little while, I’m stuck in this loop and idk how to get out right now
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I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
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I’ve been really struggling the last week and I need some help. I’ve been seeing a guy for about 2 months who checks a lot of my relationship boxes. He’s so kind and we have a lot of fun together. The first few weeks I was totally smitten but had moments of fear about being committed. We talked about it and decided to take things slowly, and then I would have days of feeling like every thing was perfect with some fearful feelings in between. Two weeks ago now my SO-OCD and ROCD started to come back a little as well as my more anxious-avoidant behaviors. I started to get more scared of the future and it was more intense. At the end of last week, he asked me to be his girlfriend and I said yes. He is exactly the type of person I see myself marrying and has great values and is so secure about me. Until last week, he generally made me feel so safe and secure. Ever since saying yes, I feel so scared and anxious and my SO-OCD and ROCD is on max. I also find myself getting more annoyed and irritated about things that were minor annoyances or non-issues before. I’m having intense physical responses to both OCD themes, and the nagging thought and feeling that I need to end things with him because we aren’t right for each other. It makes me feel so sad and guilty. Sex is becoming harder because of the thoughts too, whereas at first it was perfect. I don’t know who I can talk to about this without them telling me to just break up with him. Everything is so new so I think they’d chalk it up to my intuition. But I do want to be in love and have less fear around relationships, so I don’t want to give into the fear. I think it could help me to set boundaries and have space for myself more often. I think I need some advice or insight. I know I shouldn’t ask for reassurance, but having some around how other people have felt at the beginning of a relationship would help. Why is it that the label is freaking me out so much? How do you guys set boundaries to prioritize yourself when you feel this way?
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