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I very much appreciate the time and response! Don’t worry it wasn’t too much info and you gave me a nice perspective on my emotions!
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Yes it is 100% normal and valid! But it is important to remember, you are not your OCD, so try not to take out your anger on yourself, I understand it’s much easier said than done. I know how distressing this must be and I’m sorry you are going through this. I know what it’s like to feel like you just need to get off the ride but there seems to be no end to the barrage of thoughts coming your way. This is gonna sound super counterintuitive but what I try and do when I have specific recurring thoughts that are really bothering me, is try and think about it as much as possible, and keep thinking about it. Cry, scream, punch stuff (obviously not people or anything that might hurt you lol) and fully let yourself feel that fear and that emotion. If it’s too big for you to do this on your own see if you can get a therapist or trusted unjudgmental person to do this with you. For me this really helps with reducing how much these thoughts recurr again for me. Also promethazine is a anti-allergy tablet you can buy over the counter and in many uk htts (home treatment teams) this is their new anxiety drug they’re pushing at the moment. And it actually really helps. And like I said you can buy over the counter so no need for a prescription. And now my ocd is tellling me I’ve wrote too much lol sorry if that’s a lot but I wish you well keep fighting bro!
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Sending love and blessings! Remember things can and will get easier!
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i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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Hey everyone, I wanted to come on here today to just share this post because I’ve been struggling with this recently. I just wanna know if this is a common thing in relationship OCD. So last Friday me and my boyfriend had a conversation that was important, and my emotions were high and I got a little emotional about something he said and we had a long talk about it, the conversation went great and afterwards everything was okay. On Saturday I was so excited to see him after work and I was overflowing with feelings of happiness and excitement. Sunday was great and we stayed on FaceTime just enjoying the day together after he went home that morning, and then came Monday. I remember getting a thought like this, “What if I’m losing feelings for him and I’m just leading him on?” And even this thought, “I don’t really feel anything towards him right now, does that mean I fell out of love with him?” And then the anxiety came, I could literally feel myself breaking out in cold sweats and I could feel the pain in my chest after these thoughts crossed my mind. But what bothers me so much about this is on Saturday and Sunday I felt so content and happy with him and I was so happy and I didn’t have any anxiety whatsoever, and then Monday came, and I had those thoughts and I feel almost numb and I can’t feel anything else except the feelings of worry and fear and my anxiety has been at a all-time high and I keep feeling this pain of guilt and hurt in my chest and I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced the same. Because personally one thing I hate is that one day I can be so happy and energetic and then the next day I can feel numb and feel absolutely nothing towards my boyfriend. I’m not sure if this can correlate with my menstrual cycle as well, but I’ve heard that that can also make your relationship OCD worse and cause you to feel differently about your partner. Just wanting to see if anyone has dealt with the same!
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