OCD mixed with truth? How do you handle that? I’ve been obsessing over a theme that I thought was crazy for the past few weeks. I thought I was just being overly anxious/paranoid. Then I find out last night that there IS a some truth to what I feared. I’ve been sick to my stomach all day and on my phone all day trying to research and rationalize and justify the situation. I can’t stop thinking about it and it’s been almost 10 hours. I feel like I’m in a whirlpool, just swirling around and around. Everything I try to search makes me feel worse and worse. I can’t accept that this really happened because it scares me too much. I can’t let it go because it’s not just anxiety anymore- it’s TRUE (well, sort of true). I even called my boyfriend and he explained everything to me and explained the situation but I still can’t let it go. How can we cope when our anxieties actually come true? What then?

I realized some of my anxiety was kind of true as well 2 days ago... I spiraled, the guilt is unbearable. But the present moment is a choice. You can't change the past and can't predict the future. Where you are right now is where you choose to be. You can control your true experience in the right now, and if it means apologizing to others and forgiving yourself then that's ok too. You are there right now, because you want to be.

I don't think your doubts became true. I think you find an evidence that your doubts could be true even right now, and because you don't want that; you are really scared, yet you feel justified to keep thinking/trying to answer. But that just make things worse! Treat them as normal doubts!

Hi! This happens to mee to. A lots of times actually! It always lead to the question "is this rocd or am I just really really good at reading people, so I need to trust my gut??" Now I talk for experience (so maby for you is not the same) It is a 50-50. I am actually good at reading people. I understand when they feel off, annoyed etc. But than my rocd, make me think their feelings are personally connected to me: they are annoyed because they don't want you. I would keep asking for reassurances, they get more annoyed, and at the end they would actually leave me! The conclusion is that rocd make surely your problem worse; so you have to learn to recognise and treat your ocd doubts, even If they came from reality! Another experience: I had a lot of doubts about my relationship. I learned to manage them in some months, and things started to improve, but sometimes we still have crisis; because he did things that makes me feel bad. After thoose; I loose my feelings, and all felt so real! I was telling myself "this can't be rocd, he actually did something!" I understood after the mechanism! He did a wrong thing, and I felt really delused, sad, alone... bad because of him. So there is a problem between us! Instead of trying to talk/solve it, I start to be really scared: i have abandonment fear, and also I am really scared of feeling bad again. So my rocd came out, and I start to doubt about us = feeling loss! But I feel justified because he actually did something that hurted me!