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Wow im glad i found out about Reddit when I did. I have extremely bad OCD and I keep googling stuff about it however I haven't gone on to Reddit. I won't now lol.
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Yeah stay away. Not just for OCD but a lot of other things can seem worse than they are on there. I started using Reddit because of gastritis this summer and was convinced it would never get better because of what I’ve read on there. Ended up getting better. Turns out people that are stuck stay there so you only see worse case scenarios. With OCD you mostly see people that have to take medication and ERP isn’t effective. Or people that are having the hardest time even with both.
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Oh it’s absolutely terrible. I feel like people here are also a bit more knowledgeable in regards to best practices and not providing reassurance or asking for it. It’s not perfect but just much much better
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Reddit literally became a compulsion and made me obsess about perfectionism with my hobbies and made my doubting obsessions 10000x worse with all the cynicism and negativity. I have problems with thinking my medical cannabis is a waste and doesn't work because of all the quality complaints on the subreddit for UK medical, which is the only place to discuss the new market and different options... Even if I can feel it work, I obsessively doubt those feelings and check them until I enter an intense OCD loop whilst using it which makes it a self fulfilling prophecy. F*** reddit.
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I just asked if ppl prefer this app over reddit LMFAOOOO
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Lmaooo Reddit wack af.
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I am FINALLY starting to (somewhat) recover from this last existential spiral, which admittedly, was probably the cruelest my OCD has ever been to me. Only thanks to you all. You were all able to provide me with kindness, understanding and support… without the kind of reassurance that feeds OCD, of course. When I downloaded this app, I was genuinely terrified. I was so scared that I was permanently doomed to the endless whirlpool that is the thoughts produced by my own brain and that life as I knew it was over, that I would never be happy again. For anyone who might be feeling that way right now, your OCD is LYING to you! Whatever you may be going through, it CAN get better. As hard as it may be right now, HAVE FAITH! Get up and do that thing you want to do in spite of the fear and discomfort. Take the fear with you like a whiny, unwilling toddler and do it anyway. Watch the movie, read the book, order that takeout you’ve been craving, bake the cake, wash the dishes… Please do it anyway! It will be hard at first, I won’t lie. But the OCD part of your brain, like a toxic partner, WANTS to win. It wants you to give up on those things that you love, all those things that make you happy so that there’s no space for anything but itself. Don’t let it win. The more you push yourself, the more you rewire your brain to realize that as much as it may feel like, the obsession doesn’t matter! Thanks to you all, even without therapy (YET - I’m starting that journey on Tuesday because there’s still a lot to unpack, and I know that OCD won’t just magically go away), I was able to get a basic understanding of ERP and learning to sit with discomfort and how to live life in spite of it, rather than letting it take over my very being. So for that, I thank this community. I think I would be in a very different place right now if it weren’t for the people I’ve met here who truly understood my experiences. I hope you have a wonderful day. Please don’t give up. You deserve to be happy, no matter what your brain is telling you ❤️
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Hello all, I just found out about this app! I’m pretty sure I have OCD, but also not sure. I’d line to discover more about to and hear what other experiences are.
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So thankful to have found this app 😭 my 15 year old is struggling with what is unofficially diagnosed OCD (counselor is starting the process to diagnose but she fits SO much of what we’re reading and she’s at least 4th generation OCD’r). We are in a bad spiral right now with her, especially centered around sleep and it just feels so hard. Just wanted to say thank you for helping me not feel alone.
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