Does anybody else look at someone else’s profile here, see the ocd themes they struggle with, and wish that they had those issues i stead of the ones they’re dealing with? I don’t wish ocd on anyone and from me that’s a lot cause I’ve wished some pretty bad shit on people. But I’m just saying I feel like there are some ocd themes that are much worse then others. I have SOOCD and an ROCD equivalent (don’t ask) but what I think is THEE worst OCD? POCD. That shit must be horrible and I’m so sorry for anyone struggling with it

Janajana

Date posted: 3y

Every OCD is very uncool.

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Date posted: 3y

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Bookworm91

Date posted: 3y

It’s like if I have to have ocd why does it have to be THIS one?

MCT

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 3y

Yes, I think a lot of us with ocd, phobias, or anxiety otherwise do this. I have suicidal ocd and often think how other forms might be easier. Or how I wish I were afraid of airplanes, because I could avoid them and just not fly. I was actually talking to my NOCD therapist today about this. But I don’t think the theme matters much, because you don’t know how hard something is until you’ve experienced it. You don’t know how often triggers come up until they’re your triggers. I think sometimes the grass can seem greener but I’m sure it isn’t. I also feel oddly grateful sometimes for what I go through, because there are forms I would never want to deal with.

Alaska girl

Date posted: 3y

I’ve had almost every theme and they all are painful but pocd is unbearable.. I’ve never experienced pain quite like this in my entire life. You feel betrayed by your own body.

giaparmer

Date posted: 3y

This makes me so sad to hear for you because I know how CONFUSING and PAINFUL it is. Just remember that you are allowed to separate thoughts that you think and unwelcome thoughts that you cannot stop. POCD is like a freight train coming into the station with no brakes while you are standing on the tracks trying to stop it with your bare hands

GetSomeBread

Date posted: 3y

OCD tends to latch on to whatever you would consider the most painful , so really any OCD theme. But yes, POCD sucks ass.

giaparmer

Date posted: 3y

TW: pedocd I agree that they are all probably the same level of difficulty but I definitely hear you with some of them being WAYYYY less acceptable or palletable. People think it’s really cute that I have to eat my food in a certain order, they definitely do not think it’s cute that I’m crying in a mall bathroom because of intrusive images of graphic child porn running through my head, that’s a really really tough one to explain to even your closest support system.

giaparmer

Date posted: 3y

“No, I am not attracted to children. I just graphically obsess over the nature of being attracted to children for large quantities of my day in full distress” yeah you are not winning with the average joe there 😓

Janajana

Date posted: 3y

God bless and help you. I know how hard OCD can be . Just know that you are so definietly not alone. I wish nobody should have this illness. Best wishes

giaparmer

Date posted: 3y

@Janajana You as well friend ❤️ blessings and health!

LydiaK

Date posted: 3y

ocd is like the clown from "IT", it shapes itself into your worst fear so anyone can see their fear as the worst. It really sucks.

anonn

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 25w

ROCD intrusive thoughts

no clue if this is compulsive, but I’m interested to hear any obsessions others have that aren’t the “common” ones you see online about what ROCD is? a few for me: - thoughts about their partner being with someone else instead (sometimes a specific person) and then trying to analyze your reaction to it? e.g. does it *feel* more right than us, do I actually feel happy for them, etc. - trying to imagine your partner in your current situation or maybe a specific future situation (when they’re not around) and trying to decide if they “fit” in it? - being super scared of losing them, then suddenly feeling like you don’t care much for them at all, and just constantly cycling? - I almost never fully enjoyed sex because I was constantly obsessing about whether or not I was turned on, turned on “enough,” if I was just having groinal responses and wasn’t actually turned on, looking at his face just to decide if I find him attractive enough, comparing my experience with how I feel watching content alone, etc.

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 23w

I feel so much shame

I want to go do something I enjoy so badly but I feel like I don’t deserve it. I’m full of guilt, shame, and anxiety. I wish I felt okay like I did a few days ago. I feel so awful right now. I hate OCD. I HATE pocd. I hate all of it. I wish this was easier. Sometimes I have the thought that I wish I was the things my OCD makes me afraid I am out of desperation to stop the anxiety, but then that thought makes me panic bc I don’t actually mean that or want that I just want the anxiety and urgency in the compulsions to stop. I’m so tired

marimallow

Date posted: 14w

Feeling “not ocd enough”

Does anyone struggle with feeling like their ocd issues are not ocd enough compared to other peoples ocd? Is this an ocd thought itself lol

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