- Date posted
- 6y
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 6y
Yes I can relate. Does this girl know you have OCD? Unfortunately I have to avoid many friends and family due to this type of OCD.
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- 6y
It’s so frustrating, isn’t it? She doesn’t know I have OCD. I don’t know how to tell people that being around them sends me into a state of panic without it sounding really personal. I hate this stupid disorder, I can’t even give my family members a hug when I’m feeling awful. It’s torture. Hope you’re day’s been ok :) sorry to hear you have to deal with this too! We’ve always got each other. d a i s y
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- 6y
My husband has this type of OCD and he can not give hugs to his mother or father..he hugs only me because i am "not contaminated". It is really frustrating, but the mother and the father of him know about his problem and they understand now☺️ i think that if your family will know about your OCD they will try to help you. Why don't you try to give a hug your mother and then get a shower? Maybe that will help you?! Excuse me for the mistakes, i am not so good at english! I wish you good and peaceful days!
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- 6y
Hi Georgi! Sorry to hear about your husband, but thanks for the advice :) My family knows I have OCD, they’re really supportive. I’d definitely love to give my family members a hug! I might try what you mentioned about the shower :) Have an awesome day! d a i s y
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 6y
Yeah contamination OCD is horrible and hard to explain to friends and family because it doesn’t make sense and doesn’t follow any logic. We just have to ride it out the best we can until this disorder can be treated. Stay strong and hang in there!
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- 6y
Thanks NoleGuy, you too! d a i s y
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 20w
Does anyone imagine they are doing their harm thoughts during an action, making you feel like you acted on your thoughts? For example, someone gave me a hug and at the last second I imagined I was touching something I shouldn’t during the hug? I want to make it clear it’s something I have zero desire to do! But the problem is, I thought it on purpose and it makes me sick !! Obviously nothing happened but my mind is telling me that was me trying to do it. Even though it was physically impossible to do. Am I a monster or could this be OCD? I’m freaking out and don’t want to be here anymore. I feel like I’m the exception and that this isn’t OCD. I know I post about this stuff a lot but I’m struggling and don’t know what to do.
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- 19w
So, I know my capacity to get fixated on things. And it's normally something that's relatively remote but, my latest issue is really getting to me and I was wondering if people have any advice. I'm avoiding getting too into specifics, as I don't want this to get reassurance-y but, in essence.. I came to the realisation recently that people who I'd been "friends" (feels like the wrong term now) when I was younger were not very nice people, and normalized a lot of very unpleasant behaviour towards other members of the group. They really normalized it, sold themselves as figures of authority, as older and more responsible and grown-up than others, and looking back, they acted horribly. And coming to this realisation, that I'd been manipulated into just accepting their behaviour has just... broken me. My OCD has latched onto it and I can't stop feeling irreversibly tainted by it. I've talked to others about it, and they've reassured me, told me it's not a big deal and that I hold myself to too high a standard, but none of that sticks. I feel better for a bit, then think 'Maybe when you told them you were skewing it to make yourself look better' or 'Did you leave out a crucial detail'. I keep ruminating over and over, trying to remember exactly how everything played out, trying to figure out if I fed into the behaviour, if I did something bad myself (because y'know, I feel like I was accepting of it at the time, so what does it say about my own values?). I know I need to stop doing all this if I want to improve, but then some part of me keeps saying 'So, you're just going to let yourself off the hook then?' Normally, I can rationalize my own fears to some degree, assure myself something won't happen, but the realness of the situation, and the fact I only came to understand the reality of it because the thought had been bothering me means it feels so much more all-encompassing. I know confessing in itself is a compulsion, but I keep feeling that if I'm not I'm somehow concealing what I 'really am' from others around me, and any positive interactions are me deceiving them in some way. I feel like I can't enjoy anything in life right now, and a good part of me feels I should not enjoy it ever again. If anybody has any advice on it, I'm all ears. Or even hearing if you relate to these feelings, I might appreciate the solidarity at least.
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- 16w
i was in target and saw this kid who looked like my nephew and i didn’t a double take because i thought it was him i was gonna go say hi to him. it wasn’t him, but then my OCD intrusive thoughts popped in and made me want to throw up and run away and hide. it popped in my brain and i was immediately disgusted with myself. i wouldn’t ever do anything to harm a child. WHY IS MY BRAIN LIKE THIS I JUST NEED A BREAK.
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