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are you someone with an anxious-avoidant attachment style? bc I'm kinda like that and it's also fueling my rocd
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yes i am lol
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@ducky yeahhhhh then u know the reasons. good luck with all that, u can do it
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@nothavingagoodtime same to you
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I keep walls up, I never seem to let them down, in fear of not protecting myself of that other person decides to bail on me and our relationship, then it seems I'll be able to handle it better with the walls up if they leave. I'm always worrying something bad is going to happen. Its rough
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I related to this so much it hurt my own heart to read it. I think eventually we can stop the patterns from repeating. But it takes time and an awful lot of work and patience. Sometimes I feel like I'm incapable of love now, but one thing that helps me is to think of it in small steps. Maybe you can't let everyone in again yet, but just try a kind sentence, a smile, show someone you care even if it feels a little unreal at first. It will then start to grow on you again!💖
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even with friends. i can't maintain friendships because the flaws in any connection terrify me and weigh so heavily just in the act of noticing them. it feels like i've poisoned it.
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everything feeds into itself. the obsessions make me cause hurt people, i ruminate and obsess about that hurt and convince myself im evil, people come to love me and the thoughts feed back in and i panic and see history repeating itself. everything is patterns to me. everything has a deeper meaning. this illness will use absolutely everything as a weapon and the more real evidence it generates the more difficult it becomes to refute it. and the line is so unbelievably blurry at a certain point. and of course, what isn't clear cut is a generator of uncertainty. if its a character flaw, certainly can't also be ocd >>>>> it was all your fault
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i'm so unbelievably sick to my stomach of myself. i watch myself discard people because i've "poisioned" a connection with the constant back and forth and paranoia and nitpicking and obsessing over greener grass and they're one step closer to finding out who i """really am""". shit just adds fuel to the fire.
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people want to love me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why am i incapable of sitting still with them?
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I don't even know if I should put this here, but I have the greatest girlfriend in the whole world, and I love her very much, but my thoughts keep saying I'm going to hurt her, so I can hurt God and idk what to do, I feel so disgusted and idk what to do, and the worst part is why does some part of me just not even care idk what to do anymore, it's almost like I'm turning into this horrible person and idk what to do, I'm really not sure what to do. I have really been able to be happy I just feel like I don't deserve it and I want to care about people and God and I want to be a good person, but a part of me shuts off my caring nature and idk what to do, I'm really freaking out because it's like IDC and idk what to do I just feel so nasty and scared because why don't I feel like I care. Why does it feel like it's something I wanna do idk, what to do I'm really freaking worried. Also I don't want OCD but a part of me says I need it or I like these thoughts and idk what to do, as im writing this i just feel like laughing and idk what to do, i really judt want jesus to hug me and say everything will be alright, i am such a monster....
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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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I can't live with OCD anymore. It's ruining my life. I feel like I'm being constantly bullied in my own mind all day everyday. I don't know if what I think and feel is ever real or normal or okay, what is me and what is the OCD thoughts. I don't know if any of my experiences are normal. I'm exhausted from picking apart every single conversation I ever have with anyone until I'm strung out by a vague and ambiguous feeling of guilt. I'm tired of feeling like I'm a bad person and feeling scared all the time and not knowing why and having my brain spin me out on an endless spiralling train of thoughts that never goes anywhere and just makes me feel disconnected from everything and everyone around me. I don't know what I feel and if what I feel is normal or if anything I am doing is real and actually me or if I'm 'losing my mind.' I don't even know if this makes any sense. I get into these states of mind where every thought in my head and everything I feel and perceive makes me question my own sanity. I don't know if anyone likes me because I have absolutely no concept of what I am actually like. I feel completely lost and confused CONSTANTLY.
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