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If it's to temporarily relieve anxiety to to find reassurance or relief, I would say yes. If not, then it would just be something to make you happy.
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yes i feel like if i don’t watch a movie to distract me/ease my anxiety i’ll lose control and it scares me
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@eimjin Yeah that definitely sounds like a compulsion then. It's really hard compulsions suck and I give into mine so much. Mine is confessing to people about my anxiety. If I don't do it, I feel like a total failure and a liar and a person who keeps stuff from others
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@Animaniash yessss i do that too, i feel like i HAVE to talk about it :/ it feels so real tho like if i don’t do it then i’ll lose control and do something bad, it’s so scary
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@eimjin It really does 😭
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@Animaniash mine also convinces me that i’m lying abt how i rly feel and i’m manipulating ppl 😭
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@eimjin It does the same for me I feel so fake 😭
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@Animaniash literally me too 😭
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@eimjin If I feel like something wrong happened between me and my boyfriend, my brain basically forces me to tell him or I have intense anxiety. Then he feels bad because he doesn't do anything wrong intentionally and if eel like the worst girlfriend ever. Knock on wood, we always get through it, but I feel bad every time. He knows about my ocd as well and tries to help as much as he can which he does ❤️💗 I wish I could just be better for him
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@Animaniash no no that’s not your fault, don’t feel bad about it :( and it’s so sweet that he tries and cares that deeply about it to help you, i hope one day i can find a bf like that 😭 but it sounds like he understands so you got nothing to worry abt even though ik ocd makes it feel like you should worry abt it
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@eimjin Awww you're so kind! 💗❤️ You will find someone like him one day! Im honestly surprised my bf is still here after all he's been through with my ocd. He's so loyal and amazing and understands me quite a bit! Always look for someone who is loyal and understanding of your situation cause it will save you lots of heartbreak and things in the long run! Without my bf I honestly wouldn't have made it this far. He's such a support and I believe every girl should have an amazing guy like him!
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@Animaniash omg stop that is so cute 😭😭 and yess i’m trying but ppl where i live are rly not it 🥲 y’all are literally so cute tho omg i’m so happy for y’all <3333
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I don’t think that counts. I think that’s more just self care. I like listening to music and playing video games, I don’t consider that a compulsion.
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There’s too different ways, it’s either not a compulsion and rather a coping mechanism or it is a compulsion and they use it constantly to take away from what would be happening if they didn’t
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@iamstrong i feel like it’s a bit of both?
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@eimjin There’s a very fine line. If it’s a coping mechanism you aren’t using it to escape, you aren’t running away rather than finding something to regulate it and a compulsion is when you’re running away and trying to push what you really need to face away
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@iamstrong yea like it comforts me but i also feel like i have to watch it in order to get rid of my thoughts so i don’t lose control of that makes sense
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If you use it as a way to not feel anxious it can become a compulsion. I used video games as a way to distract my mind to feel less anxious when I felt my intrusive thoughts getting worse. This was compulsive because it began to affect the quality of my life
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- 25w
I'm thinking of trying some ERP on my own while I wait for treatment, but I'm having some trouble knowing what is a compulsion and what would be good exposure. For example, I have huge fears of being a narcissist and/or a generally bad person. So whenever I watch a movie or read something that has an evil character in it I automatically compare myself to that character and stress over if I'm like that person. A couple of things I do when this happens is Google other people's experiences, seek reassurance, rumination, etc. Sometimes I'll also google different symptoms of narcissism, freak out over things that I relate to, then get relief over things I don't. So my confusion is, would researching people who have narcissism be an exposure, or a compulsion since it's something I sometimes do during a spiral? Or, would the exposure be watching movies/living life hearing these stories, and refraining from the spiral of rumination and no Googling at all?
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I love horror movies and would watch them random sometimes even Terrifier cause art is my new favorite character. I just felt like I was a bad person for this⁉️ I don’t support his actions but I like his goofy faces he makes. I can’t enjoy anything no more Literally me rn in life
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I think I have OCD since last year but I just realized that I’ve got OCD this year even I haven’t been to any mental clinics or hospitals to test if I have OCD or not. I realized i have OCD this year when i watched movies or videos but i feel like to watch them again and again to check some specific sentences in that movie. Like if that video has subtitles and there are always have some phrases or sentences that make me read, look at every single words of that thing. Even sometimes i check that thing just want to know at the end of that sentence has a dot or comma, kind of like that, i know it’s hard to describe about these situations for me even i know checking these things doesn’t help me anything in my life but the more i watch, read and focus at any details in anything i look so when i remember about something that i watched or red, if i cannot remember exactly all the words of that sentence in the movies, videos, post i feel like to check just know what it is again. Most of my compulsions are related to anything i look, watch or read in my phone. Even sometimes i feel like to check if that is just an account name of anyone, comments on social medias. And before i had so many bad problems with doing things to just “feel right” after i watched those movies and videos. There were some rules that came in my mind so when i watched them again - i had to click this, touch this, replay this over and over again in the video or even look at video duration at the end. There are so many things that i did before that i couldn’t describe enough but i just want to say i used to want to complete many missions in my mind to just feel right or feel completed. If i don’t complete that stupid mission (i called it stupid because i kept me stuck with my life), I’m gonna do it again and again whenever i free until i finish it. At the moments, i don’t have any stupid missions to do about those things i watched but still have some thoughts about them and want to check to know what they are. Can anyone help me with my problem about OCD? My English can not be really good as I’m not a native English speaker. Thanks.
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