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Mine got real bad last night. I was watching a youtube video and enjoying the fact that i thought one of the guys in it was really cute. My brain suddenly crashed in with "you like him because he looks like a girl" which was literally in no way true whatsoever. I just sort noticed it as an ocd thought and then later in the video several girls showed up and i absolutely panicked. My brain went haywire with "do you want to kiss them?! You DO" which forced me immediately into a compulsion. The spiral was so bad and horrible and then once it was over and my head cleared i was like "...wait a minute. Dammit!!" Its absolutely crazy how ocd can twist you and program your brain certain ways despite having tons of evidence to the contrary. Because its chasing that compulsory relief. Thats what it wants.
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- 6y ago
I relate to both posts SO much!! Ocd could give a rats ASS about evidence. There’s absolutely no way to convince it, it’s a fruitless task. Sometimes I try to just laugh at it. Like I’ll have the thought, and then as fast as I can before the anxiety sets in I’ll be like “haha yea SURE”. Mostly though I just calmly hold off the anxiety for as long as I can until “it” gets bored and leaves me alone.
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- 6y ago
yeah! everytime i go to my therapist and she asks me what evidence is behind my worry i’ll b like “uhh wait actually not really anything, except this one, small thing that happened two years ago” and she will literally give me 10 straight up SCIENCE facts as to why that worry is not worth spending time on, but damn it’ll still pop up the the next hour and the evidence seems all forgotten
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- 6y ago
Please tell me how to overcome religious OCD
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- 6y ago
OK thanks
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- 13w ago
I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
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- 11w ago
Sorry long post. Anyone feel like now they’re just in extreme denial. Like when I was little I noticed guys more than girls in movies and was more drawn to them. I remember changing my mindset to switch that. 98%of my life has been straight until recently. I felt drawn to some guys but never thought of it sexually. Always had girl crushes dreams and porn. Now I watch porn and I feel like straight takes longer and then I go and watch gay porn and feel nothing until I tell myself it’s two attractive dudes and love is love and imagine physical sensations and then it hits like suddenly. Like I have to convince myself it’s alright. Then when I try again I can do all that but feel nothing and then straight porn works. Idk if it’s just getting a fix or the first time works with anything or what but it’s confusing. On top of that I’ve felt girl relationships including my wife maybe miss something and a guy maybe matches that feeling that but then I feel like I’d be missing something without a girl or my wife. Idk I’ve had some rough times in life with male figures in my life but idk. I feel like I have to convince myself more and more that I’m straight even more than the first time I dealt with this. Can someone relate? Please
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- 9w ago
I know I was here earlier on with a question as well lol but has anyone ever found that when a new false memory takes its place at the forefront of your mind, it's almost easier to disregard the old false memories and say "Yeah that stuff didn't actually happen that way". It feels like OCD giving you a little reward for letting it place a new, shinier false memory in your head. Anyone experience the same thing? Maybe I've asked a similar question before.
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