Has anybody with SO-OCD experienced their general obsession honing in on one particular person? For me, I’ve started having thoughts of “you’re in love with your best friend” because my brain is telling me that any feelings of affection (even platonic ones) equals romantic affection. Does anyone have advice on how to handle this particular obsession? I’m finding it impossible to hang out with her which sucks.

Have you dealt with fear of being touched from your female friends and how did you get through?

@Ljc101010 Recognized it was all aneixty driven, literally. I didn’t care prior to my OCD flare up, and as it went on and I worked through erp and my ocd the aniexty went down and feelings decreased.

What things to do when you feel uncomfortable around friends should i push myself to bear the uncomfortablity ?

@Riddled thanks!

@Ljc101010 Sat with it! Hung out as long as I could, and then when I was overwhelmed to much, I would cry, I would give myself a moment and then I told OCD to fuck off. It’s all anxiety. Now my ocd has latched on to the words denial and that I need to come out. Which is super annoying but I try to remember anything pertaining to my theme I need to say meh too. So I’ve started doing alarms that say those words!

@Ljc101010 Have you experienced any thoughts that were more demanding then what’s ifs? Haha it’s the worst. 😭

@Riddled I experienced alot of what if from different triggers that trigger my HOCD i even get triggered about different types of ocd at rhe same time which makes me paranoid😂🙆🏻‍♀️

@Riddled I’ve been ocd patient for almost a year and I kinda lget used to how uncomfortable it feels! It sucks

@Ljc101010 Ugh I feel alone in the department that mine don’t always begin with what if or they do and then the intrusive thoughts after are more demanding if that makes sense

@Ljc101010 I’ve been a patient sense September so been doing erp for 5 months now.

@Riddled It’s the confusion that makes things shit i guess as long as you keep believing your inner guts and knowing fhat this it isn’t the thing you want to in real life then keep fighting i know it’s hard it’s gonna end someday

@Riddled It’s good you are doing erp ,i hooe uou are doing it with a therapist instruction so he can help you along the way! I am fighting ocd without treatment so i fear so many things but thank god i try to collect myself and alaays get over if

@Ljc101010 Yes I use NOCD! Still hard tho

@Riddled At first the erp is very difficult then it becomes easier step by step

@Riddled I hope you get better!❤️

@Ljc101010 Have you ever experienced thoughts of “you know your in denial” and things like that?? Not trying to trigger you, my ocd is just stuck on are my ocd thoughts normal 😂 And thank you I hope the same for you!

@Riddled Not exactly like that but a fear of being in denial is def a thing yes!

@Riddled But i have always liked boys and I always want to be with one it just came out of no where literally

@Ljc101010 Prob me over here obsessing over if my OCD thoughts are too much to be OCD 😂😭

@Ljc101010 Same here, I got married had ROCD and then it turned into this.

@Riddled ROCD and Hocd seems to be linked somehow they always come together most of the time i believe

@Riddled Break the cycle and do anything else rather than keep thinking abt it

@Ljc101010 So true! Thank you!

@Riddled I sometimes think that maybe i want to and it’s just because my religion and that’s not true my ocd wants any hint to make me believe that it is true

@Ljc101010 I’m not even super religious for me, I basically identify as pan sexual, and my brain is like that’s an excuse to not be gay, because I had “im gay” stuck on repeat in my head for days from like sun up to sun down…. All because I was “confessing” to my husband things and I was like “what if I’m in denial and haven’t been the best wife because I was confused about my sexuality for a sec when I went through puberty” and then from there spiraled but for me, I’m like of course girls are beautiful but I’m only attracted to men romantically… and my ocd is like excuses! And I’m like but no really! And it’s like lies! Hahaha When all in all most females literally think the exact same way.

@Riddled It tries to pop up excuses for you not being gay is a myth and that’s what you wanna actually be and bla bla blaaa

@Riddled Just live a happy life with your husband💗

@Ljc101010 Exactly haha, the cycle of this wrath is endless

I worry that if I do the ERP involving my best friend I’ll “discover” my “true” feelings and it’ll all just go downhill from there 🥲

@fifurn Im also afraid of the same. Somedays I cant even go in to instagram bc Im afraid she Will post something and that trigger me. I tell myself If I was really into someone, I wouldnt have so much anxiety about it. Do you have any therapist that can guide you through ERP?