- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y
I’m with you! There are times where my anxiety is too much to handle and i turn to alcohol to calm me down. I’m trying not to drink as much bc i want to be able to tackle this OCD all on my own.
I’m sorry you’re struggling too. I know it all sucks. I feel the same I want to tackle it on my own I get through most of the day like at work or before I take my fiancé to work but then I get afraid of how the thoughts will be or how I’ll feel when I’m alone and I get too scared to go without it. I went so long without drinking hard liquor the way I am now and then this recurring theme I’ve had just started coming at me like 100% worse than it has in a long time. I hate it.
I've heard drug and alcohol use is very common in people with ocd
Thank you. Yeah I just started thinking about it today and I was like I wonder if this is becoming a new compulsion of mine lol. I don’t want it. But it does help unfortunately and I guess that’s why I need to make myself go without it.
For sure. I’ve had a big problem with alcohol because of my OCD
Basically anything can become a compulsion.
Thank you! I really didn’t know that. That helps!
:/ it sucks. I’m sorry.
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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