- Date posted
- 3y
OCD?
At the beginning of January, I started developing really bad anxiety (or so I thought). I am diagnosed with anxiety and have felt like this before, so it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. The only difference was that I was having these super weird thoughts. It all started when boyfriend made a jealous comment about how I like another boy, and I became fixated on the thought and started panicking that maybe I do like him, even though I have zero feelings for him at all. I avoided this boy, and the thoughts passed. But then, out of absolutely nowhere, the exact smart thoughts started happening with another boy from my school. These thoughts have been around for about a month now, as seeing this boy in school triggers the thoughts every day. The thoughts make me extremely uncomfortable, to the point of panic attacks. I have also found myself questioning and doubting my relationship, ‘do I really love him?’ ‘Am I just attached?’ ‘Am I really happy or do I just think I’m happy?’ ‘Should I end things?’. I know I love my boyfriend and I know I want to be with him and no one else, but these thoughts are making me feel crazy. I have started avoiding going to school, I avoid watching movies or TikToks about relationships, I am constantly researching every thought that comes through my head trying to figure out what it means. It’s affecting my whole life (education, relationship, even my friendships). When I researched about relationship OCD, everything was so relatable to how I’ve been feeling. But then another intrusive thought popped up, ‘Stop self diagnosing yourself because your in denial that these thoughts are real’. I’m so scared for myself and I don’t know what to do. I also started thinking recently about my boyfriend’s feelings for me, worrying that he’s slightly off with me, he doesn’t care about me or love me anymore, he’s getting tired of me being down all the time. I have also started having suicidal thoughts and I am worried that I’m going to give in to the thoughts and commit suicide, even though I don’t want to die. When I shower, I feel like my body is never clean enough, so bad that I feel an urge to actually remove my skin. I wash my body over and over and it just never feels right. My sleeping has also been affected, and I have been having the weirdest dreams. I have also been having weird moments where I’m half asleep and I mix up my dreams and reality (the last night I was sleeping, and I woke up and went to ask my friend to check my phone, but then I realised no one was with me). I know this probably happens to ‘normal’ people, but it’s been happening to me every single night and I just feel so mentally exhausted. Can someone please tell me if this could be OCD, or am I just self diagnosing myself because I’m in denial that the thoughts are real?