shopping is so hard

So sorry you’re going through that!! Was just telling a friend I bought them something cause my brain told me if I didn’t they’d hate me forever 😅 so kinda the same but different ocd theme.

ugh tell be about it🤦‍♀️ it’s funny in a way, after i look back at the things i do and the things i stress over while shopping but i’ve wasted money on things that i simply don’t need, or buy clothes and regret it later and hide them from myself, it’s just so annoying and confusing😅

@professional anxious overthinker It sounds exhausting but I love your sense of humor to laugh at these things after a spiral. Hang in there 👍💪

Hi there, I am sorry to hear what you are going through. I am currently struggling wirh thoughts that are telling me that I am not actually cisgender and that I am actually trans. I am a female and have always been, but these thoughts are making me feel like I’d rather be a man and they are scaring me to death. If you have any tips as to how to work through these thoughts I would really appreciate it. This theme is killing me.

Hey! I really struggled with this theme this past summer and while I do sometimes get anxious again about this it's much less than before...what I started doing was agreeing with my ocd a little bit. I would tell it "yeah, maybe I am...but I'm not gonna change anything yet" and my anxiety would really increase for a while and my OCD would be all like "ahhh what do you mean? See I told you..." and I would just agree with it again without acting on any of the urges or feelings that it was telling me to do. It took about a month and it did take a while to feel better but eventually it got better.