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I relate a lot. Last year I've been feeling numb pretty much all the time. I used to be able to catch feelings for someone I liked, but now when I meet people that I should be interested in, I'm just like "meh" and don't even bother to do anything about it
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Yeah, it’s upsetting and just fuels the ocd fire cause I start obsessing over whether or not I’m depressed
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I agree with all the previous comments. Yes, OCD can cause a complete lack of emotion. It can make it hard to feel connected to other people especially, or feel positive emotions. Partially it's your body's way of protecting you from getting hurt, to shut down your emotions. And partially it's common to feel numb when you're spending so much time on obsessions/compulsions; your body and mind are exhausted
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Ger better Flowergirl. Sounds like you've been having a rough time..
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Absolutely. I feel numb to everything. There are small periods where i feel and act like myself but the ocd swallows it pretty quick
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scorpio mcd: first of all, I'm so sorry to hear about all of this. That sounds like a really rough year. You're not a bad person at all! Everyone reacts differently to trauma/scary events; I'm the same way as you. I suspect it's a defense mechanism, because those emotions are too overwhelming to feel so we shut them down. It's hard to deal with those things when OCD dominates so much of your life; there's simply no emotional space
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flowergirlglow: thank you so much???
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no problem! ??? You're not alone
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Oh I mean Scorpio, get better. Mixed you guys up ?
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thank you, hope you’re doing well?
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Maybe ocd shifted to emotional numbeness where at this point you need to learn to regulate emotionans . Maybe get an evaluation
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Basically in my personal experience OCD got so bad that I ended up feeling numb. So I had to find a different treatment for emotional trauam like Emdr, DBT , guided imagiry.
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thank you so much that makes a lot of sense. this year or so has been hard; i developed ocd, my moms been arrested and i’m now living with my grandparents, and the never ending themes of ocd. it’s been hard but i feel like i haven’t really reacted to it which makes me think i’m a bad person
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@moe5: can you further explain if you don’t mind please?
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i’ll check into that thank you
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So I’ve noticed that my OCD has calmed down, I’m getting less intrusive thoughts but I feel more uncertain than ever. Is this normal for recovery?
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I’m really anxious because I know my ocd is really bad right now so I shouldn’t try to figure it out cause my thinking is a mess but I’ve been having feelings of like I’m not sure if I love him anymore or worrying that I haven’t felt a lot like numb (a lot because ocd has been getting worse and worse) and thinking of like how I’ve been focusing on the negatives and only been looking at him through that lens and analyzing and also feeling like I don’t want this anymore. Basically just like negative thinking in feeling like I’m really scared it’s that it’s I don’t love him cause I don’t want it to be over and the thought of having someone replace him makes me ill. But like it feels like I’m not seeing him how I used to and it makes me upset. Today I was near someone I was like oh this person is cute and then I was thinking that the possibility of meeting someone new sounds exciting and now I’m freaking out because this in combination with feeling like maybe I don’t love him anymore is bad. Also my thoughts keep changing. and like sometimes it feels like I don’t care at all and this has happened but like worst it’s ever been and then other times I’m like I do care I do still feel. I’m just really anxious has anyone else felt this before and it was still ocd? 😭😭
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It is not the thoughts or urges that scare me anymore. It is the way I feel like I’ve absorbed the compulsions into my identity :( I am doing them so automatically that it feels like I am choosing them freely and they’re me. and because of that, it feels like I AM the OCD now, not just someone with OCD. I think I’m just deeply trapped in a loop. I was trying to survive unbearable fear so I started scanning. Then I started pre-scanning. Then checking if I pre-scanned. Then I check how I feel during all that. I run to beat my OCD to the “punchline” (intrusive thought, urge, sensation) because I’m so scared all the time. So scared that I don’t even feel it anymore. I feel numb and all that’s left is this jittery residue and numbness. Now it’s all tangled together in a huge knot. I feel so extremely lost. I think this may just be meta OCD, but I’ve never ever felt so gone before :( I’m really scared.
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