- Date posted
- 3y
Eye Contact
Does anyone have a hard time keeping eye contact in social interactions without looking at someone or people inappropriately? I guess its called starring/peripheral ocd
Does anyone have a hard time keeping eye contact in social interactions without looking at someone or people inappropriately? I guess its called starring/peripheral ocd
When I speak to anyone I can't hold eye contact for more 3 seconds. Eventually they catch on. I can't look directly at people in conversation so I look down or to the side to mask it. So usually I wear beanies or hoodies to block my peripheral vision I feel like a perverted weirdo sometimes.
Yeah, even with my mom, it’s weird and stupid.
I completely totally relate to this.
I do
Yes.
Anyone struggle with this with having ocd?
Has anyone experienced their reputation affected or misunderstood because of a societally taboo OCD theme? Others catching wind of your obsessions and misinterpreting it, assuming the worst? I’m intentionally keeping it vague because I don’t want my specific situation to get reassured, but it’s been a real tough pill to swallow knowing that people close to me (and anyone else they might talk to) think of me differently. I’m unwilling to share about my OCD because I feel pretty confident it will be taken as an excuse or denial, and feels compulsive and reassurance seeking. Let me know if anyone here has experienced anything like it, how they handled it, exposures you did.
please i need someone to share experiences... - that a certain facial expression of a person to whom ocd is attached causes a lot of thoughts that are connected to that facial expression, and that the images in your head are very detailed, and that they have a sound, words, and that you have a feeling of some kind of crawling from the groin all over your body?
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