OCDewewew
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- Date posted
- 2y ago
Racism OCD?
Does anyone have the theme of racism for their OCD? Am I the only one?
SheldoriumSheldorium
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- 2y ago
Its not a theme for me but I regularly get intrusive thoughts like racial slurs when seeing different people. I know they are just thoughts however.
OCDewewewOCDewewew
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- 2y ago
The part that gets me is this thought involved one small true statement and ocd is just running with it.
OCDewewewOCDewewew
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- 2y ago
Same. Lately, I’ve had my ocd cling onto bits of innocent truth and twist it into something racist and evil. Ocd does a fantastic job at blurring the lines between what you really believe and what it wants you to believe. It’s so hard to tell if I actually think these thoughts because it feels so real. It feels like I 100% do. But I don’t want to believe these things.
Pepperonimuffin420Pepperonimuf...
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- 2y ago
Well I can tell you one thing racist people don’t worry. They just are racist. I mean maybe some of them had a change of heart. But I feel like it’s still something they do not worry about 100%. My best advice is to sit with the thoughts as hard as it is!
OCDewewewOCDewewew
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@Princess4677 Also just read something that even if intrusive thoughts are about something true, ocd distorts it and frames it in a way it isn’t. Which made me feel a little better.
Pepperonimuffin420Pepperonimuf...
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- 2y ago
@OCDewewew Oh yeah totally ! It’s with every theme too but it’s all mental torture for sure :/
Pepperonimuffin420Pepperonimuf...
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- 2y ago
I have this fear a bit especially since I’m white. People claim that white people naturally have it in them and that’s scary to me lol.
sweetsunflower sweetsunflower
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- 2y ago
i can relate to this. in middle school, a friend called a classmate of ours a racial slur and said that it was me and not her, that classmate threatened to kill me and brought a gun to a school event and i remember being terrified and my friend at the time thought it was rather funny. ever since my OCD will latch on this when i have friends who are of different races, like i have to be fearful. i myself i’m a minority and that singular event really impacted me and my OCD latched on to it the most bizarre ways.
OCDewewewOCDewewew
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- 2y ago
Oh my gosh I am so sorry!!!! That sounds awful.
humphreybohearthumphreyboheart
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- 2y ago
I suffered this in 2020, I think it’s actually what started my OCD. Understanding that everyone has internalized racism to some degree or another makes your OCD take that truth and blow it up in you and make it seem morally corrupting. What helped is letting those thoughts be there, accept them, even say a slur to yourself when you’re alone. You’ll realize that instead of having them transform you into a racist, they’ll eventually die and you’ll be the person you once were.
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