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- 6y
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- 6y
I have had this fear of schizophrenia for so long so I definitely know what you’re going through. It’s so frustrating. You brain makes you believe that you’ll actually get it or you actually have it. It’s so scary. That’s just the OCD trying to trick you because it feeds off doubt. Stay strong. Remind yourself that it’s OCD. Not trying to give you reassurance but if you actually had borderline personality disorder you probably wouldn’t know you had it. Leave those diagnoses to real doctors. You will get through this❤️
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- 6y
been there! bpd, schizophrenia, narcissism, adhd, dpd/drd. honestly just everything
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- 6y
Omg lol thought I was the only one. But I've had the thought I'm autistic for years now so I actually think I am I don't think that's my ocd. But I've thought I've had all sorts before
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- 6y
I definitely hop around to as many diagnoses as possible because I convince myself that it cant possibly be just OCD, that I'm too bad off for that... it's so incredibly frustrating
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- 6y
I have definitely felt that it wasn’t OCD. I was actually convinced it wasn’t. Just because it felt like it was something worse but that’s just how OCD tricks you. It wants you to believe that something else is wrong. It wants you to ruminate and obsess that there is a small change that you could be wrong. That small chance is what makes it feel like the end of world. I heard someone say that if you start to wondering if it’s OCD or not, it’s definitely OCD. It’s so hard because it’s exhausting fighting yourself all the time. Stay strong?
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- 23w
I’ve gone through so many themes and seen the pattern so many times that I’m getting to a point where, new themes come in and I automatically identify my compulsions and the potential ones and then choose to not engage. OCD now is like a thorn in my side rather than a boulder suffocating me. But still that annoying little thorn that will always be there dispositionally
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- 21w
I bought some books on OCD because I like education and would like to know a little more behind why I feel or think this way. I opened up to my mom about this and she keeps saying I’m obsessed with having OCD, she doesn’t actually believe I have it, and that I forced myself to have those thoughts. She then told me she’s going to ask her mental health provider (she’s a nurse) if you can give yourself a mental illness because she said there’s no way someone could spiral out of control within a few days the way I did.
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- 15w
I know the solution is to always say “yeah that could be true, but I am choosing to live my life anyway.” However, I feel like my biggest issue is my brain always assuming that it is immediately true when I do that. Like if I say “maybe I’m attracted to teenagers, it’s possible,” then my brain INSTANTLY starts rationalizing that thought and defending it and being like “oh okay so you think this now and it makes sense because xyz, and now that’s who you are and your real desire is now and always will be teenagers.” I feel really alone in this area of feeling like my brain “accepting the thoughts” means my brain immediately accepts them as true. I obviously don’t want to think they’re true but I feel so stuck now.
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