- Date posted
- 3y
- Date posted
- 3y
i totally understand that feeling. i was experiencing bad rocd during the start of the 2022 new year because i was afraid this feeling was just going to be a part of my life now. i was very anxious about the upcoming events I should excited about. saying i relate to the “afraid i’ll wake up one day and not like him” and “if i really like him” is an understatement. those were the exact thoughts i had for months. a few things that help me: -our thoughts do not define us. we are not our thoughts. -let it go. this pain and anxiety you’re feeling is not based on true emotion, it is based on fear. -loving someone and being in love are two different things. you are not going to feel that euphoric “in love” feeling all the time with your partner. actually loving someone is having their back and them being your best friend. sure there’s an attraction but that is not important if you want a long-term relationship. when you grow old, you’re not gonna look at them and think “wow they’re smokin hot” lol. what i’m trying to say is that just because you don’t feel a certain way when you’re around them like “omg i love them”, doesn’t mean you don’t love them. love is a much deeper, innate feeling so it often can be questioned because we forget we have it. -those thoughts and feelings that feel so real and are so convincing are terrifying. nothing is more painful than feeling at war with your own mind. trust me i understand. when you are overwhelmed with anxiety, it’s so hard to get rid of. when you feel that anxiety because of a thought, your body literally triggers a fight or fight response because it physically wants to get away from the thought. you have to think of your anxiety as a concerned friend. it thinks there’s an issue when there isn’t. so instead of fighting the thoughts, try listening to them, hearing what they have to say and then dismissing them with a phrase such as “i hear you. thank you for your concern. but i’m okay.” -lastly, you have to accept that many of our thoughts and feelings don’t have meaning. you can feel very intense emotions for no reason at all. they will come out of no where and paralyze you. it is your brain trying to cope with fear. it will not allow any new thoughts until it “fixes the issue”. the reason these thoughts have meaning is because we give them meaning. they will be floating by and our brain will reach out and grab them and go “ooooo what’s this? it seems important” even if it is useless to you. anyways, i hope this helped. you have to stay strong. and i know it’s hard. so hard. but those thoughts will not last forever. eventually your mind will go “fineeee, i give up”. remember, ocd attacks the most important thing in your life.
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- 3y
thank you so so much!
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- 21w
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- 20w
i feel nothing for my partner and i read coments in reddit r/rocd with people suggesting to remeber the good times with your partner but i cant remeber times i loved him or felt real love because everythibg is drowned in doubt and thoughts and i think many negative things such as “i never loved him i just liked the ideea of an relationship and when the thoughts started (one and a half years ago) i realised i didnt actually loved him but i hust cant accept the truth because i put hight expextesions in this relationship and i just coped all the moments forving myslef ro think i do love him” our relationship has normal wring and hw is a great guy and ny family loves him but i obly think i dont love him and even being next to him does not help. im in the worst flare up ever can someone relate or give me advice on how to get better. i tried thrapy but it made it worse and i cant go so i need to heal ob my own. i talk very much to chat gbt and post here often. people here told me i have rocd but in steal questioning this. ever since i found out about rocd i have been worser and worser. i canr remeber how to love. my memories are blured nothing makes me happy. i feel like i have changed into someone that once i was afraid of becoming. when this started i knew it was all fake but now it feels real. im so scred. my thoughts came in affirmaations making svenarios about me not loving him or explenesions of why i feel how i feel and it feels so real. im just si lost and confused i keep trying to find an answer and someone who is in the same situation but everytime i get a positive or negative response from someone it dosent calm me. i feel like im in denial. if someone tells me somethibg posituve i think its fake and that in lying masking the fact that i dont love him as rocd and if u get a negative response my chest hurts. I know its not the end of the world if i dont end uo with him but all of this does not make sense. its just out of the blue. can you stop liking someone out of the blue?? I feel so many negative emotions towords him and i dont understand why. i lost my spark and its all because of the thoughts. He triea to use logic on me saying that if i didnt cared or liked him i would not be this sad and cry so much but it does not help. My therapist told me “you can care about people but it doaent meab you like them” and last session she was only trying to make me realise i dont love him but it felt wrong. I have been like this 24/7 since september 2023. we are a couple since april 2024 and everything feela fake i doubt everything. i want to be normal. my chest hurts.
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- 19w
for a few days now I’ve been super anxious about my relationship. I’ve been anxious about it before but lately it’s been worse than normal. I’m in a very healthy and loving relationship, I love my boyfriend so much and he treats me so so well. The only thing is that I’ve been having scary thoughts that what if I’m lying to him and don’t actually love him? What if I don’t find him attractive? And like what if the only way to stop being anxious is to break up with him? I don’t want to leave him and I am so scared. I feel like I’m lying to him by not telling him what’s going on because he might think I’m actually going to leave him, which I’m really not going to. I have had anxiety since before we started dating and incestual and sexual ocd, then I got into a point where I started having religious ocd, and now I have ROCD on top of that I think. I’ve never been diagnosed but I’m going to therapy and figuring things out but I’m so scared. Idk what to do and I feel like if I talk to anyone they’re going to say I have to leave him.
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