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I feel stuck and I don’t know what to do Two days ago, I was at the gym bubbler station. The station had a bubbler and a water filter. At first, as I was using the filter to fill my water, my thigh was also pressing onto the bubbler and a bit of water came out of the bubbler as well. As I stopped using the filter, the bubbler water came out a lot more. I was then obsessed with this. The next twenty minutes, I wasted my time trying to see if I use the filter at the same time, will the bubbler reduce its water (while I have my left hand pressing onto the bubbler). I spent so long at the station and finally was able to tell that the bubbler comes out less water if I use the filter at the same time and the bubbler comes out more water if I don’t use the filter. I was satisfied with this, but then as I walked away from the station, I doubted it and wanted to re-do the process again (wanting to do the test again while filling up my water bottle). But instead I walked away because my wife was waiting for me to go home. I felt really uncomfortable and unsatisfied with this because my mind kept telling me to go back to the station. So my question is, after two days later, I’m still thinking about this and I feel so scared to go back to that gym because I’m scared I will be obsessed over the test again at the station. What should I do? Thank you guys so much

User type: Therapist

Date posted: 2y ago

I have recommended giving OCD a name. My clients have named their OCD everything from Wendell to Fredo to Igor. People with OCD will often tell their OCD that they are not giving in to the OCD today. This means refraining from doing what the OCD tells you to do. You may or may not have the thoughts, but you don't have to respond to them.

hopefulxmess

Date posted: 20w ago

Do/did you have this issue? Please help😪

When an intrusive thought comes I can’t just say “that’s not true” and just move on. I always feel like I have to disprove the thought and be able to say it with confidence but the problem is that the ocd doesn’t allow me to feel and say it with confidence so I get stuck for hours or even days. How can I stop feeling like I need to do this?

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 16w ago

I really need help please, please

I know a few of you saw my posts about my ERP and the googling urges. That didn’t end up going well. My therapist actually decided we needed to halt it for now. The thing is it’s almost like I learned googling is harmless from those few exercises and my brain keeps generating more things to google. Normally I would just spiral and be done but now I can barely hold back from searching for long. I eventually give in. I’m horrified because it feels like I want to find illegal content. I swear on everything I am, I don’t want to find anything even close to it. I’m freaking out because I don’t understand what’s happening. I keep compulsively searching/testing/checking or idk. I keep remembering details and I feel like I need to google again to be sure of something. I feel absolutely insane can someone please help me??? I’m petrified I’m going to get in trouble.

misereri

Date posted: 15w ago

Urgent: i need yalls opinion

Sometimes I think " do I like kids?" "Would i get aroused if I saw content with kids?""What if I'm a pedo and cant accept it?" "What if I'm ok with these thoughts?" "What if I'm not distressed enough " "What if I enjoy these thoughts?" , i avoid kids as much as i can, i cant look at them bc I'm scared I'm gonna have some groin like response. I keep testing if I'd get turned on or if I'd have some groinal response to sexual scenarios with kids. Sometimes I think that if I took my life this would be over and i wouldn't have to think about this and i wish i doubted something else instead of things like this. I had similar situations just with different topics such as if i loved or found sexually appealing a guy while in a relationship and i kept asking myself those questions for months and i avoided going to school for weeks and when I went I'd cry and have anxiety attacks. I had it with past actions i obessed over and felt the need to exploit every detail and be honest because otherwise i was being a fraud. I had it for sexual things that happened when i was a child. Im not diagnosed with ocd but should i tell this to my local counselor? Can someone help? Give me advice or tell me anything?

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