Anyone else do this? I had to delete tiktok and instagram for my mental health. All the "wellness" influences really triggered my health ocd and pharmaphobia.
YES me too
I went down a bad rabbit hole with that during quarantine
Same. Its hard not too. So much fear mongering on those apps that its a huge trigger for me.
Omg. I am thinking about doing it too. I literally am going off medicine because of everything I keep hearing. When you have an already doubting disease (OCD) hearing all the different opinions 24:7 is SO hard. One minute I feel okay about taking medicine, the next minute I’m wondering if I want to be 100% holistic because of what everyone is saying. I don’t know what to believe. It’s like everyone’s opinions get stuck in my head 😣
Same!! I have pmdd/pcos and know I need birth control but that wellness community is like just take this supplement and you'll be fine. I guess I have to keep going back to thankfully we live in a time where we have these medical advances. Back in the day, people really suffered. Its hard. Why can't I just be healthy physically and mentally?!
@Mama_m02 Girl I literally feel the same. I listen to the horror stories about birth control, anti depressants, any medication, and think, oh no now I can’t take that because it’ll happen to me. SMH.
@Itsheathersocd Yes! It triggers that ocd fear! I have to cut it off or ill never get better. I was just googling side effects of different birth controls and it doesn't help that my mom had breast cancer. Just know you're not alone in your thoughts. I am right there with you!
like the title says, i also suffer from cancel culture OCD, even more these last two months in which i have noticed that several people have been deleting me from social media, in fact two days ago i had a spiral as someone recently blocked me. i won't go into it to avoid the compulsion to confess but basically i had issues before with my ex and some of his friends that he himself ended up involving, even though we are on good terms he made sure to make me look like i was the problem and several mutual friends have been detaching themselves from me. the thing is, i see many people say that to fight their cancel culture OCD they delete their social media and then just. disappear. but i don't want to do this - i don't want to hide, i want to stay in the public eye and create things, in fact, i am an artist. but since the last year now i live in constant fear and also somewhat sensitive to what others think of me thanks to the rumors about me and i'm afraid that one day i might be "exposed" or something like that; and i also feel like i'm "pretending" to be a good person all the time. so, with what i already said, how do i deal with this without having to resort to deleting my social media? i think that exposing myself every day and continuing to post things on social medias despite the constant fear and guilt i feel would count as ERP, right? thanks.
Does anyone experience ocd really bad with posts they see online? I just saw a post just now about someone who said they’ve come to terms with dying in their early twenties, and it popped up on my Instagram for you page and i panicked. I’m 20 myself and posts like this genuinely scare me because I always think “It’s a sign or there is a reason it’s popping up on my page.” Has anyone dealt with this before or had an instance like this? Especially with those posts that say if you don’t share or like it something bad will happen, it genuinely freaks me out and I love instagram.
I feel like I’ve had a lot of different categories of ocd. Some categories stick with me more and are repetitive. I’ve been doing well with mental health - not having anxiety stick around. When the physical feeling of anxiety sticks around, every thought is horrible, but when the feeling of anxiety is gone the obsessions don’t really impact me. If I can keep anxiety at bay, my life is good. I’ve been doing well lately, although this week I was scrolling through tictok and watched a video about someone in a coma and wondered if I was in a coma right now and didn’t know it. I had a panic attack for about 15 minutes. Anxiety, sweating, etc. It didn’t take ahold of me and it quickly lost its impact on me. It still shook me and I was just like “wow” where did that come from. Now I am staying away from social media. Is that avoidance? Should I make myself keep watching social media? Many ocd problems have come from social media or watching a movie or show that triggers something and then spirals. I am limiting what I watch, which I believe is good because I shouldn’t be watching that stuff anyway. What do you think?
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