- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Close SOCD
I relapsed again and triggered myself. It really tried to convince me despite the evidence.
I relapsed again and triggered myself. It really tried to convince me despite the evidence.
I had a really bad return to the worst overwhelming thoughts last week after an exposure (which previously hadn't triggered me so much). I felt so down about it but the next couple of days I felt stronger and better able to let thoughts pass, so I tried to remind myself progress isn't linear. It doesn't necessarily mean it's a setback if that feels like a super negative way to describe it. Sometimes it's not such a good day and there's not much you can do but to go to bed and hope tomorrow is a better one. OCD is never logical whatever evidence you give it. Keep going :-)
@ada110 Yeah I relapsed again, but I’m proud of my journey. I am still making a lot of progress.
@Ghost123 Good for you. I don't feel out of the woods yet myself but it's getting easier.
@ada110 Good to hear. Do you have a trigger “place”? Like when you’re in the bedroom or when you walk past someone. I’ve noticed that my SOCD spikes when I’m alone in my room for long periods of time (+ social isolation). When I go outside and I see (well I guess) gay or bi couples, I don’t really get triggered as much. It’s only afterwards.
@Ghost123 To be honest triggers can come from anywhere - My OCD finds a way in. But being alone is definitely worse for me too and I'm still on my own a lot while looking for work which can be hard. Just too much time with my own head and no distractions or exposures from the real outside world. Going out it can sometimes be triggered by seeing same sex couples or also just attractive women, or I've noticed sometimes any woman who is friendly or smiles at me, my brain goes "does she fancy me? Do I want her to?". But it's erratic, sometimes these things are triggers sometimes they aren't. Just trying to learn to let these thoughts come and try not to engage in the rumination.
@ada110 I get these too but not as much. I normally don’t get triggered by same sex couples, it’s only when my OCD is already spiking beforehand that it latches onto anything. Children, teenagers, men and very rarely animals. And not to sound TMI but even like having “alone time” and those thoughts popping up really make it distressful. I’m afraid for my future relationships, in that I fear that I will suffer from sexual dysfunction. Which is not uncommon for people with OCD. I’m also scared because whilst my HOCD goes away, it can come back and seem realer every time. So I have to practice ERP or distract myself which does help. But man, some of the thoughts make me genuinely want to throw up. It’s like OCD is a predator pressuring me or something into doing things I know I hate and will never do. I’m scared:
Pocd feels real again and I can’t tell if I’m actually attracted or not. can’t believe it got this bad again. I used to be able to go “no I don’t like that, go away” and now it feels like I do like it and want it, and it’s starting to linger longer so it feels more real. I’m avoiding checking but I’m so scared that what if it’s true. Is it because I have not been doing my exposures? I’m not sure, but every time a 14 year old person comes to my head, I keep hearing something go “they’re attractive” and it sounds like me so I panic, and it makes me even more scared because I’m not feeling bad about it??? I saw some kid at Walmart that had long black hair and my brain kept saying shit and no matter how much I say I don’t feel that way, it won’t shut up, i want to check 1000 times to make sure. But I know it’s not worth it. I’m trying so hard
I feel like a really terrible person right now, I keep replaying this, and no matter what I can’t remember what happened, it’s like my brain is purposely not letting me think about it. Without wasting any more time, I’ll get into it. Basically, I was at Walmart, and looking at cards with My Dad, I saw anime ones, took pictures of them for my sister, even ones that were anime kids, because I did my best to ignore it, so I looked at a Hunter x Hunter card, I stared at the black haired kid, being all like “ I’m glad I’m not having any thoughts about this, I’m glad I’m having normal thoughts and not thinking anything” I felt happy, then as soon as I looked at killua (white haired kid), everything collapsed. I don’t know what happened, my brain won’t let me remember. But I’ll give bits and pieces. I think that I had false attraction, and something in my head, said “oh, I wouldn’t mind being attracted.” “He is attractive, and I’m attracted to him.” “I remember a girl thinking he is attractive and he is” “ It’s not wrong to be attracted” “ I don’t care about his age” .. something along the lines of that, and now I’m panicking super hard, because I’m worried if I said those things, I feel like I ruined my life that I’m a pe//do and deserve nothing, idk what to do, I feel terrible… I remember when I was having the intrusive thoughts, I was panicking and was worrying, but it kept playing out, and I kept hearing things talk, it was drawn out too long, that now I feel convinced that I was saying those things, I tested it too, and I can confirm that I didn’t say that, but why am I still not convinced? I know I wouldn’t say those things, I was hoping the complete opposite would happen. My brain kept making me feel like it wasn’t wrong and it was okay. Maybe that’s why I’m so convinced I did that. I’m just spiraling super bad right now, I don’t know what to do or what to think, I don’t know if I said that or not… even if I did test it, I genuinely just feel like I said it, and I wanted it, because I still feel uncertain, I still feel like I said it, part of me just wants to be like oh I did and so I can move on, not because I agree with it, I just don’t know what else to do… I’m really scared.
I think when people are saying OCD is egodystonic is really triggering me and I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I’m going through a really bad relapse and right now I’m trying to figure out if my thoughts are truly egodystonic, like I how do I know I won’t act on them, how can I trust my emotions and everything. I feel really confused and I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore or how I carry on with life because it’s so long and I’m so unsure of everything that’s going on in my head. Like how do I know that this is OCD and true desires/urges. I’m so confused.
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