- Date posted
- 6y
- Date posted
- 6y
Every question you ask is reassurance seeking what if questions. Although people with ocd can related especually thise that share your theme its not going to solve the problem by asking these questions and most people who are somewhat educated on this issue know it wont help you to answer. Why not try asking for sone strategies and advise on how to work through this? There is a solution that works but you hace to be willing to try. I dont want to sound harsh or unsympathetic that isnt intention. But your going through this cycle day in and day out. It sounds painful.
- Date posted
- 6y
Understandable. Your spending all your mental energy trying to figure out the answer to a question. Its exhausting it really is. Its like running a marathon in your mind with no finish line. OCD will make you doubt any and all possible answers. That is why there is the word disorder in ocd. Its why someone without ocd wouod be satisfied if they said to themselves said "yea i am gay". People with ocd this doesnt work because youll always be like "what if im not"?. Or vise versa it doesnt matter. This is a mental illness. Therefore you have to look at this differently then regular people: 1- You have to tell yourself you might never answer this question to your satisfaction. 2- You need to try and stop ruminating on this topic. This is so hard to do. Every second you stop thinking about it your doing something good for yourself. Use that as enouragement when you realize you stopped thinking about it even if you didnt do it on purpose. Just to show yourself you can. Like if you got distracted somehow just to prove it to yourself that it can happen. You can not think about it sometimes. 3- Learn to sit with anxiety. When you ruminate your trying to oush away the anxiety related to the question. If you can pause the thinking and focus on how anxious you feel you are actually helping yourself. I hope you can find some will to try and do some of these things. They really work. People want to help but at the end of the day only you can make that decision or not.
- Date posted
- 6y
I would tell what I do that kind of helps but it’s more of a compulsion and that would make it worse
- Date posted
- 6y
It sounds dumb but if you don’t wanna try it on a real person here’s the route to go, You get a pillow or anything, you act like it’s a girl and you give it a smooch. And your emotions and body will pretty much answer your question. Also I’m sorry if this harms you in any way shape or form, I didn’t mean for it to hurt your OCD or anything
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- Date posted
- 25w
So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
- Date posted
- 24w
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 12w
Is it possible to have been living your life well and enjoying your days but have been physically hurting people without knowing? Like you are always aware of your actions right? I have this terrible feeling that I hurt one of my students and went through an entire week either blacking it out or not realizing. But it’s something I feel like you should realize. A disturbing dream seems to have triggered this.
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