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Anonymous

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.

Anonymous

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.

chrysten

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

chrysten

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

laineynoelle

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 21w

Is it possible

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.

cherrypython222

Date posted: 13w

I feel like I’m losing my mind

Idk how to caption it other than that. My whole life I’ve had an issue with memory hoarding and the upside has been that I have a really vivid memories of my childhood and I get to remember my best days, the main downside has always been I have a lot of childhood trauma too and I remember every detail meticulously like I can relive and reanalyze them which has caused issues in my healing. However as much pain as it is to remember bad things so well it’s always been a bit of a comfort bc at least I know for sure even if other people don’t know or don’t believe. But as of lately I I’ve been forgetting things, whether it’s what time I’m supposed to work (and I have compulsions when checking my work schedule bc I’m always scared of reading it wrong so I usually open it up read it close it and open it up again 2-3 times so I usually KNOW) or what day it is, or just small things that I don’t remember saying or doing that other people swear on. I just have always felt like I know at the very least I know and lately I don’t and I’m so scared of going crazy and losing myself like literally my biggest fear. So I hate this. Today is Friday I was convinced yesterday was Friday and I woke up today for my Saturday shift completely convinced today was Saturday. I hate being wrong and making those small mistakes because it’s terrifying to think about what else I’m remembering wrong, or what else do I not “know” that isn’t actually the truth? I’m just so scared of losing myself mind. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?

Lu06

Date posted: 12w

Anyone help?

I want to start by specifying that I am not diagnosed. This feels too real, yesterday I was fine about this, I didn't feel much, I didn't think much and I felt fine, Today I woke up from dreams I had (not explicit) but I really feel like I am this, I don't know how to explain it, I feel like I sexualize everything, I feel like I like it and it makes me uncomfortable, I always feel different from everyone else, but in a bad way. I don't know how to explain it, but I really feel like this is who I am, and what happens to me is that I can't identify with OCD. I avoid everything that reminds me of this And I feel that sometimes I downplay the issue of my "OCD" as if it were not serious and it is

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