I haven’t found ANYONE with the same “tics” as me. Feels really lonely over here. Just to start with one, does anyone have to breathe in while counting and blinking while they look at something they need or want and have to breathe out while counting and blinking when they see something bad or negative? This one is so exhausting! Makes me too aware of my breathing and makes me feel like I’m going to die from not breathing right.

d a i s y

Date posted: 6y ago

Hi Kalr :) I have a similar breathing compulsion. I was really reluctant to post this because it’s so triggering and I’m worried something bad will happen if I talk about it. Just know I understand completely and I’m here for you. d a i s y

Anonymous

Date posted: 6y ago

I don’t have that exactly, but I did struggle with positive and negative thoughts/imagery for about five years. I simply could not perform an action while having a negative thought. Taking a bite of food, stepping over a threshold, walking up and down stairs. Anything. If I had a negative thought, I had to re-perform the action with a positive thought. And if I didn’t get it right on the first retry, I had to redo again until I hit a “good” number of retries. It was crippling.

Anxiousashley

Date posted: 6y ago

Sometimes I worry that something is “off” with my breathing and it makes me pay EXTREMELY close attention to how I’m breathing and my compulsion is to try to regulate my breathing. It usually ends up making it worse and I get exhausted trying to “breathe right”. I have to remind myself that breathing is an automatic process and my brain knows how to do it just fine no matter what situation I’m in. I also had a similar problem with thoughts that I couldn’t control my bladder a few years back. I would compulsively hold my pee in and I’d wear bladder control pads just in case I would piss myself. I was in a lot of pain because of always holding my pee. I went to many doctors trying to find out why I always had the urge to urinate. I would avoid and fear going anywhere in public or even family functions bc I was so afraid I was going to piss myself.

Dsarahm

Date posted: 6y ago

i don’t have this but stay positive because i’m sure someone on here has the same compulsion as you. all the best x

HappyMedium

Date posted: 6y ago

When I’m in the car, I have to blink when I’m in between things like houses or trees but not when I’m directly across from them.

MagicOCD

Date posted: 25w ago

Magic ocd

I know this is insane but please, PLEASE hear me out. I just need someone to tell me they relate in some way or something. Does anyone else feel like they have some sort of 'magic' that they accidentally manifested from 'wishing' too hard during a traumatic time and can't feel like you can control it now, which is pretty anxiety inducing since it feels like it would make people be able to feel or see your ocd thoughts? Or use your muscle tensing as part of your ocd? Like if you have an intrusive thought while tensing a muscle, you feel like it's going to come true so you have to 'correct' it by thinking a good thought then tense your muscles again? Because I have both of them. :(

leena445

Date posted: 25w ago

im so confused

im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.

cows12465

Date posted: 11w ago

anyone else?

does anyone else experience extreme fear of developing psychosis or schizophrenia or derealization. I literally freak myself out so much that it makes me physically sick. I’m so scared of developing these and it keeps coming up all over my TikTok and Google. It’s freaking me out.

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