OCD with clothing?

Does anyone else get really fixated on their clothes and how they fit/look?? Its not always a big thing to me but sometimes I get worked up over how certain clothes fit on me or how their colors go together - sometimes I’ll put on an outfit in the morning and then by the afternoon I’ll talk myself into hating it over one small detail like a color being “wrong” or a wrinkle on my pants, it makes me go crazy 😭😭😭

Username: ARTnotOCD

Date posted: 68d ago

Yup!

Username: DragonNimbus47

Date posted: 68d ago

yep!!

User type: NOCD Alumni

Username: Brian K.

Date posted: 68d ago

Yep, still happens to me to varying degrees, especially if I need to get all dressed up for something important. It used to take me forever to get dressed in the morning, sometimes going through a dozen or so different options….even when I wasn’t leaving to go anywhere. (Seriously what was my couch going to judge my t-shirt choice?) I started using it as an exposure and closing my eyes and just picking the first thing I grabbed and not changing it no matter what my brain told me and tried to go about my day. It made my best friend laugh sometimes, but she knew what I was going through and would always support me. Not saying a glow in the dark pumpkin Halloween shirt in July looked the best but it helped me to not focus so much on what I was wearing, or what others thought about it.

Username: Lulu_20

Date posted: 68d ago

@Brian K. I really like this, I struggle too sometimes especially if clothes don’t “feel right” or if I will panic about what if i should have worn something else but I really like this idea for exposure therapy. This story made me smile, thanks for sharing❤️

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Username: Brian K.

Date posted: 68d ago

@Lulu_20 Hi @Lulu_20, happy to help and glad I could make you smile. Yeah, I completely understand about the clothes needing to “feel right”, couldn’t even begin to explain that feeling to someone who doesn’t experience it. When it “feels right” you just know….even if you really have no idea why it feels right…other than your brain giving you the thumbs up and the anxiety going away.