Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

How does OCD make you feel?

OCD makes me feel like my reality is not the same as everyone else around me. Like my mind is just in another place, and doesn’t see things the way others do. It’s a weird feeling I can’t really explain…but it sucks. It’s lonely and very scary when you don’t see things the way you used to. It’s like you’ve learned something that no one else will understand and you can’t unlearn it or un-know it. Like you’re just constantly stuck in your own world and own narrative. You know it’s weird, different, unreasonable and irrational, but it’s maddening when the other half of your brain feels otherwise. Like it is real, it is the truth. What scares me the most is thinking about how I used to see things, versus now…my perspective is so different. That’s when I go down the rabbit hole of perspective and how everyone has their own. I just want my old perspectives back. I don’t see things the same way anymore and it almost makes me feel like I’m going through a grieving process.

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

Thanks for the replies, everyone. We aren’t alone. It’s such a crazy, twisted, mess this OCD. Makes you feel like NOTHING makes sense anymore. But just keep reminding yourself that we aren’t alone in this.

MushroomStew

Date posted: 2y

It's feels like some sick person took over my brain and I have no power to take it back. It feels like I'm slowly being consumed, and soon I won't have any power over myself anymore. I want nothing more than to go back to the way I was four months ago

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@MushroomStew You’re not alone. The way I have thought about it is like..I felt like I was asleep like everyone else around me but now I’ve awakened to a new reality but it’s a place I don’t want to be. I know that might sound odd but that’s how it feels in my brain. Then I start to over analyze the way we think and see things as a whole and it scares the hell out of me and makes me feel like an alien or something.

Nisha09

Date posted: 2y

in a way I'm so glad for your post because I feel like this is the same exact way I feel to a T and it does bring some peace knowing I'm not the only one. I've always been so scared to talk about how I feel because I was convinced no one (even professionals) would understand me and that I was the only person who ever felt like this

OCDMM

Date posted: 2y

This was a perfect explanation of how I feel

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@OCDMM 💗

triciabcl2

Date posted: 2y

Yes. Oh my goodness Yes. So well said. Just want my life back

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@triciabcl2 And what is scary is that life we once knew seems like an illusion. Like we were in a whole different head space and things/the world around us/people even seemed so different. I hate it..feels like I am stuck in a nightmare or something.

mbrown24

Date posted: 2y

I feel the same way!

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@mbrown24 💗

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Date posted: 2y

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Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@🍓 Yup! I felt so much better when I believed what I’m feeling and thinking was due to trauma… Now that I’ve been diagnosed with OCD, I feel stuck here forever. When people say they’ve been “cured” I’m always thinking “how???” Like how does the just go away especially after being SO hyper aware/hyper focused on it?

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@Taylor10 this*

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@🍓 I’ve known that have had OCD my whole life… but to be honest with you. Mine did go away for about a decade. I had zero intrusive thoughts or compulsions. I was “normal” for so long. How does it just go away like that?

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@Taylor10 that I’ve had *

adaptocd

Date posted: 2y

I describe an OCD episode as feeling “fogged up from the inside.” It’s difficult to feel tuned into the moment and I’m hyper focused on my thoughts, along with an unnerving feeling in my chest.

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@EmmaKN Yes. I hope this episode of mine leaves soon. It’s been around since March.

Nisha09

Date posted: 2y

I feel this 100%

Jak71

Date posted: 2y

Ocd just makes me feel sad, depressed and lost 😞

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@jay71 Same!

K-Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

Very tired! And not connected to life here and now

Tee10

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous Yes, same

adelka

Date posted: 1y

And what is this theme called

adelka

Date posted: 1y

yaya_zz

Date posted: 22w

OCD flaring up

My ocd has been flaring up lately I’ve noticed some things that I don’t know if it’s ocd or something else whenever I seen someone like drugged or sick or just not “normal” I feel like or get scared that’s gonna end up being me? Does that make sense or then after a few minutes I feel like I’m them I don’t know exactly how to explain it I feel like I’m gonna start acting crazy or like I act weird or like them ? Idk exactly how to explain it and I have such a drop in my stomach thinking of it because it makes me feel insane, I haven’t had such an ocd episode so it’s getting hard again and making me feel insane specially because I don’t know how to explain this that I feel, I feel so scared rn can someone please comment on this?

Tara Wight

User type: Therapist

Date posted: 22w

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Christy Str...

User type: Therapist

Date posted: 21w

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