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I just feel like no matter what my fear is going to end up true.. I have been diagnosed with OCD but still so hard.. I’m scared no matter what, I’m gonna lose. Help
I just feel like no matter what my fear is going to end up true.. I have been diagnosed with OCD but still so hard.. I’m scared no matter what, I’m gonna lose. Help
You gotta believe in your true self. Let the rest come naturally, meaning stop with all the compulsions.
@Dameon Geronimo Trying to man
@Anonymous It’s not easy. I understand. I’m still going through it everyday. I have seen a lot of progress, though, as I’ve stopped doing compulsions.
@Dameon Geronimo I’m doing my best. Just feel doomed and all
@Anonymous How old are you if you don’t mind me asking?
@Dameon Geronimo 27
@Anonymous When did you start experiencing so-ocd
@Dameon Geronimo Back in 2013. On and off. I was late 17 or so
@Dameon Geronimo I would go years without worrying about anything bro. I was confident in who I was
@Anonymous Dude I’m in the exact same situation. I’ve loved girls all my life. I’ve had OCD my whole life (I’m 27 too). At first when I was a kid, it started out as an irrational fear of tornadoes and I live in Utah where we never get tornadoes. I was so convinced that a tornado was going to come and kill everyone that I would hide in the bathrooms at recess so I didn’t have to go outside. Even on a bright sunny day, a gust of wind would come and I would go into a panic attack and run inside. It was so real to me. Eventually I spent enough time outside to realize that I had nothing to be afraid of. Then my OCD went away. Then all of a sudden it came back when I was in high school. And the theme was Sexual Orientation. A kid in my class came out as gay and I asked myself “wait? If he’s gay, then could I be gay?” Because I never imagined him being gay. And then my over-analytical brain took that and ran with it. Meanwhile, I’ve never been attracted to other guys. And the very thought of that is super disturbing to me. (No offense to anyone on here who’s actually gay). This whole time I didn’t really know how to handle it but eventually it went away. Then I went on an LDS mission and the OCD theme came back and I struggled with it for about 6 months. It was so hard. But I found strength in God and I said “I’m not going to let this control my life” and I pushed through and I eventually learned to ignore those thoughts and it went away. Now I’m 27 and married and my wife and I have a son and now my OCD is back with the same theme. So it’s tough! But another thing I’ll mention is that my OCD has changed themes over the years. My wife is black (I’m white) and when we were dating, I all of a sudden got it in my head that I was a racist and so therefore I couldn’t date her anymore (I can’t help but laugh now because of how ridiculous that was) but at the time, I was so convinced! It was so real to me! And that’s exactly what OCD does. It creates these false realities and convinces you that these feelings are real and everything that IS real is actually a lie. But remember that the OCD thoughts are the lie. And you have to be the one to disregard them. No compulsions, no reassurances, just disregard them and say “yeah whatever OCD. Screw you. I’ve got better things to do with my day” and then move forward and live your life the way you want to live. You have a choice. That’s what I’m learning now that I didn’t know all those years ago. And it does help. Just remember that your “sickness” is so common that it has a name. And tons of people have it including me. Hang in there bro. 👊🏼
@Scott328 I just read this now.. but thanks for your words man. I’m suffering a bit right now.. it feels like just denying and lost.. I’m doing my best to ignore it, but so tough.. Your words are great man.
what are you afraid of?
@jean My fear being true
hi everyone!! so idk if anyone will see this, but i guess i have a lot of questions. i got diagnosed with OCD about 2 years ago or so but i’ve had it for as long as i can remember. my obsessions and compulsions root from my worst fears and what i’m most afraid of losing. when i was really young, it started with doing things or else the devil was going to come and get me, because that was my worst fear at that time. i have to count, i usually do things in pairs of 3. i HATE even numbers. only odd numbers. sometimes i spend a lot of time redoing something over and over and over again just until it feels “right.” i have super bad sensory issues. i cut the tags out of everything i own, my nails have to be short or else i will dig them into my skin until i bleed because it just doesn’t feel right. at school i used to be late to class because i would be at my locker turning the combination either 3, 7, 9, 11, or 13 times. it just depended on what felt right. before i would go to bed i would have to sit up and check the door 3 , 7, 9… etc. one time i had to check 27 times before i could go to sleep. i’m actually scared of getting things i want in life because my OCD will hold it against me. “you better do this or else you’ll lose this.” the more happy i am in life, the worse my OCD gets. it prays on my worst fears. if there is even something slightly wrong with my clothes: a tiny thread hanging lose, a bad memory attached, i will never wear it again. there’s one thing im sorta embarrassed to say but it’s one of my worst ones. basically: peeing. at night, i have to continuously go to the bathroom over and over again because i feel like my bladder isn’t completely empty. i will keep telling myself “it’s full, i have to go.” even when i just peed 5 minutes ago. and due to this, it causes a lot of wiping. i have wiped myself raw to the point i bleed a lot. it’s embarrassing, but i can’t stop. it never feels clean enough. my hair is never perfect enough. my clothes are ugly. i think i mostly struggle with perfectionism OCD. but is that it? i also feel like if i don’t do certain things, it will cause something bad to happen to my family or friends. like i have magical control over events. i don’t know. can someone help please?
So my ocd has been doing better, in the sense that I am able to resist compulsions, but the thoughts are still there. And I get so upset because some days I’m just constantly stuck in my own head. Like I went out to today with my mom, and for a solid hour I was spiraling. And my OCD has been trying to make it seem like this flare up is different, and that because things aren’t working out the way I want them to be regarding my recovery, that it’s not OCD and I’m just a crazy person. It causes me to just shut down and want to just go home. I get so upset that I want to cry. I get intrusive thoughts that something bad is gonna happen, or that something doesn’t feel right, and so it feels like I do something, anything, to make me feel better about it. I also can’t sleep in my own bed. I’m so afraid that I won’t fall asleep in it, and if I don’t sleep, I will go crazy. My thoughts are just so scary rn, I don’t know what to do. I don’t want anything bad to happen to me :(
How to deal with OCD when you’re dissociating and numb and it’s going from ROCD, existential to how you hate yourself, to your whole life story trauma flooding, to retroactive jealousy, to how you never anointed to much, to how it’s hard for you to love people and not scrutinize, to how you never really did much on your own and always needed help and attention, to how you’re scared of death, to how you’re scared of abandonment and being alone, to saying if you don’t fix all these at once you’ll lose your relationship (I have CPTSD and there’s a push pull and I never had a chance to fix it) and I try to control everything. And I realize it. And it’s going on about how adulting is scary. About how I try to work and the. Quit because I’m afraid of opinions. About how I hoard. About how everything in life seems senseless. About how I can’t connect. About how I people please and about how I’m selfish. About how nothing will ever be perfect. I’m not joking when every second of my day is a FLOOD of thoughts and it’s been 46 days like this after one thought I tried to sit with spiraled me into a dissociative shutdown. I’ve had bad OCD all my life but as I got older more and more fears piled up. And my trauma is so bad. And so loud. The OCD is so bad. There’s nothing in life I don’t fear. And everything feels like a threat to me. His past. Him. And how I don’t want anyone else but my brain won’t stop ripping him apart. How “no one” will be good enough for my perfectionistic mind. I truly don’t know how the absolute fuck to get over something this severe. And I have horrific self worth issues. Bad. Like zero self worth. boundaries. Anything. I never had skills. And idk how to explain to my family how bad this OCD is. I run to my mom like a scared child. But even she can’t give me comfort because I’m in hell. And I always wanted people to help me fix things and now that I’m trapped in my own mind I can’t. I’m scared. Shitless.
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