- Date posted
- 2y
Do I have ocd. How do I stop it for good?
Hi I have not been diagnosed with ocd but I’m pretty positive that I have it. I have been with my boyfriend for almost two years and I love him dearly and I would do anything for him. Towards the ending of my senior year of high school a boy who I have not talked to in high school randomly came up to me and talked to me for a bit just about how life was going and what not I don’t even really remember what we were talking about it was very brief but I mentioned that I had a boyfriend while we were talking just in case he was flirting with me but I was sure he wasn’t. To add on I also found this person attractive but I don’t find other men more attractive then my partner. Later on that day me and my boyfriend were arguing and our relationship wasn’t as stable as it usually was and I was very stressed out and I had thoughts of maybe I wouldn’t be as stressed out or that I would be happier with someone else. Things got cleared up and I felt immensely guilty for thinking those things and I felt horrible but I was able to move on and be happy with him like how we usually are. Then my graduation day comes and this person comes up to me and says that I looked beautiful. I didn’t think much of it and I just said thank you I was flattered and continued on with my night. I didn’t think much of it because I did see him being very friendly to other girls in our grade that day like rubbing their shoulders and being very touchy and talking a bunch. And I would think to myself I would not want that in my boyfriend (like talking to a bunch of girls and stuff) then summer came, my boyfriend and I were very happy and in love. Then my boyfriend went through a transitional time after high school and he was having a hard time and it affected our relationship. I started having thoughts like the grass in probably greener with that other person from school. (Which I know it would not be ) and I love my boyfriend I never want to leave him. But since those thoughts this persons name pops into my head I’d start crying and be mad at myself and I’d be constantly frustrated and at war with myself because I just wanted to be with my boyfriend and I felt like I couldn’t and it was always bothering me. I turned towards closure thinking that if I knew this person wasn’t flirting with me then maybe I can stop thinking about him and I asked him and he told me he was just trying to have a friendly conversation nothing else and that he has a gf and that he was with her for a very long time. And I felt so much relief and that I can be free and just be with my boyfriend. And then my mind kept telling me that I have a crush on that other person when I know In my heart I don’t and it felt all too real. Then time continued on and I started to have thoughts thinking that I’m gay when I know I’m not and it would give me so much anxiety. I couldn’t be around my friends without feeling weird when my boyfriend would kiss me and I’d think about a girl I know kissing me and I would feel sick to my stomach and disgusting after and so anxious. Then I would have thoughts thinking that I’m a pedofile or a serial killer when I am none of these things. And my thoughts will cycle from thinking that I’m a bad girlfriend or I’m with the wrong person or that I’m a cheater to that I’m a lesbian or that I’m a pedofile or that I would kill someone when none of these are true. I don’t want this to take more of my life then it already has it’s been 7 months I even have suicidal thoughts but I know I wouldn’t do it. And it’s all so stupid it gives me the worse anxiety I can never focus and it feels like I can’t be myself or fully relax anymore. It’s like my heart and my body will be enjoying the moment and my mind will be saying the most evil things. How can this end I’m over ocd.