Thanks but no thanks, OCD. What does OCD latch onto for you?

My amazing boyfriend💔 All because of rocd…

Uhhhh everything… I feel like I’m over aware of all my thoughts it’s exhausting.

Ocd latches on to seemingly everything at the moment

These days it’s latched onto my imagination and my existential thoughts of space, time, why do I exist? And other brain vomit…🤣

I want to take this time to personally thank my OCD for keeping tabs on me and making sure it destroys everything…thank you… but also I’m coming for you ya nasty- it ain’t over !! 💪 /\__/\ - - ^

Me not being good enough for my partner, feeling like I’m a horrible person. Obsessing over past mistakes, thoughts and fantasies I’ve had that are meaningless to me but I feel disrespectful towards him, it’s destroying our relationship 😞

My relationship with God and my family

My husband and marriage

The ones I love

My boyfriend and my past. I’ve been struggling a bit the last couple of days.

My life enjoyment. My OCD says if I don’t do a certain compulsion, I’ll never be able to be fully present in whatever I’m doing and I won’t be able to enjoy myself. Please help😭

It latches onto my loved ones & uncertainty in life. My spiritual beliefs & medical. I will overcome all of this.

My dear child . . . recently, my precious dog. Ocd is like a vine growing on a wall.

My wonderful son.

The ones that I love.

My family, especially my sister. And my favourite book. OCD is really making me sad.

I've always been interested in fantasy and mythical creatures and stuff existing in our world, so I have a lot of stuff about accidentally killing them or driving then away with my thoughts? (e.g. directing nice things to the fairies because they're judging my character.) That and some other stuff that sounds like it belongs in a fantasy novel (like not thinking bad thoughts when looking at the moon because it can hear me).

My relationship with my serious partner.

my relationships with others in general my sense of self and self worth 💕

Family friends strangers even my self confidence is terrible

It latches on to my amazing and healthy relationship. When i get the thoughts i say, thanks no thanks! Let me enjoy him

My perfect, healthy, loving relationship :(

My wonderful children and husband....OCD SUCKS!!!!

So as a professional, what are some tips to separate good thoughts from negative thoughts or to keep positive thoughts from being tarnished?

i cant even open my eyes without feeling like my entire reality is fake and im actually just in hell and everyone is just an npc its so scary

My beautiful daughter. I feel so detached right now 🙁

My boyfriend for me 🖤😔

family and any online glitch ever

My family, religion, even my own life.

My relationship with Jesus.

My hobbies and most of what I used to enjoy..

My precious child/children

My fiance and whether I actually have OCD

My relationship/partner, my own self, suicidal ideation, and the level of joy/contentedness in my life. Those are the main ones, but I find it trying to attach itself to almost every aspect of my life.

To my fears, and to things/situation/thoughts/images/memories I find disturbing.

My fear of having a chronic illness. My ocd focuses on any and all body sensations making me think “ what if this never goes away”

damn near everything in this room at the moment

My sense of self, my family’s safety, my safety, my control, my brain ): , my reality.

Family and food

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!! Warm regards~

My dog. I can’t do anything without checking the nanny cam to make sure he’s okay. Over and over and over.

My relationship with God and my relationship with my wife.

My whole life. My college career, the ability to get up in the morning, my friendships, everything.

Ya just don't let it be positive that you can control your thoughts if it falters know that's okay but that you have a way to stay in the present moment and think of the nicest thing or the thing that you like about where you are. So hopefully it will help you focus on the present my nent and find something enjoyable.

It has morphed over the years! Anything I care about.

My sexuality (I'm straight)

I have relationship OCD with varying themes. I started with harm obsessions at a young age, but luckily that theme hasn't come back full force again, though last time it crept up when I was with my partner but not as strongly. I experience retroactive jealousy as well.

Sounds like the devil

My one yr old son🥲

Breathing. My fear is that I will never be able to take my attention off of breathing, that I will never truely enjoy anything ever again because my focus is always on it. Like it physically makes me do the motions manually for up to hours at a time, and I really can't put my attention to anything else at all. There are no compulsions for me to escape it, nothing. I've been struggling with this for about 1.5 years now, and before therapy I was forced to manually breathe for up to ten hours a day. Normal people can go back to automatically doing it after 10 seconds, but it used to take hours for me. Now it's under an hour each day, but OCD is suddenly striking really hard this moment. And I fear it'll go back to how it was.

Hallo, what a horrible manifestation all my sympathies for you. I am an opera singer. We use deep belly breaths at turns: deliberate breathing; but we also use more shallow breathing along the lines if the obliques…and when you get there (singing quickly) we are singing too wuickly to control. The more wenget into the song the let deliberately we r singing: muscle memory kicks in and we are just going for it and enjoying it. If you take voice lessons from an opera singee he/she/them may help you. It good help you let go. Id try it! Best of luck my fellow traveler!

My mom’s been gone for 14 years and my disgusting OCD thoughts prevent me from grieving her.

Just a general feeling of something will happen, or my kids, my wife, my love is so great for them, it’s like I know my true feelings, but something tries making me think the opposite? It comes and goes, I don’t understand it?

No I need to do that

my beautiful, funny, kind and compassionate girlfriend 😔

Relatively new here. This is eye opening. For me nothing seems exempt from OCD and anxiety’s loud intrusions and nagging. But it hits food and fitness very hard a lot. My wife and I are very into staying in shape and clean eating (allowing for a treat once in a while). I did go through a time in my early thirties where my body changed its way of doing things, and I also stopped working out, quickly got fat and almost fatally unhealthy. Yes, I corrected that, and got back into shape an stayed that way. I’m 53 now. Still love staying in shape. But that time of life was very traumatic. And OCD and anxiety, depression, they “know” that and seem to hit it extra hard a lot. But then, it’s always something with OCD.

Yeah it happened to me today

I am so sorry. It is ridiculous, and so very painful. I hope that you are working with an OCD specialist that is trained in ERP, such as those listed here.

Relationships

It has been tough but my beautiful wife and who has conquered OCD before. She’s the biggest blessing because she conquered OCD Through therapy. It been a rough battle for me on the daily the ROCD, it is debilitating having to fight to “keep” my wife from whatever my ocd thinks up.

My video games

My extreme fear of v*miting

My annoyance of songs stuck in my head

Oh no!!! Terrible!!

My boyfriend, my dog, my family

My boyfriend’s ex girlfriends🙃🙃🙃 it’s wonderful

META OCD??

my niece, nephew and cousins mainly :(

Relationship with God

My daughter, my life plans😭

Health OCD constantly thinking I’m going to collapse and have a medical emergency….think of it constantly

Does it have to be with a therapist or can you learn to do it

You r right