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Everyone is different. For some it takes years to "get over" their illness.es and for others it takes months. It depends on many factors so don't feel bad. You're valid and it's not because you "got over" your ocd in 2 months that you didn't have this illness before (or maybe you still have it but you're just having a good period)
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Welcome to the next stage of recovery: learning to deal with the anxiety that comes when you realize you’re not anxious at the old thoughts and that bothers you. Sit with this new layer of anxiety (anxiety about not having anxiety.) you got this.
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This has been happening to me,no anxiety. I havent had therapy nor medication and I havent done ERP so it worries me I never had rOCD and it was all a lie
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shaz since March practically! I was having some intrusive thoughts in February but in March everything got worse and I started to pay a lot of attention to them until I felt like I couldnt even get out of bed because of how bad I was feeling. However it has been like three weeks since my anxiety decreased and is nearly gone and I have been worrying about these being my true feelings. I even thought I wasnt performing any compulsion anymore but I have been posting a lot to see if this is normal so I guess I have been asking for reassurance. Also I have been creating scenarios to see how Id feel so I guess Im still in this cycle, but sometimes I feel good and thats great for me but not all the time because I get really scared thinking that the anxiety is gone because I never loved him and I just hate that but youre right. Ive been trying to think about the fact that love is a choice, and I have to work to get better
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If i didn't have this illness and i thought all those thoughts about my bf... Does that means it's my true feelings.. ?
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Ohhh i got it. Sorry I read it wrong. Thank you for replying
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Yes we got this!!!! Btw how long have u beem having ur Rocd for? @xmariax. Plus love is a choice. Even if it's your true feelings, your choice can alter those feelings and fall in love with him again. It's possible :) if u fell in love before with him, you can do it again, and again, and again. It's alright. My bf tells me sooo many times it's ALRIGHT shaz!!! He'll lecture me and I'll laugh then he'll laugh too and say u never listen. All your thoughts are NORMAL. You are normal. And I'll feel better and confident. He's my therapist lol. I love him. <3
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@pureoflife. Honestly first i did got anxiety that it's not rocd. Then i was like frick it, if it's not anxiety. I'm not gonna ruin my whole day cuz of this. So yeah I'm not feeling anxiety even now. Idk if that's wrong... But i really love him and wanna be with him. I wanna fall in love with him over n over again..
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I guess I'm a exception or i might still have rocd, but i suffered from it for almost 2 months and I'm not having compulsions, no anxiety. I'm like whatever happens, happens. And I'm religious lol, so I always tell myself that God won't do anything to hurt me or jonathan ( my bf). I'm so done with this.. I'm tired. Tired to the point where I don't pay no mind to my thoughts. I focus on loving him. My bf said focus on me, my heart. Don't focus on what you feel. And be natural, don't force anything and the love will come rushing back. I'm waiting for it and working on it. That's my goal now. I asked for reassurance too. But then i was like frick it. Enough is enough.
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- 24w
for a few days now I’ve been super anxious about my relationship. I’ve been anxious about it before but lately it’s been worse than normal. I’m in a very healthy and loving relationship, I love my boyfriend so much and he treats me so so well. The only thing is that I’ve been having scary thoughts that what if I’m lying to him and don’t actually love him? What if I don’t find him attractive? And like what if the only way to stop being anxious is to break up with him? I don’t want to leave him and I am so scared. I feel like I’m lying to him by not telling him what’s going on because he might think I’m actually going to leave him, which I’m really not going to. I have had anxiety since before we started dating and incestual and sexual ocd, then I got into a point where I started having religious ocd, and now I have ROCD on top of that I think. I’ve never been diagnosed but I’m going to therapy and figuring things out but I’m so scared. Idk what to do and I feel like if I talk to anyone they’re going to say I have to leave him.
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I just read a post that said “people with ROCD know they love their partners” right when I read it I got this horrible anxiety feeling rush down into my stomach. My partner asked me to be his girlfriend in December and literally since that night It’s like a switch of doubt turned on and I was suffering with consistent doubt about loving my partner, I felt like I didn’t feel anything anymore and I didn’t know what to do and through out the past months it has been an absolute wave of things going on. He is aware of my ocd and in a way I’m glad that this happened because I have had harm ocd for the past 4-5 years and had no idea what it was until 2 months ago when I got an OCD therapist, I just thought I was crazy so I’m happy to know I’m not. Buuuuttt back to the ROCD, my main thoughts and feelings are about not feeling like i love my partner anymore and if we’re compatible, I hyper fixate on the weight he’s gained in the past few months and all the bad food he eats, I think about if our lives even align, we have very different views on some things but are we too different, what if we really don’t know each other at all and we thought we did because we’ve been best friends for 10 years. This is so frustrating because I’ve gotten to the point where my anxiety is barely there, I was have constant outrageous anxiety for 3-4 months and now I’ve gotten to this numb, I literally feel absolutely nothing feeling and it’s not even with just my boyfriend it’s with everything, I just don’t feel happy with anything anymore, I feel like there’s something wrong with me. We got into an argument the other day about how rude I was and I didn’t even feel sad or apologetic when he was talking to me about it, and I couldn’t stop crying, like I just don’t feel anything. I feel like there’s something really wrong with me. All I can describe it as is “blank” does that make sense? I feel like a bad person and I feel like we’re going to break up and I can tell how sad he is. All I do know is that I don’t want to break up. But anytime I think about him or anything along the lines of my ROCD everything like freaks me out. I like scream “NO” and “STOP” in my head all the time. But it’s starting to really feel real. I’m so scared, and now I read that post that said that “people with ROCD know they love their partner” but WHAT IF I DONT KNOW!!! I WANT TO LOVE MY PARTNER. I want to feel the love I had for him before this all started. We were so happy, and we didn’t even get the honey moon phase because my ROCD started right when we made it official. This is seriously so crippling.
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- 19w
Okay. This might be a little long. Basically I’m just wondering if this is really ROCD or if I officially lost feelings for my current boyfriend. BACKGROUND ABOUT ME: I assume this might help whoever reads this, and that may explain my situation. Long story short I have bad anxiety and OCD about intrusive thoughts. I figured out about my anxiety from a therapist after it started to get really bad when I was in middle school. However I figured out about my OCD this year. Before middle school I started to get anxiety from my dad. My parents divorced and he was an emotional abuser and very narcissistic. So since I was little I was always careful on what I did and said. And then another topic is that I had an ex bf who acted close to him. He was very insecure so he was controlling over me and was narcissistic and also emotionally abusive towards me. Always played the victim, etc. So he kind of traumatized me because we fought daily and just the way he treated me. My current bf is a green flag to me. We don’t fight, he is kind, understanding, funny. He checks all my boxes. Me and him were friends for about a year before we considered being together. 2 MONTHS AGO: this is when it started. It was a Sunday and me and him were going to an event at my school. It was for seniors because we were graduating the Sunday coming up. And we hung out the past 2 days and from what I remember things were like they were. Me and him were about to hit 8months the up coming Monday and I did understand that’s the time where the “honeymoon” phase becomes more.. I’ll say realistic? Anyway, we were close to leaving and something in my gut was off. Idk what it was. Idk if I was nervous for the event or something. But I just had a weird feeling. Again I have bad anxiety and OCD so I was scared about all the kids that were there. I don’t know. Anyway we left and when got to about 3 minutes away from our location my bf turns to me in the car and tells me how lucky he is to have me and how much he loves me. Then the thought “idk if I love you the same anymore” came in my head. And my gut feeling worsened. It was unnoticeable before but after he said that and I thought what I thought it got so much worse. Like it was sickening for me. I I love you back immediately but that thought.. I didn’t let it go. I couldn’t enjoy the night at all. I tried to act like everything was fine but inside I was suffering. Later that night he took me home. And I couldn’t get rid of that thought in my head. We FaceTimed a bit later like we did almost every night but I couldn’t be on the phone. Every time I looked at him I felt guilty and that thought kept coming back that I lost my love for him. So about 5-10 mins later I told him I was tired, said our goodnights and hung up. I cried. I didn’t like what I was feeling and I didn’t know what it meant. It was hard to fall asleep but once I did I remember waking up in the middle of the night to the thought about my bf. I got up to splash water in my face to cool me off because I was sweating. I got ready for school and I was crying I was confused, worried, I didn’t even know. I cried to my mom later and she didn’t know what to say or do. I cried all day at school and my gut feeling was horrible. I’ve never had it as bad as I did the first few days after this started. PRESENT(2months later): I already typed a lot so I don’t want to make entire book. But now, it’s like the gut feeling is there but tolerable. I still get the thoughts and the gut feeling does worsen a bit when my bf texts me and I see his face in photos and such. Or even think about him. My main concern is that we are supposed to go on a trip together next month and before this happened I was so excited to go with him. And now it’s like “what if I’m not better” “I don’t love him anymore to go with him.” Idk what to do. It’s like a chore for everything, when I text him, hanging out, calling him. Everything. Idk why to do. Idk if it’s because I was reck for the event or because of graduation and needed a reason for my nervousness? Idk. He didn’t do anything, he hasn’t done a single thing but be there for me. As much as I’ve been there for him. I don’t want to lose him. There is more to this story so if you want to ask go for it. I know this is hella long so. But I just want the help. Please let me know!!
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