Is anyone else’s primary compulsion googling, reading articles, taking quizzes, etc? Any tips on how to stop/limit these urges to engage in compulsion?

Leeski

Date posted: 5y ago

Yeah I am exactly the same with compulsions but if I stop them the thoughts seem so real! When you get the thoughts try and keep busy with something else otherwise you are just feeding the beast that is in your mind! Speak to me if you ever need support as we should all support each other three these hard times ??

ocdmaddie

Date posted: 5y ago

I have HOCD too. It is ridiculously hard

justtryingmy...

Date posted: 5y ago

i would say to get rid of any temptations (like electronics) and then when you get a little better you can bring them back out. i think it’s important to bring them back out and know that obviously you can and have the power to look up all those things and do compulsions...but you won’t. i feel like that’s when i made the most progress. when i had a choice to do them or not. now most of my compulsions are mental so it’s not as easy :/ but i’m getting better everyday and so will you!!

justtryingmy...

Date posted: 5y ago

i have HOCD and when it first started, all i did was take those stupid quizzes that test if you’re gay or not. i remember every time i got anxious i would take those quizzes and each time i took them it said that i’m straight—but i was still getting anxious thoughts. i was so confused why i was still freaking out about this even though the HUNDREDS of tests i took told me i was not gay. i would also read articles and google things that “make someone lesbian”. it just dug me deeper into a hole. i think the most important thing to realize is that taking those quizzes and reading those articles are making everything worse. once you kind of detach yourself from those, you’ll begin to heal. i remember i had to hide my laptop and ipad so i wouldn’t be tempted to look anywhere for reassurance—i knew i had to just sit in the anxiety. then it started to get a lot better. i’m not completely better and i still struggle with hocd everyday but it did get a lot better.

pureolife

Date posted: 5y ago

You can’t limit the urge to engage in compulsions. But you can not engage in compulsions. The urge is going to be strong and it’s going to feel hard to resist. But you can. And it will get easier over time. Good luck!

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 8w ago

I really need help please, please

I know a few of you saw my posts about my ERP and the googling urges. That didn’t end up going well. My therapist actually decided we needed to halt it for now. The thing is it’s almost like I learned googling is harmless from those few exercises and my brain keeps generating more things to google. Normally I would just spiral and be done but now I can barely hold back from searching for long. I eventually give in. I’m horrified because it feels like I want to find illegal content. I swear on everything I am, I don’t want to find anything even close to it. I’m freaking out because I don’t understand what’s happening. I keep compulsively searching/testing/checking or idk. I keep remembering details and I feel like I need to google again to be sure of something. I feel absolutely insane can someone please help me??? I’m petrified I’m going to get in trouble.

Ellen_l

Date posted: 8w ago

Advice?

I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 5w ago

Advice please??? I’m CONFUSED

OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.

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