People think I’m a weirdo. Literally.

So cuz of my ocd I dissociate a lot. I don’t feel present often, but like I’m always lost in thoughts or sensations. I try to act normal. But even when I do, people literally treat me like “ok this girls a little weird”. I can’t explain it, but people literally think I’m off! Idk it’s very hard for me to be normal when I don’t feel right…. It’s very hard for me to maintain relationships/friendships now. I just always feel anxious x 100000000 Ugh does anyone understand or can relate?

Username: NicaNica

Date posted: 1y ago

Yeah, I’ve been called weird all my life. Even as a toddler, people told my mom I was weird. But so what? They’re dumbasses and don’t matter.

Username: HipHopAnonymous🦛 HipHopAnonym...

Date posted: 1y ago

I can absolutely relate to feeling disassociated often. Feeling stuck in your head and not the moment. It’s not fun to constantly feel like you’re having to remind yourself of what’s going on right now around you and trying to relate to it. However, and please don’t take this the wrong way, it’s important to remember that you don’t know what other people are actually thinking. Unless they tell you outright “I think you’re a weirdo, you’re off,” no matter what cues you may be picking up on, you don’t know their thoughts. Of course they may behave in a way that signals or triggers to you something that you might be thinking, but in reality we have no idea what others think unless and until they tell us directly. Do people often tell you they think the things about you that you’re saying they think?

Username: SamsmycatSamsmycat

Date posted: 1y ago

Yep! Absolutely. Always feel like the token freak in the room! & it makes it harder for me to try to make friends or even talk to the ones I already have. Except I think through the haze, I faintly recognize this isn't helping ... keep them safe from my weirdness slkdjf; or keeping ME safe from ridicule. It's just making me lonely...feel more isolated, & like it's that way for a reason. I don't know this for a fact, but I think the best mentality to keep is to try to keep talking and acting as if you have just as much right to be here as everyone else. Sometimes when I've done that, I've gotten positive reinforcement that felt so real, my brain couldn't concoct a single ocd-inspired negative to counter it.

Username: Drew92Drew92

Date posted: 1y ago

I’ve definitely been questioned a lot when I’m caught doing compulsions or just being lost in my thoughts. I get so embarrassed and it’s hard to explain to some people how serious ocd can be.

Username: ilohuiojh

Date posted: 5y ago

I’m confused. I don’t know how this is supposed to work. Can anyone relate to this??? I don’t have anyone who understands just what my ocd is. I barely understand it. No matter what I do and where, my thoughts hit me. I can be blinking the wrong way and I have to blink until it feels right.. same for swallowing, touching things, light switches and setting down cups. I have to sit and stand up multiple times until it feels right. Step on certain things like cracks in sidewalk as many times I feel is needed. Wash my hands multiple times. Even when texting, I can type out a whole paragraph and my mind tells me to delete it all and start again because it’s not right. When something isn’t right my mind tells me that someone I love is going to die or get hurt. And for some reason I obsess over certain days, like a day someone I love it born. I will sit there and flip a light switch with that date in my mind and a bad thought that something will happen and I can’t stop until I feel that person in my head is safe and everything is fine. In a way I feel that I am saving them and myself from something bad. Can anyone relate? And maybe share how you’re dealing with it all? Please and thank you.

Perfectionism OCD

Username: Ella1701

Date posted: 4y ago

Am I the only person who feels as tho OCD is like one of the topics you don’t speak of like when your around people who genuinely do not understand or suffer with OCD you can’t mention it.I also suffer with anxiety and although when people are around me enough they can notice behaviour I feel as tho I’d be highly judged for it.Like I shouldn’t feel the way I do because it makes me seem insane to people who can not understand it.No one around me ever truly understands its.

Username: McKenzier0715

Date posted: 32w ago

Can anyone relate?

with my OCD I go through these phases where I believe I experience derealization and depersonalization and they are extremely triggering and terrifying to me I experience all the symptoms from foggy brain to feeling like there's glass dividing me and the world and everything feeling far away. But I also think what if it isn't derealization because no one will ever know how I'm feeling? What if something is wrong in my head? What if I have a brain tumor? And it's and endless cycle along with actually acknowledging that I have OCD.

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