- Date posted
- 2y
regretting doing my compulsion
TW: hello you guys. i really regret doing my compulsion, my intrusive thoughts these days is not really affecting me that bad but still im doing my compulsion for reassurance and relief. i searched on google, does anybody with harm ocd acted on their intrusive thoughts, i saw some threads in reddit and i opened it. i saw a comment to that thread and the commenter commented that he has this friend that has severe harm OCD. he said that his friend has this urge to act on their intrusive thought, not just a compulsion, but on his actual intrusive thought. he said that his friend went to different psychiatrist and nothing helps and that made him breakdown more. that urges gave him so much anxiety yet he wanted to do it. thats why, in several scenarios, that friend acted on his urges to shoplift and collided his brand new car in the wall and felt regret, guilt, shame and even broke down after doing the actions. after reading that, it really scared the hell out of me. what if i do something like that? what do i do? every person that has OCD has this feeling that its an urge to do the actions and somewhat gave them/us an anxiety for having those urges. we also think that our OCD is lying to us, that the urges we feel is not an genuine urge. i think i will be starting to be in spiral again after reading that reddit comment. i really hate me, i really regret doing my compulsion. can somebody give me an explanation about this and somehow help me with a reassurance please?