Friendship OCD

Anyone here experience friendship OCD? Unwanted thoughts about your friends & becoming scared of potential friendship dynamics you don’t want to experience like competition or jealousy?

A23

Date posted: 2y

honestly seems like OCD can be about any emotion

DealingwithOCD_

Date posted: 2y

@A23 Sometimes it feels scary to know that OCD can attack anything especially in areas you least expect it to.

A23

Date posted: 2y

@OvercomingOCD_ Yeah we have to be aware but also, in a very meta way, not overly aware if that makes any sense. It can be kind of odd to think about it at first

DealingwithOCD_

Date posted: 2y

@A23 Yes that makes sense. Like be aware of our thoughts but don’t give it too much attention.

notthereyet

Date posted: 2y

Not friendship OCD, but it was directed towards my sister. It started when she became closer with one of her friends. I had thoughts about how much she cares about me, why is telling her friend and not me, is she sharing the same information with both of us. I had that "urge" of wanting/needing to know of what is going on. I would also at time prolong or avoid coming home if I knew my sister was there. I was scared of being jealous or possessive. I understand that it is not easy to go through these, but it will not last and you do got this.

DealingwithOCD_

Date posted: 2y

@notthereyet Thank you for sharing that! I can relate to the jealous part. It’s like im scared of feeling jealous or my friend being jealous of me or that she may want to compete with me if I share with her things I want to work on. So many thoughts. It’s hard. Thank you for your comment 🙏🏼

Studybug

Date posted: 2y

I absolutely have this , it's so annoying

DealingwithOCD_

Date posted: 2y

@Studybug Thank you for sharing! I dont like it. It makes me think the worst of me as a person and friend. How does it show up for you? If you feel comfortable sharing 🙏🏼

Studybug

Date posted: 2y

@OvercomingOCD_ It makes me feel like I secretly hate them or they secretly hate me which in turn makes me feel like I have to be extra good and nice all the time which is just exhausting. And then there are intrusive thoughts saying bad things about them in my head.

DealingwithOCD_

Date posted: 2y

@Studybug Thank you so much for sharing. I can relate to feeling that I need to behave a certain way to disprove my unwanted thoughts and prove to myself that I’m not what my thoughts say I am.

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