- Username
- meep.meep
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Really struggling...
Does anybody else feel like they're just constantly guessing at how to make sense out of OCD and the experience of it?
- Username
- Sunshine_:)Sunshine_:)
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Yes and it is my daily existence ngl - it does get better with time and practice though.
- Username
- Anon.Anon.
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
In my experience, usually the more I try to rationalize OCD, the more I feed into the cycle. The more I’m able to embrace uncertainty, and let things just be and not judge as harshly, the more freedom I have from the cycle. This came from experience in ERP/therapy, and I’m still in the process of getting better at it. I try to view recovery as a marathon and not a sprint. I hope this helps in some way!
- Username
- Matt GMatt G
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Yep and the term "OCD" just doesn't seem serious enough to justify what's going through my mind
- Username
- Traveller Traveller
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Same
- Username
- meep.meepmeep.meep
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Thank you guys...
- Username
- meep.meepmeep.meep
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I just want to feel like I know myself again, like I can live in my own body and be myself, and I want to be able to understand what I'm experiencing in life. 😞 It seems like I have experienced how accepting uncertainty has helped me in some ways, but right now I'm wondering if I've just been lying to myself and creating another unhealthy pattern (my OCD has latched onto my relationship, so I'm specifically talking about that). I know no one can answer that for me. I'm just really struggling right now.
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- 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.
- Username
- Cami16
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Is anyone experiencing existential OCD as well?
- Username
- 6756
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Hi everyone, struggling at the moment with existenal OCD, keep getting thoughts of "how do I know that everything i see, feel and touch is real" ...like literally everything... how do I know its just all not made up in my head? Its the most terrifying thought and not sure how to deal with it? .. anyone else suffer with this same thought?
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