- Date posted
- 2y ago
Trouble
I've lost my ability to differentiate between right and wrong. I'm lost.
I've lost my ability to differentiate between right and wrong. I'm lost.
me too
i believe it is my ocd causing me to have a hard time knowing what is right and what is wrong. i just try to not do the things that deep down inside of me i feel are wrong. i still sometimes do things that i feel are wrong, but i tell myself we are all humans and we all do some things wrong sometimes. OCD has had me trying to figure out what is right and what is wrong for a long time now. And then OCD tries to make me figure out, why the right things are right and the wrong things are wrong. And then the OCD makes me question if what I think is right and wrong is correct. And last the OCD makes me question, what if some things I think are right, are actually wrong and some things I think are wrong are actaully right. Now my common sense tries to tell me, everyone has a different opinion of whats right and wrong and different beliefs as to why things are right and wrong. I cannot reason with my OCD though. I am going to have to live with some uncertainity and not have a definate answer about everything that is right and and everything is wrong. I wish I had some good advice to give but I start therapy at the end of this month here at nocd. I am learning that me arguing with OCD about why something is right or wrong, will not help me. I feel like I should, but that for me is a compulssion. I'm sorry you are going through this. Have you thought of therapy for the OCD?
Thank you for you putting so much effort in your post. I've take therapy from NOCD but haven't seen any affect
well, i may not have the answer, but sometimes it helps me to know I'm not alone in my struggle. So just know you are not alone. I'm sure there are many others with this problem from OCD also. Have you tried asking for another therapist? Sometimes a person and their therspist just doesnt work out for somw reason. If you have tried for a whike with your therapist and its not working out, maybe NOCD will give you another therapist. Im not trying to force you to stay in therapy, I'm just saying, maybe another therapist can help in a different way. I believe Therapists have different therapy techniques. I have had bad experiences with counselors before, and i had to just take a break from therapy forna while. But now I know what is helping and what isnt, so when a tehrapist is not helping me or says something that is either unhelpful or I don't agree with, I speak up and tell the therapist. If it doesnt work with a therapist, I wont try to make it work, I will just try another therapist. I am hoping nocd can help me since my main problem has been OCD but thats not what I recieved therapy for with other counselors in the past.
For me having a relationship with God has helped in this area tremendously. I’m not so selfish like I use to be & only worries about me & my family. 🙏❤️
I noticed myself not understanding why things are wrong like I be having thoughts like "why would cheating be bad" and I just actually find it hard to find a reason? The only things I know are bad are like being mean and doing crimes but like damn
When I was half asleep today, trying to wake up, my brain kept asking me if I thought this picture of my friend was attractive, I kept replying with “ maybe, I don’t know, I really can’t tell” .. or… “ I feel like I do” “ maybe I do” “ I feel like I might” ,, and then I’m like wait she’s 13 in these pictures, I’m not sure if I was aware of it, but still, it doesn’t matter, I’m still saying it and I’m like “why am I saying this??” I generally don’t know how I feel anymore, I don’t wanna be a bad person, I just don’t understand why I think this is play to say, or feel?? Maybe because my brain is trying to justify it? It tries to justify everything wrong, so makes it feel like it so it makes it harder… I feel like a genuine bad person, because I don’t know how I feel about it, I really don’t know, I’m scared does it mean I’m a bad person? Because I don’t know how I feel about it. I asked myself if I’m genuinely attracted. And I don’t know anymore. Because I don’t know how I feel about it anymore, I feel like my brain is playing a part in it because it tries to tell me that it’s not wrong. Yes it is wrong though but it’s like no it’s not wrong, It makes me really scared. I generally feel like I’m attracted to her and that I have nothing against it and I don’t know what to do anymore., some people may argue that it’s not wrong, but I believe it’s wrong. So I have no idea why I fucking said that. I genuinely think it’s over. I don’t know if I actually am anymore. I asked myself do I actually feel attraction, because i used to go to a conclusion and say no I don’t. And actually feel that way. But now I don’t feel anything but like pain. Because I don’t want to be. At the same time I feel like I just lied and I do want to feel attraction. I just wanna explain how I feel but I can’t. All I know and what I can explain, is that when my brain was asking me these things I said “ I feel like I might maybe I do I can’t tell “ and why did I say that to a 13-year-old? Why? And why am I still saying it even after realizing that maybe I shouldn’t be saying it. I’m 16 for goodness sake. I don’t wanna think about these things. My brain is making me feel like I do and I do and I’m like I’m so confused.
I can’t tell what’s right and wrong anymore. It’s like my moral compass/rationality is completely broken. I could just shut my feelings down whenever. It might sound like a good thing but it also means I wouldn’t feel any remorse or guilt or negative emotions if I were to do something immoral (hypothetically speaking). In contrast, sometimes my feelings get so deep in the way that my rationality cannot win no matter what. My brain does that out of nowhere and I hate it because it ends up triggering my OCD theme and I have to start back up to be able to cope again. It’s like I’ve developed this intense intolerance towards any sort of stress whatsoever, even the good type of stress that helps you grow. My brain just shuts down and mentally I become a kid again and I can’t listen to logic no matter what.
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