- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y ago
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Does OCD ever make you think you said your thoughts out loud or said something you are sure you didn’t say
Does OCD ever make you think you said your thoughts out loud or said something you are sure you didn’t say
Yes. There was a time when my OCD was extremely bad a few years ago where every voicemail I’d leave at work would have me panicking after thinking I said an obtrusive thought. One example is I thought I’d said something inappropriate that had popped into my head on a voicemail to a job applicant (at the time I worked in HR and was conducting interviews). I was so stressed and it ruined my weekend obsessing over it. I actually called my husband and left a voicemail trying to see if the times matched if I would’ve left it without the thing I thought I’d said. Of course the times didn’t match, and I was convinced since the message I left the applicant was longer I must’ve said my intrusive thought. I still worry about it sometimes (I hate phone calls) but since I’ve been on medication it’s gotten better. You’re definitely not alone on this!!
Yes
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
Anyone ever have a conversation and think you said a intrusive thoughts out loud. Then you panic and go over and over the convo , reviewing it and remembering people's reactions,to see if they noticed your thoughts or read your lips? Sometimes it feels like I have to look away when talking as the thoughts could be shouted out if we make eye contact .such a powerful erge to say thoughts out load . . It's like the more you fight off the thoughts the louder they want to be . You can feel your self bubbling up inside . Then you get one and boom ,you think you've said it out load.
i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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