Hi! I've been in a pretty rough ocd anxiety spell the last 2 months. I've just come to realize that googling is my complusion. I will spend hours not even realizing it googling my new medication I'm on searching for reassurance from others that my meds are going to work. Literally read everything possible. Does anyone else have this complusion? I start therapy Apr 8.
Meee. I Google anxiety and how to treat it every day.
Do you feel anxiety if you don't google? I'm hoping I can give this compulsion up for good so when I start therapy I have a head start
You will get through it. But I’ve definitely been there. Web MD is NOT your friend. Meds take time and therapy will help. Hang in there
Any tips to help the compulsion? Just not Google and sit with the anxiety? I still ruminate if I don't Google. It's a vicious cycle
@wburns927 Definitely don’t give into it because it’s only a temporary reassurance and it will find something else to ruminate on.
Yes even if the website is reliable your mind will try to fit you under any diagnosis as many symptoms for conditions and disease are very general ( like a headache). It is in your best interest to generally stay away from these websites.
I’m the exact same. I could read and read forever. I’ve probably read the entirety of Google and Reddit! Starting therapy next week, very excited to move forwards. Hope it goes well for you too!
Do you google your symptoms etc? It's ridiculous how much I've read. There is probably nothing left for me to read online anywhere about my medication I just started!
@wburns927 I am the same way. I can read 99 great reviews and one bad one and focus on the negative one!
I have health OCD as one of my themes so definitely. Sorry you're going through it. If you can cut research out you'll have won half the battle. You got this!
Absolutely the same!
I have problems obsessing over sleep is that a part of 0cd
@Anonymous Same. I think I’ve read everything there is on google about sleep
I have done that with so many subjects over the years. Never got me anywhere, really.
Does anyone have obsessions with Sleep
So the best advise around meds is that no matter how many studies and research is done you will never really know how it will affect you until you have been taking it for a while, this is especially true with medications for ocd as you have to ween on and off and can take weeks to see results. The best way to know if meds are working effectively is to keep track of your days ( ie how anxious were you 1-10) write it down each day and see weather or not its working for you. Meds can be incredibly frustrating to get right but you have to have patience. Also it is recommended that you have meds and erp therapy as the meds will not completely get rid of those thoughts. Sending my support 👍
Hello, I just wanna put my thoughts onto something to hopefully release them. I have health ocd/anxiety which comes with googling and overthinking. Lately, I’ve been have stomach issues and acid reflux on new SSRI medication and convince myself I have SIBO or a weird disease. I then I looked into gastric diseases then freak myself out more for days on end. I’m am trying to use the ERP and saying “Mabye I do mabye I don’t”; but I always end up doing stuff to make it worse. If I have any advice don’t google, I should take my own advice😂. I have a few appointments to make sure nothings wrong which I know logically nothings wrong but for some reason I still think something is really wrong. (If you have similar stuff DONT look it up, it’ll just say the worst thing, ignorance is bliss 😭😂) Not expecting a response, just wanted to “release” my thoughts. Hopefully I help someone who is going the same thing. Anyways hope everyone is doing good and making progress in their life. :)
At the beginning of this year, I experienced false memories for the first time about watching bad stuff online, which I have never done in my life. I then turned to hours upon hours of googling and researching about it and reading articles about it. I'd sometimes google the same articles or topics multiple times a day. I then also remembered that I watched a clip once from Big Mouth (not knowing they were teens at the time). I became so afraid that I was being watched by the authorities or my ISP simply for doing research that I impulsively deleted my Google activity and became extremely paranoid that I was a bad person and a criminal, even though I'd never ever had these types of thoughts before. Then felt bad afterwards because I was like omg what if i am bad because what if it seems like I'm trying to hide a crime. I just really hate myself rn. I know we shouldn't ask for reassurance, but I'm more just pondering this, does this make me a bad person? Is there anyone else who has experienced something similar? Does this mean I still have OCD? or am I truly just only worried about how other people see me? Even while typing this, I'm asking myself, what does this all mean.
i really struggle with anxiety because on my OCD (not professionally diagnosed but i’ve been experiencing a lot of symptoms for many years that’s it’s safe to assume i have it). the only way to relieve my stress is to google. But google never gave me proper answers or i just ended up more anxious than to begin with. Instead i started using chat gpt as a quick was to get reassurance. i feel bad using it tho because i know it’s just a compulsion to go and seek reassurance to calm my anxiety but if i dont atleast google something i end up spiralling anyways. it feels like no matter what i do ill be anxious .
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