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I have something similar. It really is exhausting..
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@Mayte It really is. Sending good vibes your way š
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It is the worst feeling. How are you coping?
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@nat19 Honestly not well. Iām trying to cope by staying busy and keeping up w my medication. Smoking has been helping as well for me. Hbu?
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@Anonymous06 iāve been trying to avoid my coworker as much possible because i have such uncomfortable feelings when heās near or talks to me. i try to listen to music and take nice baths. smoking doesnāt help much.
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In the same boat with you, stay strong
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@PinkLotus Sending love your way š itās almost making me feel numb to my significant other. Hard to deal with
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same here. i think the obsession with my coworker is what triggered my ocd but i wouldnāt even consider myself obsessed or attached. very difficult to deal with
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@lilliiii What do you consider the fixation you have on then then? Sending love!
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@Anonymous06 im not sure because i want to say itās a false crush. given my circumstances, i think my brain fixated on them during a big transition in my life (moving in with my partner). and i distinctly remember a little bit before this āfalse crushā i thought to myself āwow youāve done a good job not having a crush on anyone.ā knowing myself, i form silly crushās very easily. maybe i jinxed myself, not sure. it definitely has caused me great amounts of anxiety though. i donāt have any attraction to this coworker, we donāt have anything in common really. i just think it could be some sort of admiration that my brain mistakes for infatuation
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@lilliiii i feel this so much, oh god. i am so sorry youāre going through this. i know how difficult and uncomfortable those feelings are.
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@nat19 it definitely does suck but over time it goes away. one of my biggest fears throughout my relationship was falling in love with someone else and i had never realized that was something ocd does. i know now that iām not my thoughts or feelings and this will all pass but it just sucks that this has triggered such a flare up in my relationship during such an important time of olly life
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@lilliiii Iām sorry to interrupt but Iām currently going through the same thing is there anything that you did to let the thoughts go or not bother you anymore?
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@Mayte they definitely still bother me. funny enough, the anxiety i felt when i would be around my coworker, or talk to her, or even knowing she was at work would let me know that i did in fact not like her nor have any interest in her. i at first would avoid her but i started talking to her more and told myself that itās okay, thereās nothing i want from her, i donāt have a romantic interest in her, iām in a relationship that is far more suitable for me and i just kinda have learned to live with it. i trust in myself that these thoughts will go away with time as i have had similar thoughts about a best friend of mine while in my current relationship. my brain just likes to torture me i guessš
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i recently about six days ago ? started talking with someone with the intention of being friends and weād talk a couple of times a day every for the past six days. But i immediately grew incredibly attached and obsessed with them i have no idea why itās been driving me crayz. it didnāt help when they teased (?) me i guess and said if my compliments or well praise to soemthing they had done was flirting. it hasnāt left my mind at all. i donāt know what to do or why iām feeling like this. and the worst part is i canāt say anything to them because iāll just look weird i bet. i canāt help it i think about them so much and i check their stuff a lot and my lockscreen so much to see if theyāve texted me⦠is there any way to help with this ? itās been really draining and causing me to overthink really badly.
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False attraction has been killing me ive had it for months with the same person. I have a boyfriend so having false attraction makes me feel so guilty. And lately theyve felt so real and ive been so anxious. What if I do like him bla bla. Ive only ever saw him as a brother and we have a good connection and he is one of my good friends but even sometimes when im having a conversation I feel like im cheating. Sometimes I get excited like oh yay he is gonna be here and then I get scared that itās romantical because I get excited when he is around because he is a funny. Im so scared thats its real attraction because I love my boyfriend I would never do such a thing. And lately my minds done stuff like oh grab his attention stuff like that and it feels like I have done those actions but I dont want to. Sometimes when he is like idk sitting near Im like oh is he looking and my minds like oh do something to empress him bla bla. Recently he was going thought stuff and my boyfriend was there and I was I can give him a hug because I think he needs it but after I thought of it as bad because he is a guy and I had this false attraction what if I did it because I like him bla bla. I am freaking out idk why my mind makes me do compulsions that I have acted on like oh go talk to him and I do its weird urges that I do not want to do. I am scared that it will come true
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any help is really welcomed and appreciated. I tend to hyper fixate on men outside of my relationship, they feel like crushes but Iām like 60% sure theyāre meaningless dopamine rushes that happen with people I find interesting, friendship worthy, or physically appealing in some way. My hyperfixation recently shifted to a supervisor, not even an hour after meeting him :/ thatās fine, whatever, I canāt do much about it. I daydream and create like this drama romance in my head. Like good content for a movie or a book. Comparing it to that makes me feel less disloyal, and more understanding of why this might happen (I am a hopeless romantic, I adore stories). Iām home now and I was thinking of wearing a cuter shirt for work tomorrow because I went in an oversized hoodie today. This is a thought I had this morning before even meeting this man btw. But then my brain went to oh yeah I want to look attractive for this hyper fixation. It felt exciting to think that. I felt excited. Then the huge wave of dread hit me. I wanted to look good for another man? For a specific person? I canāt stop panicking I donāt know if this is normal, disloyal, a distortion, or what it is. Iām so confused. I felt happy when I got that thought. Maybe it was a dopamine hit or something Iām Colombian and weāre really big on looking our best 99.9% of the time. Even if itās just to go to the gas station. I just feel so scared that I felt excitement over this one person. Itās extremely different for my boyfriendās culture. Almost the opposite. I feel so disloyal and unworthy of my boyfriend. I doubt this was intrusive, it genuinely felt like me and Iāve had thoughts like that in the past. I just feel like a huge monster right now Please help :(
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