Ocd

I hate to keep posting on here as it’s a compulsion but I want to know I’m not crazy, basically through the past 3 weeks I have been stressing over multiple mental issues like.. the world not existing, schizophrenia, harm ocd and then I saw someone mention trans ocd which I did not know was a thing and then I was like am I a boy? And now I’m worrying about dissociative identity disorder, it feels so realistic and I am scared I’m also struggling with depersonalisation at the moment and apparently a lot of people worry about DID with it. It’s basically been a theme of different things to worry about but before this state I would think of these things and I’d be scared but I wouldn’t convince myself of these things? I just wanna know if someone has gone through a similar experience and gotten through it and what to do here.

Username: nottodaybrainnottodaybrain

Date posted: 1y ago

Trust me, your not going crazy. It’s your intrusive thoughts. I’ve always have various thoughts about being stuck in an illusion, and the world being simulated but in terms of dissociative identity disorder, it’s your thoughts trying to convince you that your a boy. Think of it like triggers, someone triggered a new compulsion, and now it’s continuously bothering you. What I do when this happens is that I simply just agree with it and move on. Like if I think something bads gonna happen, then it’s gonna happen and there’s absolutely nothing to be done about it. Same with your thoughts, agree with it and move on. Because the more you ponder on it, the more you’ll try to convince yourself it’s not true, the more it’ll come back to bother you. And we know it’s not true, but agreeing with your brain automatically gives you a sense of relief since now they can’t bother you anymore since your already come to terms with it. Sorry for the paragraph haha.

Username: ChihuahuaprincessChihuahuapri...

Date posted: 1y ago

@nottodaYBRAIN Thank you, that makes me feel so much better I will definitely do that :)

Username: izabellaaaizabellaaa

Date posted: 1y ago

You’re not crazy, I understand you! Obsessive and intrusive thoughts, the hardest part is being able to recognize the intrusive thoughts and replacing them with logical ones. Try taking ashwagandha, it helps with anxiety and OCD, I’ve been taking that recently and my mind has been more calm. Started journaling, also you can look up guides on YouTube about how to get to know yourself better and understand OCD and whatever mental illness you may have! I would even look up ones I thought I had, did so much research and got a second opinion from psychiatrist, it would turn out it was one of my mental illness masking as another. The mind is weird and out of control when you have a chemical imbalance, understanding it and realizing where my thoughts come from has been helpful. When I feel like life is out of control I tend to reorganize everything, over and over again but it’s therapeutic. I’m easing my anxiety while also talking to myself and letting myself know that my thoughts are racing and try to be logical or that I’m in no real danger when my mind says I am, it takes practice and I still have my days when my thoughts take over. I hope this helped in any way, take it however it may help! I’m sorry you’re going through this, you’re not alone and everything will be okay!

Username: ChihuahuaprincessChihuahuapri...

Date posted: 1y ago

@izabellaaa That’s very helpful thank you, i literally just started taking a medication yesterday and I felt good for a bit but now I feel numb today. I also have a psychologist but while I haven’t seen her it’s gotten progressively worse so I’m a bit embarrassed to talk about this but I will! And I’ll try journaling :)

Username: izabellaaaizabellaaa

Date posted: 1y ago

@Chihuahuaprincess Of course! I was one meditation and stopped taking it after I felt numb or felt like I was high almost, i asked for new meds and was denied? I want to recommend asking your psychologist about trying different medications, it never hurts to try because maybe you’ll have a different experience!

Username: ChihuahuaprincessChihuahuapri...

Date posted: 1y ago

I’m also on medication and I feel numb

Username: justtryingmy...

Date posted: 5y ago

idk how to explain this but i’ll try the best i can lol: ok so one night i was in bed and scrolling through this app and focusing on not doing compulsions for my HOCD (hearing other ppls stories can trigger me sometimes so i use them as exposures). anyway i read a post about someone who had HOCD & TransOCD. i thought “poor guy, that must be really hard”. then of course i thought “am i trans?” but i didn’t even worry about it because it’s one of those things that just isn’t something i need to worry about you know? it almost seems silly to worry about haha. anyway, the thought didn’t give me anxiety—almost at all (because for me it’s just a no brainer). then i started to get all worried about getting TransOCD, even if i really wasn’t fearful about becoming trans. so basically, i know i’m not trans, i’m not questioning who i am, and the thought of being trans doesn’t really make me nervous or afraid (because i just know it’s not true)—i’m just worried that this will turn into another OCD type...and THAT is what i’m obsessing on. how do i help that???

Sexual Orientation OCD

Username: notfortalk

Date posted: 5y ago

I need to know if someone else experience this because I think this may be the root of some of my ocd themes. So basically even when I don't really have a theme going on I get intrusive thoughts of different topics. For example if I'm reading an article about a person with ADHD my mind tells that maybe I have adhd and because if I had I'd be different, and it feels like I want to even though I don't do because I know how destressing it is to live with such disorders and who would ever want to develop a disorder like that. I get intrusive thoughts like about illnesses, identities and other things and my mind says that I have to have those things because they would make me different and my mind wanted me to be different in that way. And it felt like I wanted those things even tho I know how terrible they affect people and didn't really wanted to have them. Now it tells me the same thing about gender and sexuality that I have to be different in that way while I don't and it's causing me hocd right now. I guess this is my final answer but I wanted to know if somebody else experienced something like this. Like sometimes I get depressive episodes because of my anxiety and ocd but once I became obsessed with the idea of having chronic severe depression and I got so anxious but then felt relieved when I didn't but then my intrusive thoughts would pop up here and there

Username: al/mz33

Date posted: 4y ago

Does anyone have similar thoughts or experiences. My ocd has been really bad for around 3 years but recently around 3 months ago I realised that I started doubting everyone in my life no matter how good they are to me even my parents. Iv been feeling as if everyone is a robot hard to explain but I feel as if no one really exists and that I’m in a simulation and is the only person who realises it and that everyone I know is just waiting to get the opportunity to fk me over. When I see my self in the mirror I look behind me thinking someone is next to me only to realise that it was my reflection. I don’t know whether this is ocd or not anymore especially the fact that my mum is schizophrenic and bipolar anyone know what these symptoms could be?

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