OCDwontownme
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Hocd feels real?
Anyone else experience this? Like it feels real. But like in my gut I am straight, and I know it's OCD because the amount of anxiety I have regarding the intrusive thoughts.
blazedblazed
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Yes! I feel this almost all the time but I try not to fixate on it.
OCDwontownmeOCDwontownme
- Date posted
- 1y ago
It's good to know I'm not the only one dealing with this. It sucks that it is happening, but it's nice to know.
kay10kay10
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I feel this too :( it really takes a toll on my relationship though so it’s just so hard
HannaCross97HannaCross97
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Check out some of my recent posts they might help.  The reason anxiety feels so real is because your brain is trying to protect you from a false alarm a false sense of danger anxiety comes from evolutionary standpoint back when pre-human or Neanderthals had to rely on anxiety to keep them alive that’s why it feels so real your brain is  perceiving a false threat, and when you react to it, you fuel it  you need to show your brain irrelevance that you’re not scared and then it’s irrelevant to you in this time.
HannaCross97HannaCross97
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Understanding the anatomy, and the science of the brain will help you recover. Extremely the part of the brain were OCD is most  prevalent is the amygdala, which is the least developed part of the human brain and is what perceives threats and that’s with sending you the false alarm.
HannaCross97HannaCross97
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Your brain is trying to protect you. That’s why the anxiety feels so real  but it’s a false sense of danger. Intrusive thoughts can’t hurt you and you’re in no physical danger and no one else is either. It’s a false alarm. Your brain is on lock good news you can get it off lock you have to learn how to put all this power you put into the ruminations and anxiety into other productive activities then you can accomplish amazing things.
I wont let ocd winI wont let o...
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I'm struggling too, especially in the mornings, I wake up feeling sick and have been sick a couple of times. I keep doing erp as well sometimes I feel it makes it worse but I have to try I'm so miserable 😭
jim1031jim1031
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@I wont let ocd win I am doing ERP. I learned to only do 2 exposures a day because if you do too much your minds gunna fixate on the ERP Content more because of the duration being so long meaning it will take longer to fade
sazMarsazMar
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I relate to this so much! I have 2 intrusive images in my head and although I know they didn’t happen my anxiety makes me feel like they did! I keep telling myself my anxiety was just a false alarm that I’ve attached the images to but I just can’t understand how they can’t be real when I feel so bad
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AaaAnonymous
- Date posted
- 25w ago
Soocd
Does anyone with so ocd get scared or feel like they r just going to suddenly realise they r gay. Like all of a sudden you’ll be like omg I’m gay and then I get scared like ong it’s happening to me Can any relate to this
flippy15
- Date posted
- 24w ago
The phrase I’m gay just keeps popping up
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- Date posted
- 23w ago
I’m confused
Ok so I’m a 17 year old female, and I’ve always thought I was straight. But I just really want to know how you would know the difference between so-ocd and actually questioning your sexuality. I have nothing against the LGBTQ community (in fact I am very much a token straight friend, lol) but I saw a video about comp-het recently and it sort of felt like what I was experiencing. I don’t want to be gay, I want to be with men, I want to like men, I’ve always liked men, but now I’m questioning whether or not that’s real? Because people can be gay but not want to be right? I’m single and I always have been. I think women are gorgeous, but when I try to imagine actually having any sort of romantic or sexual relationship with a woman it feels wrong, at least most of the time it does? Sometimes I’m less sure, and I’ve never been particularly boy crazy. I’ve liked maybe 2 or 3 people in my life, (not to say I’ve never found other guys attractive, but it doesn’t seem to be as often as most people) I have no particular reason to be afraid of being gay, very supportive family, safe area ect, but I don’t want to be, does that mean this is ocd, I don’t know what’s going on every time I say I’m straight I feel like I’m lying, but that might just be because I think about it so much. The idea of being with a woman doesn’t feel like something I would want, but is that just because I don’t want to want it? People online say things with so much sureness, if you feel like this it means this. Ect.
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