Hocd feels real?

Yes! I feel this almost all the time but I try not to fixate on it.

I feel this too :( it really takes a toll on my relationship though so it’s just so hard

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.

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.

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'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 😭

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