Basically I told the wrong people my intrusive thoughts and they now have pushed me away. My two cousins won’t talk to me (for this and a host of other reasons). I just miss my family. I wish I never told anyone except my therapist. I could use some support.
My parents were the same way. Well, no. Not the SAME way. But they were very invalidating of my OCD intrusive thoughts. They were either frightened by them or told me that the thoughts were “just silly”. As you can imagine, this only worsened my mental state, and conversations with my parents are still strained to this day. Since I’m living in a transition program right now, I’m several U.S. states away from my folks, and I want to keep it that way for the foreseeable future.
@Infinite I’m really sorry. I’m glad you’re getting the help you need. I was at a treatment center in Florida 5 months ago and I had a good time healing and processing the intrusive thoughts. Sometimes I wish I could just give up on school and go back.
Hey, this sounds really hard and upsetting for you! There’s still so much stigma attached to OCD with very little people knowing or understanding the different subheadings there are. The more taboo subheadings can sometimes cause alarm to others but I feel this is purely down to lack of education and awareness around the disorder still. Don’t blame yourself for sharing these thoughts. That must have taken a lot of courage so well done! Maybe try and reach out to them by sending some useful link we have here on the app around what OCD is. Also this would be great to explore with your therapist the next time you meet so your feelings can be truly valued and explored further.
@Billy 1 Thank you, I have therapy tomorrow so I’m going to bring this up to them.
I’m so sorry you don’t deserve that💘 people with ocd are the safest people to be around I wish they understood but you know what you don’t need their validation but yours
@Chelzy A Thank you!
My family literally is always against me and doesn’t understand my ocd at all. They are all so stubborn and don’t make an effort to even empathize with me and always make me the bad guy. I’m just so tired of no one being on my side and my family saying all these derogatory things to me. Even if I make a small mistake, it is the end of the world for them and they all gang up and won’t speak to me properly for days as a result. 😔
Hi All, How do people in this community deal with having no one to talk to when needing to cope with depression or anxiety? I’ve tried talking to my family and friends, but they’re all sick and tired of me and my OCD. Every time I try to bring up my concerns, they just shut me down with “Stop the OCD!”, “Go away!”, or just ignore me completely. I know this support group exists for this, but realistically, I can’t come here every time I have something I want to talk about. I’m not sure what else to try, I’ve lost all my friends and now losing family members. I’ve even tried warning them “what I’m about to say is triggering” but that just makes it worse.
I feel so lousy right now. A few of my family members aren’t speaking to me and my dad said it was because I didn’t go to any family functions the last few weeks. For one, I’m 39. I’m not 15. But also, I haven’t gone because I’ve been in such a mental health HOLE that I can’t be around groups of people right now. In any capacity. My family doesn’t believe in mental health issues at all, so explaining anything to them would be impossible. I’ve tried. They just think you’re weird and that they’ll catch it from you or something. I’ve reached out to my cousin and aunt twice now separately and apologized for not being able to see them while I’m in town. And neither one of them will respond to me. Makes me feel SO awful and that I should just unalive myself. People are so terrible and I hate feeling like I have no one in the world. 😭 I see people with incredible, supportive family and just can’t understand why I didn’t have that. Sometimes I really hate life. They treat me like a disease 😭
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