How do you know if its normal worry or ocd?

Normal people worry too, i always say all my worry that its ocd and i feel like its not fair to say that. People say "just say its ocd i dont buy it" but at first i dont know if this is ocd or its really my conciousness telling me i said or did something bad. Its always when i say something funny, or i trying to be funny, my mind says what i said its not how a christian should talk, or im happy about myself, see someone who struggling and i think for some reason that "look at him struggling,but i feel good, how pathetic is he, im soo good" and then imediatelly i think im a bad person, which if you think about it i am cause saying this about someone else while he is struggling its a bad thing. But idk why i think this and i feel so guity. Another is when i try to do something my mind tells me i do it for others approval or so they love me, and i think about alot of things that feels like im a bad person, like a narcisisst, but i care so much about this. And being kind person is something that everyone should be, so i cant say "i dont care about this"(cause this is how you deal with ocd) i care too much if i did said something that isnt what a christian should say, or if im being a prick, comparing myself with others or im being a narcisstic bad person? How do you know if your worry is your conciousness telling you that what you did isnt how you should behave or its ocd?

ResilientTaurus

Date posted: 2y

From what I understand OCD is fear, anxiety, doubt, and there's urgency to know an answer. A normal worry is more of... "I'm nervous for a job interview." And you move on. Thing about OCD? It latches on to anything that is important to you. I've had thoughts like, "wow, I'm doing a lot better than that person." And I pause and go "hang on, that was rude. Oh gosh... I didn't mean it. What.. am I bad person?" That's OCD. It's normal to compare ourselves, try as we might to not do it, it happens. I think your actions as a human speak louder than your thoughts. And remember... OCD or not, ALL thoughts are just thoughts. They don't have meaning unless you assign them meaning. Nathan Peterson on YouTube is a fantastic resource to help you identify OCD vs regular worry.

PRIV8

Date posted: 2y

Mine gets agressive like "you did something bad, you just try to not feel bad about it, youre egoistic." If it was just what if then i would say i dont care but my inner critic is so harsh and i cant tell what is right or wrong. I didnt liked how i behaved in the past, i think i made alot of people angry, maybe i just think it, but back then i was like "i dont care". Then i decided to be kind and now this happens. I know thoughts have no meaning but if its about what you value then its hard to decide if its right or wrong

PRIV8

Date posted: 2y

@PRIV8 Or my belief, i believe in God, sometimes i have thoughts like "i dont care about him" then im like no this isnt true, i dont want to leave him then get punished or live a bad life, then my mind says "oh you just believe cause youre afraid if you doesnt believe then you will live a bad life..."

PRIV8

Date posted: 2y

*sorry i mean conscience

tamingwolf67

Date posted: 2y

It’s hard to say for sure but ocd is most definitely a downward spiral of fear. Your mind cannot let go of whatever is making you fearful. From your post, it definitely sounds like some type of ocd, but I’m not a professional so if you’re unsure it would be good to get evaluated.

samlovesjesus

Date posted: 22w

how do i know if i have OCD?

so this all started not too long ago, for literally no reason at all. but one day i got a random intrusive thought about harming others and it freaked me out bad. since then i’ve been non stop focusing on it and im genuinely scared that i am, or gonna end up like those sick people that have documentaries about them. i’ve never had these types of thoughts before and after me and my mom looked a lot of stuff up we think i have OCD cuz a lot of the stuff it was saying was accurate to me. to anyone in here, does this sound like OCD to you? i’ve always been a nice loving person and these thoughts freak me out so bad and make me feel like i’m a bad gross person. it got to the point i don’t even like looking at myself anymore. i just wanna go back to normal man. another thing to add, when i would explain this to my mom even though i was telling the full truth on how crappy this made me feel it felt like i was lying almost? but i know i wasn’t deep down. i’m just scared that what if i act on something or get in my head too much you know?

Imsexybutimi...

Date posted: 11w

Do I have ocd

Hey, so idk if I have ocd, I would like to think I’m a very self aware person but I don’t wanna self diagnose at all, lmk what you guys think. So pretty much my whole life since I was young I remember having irrational fears im sure it was all trauma induced but when I was a kid I thought my father was poisoning me until I asked him, he started crying and was so shocked that I could ever even think that, my parents broke up when I was legit fresh out the womb, mom worked two jobs and disciplined me, dad let me do whatever on the weekends and got me snacks so I was obsessed with him so obsessed that it was mandatory for me to kiss his picture 20x everyday before school. Growing up I always felt followed by cameras or like someone out there was recording me waiting for me to do something embarrassing to expose me in front of the whole world and my life was over 🤣🤣 I thought my abusive ex bf was stalking me through my I phone camera after we broke up and it would truly stress me out, it made me believe that it was the reason he never reached out again bc I probably looked ugly in the camera he was stalking me through. If I fall out with a friend Ill over analyze everything to see if I did anything wrong and god forbid while I’m self reflecting I realize I did something wrong I feel like an evil person, verbatim the people I fall out with is bc they’ve done me wrong in some way and it has to b something hurtful or repeated mistakes for me to really stay away for good, so I’ll beat myself up for making mistakes with another person who’s made the same amount of mistakes if not more and in most cases I always fall short, and this when I question if it’s ocd or I’m just to self aware and see the ugly in me bc I’m not perfect and it’s just makes me feel so unsettled but again that’s a normal feeling and the next step is to forgive yourself and do better moving forward, not obsess over it like your trying to convince yourself you’re a good person. I’m also hot tempered and will say hurtful things when I’m mad I’m definitely a crash out in the way, you push my bottoms way too many times and I will shred you, and I’ll say things ik will hurt you and that’s just so low, then the anger goes away and I have to face the guilt, which makes my “ocd” 100x worse, it almost feels like I have to do everything right to not trigger it yet again I don’t have the self control to do it all right, I actually have a lot bpd tendencies again not diagnosing but I’m just trying to understand my brain. I worry about dying, getting a terminal illness. uti turning into kidney infection then into cancer kind of thing, knowing that life in general can b tragic is so scary to me, like what will be my story? What will be my life experience?. I believe that people see right through me and discuss it amongst each other, I always tell myself I am not that important but I can’t seem to shake it off sometimes. When I would break up with my ex I would have pre written paragraphs ready to b send if he ever decided to reach back and I would do this to make sure I didn’t forget a single thought, that every point i felt I need to prove was there, and that bothers me bc do I want win an argument or fix the issue. All of these feelings make me feel so pathetic and embarrassed people move on with their lives and I’m still stuck on something that happened 3 yrs ago. Then I’ll get manic get a tattoo, change my hair, go out clubbing do what I can to b the sexy young girl that I am and it helps in the moment but it worsens my mental after the euphoria is gone. I’m currently staying home, not going out, have only 1 friend so I feel like ocd progressively got worse now, I don’t remember it getting this bad in a while. lmk what you guys think don’t judge or think I’m embarrassing I’m actually so cool and if have to convince you I’m cool I will LMFAOO no but fr help

pollydol

Date posted: 10w

I kill people with my mind

I don't know what this is, I don't know enough about OCD, my psychiatrist put me on a medication and told me I have OCD and a mood disorder but I didn't ask any questions because I didn't want to be annoying. I have "evidence" that every year, when I think about death, the world kills someone I love, and it always happens twice. I have nothing to help change that, like, I don't do anything with my thoughts or anything numbers or ritually, so I wasn't sure if it even was OCD, but I do move my hands in certain ways to make my friends happy or improve their lives. Also I cant turn off my fan or something SA related will happen (i dont know how) I think that the world is threatening me, and that if I do something wrong or involve myself with certain things, the world will punish me and the people around me, so all I can do is apologize I've tried looking into the different types of OCD, and all of them are things that I've been anxious about before, but I haven't really been so anxious about any one of them in particular or held onto it for so long, or done any rituals, that I would probably not even say I have OCD. Like, I worry that I'm a nazi, I worry that I like kids, I worry that I killed my friend, I worry that I have schizophrenia or am somehow giving myself it, I worry that I'm going to abuse someone, I worry that I've already abused someone, I worry that somehow I might die, I worry people can hear my thoughts, I worry about ignoring my friend when he cried out for help, I worry that God has already rejected me from heaven, I worry that I like women, I worry that if I don't hit the hammer 9 times on the wall when Im using it that just something bad will happen that I dont know what and I don't know why, and I feel like I don't have a single compulsion that can even "fix" or bring relief to any of these things besides saying sorry, because if I say sorry at least people know that I am apologetic for the crimes I've committed, but saying sorry doesn't fix anything except my own guilt so I'm just a bad person looking for sympathy or seeking attention I don't know enough about OCD, and I don't know how to seek help for my condition because I don't even know if that's really what I have, if I'm not just simply anxious, or possibly schizophrenic Does any of this seem familiar to anyone? Can it be this varied and unfocused? Does this really sound like OCD, or can it be anything else, because I don't want to bark up the wrong tree when I could just be taking medication for something else.

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