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- IhateOCD99
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I’m the exact same way! Hopefully someone can give us some tips
10 months, nothing comparing your 5 years. But these 10 months have been the worst of my life. Now Im just grateful that I'm feeling better than I am first, but still, the thoughts sometimes seem very real and disgusting.
Yeah I’ve had mine for about 8 months now and the first couple of months were terrible, but at this point I am feeling better but some days are very confusing. I’m not diagnosed so my ocd likes to latch onto that a lot so that confuses me even more. I don’t want to date girls, and I don’t like girls so I wish it would stop.
It seems really real . Its crippling and drags you down . Talking about it is important. Dont keep it in I talk to my parents and my fiance they all give suport. I would always have great sex with woman and one day out of the blue I hit a brick wall when my best buddy has to use the washroom in the woods . I picture him with his pants to his ankles and I said what the f**k did I think that for . From then on iv been on a roller coaster ride . I hear theres hope and that its fixable
I had a nightmare with a hocd thought. That's the moment where it al atarted. Hope it will get better, for all of us.
If a thought comes up in my head, I take a deep breath and answer 'Okay Whatever', and move one from the thought. I do this all the time but I don't know if this is the right method to do, bc I don't know exactly what to do to get rid of the thoughts. Hope you can help me
That’s perfect! And doubting you’re doing it right is just part of the process. Keep it up!
We are all in here togetter . We have to suport each other. In research I found that 75% of the population at some point have a bi-curious . It's just that for someone who dont have OCD wont fixate on it where we fixate it build more anxiety and the brain is powerful if I sences that somthint cause discomfort it will hit harder . We are all human and we need to accept that it really doesn't matter what "thoughts" are in our heads .
I'm 32 and at age 27 I hit this type of OCD and still to this day struggle . It's never easy to get threw . How long have you been dealing with this ?
Mine started when I was at a volleyball tournament. This girl on my team was bisexual and she was talking about it, I was sitting by her and she just kept talking about it and I guess it made me question myself. So then I was worried why I questioned myself. Then I worried I liked that girl and I wouldn’t talk to her, I thought if I didn’t say anything to her my thoughts would go away, but guess what they didn’t!
I’m sorry you’re all suffering! I had and overcame SOOCD a few years ago. Not analyzing the thoughts is hard. It takes a lot of vigilance and that can feel exhausting. It does get easier the more you do it. I think using mindfulness as a tool for watching the thoughts helps. I also think humor helps (if you can laugh at the thought, it loses all power.) i think it’s also important to write down a reminder of why you’re resisting that you can tell yourself when it’s tough. “Analyzing this thought is tempting, but it won’t give me more certainty, it will only create more doubt. I already know the answer without checking because the answer is always I don’t know.”
Thanks for your response, it helps me so much.. ? God bless you
Does anybody struggle with POCD? I’m putting things into place lately to let my thoughts be there and not having to listen to them and I do admit I feel a little better and the thoughts are less and anxiety it less when I’m around people but there’s an urge in the back of my mind to ‘make sure’ and to think and analyse about things just to ‘check’ I definitely know for certain that this isn’t true, this is making recovery quite hard! Any tips please? Also I find sometimes reading things on google can be unhelpful and disheartening, which I need to stop doing! Thanks for reading ?
How have you guys dealt with your stickiest / most long lasting theme? For me this is HOCD; I had other themes popping up in the last few months but I was able to get past them quite quickly with acceptance and a sort of shrugging manner, like ‘the probability of this happening isn’t enough for me to waste my time obsessing over’. However HOCD has always been different, it was what started my ocd and what I obsessed over for a year before discovering I had this disorder, and it often feels like when I decide not to obsess over it, I’m just sweeping the issue under the rug and not thinking about it. I’m better with a lot of the triggers but the big ones, like ‘comphet’ and my relationship nerves, are so hard to ignore. A part of me is always saying ‘you’re just ignoring this, you shouldn’t be!’. This is always been the theme where I find it so hard to distance myself from the content and look at it from an ocd perspective because when something relates to your identity say, I find it harder to ignore than obsessions about health or existentialism for example.
Hi all. Looking for advice and/or methods that people use to bring themselves away from believing their OCD thoughts and feelings. I’m suffering from HOCD (or at least that’s what I hope it is). I have an ocd therapist that has diagnosed this. I’ve been suffering for 8 or so of the last 10 years. A barrier that I’ve struggled with is believing the ocd thoughts and feelings. It’s like deep down I believe them. As such, it’s become a real barrier to treatment. How do people practice not believing the thoughts and feelings? Even when they feel convinced it must be true? What strategy do people use? Is it just trust in the process? Fake it till you make it?
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