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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 ?
I have HOCD and lately it’s been worse than usual. I’m wondering if it’s because I have met someone I really like. I’ve been getting to know this great guy and feel like I’m bound to screw things up based on the intrusive thoughts that I’m having. I either try to find things wrong with him or with myself. I feel like he could be someone who really could be an amazing addition to my life and I’m finding it so difficult to slow myself down because I’m always worrying about something. I’ve always been someone who feels guilty for their thoughts, like I have to tell someone or I’m not being honest. I feel like I’m hiding something from him when obviously I’m not, because they’re just thoughts. I know the OCD wants me to do this- to question, and to vocalize the thoughts and tell people- but I feel like vocalizing would give the thoughts more power which is exactly what the OCD wants me to do. But I still feel guilty and I’m not sure how to let this go. Tips on how to deal with this?
so i was getting better from hocd, but i guess my best friend relapsed it. i was almost with no thoughts, but then the name of my best friend popped out in my mind and stayed there like for some hours and now i’m afraid i like him ( when hocd was worse, this was one of my thoughts), is it still hocd right ?
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