Ever feel like your brain is just scanning for the next obsession….oh one just tapered down, let’s bring the old one back for shits & giggles. This is exhausting. Any advice. Why can’t I just accept life is…..okay….quiet for now. Fu OCD It’s Iike we forget how to just be….anyone relate?
I definitely relate. It’s exhausting and I’m trying to learn self-compassion, but that’s also been a struggle.
Absolutely! My OCD has a full “contact list” of every mistake and bad decision and it’s like it just scrolls through it every day looking for something else.
One thing I do is to imagine a table big enough for all my obsessive, intrusive thoughts to sit at and when one shows up I nod to their seat and just let them sit. If they try to get a reaction from me, I pretend they’re an unwanted guest and just ignore them. I don’t resist OR interact, I acknowledge their presence and then go about my business.
Not so much scanning but I know once one obessession has died down then a new one will be coming quite soon.
Tips please
I don’t know how to deal with the thoughts that come and barely gone. Usually, the brain often remembers and forgets things. People with OCD however struggle with trying to forget the intrusive thoughts because of the imbalance trying to convey what is real and if the thoughts in your head will come true. Just for the past few days, I was having fun and suddenly hit with a wave of obsessive thoughts and making me stuck with nowhere to go.
I’m new to the app and wanting to know who else experiences this form of ocd. Some background I was a therapist for over 10 years now I am out of the clinical space. So I have background knowledge of ocd but never knew much about relationship ocd. I realized over the last several years with my now fiancé, that I have a hard time just letting go in general, whether that’s an argument or statement or feeling. I want to be able to just accept things at face value and move on (and talk later if my partner is ready as needed). But when conflict arises I can’t disengage till there is a clear resolution. It’s causing serious strife as he can feel trapped and it escalates the argument. I am reading more and this sounds like relationship OCD. Anyone else experience this? Curious on what others have done to work on this for themselves. I do have a therapist but we are not doing work in this area yet as I am realizing this is an actual concern.
My ocd gets so loud in the silence and right before bed when there’s no distractions. I always struggled with anxiety since my teens and guided meditation used to help… until OCD. First time trying guided meditation with OCD I had an intrusive thought of “what if you actually lose control and can’t follow these instructions?” And got even more anxious 🫠🫠🫠 had to stop, and haven’t tried to meditate ever since. Just curious to know. Sometimes I feel like I have the worst type of OCD. It will latch onto anything to make me anxious!
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