Is it normal ocd makes it very hard to feel joy and happiness even when you should be happy.. together with your loved ones? It scares me i can’t feel these things often anymore?
I have found that OCD will try to ruin the moment with negative/awful thoughts. It's the nature of the disorder, wants to keep us in a state of anxiety.
BIGTIMEEEE, ive been comparing it to dementors from harry potter, it just makes me lose the happy feeling
Absolutely, if im happy for even a moment my OCD will jump in and say how could you be happy what about this thought and over and over and over and again... keep fighting through it is the only way.
oh absolutely 
Yes! At a point it felt uncomfortable to even laugh. But I did it anyway!
Does anyone else ever feel like they don’t feel “bad enough” to have OCD, or that they don’t feel “the right way” for it? Or like they’re just saying they have OCD as an excuse? Because i was so much better for like 3 weeks now and now im on my period and i started doubting again. So because of that im scared that i was feeling to good and that my fear is actually true.
Does anyone have any advice for how to know the difference between ocd and real feelings/thoughts? Sometimes an intrusive thought will come in and I immediately know it’s ridiculous and I can just leave it alone and it won’t bother me but other times I really really don’t know. It’s when ocd hijacks and twists my real feelings and thoughts and tries to manipulate me into believing they’re something they’re not or something that doesn’t align with my true morals or intentions. But since it’s twisting and mixing with real feelings I get so confused and scared. Everything gets jumbled and I feel like I can’t trust myself or my own mind. Yet other times and other topics I can laugh off and push away just fine. Make it make sense. And then I start to think well maybe I don’t have ocd at all and I’m just in denial because I don’t want to accept that these scary/concerning things are true about myself. Or maybe that’s just the ocd talking.
OCD can be an incredibly lonely experience, especially when people around you don’t understand the thoughts and fears you’re facing. But you’re not alone—others have been there too. What’s something about OCD that makes you feel isolated or alone?
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