I have a ocd obsession that I know no one else has and it’s seriously terrifying. The “you’re not alone” is a bunch of bs and I know that now Bc of this. Anyone else have one that not many others have?😭
Unless you know everyone else and what is going through their head, there is no way of knowing that you’re “the only one” < that is a classic OCD trait, that I’ve heard come up a lot in groups and in YouTube videos, making you think that your OCD is the worse, or that yours is the exception in difficulty. You don’t think that some themes for the rest of us, aren’t “seriously terrifying” relative to each of us? It sounds like a cognitive distortion your OCD wants to keep you feeling isolated in, to say that your OCD is more scary than others, that you’re an exception. And people saying “you’re not alone” doesn’t mean “we have the *exact same* life contexts/details. It just means that there are different themes of suffering we may share commonalities of. For example; we may collectively know what it feels like to feel isolated. Or to feel the unsettled insecurity of uncertainty. Even if the specifics of what makes us feel those things is unique to each of us! No one fingerprint is the same bjt manh of us know what it feels like to have hands, and can share in empathy with that. No one zebra has the exact identical stripes but at the end of the day they share commonalities of what it is to be a zebra. And, this is a community where most of us want to support one another, we don’t have to have the same life stories to say we are there for one another. Which is a another sense of the saying someone is not alone. Your OCD is not an exception, and, you’re not alone.
@MeowMix You really explained it perfectly wow
@MeowMix Thank you for this. I’m also struggling with solipsism rn and dissociation so that’s another reason I thought no one else felt this way coz I couldn’t even tell anyone else was real, but ty this helps a lot :)
Since I know I have ocd, yes. I was begging for read a post who is exactly was my worst obsession is, but it didn’t happened and if it does in the future well, It doesn’t matter because you don’t need it. You want, but you don’t need it to heal. I know it’s hard, sometimes, all the times I’m looking for someone who is 100% like me but it’s like relationship, ppl or anything else. We each other are specific, and I’m pretty sure the most of us don’t talk about our worst obsession so.. the most important thing to remember is that you don’t need to know, and even if anyone don’t have the same obsession has you, this maybe mean that you will be the first one to beat it.. :)
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@Lightning Thank you :,,)
I've been struggling with ocd since I was 7. I'm 18 now and it feels like the older I've gotten the worse it's gotten. I don't know how to deal with it and i feel so lost and alone. Its hard for me to even say what my intrusive thoughts are or to even fully acknowledge it to myself in my head because im scared that if i put it out in the world itll be true or if i acknowledge the thought it solidifies it and makes it true. i feel like im just over exaggerating what im feeling and im turning something that isnt there into something bigger which makes it hard to talk about it with other people. Especially because im not diagnosed but I know it's ocd but what if it isnt? What if im lying to myself or I'm just doing it to get attention and I don't realize it? I just try to deal with it on my own but it's so hard and feels impossible. I feel like ocd has contaminated every part of my life that I enjoy. The things that used to bring me comfort are now filled with things that trigger my ocd and bring me anxiety.
Please if someone can reply! I really just need someone to talk to. I don’t even know how to control my OCD. It honestly feels like it’s controlling me. Everyday my mind focuses on every bodily sensation I have and it’s like a broken record player, I have horrible health anxiety and my OCD just makes it worst just thinking about it everyday. It feels like everyone who I explain it to looks at me like I’m stupid/crazy. I use to be much more tame with my OCD, I use to eat things without worry, now I can’t even touch things I use to eat without worrying that I’ll get an allergic reaction (despite eating them BEFORE,,,but my mind tells me otherwise) and omg worrying about heart attacks, pulmonary issues..and I couldn’t even enjoy my own child’s birth because my mind was on high alert thinking I would hemorrhage any second or develop pre-E (complications of postpartum) I was miserable for the first couple of months of my baby’s life and I didn’t know what to do. And now, I’m pregnant with my second (4wks) and all the OCD thoughts and anxiety is coming back at me and I have no one to talk to, I feel lonely. And even if I considered taking a pill, I’d worry about being allergic to it and refusing to take it. I ruin everything for everyone. I remember I ate out one night and I started to think “you’re gonna pass out! You’re gonna pass out! (Without ever passing out before) and I had to leave! I feel like I ruin the mood for everyone when I don’t even try to, and I hate it.
I feel so alone. Has anyone done what I've done with POCD?
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