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 feel so alone. Has anyone done what I've done with POCD?
Sometimes I feel like nobody really gets me. Nobody knows what’s going on in my head. I try to explain in vivid detail, but my ocd immediately reads the other persons face and registers that they don’t get it. It’s a very isolating experience. Anyone else have something like this?
I can't explain my obsession to anyone without it sounding crazy and no one understands the obsession, so I won't try to here. But has that happened to anyone? An obsession that you can't put into words and no one understands? I was making a tiny bit of progress with my NOCD therapist, but I couldn't afford it anymore. So I'm just feeling alone, scared, and crazy. Just wanted to reach out here. Thank you
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