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 :,,)
My pocd makes me feel really lonely. I have friends who I love but they also struggle with mental health too, and when I'm there to listen and support them sometimes it's just too much and I feel like a bad friend. I can't help but feel like it's not the same, I know you can't compare your struggles to others but sometimes when my friend is telling me how they feel a lack of motivation and depressed I honestly wish I was just dealing with that instead of that and fearing that I'm a pedophile ontop of it. Like at least the thing you're dealing with isn't something that will make 90% of the population despise you, you know? I know that sounds bad and isn't very mature but I'm always the therapist friend for other people, and I'm the only one actually seeking help and trying to get better and I arguably have the worst thing to deal with. I feel like my friends only want to talk to me when they're depressed or need advice and I'm so tired of it.
for the past few years i have been struggling with a certain theme of ocd as well as most of the other themes. but this one i have not figured out a good way to do my own form of erp or non-engaging responses. basically i will be daydreaming or thinking and have a very random thought. i wouldn’t call these thoughts intrusive thoughts because it’s not necessarily fear of the thoughts coming true, its just fear that my thoughts are too unique. my ocd will latch on to random or weird thoughts and may also add in that i was doing something weird while doing the thought. let’s say for example i thought of something random while i was rubbing my feet. then my ocd would be like “why are u having such a unique thought while doing something weird? nobody has ever thought about that specific thought while rubbing their feet before” (just an example). but basically it’s like my ocd bullies me for having thoughts that are too random and things i’ve never heard people talk about before if that makes sense. i am just trying to see if anyone relates even a little and how i can accept that everyone has unique thoughts.
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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