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whenever i ruminate (a compulsion) i just tell my mind "so what if i was a bad person? i'm gonna do it again, watch me!" because that just completely modifies the way my brain views the situation. it minimises it. other times i ask myself "yeah, maybe i did?" or "maybe i didn't?" or thank my brain for reminding me of the memory "thank you for this, bye!" whenever i am triggered, i try to think about the situation, but do absolutely everything in my power not to engage in compulsions (whether they are physical or mental) i let the thought pass and become comfortable with being uncomfortable then get on to work on important things, on the present.
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@ydyydy thankyou the thing is the past event wasn't even to do with me i just was there but i think i have false memeiry about a certain part and i've ended up believing in it for years so now it's become a really big "bad" thing and i'm struggling with it
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@NaggingOCD i relate to you tremendously, for example i believe that i said something and made a bunch of accounts where i did dumb things at the ripe age of like 9... it's crazy, right? remember, you can think about what you did and learn to accept the uncertainty. you did it, maybe not, maybe you did. and leave the thought. do not, in any way shape or form, engage in compulsions. sending lots of love
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@ydyydy it's so hard because i feel i just need to knoww in order to move on and live my life and know that my friend was not in danger from the past event š£
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@NaggingOCD hang in there! š try out erp whenever you feel like that, it will surely help you
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@ydyydy thankyou for your help
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Whatever it is, work on forgiving yourself. We all make mistakes, we all do things we regret. You are not your worst mistake. And you are a different person then you were when that mistake was made.
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@zortnorp it's not actually a mistake from me i was just there when my frind done a silly thing but i've carried it for years
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i can 100% relate to this. it is tough. talk about it with your therapist. validate your thoughts, feelings and emotions in regard to the regret. separate those valid thoughts from the false OCD thoughts (i.e. you are a monster, you are evil, you donāt deserve foregiveness), accept that you are human, acknowledge what you have learned from the regret/experience and vow to use it to make you a better person, finally do whatever you can to right the wrong the best way you can. good luck. i struggle with this a lot as well. feel free to reach out for more insight if you need it.
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@Anonymous thankyou how could i reach out for future reference
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@NaggingOCD text me 407-761-4674. we can text then get on a call or facetime as times progress. i can help you
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my name is Austin btw
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Everyday I wake up, all my mind makes me think of is the stuff Iāve done in the past, like all day Iām in a constant cycle of judging who I used to be and it hurts so so much. I wish I never thought to do those things, I wish I had been more mature than how I was before, itās really lowering my self worth and I donāt think Iāve ever felt this miserable before, like last summer was the worst because I was dealing with this shit, I about almost ended my life over it, and I thought it would get better, which it did, but it didnāt last but for a while. As soon as it became 2025 I was going through it again, having constant cycles of āIām a good personā to āIām the worst person imaginableā and Iām so sick of it because I just want to feel like the good person l like to imagine myself to be, but I canāt because of shit I did in the past that I obsess over. Iāve cried and screamed so much over it and it seems like it will never leave me.
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im going to be vague here, but basically i did something in the past that i regret and it became a huge point of my OCD but i have talked to my therapist and i have mostly moved past it. i watched a video by an OCD youtuber that really put it into perspective. anyway, i have been with minimal worry for a few days, but now im having worries related to i think false memory? basically itās like āoh but what if i said/ did this and just forgot that means i harmed this person im a bad personā. to me it sounds like textbook OCD but im just wondering if anyone else has experienced false memory / real event at the same time. i have a really horrible memory which is making it even more stressful. any responses are appreciated!
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17f I have a lot of events, but my main and my worst one which is absolutely fucking diabolical was done when I was 14 and repeated when I was 16. Everytime I post something about real event ocd here people are like you are probably didn't do anything that bad, and when they hear what I did they are like yeah that's bad. Someone even asked me if I'm autistic cause "it's crazy how you didn't realize that the thing ypu were doing was wrong at this age." And I kinda agree, like it's fucked up It's just that my event is bad. Doesn't mean I don't have real event ocd. You can have a reocd over the event that was bad, it doesn't mean the event wasn't that bad or you don't have recod. It's just people always expect it to be something innocent and it's not Even a healthy person would feel guilty over it, it's just that I had ocd my whole life and it's making the guilt absolutely destructive, like to the point when I sometimes have a hard time breathing when I think about it, I lost more than a year of life to it, almost checked myself out couple of times if I wasn't so scared of pain/failure, the event haunts me in my dreams, it's in my head 24/7 and I will never able to forgive myself. That ocd. But the event itself was bad. So maybe i deserve it.
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