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- 6y
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Maybe but thinking it’ll disappear one day will only make you overthink it. That’s just my opinion. And OCD is chronic so even if you’re in remission it is still possible for it to come back. This isn’t meant to be discouraging. I’m just saying that being aware is important ( obviously just to an extent )
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I'm hoping its weeks or months rather than years lol. I need to get to that point ASAP cos I care way too much. Thing is I'm told ocd often attacks things that mean so much to us. In my case it's fears I'll lash out and harm my family, I'm always gonna care about that cos my family are the most important people in the world to me. But I understand what you're saying completely. I just wish I could get to the stage where I don't care less
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- 6y
Yes If only OCD was something that goes away but it’s not. So all we could do is learn to deal with it and live with it
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- 6y
I do agree with that 100%. I misunderstood you I’m sorry
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- 6y
Thank you? and thank you for sharing ur opinion!!
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- 6y
What you said about losing your current theme cos you will get tired of it gives me some hope. I hope this is true because I've had the same theme now for aslong as I can remember. Absolutely years. Probably more than half my life. There are times it hasn't bothered me so much, but latley is the worst its ever been. Can only hope that better days are coming
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- 6y
You do, you will get tired of it maybe in weeks or months or years but eventually. At one point you will not care about it anymore so much so that even when you lose it, you will not feel any great relief or anything, you will be like 'meh' as if even if you still have it you wouldn't care less.
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- 6y
You can, maybe it is hard right now but keep a positive mind. If you have been suffering from this for such a long time and you have never harmed you family, then that means you never will even if you have this theme forever (you won't, just trying to make a point).
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- 6y
Keeping a positive mindset has never been my strong point. But I know how thinking positively leads to a positive outcome I know you are absolutely right. I've suffered with it this long and never acted on those thoughts. But sometimes my stupid head tells me because I've never acted on the thoughts I eventually will snap and do it. ? What I hate most is the fact the thought turns into an urge or a feeling. That's what scares me and makes me think Im gonna do it ?? I'd absolutely never want too though. In reality I hate violence and conflict
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They can’t even imagine what it takes to do normal things
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- 6y
One day when you will leave behind the ocd madness, you will realize how irrational your thoughts will sound but right now they feel so real.
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- 6y
It does, when you leave it. And you will truly leave it the moment you will understand that you weren't letting it go.
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- 6y
I have the same mentality that you have and completely understand where you coming from. But there will come a time when you will lose your current theme as you will get tired of it, and once you get tired of your current theme, after sometime when you haven't thought about it for a long time, the thoughts you used to have would sound very irrational. That's what I was trying to point out.
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- 6y
No, I should have explained myself better, I just thought that saying that might be helpful to you as different advices works on different people as we all have different mindsets. You do not have to apologise at all, I apologise for not being clear. But I love your mentality and really want to keep that mentality as well.
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- 6y
This, this understanding and reasoning you have is the evidence that you will never snap or do something like that. And I, just like you have fear of that, but there are things we have to admit we don't have control over. Like rain. Let's say you want to have a pool party on your birthday that you have been preparing for 2 months prior, but 2 months before, you don't know whether it will rain on your birthday or not, the forecast isn't out yet. So do you worry or leave it upto your fate? Sometimes we have to leave it upto our fate/higher power/universe/nature whatever you belief in. You do not have any control over your future, but you do of present, and now, fearing something you do not have control over is something you have control of, so don't fear and give yourself a break. Treat yourself better cause you deserve it.
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- 25w
Hi, I’m new to this app and newly diagnosed. Question for you all, What things did you normalize and do without a second thought that when diagnosed, you realized was actually your OCD? Mine was how concerned with germs I am. I hold my breath when I open a door so the rush of wind doesn’t infect my lungs from whatever is in the room. I thought everyone was really careful and concerned like me. But Ive learned it’s not normal the lengths I go to. What was yours?
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- 22w
I’ve come to a point in my life where I can be very happy. I have a safe environment, a loving community. Yknow I’ve really healed through or moved on from a traumatic past and as I say to my boyfriend from time to time like a broken record: I feel like nowadays the only thing bringing me stress or at times misery is myself. I am a fairly joyful person, when I’m comfortable I’m very goofy and like to sing dance and have fun. I find that I relate to so many amazing people I meet that are the nicest, most fun, elevating individuals, who also struggle with the hardest sometime debilitating things. It truly sucks because when I find those moments of peace I see the power of what an ocd mind could be as a person. We are people who may over analyze, but I myself also always find the good in people. And aye if in a moment I don’t think anything is doomly wrong and if I don’t try to understand it I may parish 😅 then that moment feels like the best one in the world. But on the other side of that when I’m not in a quiet mind moment and I’m left with myself to take control of what life in front of me looks like in or around me. I almost have been crumbling. Like I said at the beginning of this story here, the life around me is not so situationally stressful. And it’s also fairly simple. My boyfriend and I live together in a small cozy trailer with our two cats, he works full time very hard and I work part time where I spend as much time as I can working and then have a few days around the house. We’re saving for a home and are quite content with our lifestyle at the moment with work and being “lazy”, or resting and going out for fun now an then on our time off together. Most times though I do have day or two off during the week by myself, which usually goes one of only two ways. Like I said before I do like to work hard, especially now that I have a part time job that’s fairly easier than others I’ve had in the past. So I work 6-7 hours then drive home, air up my tires and wash my car sometimes because I like doing something after work while I still have energy.Or I go to the store. Come home make food, prolly nap and not really worry about too much because I’ve worked all day. But on my days off. I find myself waking up with a lot of anxiety. I usually fight it off by going back to sleep. But my OCD is heavily circled around shame. Even though I only sleep in till 10-11, 12-1 at the latest. I find myself thinking about how wrong (in nice terms) it is to do that. And the funny thing is the older I get (I’m a 21F). I’m not as pressured by this thought, even though it’s still stressful it literally just feels like a thought I can’t escape from. To put things in simple terms. I truly psycho analyze my actions breath by breath and my intrusive thoughts are critiquing those actions bit by bit. I’ve recently have started medication and it was a tremendous difference in the beginning and it helped me cope with the acceptance and letting go (f it or just care less) of those thoughts. But let’s say I forget to take it, or I wake up one morning by myself all day and I’m super tired or unmotivated. That day will feel truly debilitated. And now I’m definitely to the point where I’m battling that, but also have a thin vale behind that where I now know what is going on. And the thoughts are shameful for “not trying to get better or be better” Because I do Like I write a lot, and it truly is one of the best coping mechanisms for working through intrusive or obsessive compulsions. I could also write all day, and if I don’t listen to that ease of the anxiety from writing. And try to keep going the writing will turn into a compulsion itself I feel like I should not stop or critique it as well. But luckily I’ll hopefully find my place in explaining the cycle of what I do when my brain is very loud about things. The next time it’s too loud:)
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- 21w
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.
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