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yea i know this makes no sense, but sometimes i’ll try to get into a hobby but then i’ll think something like, “what if you’re somehow going to get WAY too much into this and getting into this hobby with make you evil or something” and the activity in question is me learning how to play a single chord on the guitar😭
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Yep! My hobbies have become compulsions before. I love to knit but would knit till finished with a project when my ocd gets at it and then redo it over and over till i considered good enough and I wouldn’t stop even though it would hurt my hands with hours of knitting without taking a break. I feel like I can make everything into a compulsion and worry about it. Gotten better overtime but it can be hard.
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I’m not sure if it’s the same as your situation, but since the thoughts and feelings I get really get me down and sad, I feel unmotivated to do my hobbies, I usually draw and read, but since my thoughts have gotten worse, I can barely read without having a little quote or sentence in the book make me ruminate about something random. It’s made me not wanna read, and when I draw I get worried if the drawing of a person looks too young, and if that makes me a pedo. So , yea. OCD makes me wanna avoid doing things a usually love.
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Yes I play rugby and it put me off massively as it’s a contact sport I found myself thinking in the warm up and games constantly going over the trigger etc. made me hate the sport because I thought if everyone knew what I thought I done and my thoughts they’d probs kill me
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- 24w
So I am a practicing Catholic, and I've gotten into reading the Bible this year, praying the Rosary, things like that, and while I love to do that, my OCD has been seeming to take over, in ways such as like I have to read the Bible for a certain amount of time before I'm satisfied with the time read, or something along those lines, and it's starting to make the thought of praying and reading the Bible unenjoyable, which is really hurting me inside, because I used to and want to enjoy it so bad, but now this is making it really hard to, because it feels like I don't have control over my own thoughts, and little things trigger the thoughts, it's just so annoying. If there's anything anyone thinks I can do to combat this please let me know.
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- 22w
I feel like my life isn't my own anymore. I live by OCD's rules. I can't ever switch it off. I spend most of my day mentally reviewing and constantly checking myself. I have to do things in a certain way or i dont feel safe. All this time that i've lost and for what? Idk how I let thoughts have so much power over my life and yet here I am. Every day. I can't even get away from it in sleep because i have dreams about it and I wake up anxious if i manage to get any sleep at all. I'm so over it all.
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- 20w
I try to make a life for myself that is enjoyable with things to look forward to, and I anticipate/look forward to these lovely plans (holidays with friends, festivals, concerts), then when I’m there it’s as though I am paralysed by my thoughts. It feels like a numbing, overwhelming dread that I’m not being in the moment, I’m not enjoying myself enough, that it’s showing to others and I’m impacting their experience through my non verbal/moody exterior. The only thing I can liken it to- as with the majority of obsessions- is like when you’re trying to read something and you’re concentrating so much on trying to concentrate that you’re not even fully taking in what you’re reading. I leave these things with an immense amount of regret and guilt, and each time I swear I’m going to remember this feeling and do my best to allow myself to enjoy it next time. Then when it happens again, I feel even more annoyance and guilt. Today I feel genuinely awful, I can’t stop crying. I’ve talked about it in therapy, though my therapist wants to unpack whether there is truth to these thoughts and I think that makes it worse. She has suggested that maybe I just don’t enjoy these things and to think about what I would enjoy doing instead. But everything I do is an extension of my interests, I’m not being untrue to myself. I adore my friends, I love music, I love travelling- all my plans exercise that. It’s really hard to convey that they are completely irrational obsessions, I am aware how irrational they are, but I can’t stop letting it win. Can anyone relate? Or advise on how to articulate this in therapy?
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