- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y
Fear/reassurance/apology/rant cycle with friends
For weeks now I’ve been getting stuck in a cycle of intrusive thoughts of my friends being in danger, in one way or another. Then texting or calling said person for reassurance, not being pleased with the response, asking questions persistently until they get angry and tell me to leave them alone then I start compulsively apologizing, then if they accept the apology I go back to the intrusive thoughts of them in danger and if not I start feeling like I’m not being understood and ranting at them about how I’m feeling and just compounding their anger. None of my friends are speaking to me right now, my best friend blocked my number and I think she’s done with me permanently and not sure about the others either. This has been a problem for years but three weeks ago I had a close friend lie to me about having tried to kill herself, and I’m not sure why she’s so such a thing. It seems to have been intentionally to hurt me and since then she has not spoken to me and I carried this frustration into my other friendships and let my OCD latch on to it and tell me she is dead and all my other will be soon, and that it’s my fault for not understanding that my friends false suicide attempt confession was a warning of what was to come and not chasing after her when she distanced herself and now the urge to seek reassurance in my other relationships is turned up to 11. I’m so afraid I’m going to be all alone now and it’s paradoxically making me want to start pestering them again and circumventing their efforts to block my number and social media accounts. I know this isn’t okay to do but it almost doesn’t feel like a voluntary action anymore I feel as though I can’t resist. That’s an incorrect feeling because I am currently resisting but I’m not doing well at it. It’s utterly horrifying to know you are destroying all of your relationships and understanding how you are destroying them and simultaneously feel as if doing that thing is the only option you have. I’m no stranger to this feeling, it comes and goes all the time, but for hours or days not weeks like this time. I feel as though my sanity is wearing very thin. I have no idea what to do to make it stop. I can manage a minute or few at a time of relief but those breaks are getting fewer and further between as the days go on. If any of these friends decide to try to work this out while I’m still in this episode I feel pretty confident that I will destroy what is left of them because I can’t not over analyze every word that they say at this point and ruminate on it until I’m convinced I have discovered some anomaly in what they are saying that convinces me they are in danger.