Is anyone else experiencing this?

I don't even really know what I'm trying to ask. My head feels like a solid brick; like, heavy or dense. I struggle to form full thoughts A LOT of the time. It feels like I'm getting a "This voice-mail inbox is full." message. I'm wondering if that's the "Pure" OCD and I've just literally blocked every single thought in general, regardless of if it's obsessive/intrusive or not. I love to write and paint and I literally get .5 seconds of valuable thought going for creativity and then it's blank like my brain just hung up on me. It includes other situations like me telling myself I need to do something (helpful, good, etc.) and I'm thinking: "I need a gameplan/strategy" and it stops right there 😅 I guess I don't have free-flowing thoughts, just forced nonsense that was nothing to begin with and doesn't pan out. I am starting to realize that I compulsively clean my house when I'm very stressed or on the occasion I do have intrusive thoughts - but I don't really know how to manage that because I do like a clean home, but I get ridiculously stressed out if it's not immaculate. I accept that it won't ever be immaculate because I have 3 kids (two toddlers) so... I just block the stress and obsessive desire? But I also HAVE to clean a lot every day since my toddlers are savages 😂 I don't fucking know. Reading what I wrote sounds like I'm all over the place.

Daughter of ...

Date posted: 1y ago

Hi l feel the same way with my head, a lot of times my head feels like it’s steaming up or about to explode because l’m trying to avoid intrusive thoughts or l won’t think about anything because l don’t want it to lead into an intrusive thought

Sedo16

Date posted: 1y ago

It's conforming to know someone else experiences something similar, even if it sucks for both of us.

Secretidentity

Date posted: 21w ago

Does any one ever question if their ocd isn’t ocd?

That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.

sara_24

Date posted: 19w ago

Anxious about everything

Guys I need help. I feel so alone . Basically I have this compulsion where I feel the need to write everything but this stems from me being anxious about EVERYTHING. Like my mom came in my room and I was irritated and snapped, immediately regretted now I keep writing “don’t be mean to mom next time” but I keep thinking about it. Then I think about how I finally left my house today and all the surfaces I touched that could’ve been contaminated and now I’m writing “next time don’t touch this and this”. Then I think about all the things I need to be doing for this week and I’m writing “don’t forget to do this and this” even though I’ve written it 5 times already. This is what happens everyday btw. My brain always thinks about something I need to be doing and making me anxious that I’ll forget it which is why I write it down on my notes app. I’m sooo mentally exhausted I need help pls!! Anyone have any advice ? I used to think I need to stop the writing but really I need to stop the anxious thoughts coming into my head . People say I need to accept the thoughts and let it go but that’s too hard for me

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 13w ago

I don’t know what this is. Help please?

Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?

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