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Hello, i know how it feels i did this al the time when i was younger. And i still have the urge to do this to my boyfriend. Maybe you can try to practise not to tell everything.. like you tell one thing en keep one thing to yourself.. the next day it will feel less urgent to tell and so on it will become less and less. Maybe that will help you.. i know it helped me. I forgot a lot of things over time.. ??? it will be oke!
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I am literally going through this right now. I’m new to the app, and I’m amazed to see how similar a lot of our problems are. I do this. It’s reassurance. It’s also almost a mechanism to ensure that they are helping you make the decision, so you don’t have the responsibility of what you do. But that’s Bc you feel what you do deserves punishing. It doesn’t!
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Be kind to yourself. It’s hard to handle a lot of stress and rapid changes when you have ocd. Start developing healthy longterm habits to cope with stress. It takes baby steps to get to the point where you’re managing ocd and are more in control of needing to confess to reduce stress. Exercising and good nutrition can make it easier. Try chewing gum instead of wine and cigarettes. It seems to help me. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450283/
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Thank you ?? I’m 26 now and have gone through years of therapy and progress and was living my life, but my traumatic breakup and getting fired really bought me back to square one. I was living in Dubai and weaned off my meds only to come back to New York working part time as a cashier waiting for my full time legal job to start. I don’t want to live my life on meds but I really can’t function without numbing my mind somehow.
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- 24w
Last year I used and app to talk about my POCD and people called me a pedo and told me to kill myself. It has been months and I had even forgotten about it, but I talked about my mom yesterday and I feel a sense of doom now. Like, I could have lived my life normally, but this happened. I feel overhelmed, and don't know exactly what to do, cuz when I stop to think about it, it is something awful, but I spend months just not caring, I don't know what to do, it was not even close to the worst thing that has ever happened to me, but it still feels terrible, it keeps echoing in my mind, and It won't go away, and yes I know it is OCD, I just want to let It go. And I lied somethings to my mom cuz if I told the whole truth she would be even more heartbroken (I just didn't say what app it was and I said it was recently, and not months ago) And I feel bad, but now I can't go back, but if I told her the whole truth, she would've just broke down. Basically she thinks it was yesterday and in another app, and I told her I just commented on something. But I feel so bad! I don't want to tell the truth to her, but also, I don't know...
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Im 21 years old, I had ocd seen I was 14 when it started it stopped me from telling anyone I have it. It was really bad at the time and I had no clue how to deal with it I even was able to kill myself at one point but decided to have hope it would get better. In time it did got better but I had no clue what was wrong with me and I didn't want to tell anyone. Until this year I finally found out what it was and my ocd started getting bad again but I'm doing better now. Is been 7 years but I really want my mom to know what I been through but I feel like if I tell her it hurt her and I feel bad for not telling her when it started. I just need same help getting the courage to tell her.
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i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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