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Has anyone ever experienced wanting to be exactly like someone? Even a crush?
Has anyone ever experienced wanting to be exactly like someone? Even a crush?
Since when are you experiencing this?
@Grm2 Maybe like a year
@Jrizkala05 So it came with you ocd?
Your * "I hate my keyboard"
@Grm2 Well I’ve had ocd since way before this
@Grm2 It’s okk lol
@Jrizkala05 Yeah i've suffered from ocd for some time but it hit my harder on pandemia and since then I've felt what you've described here, sometimes it feels like I want to be others including crushes but I've also thought that maybe it's iat admiration or I don't know but it didn't happen before
@Grm2 Yeah, it’s so heartbreaking because I want to be happy as who I’ve always known myself to be. I think also OCD can also make you feel very lost and confused in your identity to the point where you can’t distinguish your likes and dislikes. I also feel like it may be perfectionism because I literally see my crush as perfect and anything other than him isn’t including myself.
@Grm2 I’ve also been dealing with a lot of TOCD themes mixed with thoughts and feelings of no longer wanting to be a girl. I don’t want to feel that way but I just do. It’s so scary cause it doesn’t at all align with who I used to be; I used to be super girly but now, the stuff that used to make me happy just doesn’t. Every time I do something girly, I feel cringy afterwards and feel that the only way to be seen as a person with depth is to be a guy. I don’t want to feel like this or think like this but I can’t stop.
@Jrizkala05 How long you've been dealing with tocd??
@Grm2 Exactly one year
@Jrizkala05 I relate to all what you've said but I've come to terms that it isn't real I've been always comfortable being a man and I really enjoyed it but since hocd it then transformed into rocd and at the end tocd, it's the first time I read someone sharing what they feel while being in this kind of ocd because everyone says " I have tocd" but no one ever says what it feels like, I had to assume I was in it because previously I never felt this way but you're not alone don't give up. What I have analyzed is that sometimes tocd comes from trying to fit into what a man has to be or a woman according to what's expected from us and that makes us spiral into it,, for example in my case I can only be a man if I have lots of women, if I'm strong and big, I can't be sensible and so on because if I'm different from that stereotype I can't be a man at all so what I've been doing lately is redefining my masculinity to detach from that sick stereotype of what a man is and I've been feeling better, we have to reconnect to our true true self.
@Jrizkala05 And btw thanks a lot for sharing how you're experiencing tocd it takes a lot of courage to do it and now I don't feel so weird because I thought I was the only one feeling like this
@Grm2 I’m so happy that we’re not alone in this. I totally get it, people say they have it but don’t explain what exactly they’re experiencing. Im happy I could help you and thank you for sharing your experience
@Grm2 I’m so happy to talk about it and have someone actually get me.
@Jrizkala05 Np feel free to contact me whenever you need it, wish you recovery and happiness 😁
@Grm2 Thank you 😊
Yes.. have felt that
As I’ve posted before, my friends has developed TOUGH hocd and has hit rock bottom :// She told me to ask y’all here if any of you have had a similar experience NOT reassurance (she doesn’t have NOCD). “Hi NOCD community. When I was like 5 I had this distant female cousin whom I played with and grew up. She had super short hair like a boy, but we low key had same interests in toys/tv series etc. and then at THAT age I got a very weird though which said: do you like her? And I remember getting a lot of anxiety and my stomach hurting cause why tf would I have that kind of thought about my female cousin? I remember ruminating about it the whole day, and the next day that thought disappeared and I never had that thought again. We grew up and obviously she’s my family like my sister. But now that I have HOCD, I keep thinking about that memory and I have so much anxiety about it and cry often about it. While growing up I’ve only had crushes on tons of boys at school etc. has anyone had a similar experience?” Thanks for reading if u did! We need support 😭🙏🏻
Is it normal for this theme to legit make you feel like you’re the opposite gender and that’s what you want to be and it’s very convincing? And you just keep getting images and scenarios in ur head of you transitioning and actually going through with it? This is sooo scary and i don’t feel like myself at all anymore. It’s making me not feel like a woman or myself of how I’ve always been my whole life. I’m really nervous and scared, it’s really make me feel like this is my true feelings/ self ): it’s causing me to feel weird k. My own body and feel weird about my body parts. Like my brain is literally thinking as a trans person would feel or think like wtf??? Is this normal?!? Pls someone let me know. & and it’s making me feel like I’m attracted to woman all the sudden and i keep getting flashes of that in my head. I’m in a relationship and im scared this is gonna ruin things bc the way this theme is making me feel and my body. Ugh ihml, need some advice. Has anyone experienced exactly this??
there is this guy in my university. i think he looks good. but since im so afraid of liking someone else, everytime i see him i have wild intrusive thoughts about him. everytime he looks at me i imagine the tension. i hate it so much i hate him so much. yesterday, i saw him look at me multiple times but i avoided the thought. after a while, the picture of him wanting me desperately came to mind again and i thought “what if he liked me and what if he came and told me that i want a relationship with you” and i imagined that. i instantly got pulled and felt like id wanna be with him. like really really wanna be with him. and simultaneously i was terrified of thinking that so in the back of my mind i was screaming NO NO DONT THINK THIS and it felt like i was falling off from a building. but i thought it again and i had the same feeling. I love my boyfriend to death, i feel like im betraying him. Am i? I realized after days of rumination, that I had no reason for my attraction. Its not like I had any kind of physical bodily attraction. I thought the face was nice. But I didn’t even know the person. Why would I feel such a strong urge to be with someone I don’t even know? I thought it was invalid, but I strongly think it is because I have projected a personality on him that I would want to be with. He held a meeting today. Hes my colleague in a club. I was in the meeting. For the first half hour, I was stressed because I hadn’t written down a thought I had previously had. I was doing my work simultaneously. I was talking to people simultaneously. When I paid attention to the guy, I thought “yeah see he’s just a normal person, plus he has an ugly voice” the minute I thought this, I turned into a fan girl of his fully and I loved the voice I felt like I had a crush. And then I panicked. I moved past it. After a while, while he was talking, a little girl screamed in the background. I immediately pictured his younger sister. Like I pictured him having a sister and she looked kindof yk like him. Basically my first instinct was oh she might be so cute. See I think he looks nice, so I kinda pictured him having a sister who was pretty and all cute like how he looked. And then I flipped out while at the same time getting a one second black out, after which I had flashes and images of him being a father and me being attracted to that. I just got random flashes of images and I felt attracted to that I think. Im not too sure. I don’t remember any feeling/ thought/ order at all. It kept on replaying in my head and while contemplating about it I thought it is probably cuz I don’t know anything about their personal lives so it feels enticing to know that they have a personal life beyond work(since they’re professional connections.). After this, I had a billion other thoughts of this sort. “why am I still thinking of him” “does this mean I like him” “who thinks that” *replaying the thought over and over* “maybe he likes me” all these situational thoughts. I can’t even ground myself by thinking about love for my bf. “I love him I want him so bad” “no you don’t” “he’s the best” “you don’t really think that” “how will u handle ur life other guys ur relationship ur hectic schedulel” “fuck up” “these thoughts r supposed to be normal” “its just attraction” “attraction for so long? Everytime u see him?” “youre gonna try to downplay the thoughts like u always do” “this is not normal” I just froze there crying till I couldn’t breathe for 45 minutes. Next morning, I woke up thinking its just something that is not important, I love my boyfriend so much I should put my energy here. I was then called in for a meeting. I pictured the guy just being in university and I felt like normal softness towards him, I got pulled. And then after a while I saw his fair through the online meeting I was worried ill think something wrong. Then I heard him talk to a girl and I was worried ill think im jealous and get jealous. Then after avoiding the thought for a while I got the thought, I felt like I was jealous. But at the same time I was so anxious because I didn’t wanna think like this. And after that I saw him again and I pictured me being with him there next to him in a flash and then I got anxiety and I’m here now.
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