- Date posted
- 1y
Ocd maybe I feel awful and scared
Let me start this out by saying I am not diagnosed with anything; I'm just looking for insight from people. So yeah, this all started like 5–6 months ago. I had disturbing intrusive thoughts before, but I was usually able to just shake them off but theyd always come back some days they were worse than other they were alway super disturbing but i have never experienced anything like this before and i am actually terrified that I am an awful person and i want to act on these thoughts or that i do want these thought and i am just trying to convince myself that it is ocd so i dont feel gulity about thinking about it like what if im just useing the possibility that i might have ocd as an exause that way i dont have to take responsibility for it. When I was playing Tomb Raider and listening to a podcast, I got this image of me doing something that I couldn't remember doing, and it sent me spiraling, and I'm still spiraling right now, and that kept going, me trying desperately to remember what happened by searching my search history, and my moms, and dads then i started looking for dates, asking my parents what was going on during specific days, and I'm still fighting with myself about this, and I'm just so confused as to how I could ever forget doing something like this and then it spread into my dreams. I'm pretty sure they were dreams, but it's been so long that I'm not sure if they were dreams or memories of me doing this thing. Then it spread into religion, im Christian, so it was quite anxiety-inducing, and still my thoughts go haywire when I'm at church, images about God, and just disturbing things in general. Then it spread into really distressing thoughts about suicide and hurting my family, so I started avoiding knives, scissors, and all that stuff. I also started to count pretty much everything I do. I also started avoiding cooking because every time I try and help with that stuff, I feel like I'm having a panic attack and that I'm going to get everyone sick. I've been washing my hands very often, to the point of dry cracking. I've used pure rubbing achol and bleach and soap on my hands. I cant leave the bathroom without wiping down the toilets with bleach. I also count the my seat belt because if I don't i feel like we're getting into a crash because of me. Last, I cried because I didn't finish counting, and my brain was like your mom was going to die. Also, I fell asleep before doing my nightly routine because I was exhausted, and I feel so guilty for not doing it, like my entire family could've been burned alive or our house could've been broken, and it would've been all my fault and sad. I've spent pretty much all of my days just dissasoating scrolling on TikTok. I've started avoiding showering, brushing my teeth, and using the toilet because it takes so long to do them. Because of all the counting, I've been trying every day to figure out if I'm in denial and if I'm just an awful person who wants to think about this stuff or if it's okay, plus the fact that my memory keeps reminding me of something that happened to me a couple years ago and adding stuff to it and telling. It was my fault, plus the fact that I've been avoiding animals, because of these thoughts . Ive been raking through my memory to remember what I was thinking and feeling in certain moments with certain people, or so and I just feel like an awful person, so yeah. Everyday feels so fast, and I feel not real. I spend most of my day googling and looking stuff up. I don't know anymore im scared that I do wanna do these things I'm scared that I'm just in denial? Im starting to feel numb i cant feel anything and im scared that it means i do actually want these thoughts and that i did actually do this thing that i cant remeber and i struggled to even wash the knives that were in the sink i could barley that without immediately dropping them if i did do these things i just dont think i could live with myself