- Username
- JamesMY
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Tired of caring?
Anyone here get tired of feeling hyper responsible and having to care about everything?
- Username
- keiralanikeiralani
- Date posted
- 1y ago
for sure. my ocd got so intrusive that i started to resent love ones around me for doing normal things because they were triggers for me. rn i’m in recovery after spending 3 years locked in my room tortured by my thoughts, and now that my ocd has subsided, I just don’t have motivation to use my brain much. Fatigue from the obsessive stress of OCD can be rlly damaging. OCD truly causes trauma and therefore creates trauma responses.
- Username
- JamesMYJamesMY
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Everything triggers me and it sucks. I am my dad's caregiver now and that sucks because my harm OCD has always been about my parents. So I am dealing with the resentment thing big time and often I feel trapped with only one way out.
- Username
- keiralanikeiralani
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@JamesMY I really empathize with what your going thru and understand how suffocating and complicated ocd can be. knowing these thoughts are due to ocd is a huge first step, though! i know it can seem inescapable and suffocating, but ocd is very treatable. Please look into DBT and CBT methods online. Here are some links that can hopefully help. https://psychcentral.com/ocd/ocd-cycle https://www.therapistaid.com/therapy-guide/ocd-treatment-overview/cbt/adults
- Username
- peachtea_peachtea_
- Date posted
- 1y ago
yep!
- Username
- JamesMYJamesMY
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I get angry at getting up and having to worry about other people's problems .
- Username
- peachtea_peachtea_
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@JamesMY - Yes, I get angry at how ocd makes us feel responsible for every single thing, and I even feel bad saying that now because my ocd is saying I am responsible
- Username
- JamesMYJamesMY
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@peachtea_ - Well I just feel like I have to worry about everything and be on alert. I don't feel like I have any feelings I just worry.
- Username
- peachtea_peachtea_
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@JamesMY - yeah i get this too, it's the worst feeling inside- you are not alone :)
- Username
- D:)D:)
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
i'm so so sorry to hear this is something you are going though:( it sounds really tricky but you are not alone in this fight <3 there is a discord server that's designed for ocd support! i've been apart of it for about 4 months now & absolutely love the community. here's the link if you are interested in joining:) sending love & support your way! stay strong my friend! https://discord.gg/mQxyBmGwhU
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- ButterflyStar
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Does anyone else here have moral / responsibility theme OCD?
- Username
- Crissy
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Is anyone dealing with responsibility OCD? I don’t see it talked about much, but it’s one of the subtypes I struggle with the most. I just feel like everything I do is in order to “protect” my family and friends. That means everything from magical thinking, to repeatedly calling people to make sure they’re ok, to bargaining with god to keep them safe (even though i’m not religious at all). I spend A LOT of my time worrying about other people and trying to control what they do. For example, I’ll try to talk someone out of taking a trip because I feel like something bad will happen, or I’ll stalk someone’s Instagram to make sure they’re posting regularly, because that means they’re ok. Logically I know I have no control over other people, but OCD tells me there’s always at least SOMETHING I can be doing to keep them from getting hurt or sick. And obviously the pandemic has made this 1000x worse. Can anyone relate?
- Username
- atardecer
- Date posted
- 1y ago
exhausted
I’m so tired of thinking and thinking and finding new reasons to worry and new old memories to overthink and obsess about and moralize, it’s so exhausting and scary and it makes me distrust everyone around me and even myself. It’s like I everything and everyone needs to be questioned and interrogated and put into a good or bad bucket. I’m just so tired I don’t want to think anymore :( I want to turn my brain off.
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