Somatic OCD? Staring OCD???

I’ve been pretty bad with eye contact lately, and it’s gotten worse… I’m afraid to look my mom in the eye lately because I’m afraid I think I might look at her chest or her lower body. I notice I’m doing some things on purpose like when I notice her in my peripheral, I’ll look when I don’t wanna look, or I’ll find an excuse to look at the areas I want to avoid but I know I don’t wanna look there, so am I using this as an excuse? Am I lying to myself? Do I really want to look at my mom like this? Like I’m avoiding to look at her by looking the other way or when looking down, but I’m looking down, I’ll purposely start looking near the area I want to avoid but I know I don’t look at my mom in any other way. I’m just distressing myself, it’s stupid.

Username: Madison the ERP NinjaMadison the ...

Date posted: 1y ago

Dude I had the same thing, I was obsessed with worrying if I was staring at people’s privates too much! I’m just a super observant person but then OCD latched onto that big time. I’m like 99% over it now, it’s such a non-issue for me. My biggest tip is to accept uncertainty and resist trying to figure it out. And the concern/distress will fade! ❤️

Username: oldinoldin

Date posted: 1y ago

I struggle with eye contact too. About a year ago, I was not accepted into a mental health clinic - with them telling my main psych that “I made the staff uncomfortable.” I had cried quietly in the waiting room once (their system had lost my paperwork twice and the manager didn’t believe me), but I really struggled with eye contact after that during encounters with their office manager, so I’ve wondered ever since then if that was part of it. I still worry about it. My neighbor has a young child who pulls on her for attention sometimes, and I was worried for a week that I was going to be considered “creepy” because my eyes followed the abrupt motion the child had done. I wasn’t, and that neighbor and I are on excellent terms… but I’ve had that fear many times before.

Username: ke23ke23

Date posted: 1y ago

@oldin Ah man, I had that exact situation before. It’s even more scarier because I was trying to hold eye contact and maintain a conversation across the room with someone haven’t spoken to in years

Username: oldinoldin

Date posted: 1y ago

@ke23 That’s a tough situation too. In my experience I sometimes struggle to juggle or maintain conversations in groups and worry that I’ll hurt someone’s feelings, or leave someone out, or talk too long, or lose step with the pace of things and end up awkwardly not participating or similar.

Username: BigGyro09BigGyro09

Date posted: 1y ago

Unfortunately I have this problem as well. As far as I'm concerned, this is all OCD and it's very distressing. I've had times in the past where I didn't want to look at specific body parts or I'll feel really horrible about it, but I did anyway, and felt so terrible. So many thoughts saying that I shouldn't and that I should just look somewhere else, but the possibility of it is always there. It sucks so badly.

Username: papa.appa

Date posted: 1y ago

is this ocd or am i a bad person? please be honest

i sexualize everything around me and its like no matter where i look im looking at someones chest or their butt or something like that and i dont even mean to and i hate it so much, and sometimes i cant even pull my eyes away and its people i dont even find attractive, even when they are “conventionally attractive” but when they are i feel so guilty because i love my boyfriend so much bc i dont want anybody but him so why do i keep doing this? i feel like i should be able to control my eyes and im just a perv with a bad excuse

Relationship OCD

Username: Bennings

Date posted: 32w ago

Somatic/Sensorimotor OCD

Hi, I just wanted to see if anyone else had trouble with this? It manifests in making me breathe and blink "consciously", which is very distressing and leads to really bad air hunger. Has anyone managed to get out of it?

Somatic OCD

Username: TiredBug

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 13w ago

Guilt Over Something My Mom Did?

I can't tell if this is OCD to be honest, but with how much I'm focusing on it, it has to be some form or another. My mom and I have never had the best relationship. Ever since I was 6 years old, my OCD has always made me feel like I need to confess my own guilts to her. Our relationship has gotten infinitely better ever since I started therapy a few years ago. Her and I have been able to talk about a lot of things in the past and she's apologized for a lot of things. Recently I've been remembering more real events that make me want to cry. I don't want to keep bringing up things to her that she's done wrong. Especially this current memory, as it was years ago and I know she didn't mean any ill-intent. I don't want to hurt her by bringing this up, because I don't want her to think I'm blaming her or make her feel like a bad mom. I can't tell if this is something I need to talk about with her to get closure, or if this is my OCD disguising itself so I can "confess" to get relief. I'm so tired, I can't stop thinking about it. I'm not even sure if I'm remembering things right anymore. Sorry if this isn't OCD or I sound crazy.

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