Negative emotions and advice

Is this ocd? I have negative emotions that come up at church and about my daughter. Like disgust. I hate to admit that publically but it is what I’m experiencing. I don’t want to feel negative emotions towards God or my child but it really puts me in a bad mood and just makes feel so disconnected from myself as I usually didn’t feel negative emotions towards these things. I just want to think and feel happy about God and my daughter. It’s been 18 months of pretty much labile emotions towards them and I just know that’s not my baseline. Is it just the ocd making the emotions seem louder an attaching a story? UGH

ElevenB

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

I believe it is OCD. Religious OCD attacks our faith. Church has been hard for me at times. Postpartum OCD could explain the thoughts toward your child. I hope your doctor visit went well.

Layla32

Date posted: 1y ago

@ElevenB So it causes all the harsh emotions I’m feeling towards those things? He mentioned me taking another herb to try and help. 😢. Back to not sleeping. I just don’t feel refreshed going to church. I just feel like it doesn’t help me anymore and I feel like I don’t understand any of it. Like I use to understand the goodness of the story of the Bible but I just don’t now 😢. Sometimes I do. It’s just not all the time and it makes me feel terrible. My emotions are so up and down and I feel so horrible about it. I just want to love the Lord on a consistent basis

ElevenB

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

OCD attacks what we value most. Faith. Family. We fight it because the thoughts are so not us. But engaging them, trying to figure them out, just makes them worse. So they say try not to engage. Say maybe, maybe not. I'm uncertain and sit with uncertainty. It's hard to say and do. Mark DeJesus says, Remember, exposure is not saying we agree with something or make it our value. It's letting go of compulsion, control and ways we try to react that keep the cycle fed. "Maybe" can be a great way to disempower the argument." OCD has caused me to struggle with church many times. I hope you can watch Mark's videos and go to Scrupulosity Solutions (Jaimie Eckert). We've discussed the issue with church on zoom several times. Like I said she had a baby and OCD tried to latch onto that with her as well.

King silly

Date posted: 16w ago

Not seeking reassurance, just prayers

Lately my OCD has been very horrible, it’s been more convincing than ever to the point where I’m genuinely convinced that I like this stuff, when I get a thought, I’ll hear my intrusive thoughts go “oooh, I like that, I’d do that.” and I just don’t freak out nor feel bad, I just feel like I like it even more, and feel like I would do/act on it and like it, and the feeling is strong and it lingers forever? It genuinely feels like I do, and I’m just lying now, i can’t tell if I make these thoughts worse or anything All I remember mostly just being like confused sometimes when these thoughts happen, but since I’m getting strong emotions that I like it, my brain says that means I did and I’m worried about that being true because I don’t understand nor know It’s like I am resisting to like this stuff now, it’s even tougher now than it was before

nevieocal

Date posted: 7w ago

Can someone please help me?

I think when people are saying OCD is egodystonic is really triggering me and I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I’m going through a really bad relapse and right now I’m trying to figure out if my thoughts are truly egodystonic, like I how do I know I won’t act on them, how can I trust my emotions and everything. I feel really confused and I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore or how I carry on with life because it’s so long and I’m so unsure of everything that’s going on in my head. Like how do I know that this is OCD and true desires/urges. I’m so confused.

hopefulxmess

Date posted: 6w ago

Can intrusive thoughts come with false emotions?

I’ve asked this before and got no response but can ocd try to make you feel a certain way that you don’t actually feel? Such as telling you you’re jealous or upset in a situation when you don’t even care or feel that way at all. Can ocd cause you to feel the emotion along with the intrusive thought even though it’s not your true feelings?

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