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- 6y
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- 6y
You have to be strong! People don’t understand that with ocd it affects us more. We absorb more pain and hurt and when you’re a nice and kind person it’s hard to understand how someone can be so insensitive. Don’t let it flare up or ramp up your ocd, it’s not productive. Take a step back and make yourself a stronger better person everyday. You deserve it.
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- 6y
U are strong ? and brave you are also a beautiful girl on the inside and outside ❤️ never forget that you matter to this world
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- 6y
Thank you so much for your reply. Thing is this person has mental health issues herself but will never recognise she has. I believe she is a narcissist. I fell out with her years ago as she pretended she had cancer. I couldn't cope with her lies and deceit. Then when almost my mum she came back into my life and basically used me. Ever since she came back into my life she has slagged me off to her friend (who has actually now cut all ties with her) and this lady has become a dear friend of mine now. She twisted something and lied to us both but we kept in contact. She is jealous of me and what I have and even after two months is saying nasty things to my new friend who is ignoring her. I basically told her children that she was in hospital and she went absolutely crazy at me. Her daughter then confided in some very personal things to me that her mother had done to her when she was growing up and she basically agreed with me and that I should cut all ties with her mother. I have now. When I was going through a bad time with my ocd this year she did help me and told my friend she was worried about me. But now my ocd has latched onto to ... What if she tells a dear friend of mine whom I have known for over 40years that I had an intrusive thought about his daughter (who loves me dearly). I know it sounds crazy and daft and doesn't really matter as her grandparents were the ones to help me through my ocd and knew every thought I had! It us just my OCD fearing the worst and has managed to latch onto something that is so dear to me! Sounds crazy I know! At first I didnt worry as she hastily said that everyone laughs at me and calls me loopy louise which I found comforting actually as I laugh about it all too! But my mind has now conjured up this daft one! I am going to ask my counsellor if we can do some erp concerning this worry! Thank you so very much for your input. I know I am a very kind and caring person but unfortunately this horrible parasite has knocked my confidence. Xx
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- 6y
I’ve noticed how a lot of people with OCD have this core fear of being judged (including myself) and that just adds so much more fuel to our anxieties. One thing I’ve read in regards to dealing with this is having to accept the fact that we can’t control what others think of us. It sucks, especially when we try our damnedest to please everyone so no one hates or dislikes us but it only causes more pain unfortunately. I’ve slowly had to accept this fact and accept the possibilities that not everyone is going to think kindly of me or understand me. That person who said whatever they said about you shouldn’t be much of a concern. I know that’s a lot easier said than done and it’s a lot harder when you’re filled with anxiety. Work on taking care of yourself and let those people think whatever they want to think. They’re not worth your time if they think of you that way.
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- 19w
Im sorry I have to come on here and ask for advice once again, but as some people on here know I have been suffering with ocd since I was around the age of ten, which only got worse as my beautiful children came along. or nearly 60 years Ive had every type of ocd there is, they always come down to the same thing , not wanting to ever harm the people I love more than anything. I had got on top of this and was managing well, I know I would never harm anyone I love ever and would never ever want to, no more of the hypothetical scenarios for reassurance either , but its like every time I try to stop the mental compulsions intrusive thoughts come back after a few days, As I was in between going to sleep and was half awake the horrible words ' hope ***** dies I cannot even write the name down who it was about. I do not know where it came from but I am constantly getting upset about this as it was about someone I would give up my life for. I think you can probably guess what I mean without me having to say it. I do read a lot of posts and ocd podcasts and once read someones story wher they used to wish bad things and I have never been able to stop worrying in case something like that happened to me . Could this be what it was that has caused it ? I think Ive also still held onto something from when I was a child when I used to worry that thinking something too much could make it happen,, Please, please give me some addvice and thank you,,, sorry for the long post.
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- 17w
the past month ive been ruminating about a time last year where i hurt a friend by unintentionally bringing up a traumatic memory when i was really drunk, enough that i didnt remember it, so i went 6 months without apologizing until i was worried when they werent talking to me anymore. so they told me when i finally tried to talk to them. i apologized and they told me we were ok now, and still want me in their life, but now they stopped talking to me again and its been 3 weeks, and im terrified that i did something again, especially since they stopped talking to me when i made a mistake before, and wont tell me outright. the event triggered horrible horrible guilt over what i did, mostly guilt About the guilt i was feeling, because its not a normal amount of guilt for a regular person, and eventually my compulsions for confessing and ruminating reached a high point. and when they stopped talking to me again they got even worse . they are aware i suffer from ocd and anxiety to an extent (we've been friends since we were teenagers) so its hard for me to believe they wouldn't do this unless i did something wrong again, especially due to the events of my past mistake. lately ive been wondering, 'have they found out my abnormal reaction to what happened ?' 'did a friend who knows about it tell them?' ive been avoiding asking them if i did something wrong again, because i dont want to make it a habit since i can fall very deeply into that hole of asking for reassurance and i feel even regular reassurance, without the ocd, im the last person who deserves that right now. im scared they somehow found out about my compulsions (which isnt entirely irrational) and i feel the need to apologize to them again. ive been having panic attacks about this. i feel like no matter what i do i cant fix our friendship, and its going to end badly. i feel like a terrible friend, and im too mentally ill to have friendships. i don't know what to do.
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- 9w
My ex just told me I’m a narcissist and I haven’t stopped thinking about it for days now. He broke up with me for the 7th and final time now and I did have an avoidance compulsion but I don’t think it was all ocd because he would continuously make poor choices and I was feeling used by the end of the relationship. However I was still trying to convince myself it would get better and it’s just a rough patch we’ll get through eventually. I blamed my ocd because I didn’t want to give up on him and I feel like maybe I was just in denial that it wasn’t meant to be but I also wanted out for a while now. I felt guilty for feeling relieved when he broke up with me but it was a civil conversation and it seemed like we were ending on good terms. But now he’s telling everyone that I’m a narcissist and I abused him emotionally and I was controlling when I let this man do WHATEVER he wanted. I’m controlling because I said I wanted to do his hair because I’m literally a stylist. He said I’m just like my mother and I’m a sh*tty person. He sent me a long paragraph of why I’m worse than all of his exes and that I’m a bad mother days after we broke up. I know I should’ve handled the situation differently but I don’t think that should ruin me as a person. He also said he no longer believes what the men in my past did to me because I’m a narcissist so that means I’m a liar. Knowing one of my biggest fears is becoming the people who hurt me. Part of me feels like he knew this was an obsession of mine and used it against me. I really feel like the worst person alive right now. Like Hitler level evil. I normally don’t post much but this is ruining me right now and I don’t know who else to turn to. I’m out of options and I’m really just helpless right now.
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