- Username
- gixmo
- Date posted
- 51w ago
Embarrassed
I did an embarrassing thing that my brain keeps torturing me about. I can’t figure out a good response that doesn’t sound like an excuse or something like “everyone makes mistakes” or “I am only human”
- Username
- ocdjourneyocdjourney
- Date posted
- 51w ago
This has happened to me too. I agree with the obsession such as yeah it was embarrassing and others might have noticed. Or others might think differently about me now. Whatever the thing your brain is torturing you about agree that it might be or is true.
- Username
- gixmogixmo
- Date posted
- 51w ago
Thank you!
- Username
- Ken!Ken!
- Date posted
- 51w ago
This happened to me today at work and was tortured by embarrassment. I fell in front of a coworker who is not kind to me at work. I ruminated for a lot of today obsessing over things she might say to someone. My therapist helps me stay in the middle “maybe I did embarrass myself” “I will never know how someone else feels” “I can’t read other people’s mind to know for sure” “I am not listening to you OCD for the answers to questions that we can’t know” “I am not letting you torture me anymore” or I like to say “Thank you for your unhelpful input I am not forcing you to make me ruminate on this” or I imagine like an ❌ symbol with the sound of like an x buzzer on a game show lol hope this helps if not helpful just know there is someone out there who is still learning like you 🖤
- Username
- gixmogixmo
- Date posted
- 51w ago
@Ken! this is helpful - thank you
- Username
- Ranger_867Ranger_867
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 50w ago
@Ken! Ken, I love that X trick. That’s great! I’ll have to remember that. And it’s a good way to break the rumination.
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