- Date posted
- 1y ago
- Date posted
- 1y ago
My OCD come in waves. I have periods of truly peace but periods of high anxiety and intrusive thoughts. Guilty is part of OCD and we feel it harder because we're always comparing ourselves and asking "what if" "I like it?" "Nobody thinks that, I'm disgusting" Stay safe and always remember you're not your thoughts. Thoughts are just thoughts đ¤
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I have the same ocd theme as you right now, and itâs really bad and annoying, but I just say to myself thoughts do not define you or your personality and they are just thoughts which come and go! I hope you have a good day :))
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- 19w ago
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
- Date posted
- 19w ago
I feel like thereâs no way out of this. everyday iâm anxious and depressed from these thoughts. i feel like i have to constantly question if itâs OCD or not. the panic attacks are insane and i freak out. and a compulsion i have is looking eveything up on the internet when im stressing to know that itâs just my OCD and im not in danger. but looking things up add on to my thoughts and i start thinking âwhat ifâ actual suidcal people think. do others with this theme whenever they do something like if im taking a picture itâll be like âyeah you look happy people will wonder what happened when your goneâ LIKE i DO NOT want to end my life. or even as simple as cleaning my room, âyup keep it clean so when your family goes through your stuffâ then i panic and canât even do anything. those thoughts distress me so bad. iâll sit there and think how good my life is or when im having a good day my thoughts will be like âNOPEEE what if your just saying that to convince yourselfâ it never shuts up and genuinely makes me think i have SI or something. i hope this reaches the right people just to know im not alone. Even when i do get better in the back of my mind itâs always âpeople who want to are the same a day before tooâ im genuinely scared and im scared one day im going to just snap and do it because its âtoo muchâ do i need to go to a mental hospital! i feel insane.
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- 16w ago
Lately my OCD has been very horrible, itâs been more convincing than ever to the point where Iâm genuinely convinced that I like this stuff, when I get a thought, Iâll hear my intrusive thoughts go âoooh, I like that, Iâd do that.â and I just donât 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 Iâm just lying now, i canât tell if I make these thoughts worse or anything All I remember mostly just being like confused sometimes when these thoughts happen, but since Iâm getting strong emotions that I like it, my brain says that means I did and Iâm worried about that being true because I donât understand nor know Itâs like I am resisting to like this stuff now, itâs even tougher now than it was before
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