- Username
- Ishil
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 45w ago
Feared outcomes
I always feel like my fears are coming true. I’m so scared of reality
I always feel like my fears are coming true. I’m so scared of reality
It’s hard to believe now, but the truth is that *they are just harmless feelings*. You need to incrementally learn this truth by experience. When you do you’ll be liberated. Do you know what exposure therapy is?
hey, i totally get how overwhelming those fears can feel, especially when they start messing with your sense of reality. it's really tough, but you're not alone in this fight. 🤝 you should try "unstuck," it's this new ai-powered therapy tool made for folks with ocd (just google "unstuck app for ocd" and it should pop right up). my nocd therapist put me onto it, and honestly, it's been a game-changer for me this past month – might be worth a shot for you too. 👍
Unlike the most common types of OCD, my fears always come true. Let's take the easy example of turning off the stove 10 times just to be sure, it's all about the obession and compulsion. However my fear is to feel depersonalizated (i think i have this, not sure, for me it justfeels like being stabbed by 1000 knifes every second for weeks on end) so i try to avoid things that will make it happen. However, it keeps happening and it's devastating every single time, so much that i can't bear it at all. Your house catching fire likely won't come true, but me suffering intensely once i am triggered does, almost every single time, unless i somehow magically convince myself i just triggered myself and dp won't happen unless i let it by reacting strongly to the trigger. But it only worked like 5-6 times in my 4 years of suffering. I am still looking for a therapist to help me deal with this, but if anyone has any ideas as to what i could try or do i'd be grateful. Exposure doesn't work because the thing i am scared of comes true every time and i lose all control and cant think straight / really need guidance when it happens.
I’m having intrusive thoughts of something horrible happening to a loved one and the ocd says that I’m “attracting it to happen” and that no matter what I say or do I’ll “attract” this to become reality when I know logically that it was just a thought but the what if and the “if you do this then____ will happen” I just feel so intensely afraid and I never want these things to be real obviously but idk it’s just a scary what if and it’s hard to believe that something that feels so real is just a thought—- then I proceed after recognizing it’s just a thought to fear that saying that somehow the universe will cause that horrible thing to happen as “proof” so I just sit and wait and beg everyone to be careful and keep in contact with me so I know they are ok The thing is is that nothing ever happens but the fear just feels like it’s actually occurring Goshh I’m a friggin mess
One of my main fears is thinking that I’m losing my mind or losing touch with reality. It sometimes make me feel so fearful , especially in the morning when I’m first waking up. But yesterday I kind of freaked myself out because I developed a new fear that I would look at someone’s face and not recognize them. So like always I went online and researched and found out some people suffer from not recognizing people’s faces , even if it’s someone they know. Now I’ve been sitting here for hours with my mind telling me what if this is happening to me? In my mind I know I’m not but my mind keeps telling me maybe you are. What if you’re out in public and you just freak out. It’s so irrational but it feels so scary. Has anyone ever had this feeling or fear. It almost makes me scared to look people in their faces. 😥
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