- Date posted
- 1y
OCD kills me
Saw some messed up stuff scrolling on twitter and it’s making my ocd spiral im so scared so I deleted the app for my own well being
Saw some messed up stuff scrolling on twitter and it’s making my ocd spiral im so scared so I deleted the app for my own well being
I have also seen and read stuff that has made my ocd spiral too and I’ve had to talk myself through it and work through it. It can be hard and really frustrating and be challenging. I’m so sorry that you’re going through that and everything that you’re going through! My encouragement would be to tell yourself that the thoughts were spurred on and affected and impacted by what you saw on Twitter, so it was impacted and caused by something outside of you. You wouldn’t have spiraled in that same way had you not seen the messed up stuff on Twitter, so you can remind yourself that the thoughts were caused by the Twitter stuff and your ocd, and they are not who you are. That is a smart choice to delete the app in order to prevent yourself from seeing something else that would cause you to spiral. I think that’s a very admirable choice and decision that you made. I’m sorry, I just realized that this was posted a year ago. I hope you don’t mind me responding still, I just wanted to provide some encouragement that came to my mind. It is my true hope that you experience some relief from your ocd :)
2 nights ago I saw something on my phone and it has now spiraled into me scared of being trans or being gay because i don’t want to be… now i have a huge fear of what if i am gay and am attracted to woman or what if im not comfortable in my body and want to turn into a man. It’s freaking me out - my ocd always makes me question my character! Has anyone experienced this 😩
Hello. I joined this app because I realised my experiences might be due to OCD. I often have these really disgusting and terrible pictures of me becoming someone horrible, doing horrible things to others. These ideas really disturb me, and often in my mind, and physically sometimes, I literally scream quitely to myself, "Shut up!" Over and over until the image goes away, but unless I distract myself with something else immediately after, it comes back and gets worse. I also end up looking back on these thoughts, and being terrified that maybe I am thinking of this because it is what I truly want, so I end up desperately trying to filter my thoughts, and this ends up carrying into something like SO-OCD, even though I am confident that I am a straight male, and there is no evidence that I am not, I keep trying to prove to myself that I am straight to make the thought go away. I also get the fear that after I maybe do something and say something I know I maybe shouldn't have to someone, that when they leave, or I can't find them for a bit, they have gone to commit suicide. Likewise, I also get intrusive thoughts of me killing myself, even though I have no desire to, and this scares me a lot as well. I used to occasionally get these thoughts in chunks like maybe for 2 weeks and then I wouldn't for another few weeks, but they have gotten worse and more frequent this past semester. They are still not bad enough to actively effect my daily life and routine, but they definitely come frequently enough to distract me, disrupt what I'm doing and make me take a break, and it has dramatically effected my mood and mental state lately. Do you guys recommend any ways to deal with this, is this really severe enough to even call OCD? Would love to hear, thanks! ❤️
Hi everyone. I’m having a spiral and really need advice. Today I went shopping and saw an actor I have been watching since I was a child. I used to watch this particular show ten years ago and since my ocd got worse I went back and started watching the show again for the last few months. Anyways I saw the actor and got a picture and everything was fine. I’ve come home and my mind is working overtime trying to ruin it. I keep having intrusive thoughts that someone recorded me and I looked bad and now they will embarrass me . Or I walked off awkwardly. Or the actor didn’t want a picture and I disturbed him. Or my clothes looked weird. Please can someone convince me otherwise. I realise I can’t even watch the show tonight as it’s making me panic 😭
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