Anyone please help !!!!!! How deal with checking things and when u look at it's okay but ur mind not ready to accept like When u off the stove of the gas u can see the flames goes off the sound u heard from the button and the positioning of the button....still u look closely to it and try to figure it out...is it actually off or not !! how to deal this...
I still struggle with this myself, every time I turn off the stove, I have finally manage to drop down checking multiple times to only twice. I know it sounds uncomfortable but try checking less than the number you already do. So if you check 5 times, tomorrow try 4 times and try sticking to it for a week. After your done checking, immediately focus your attention to a task or a distraction. Wear headphones for music or play a podcast on your phone. Next week try 3 times, and so on. I will say it’s gonna feel uncomfortable and anxiety might creep in really high. It’s okay if you have one or two or maybe 3 days where you didn’t stay committed to doing less checking. The goal is keep going and keep trying.
if u will help will share a cheking ocd which i think u don't have experience and u can help me in this !!
that is based on checking but more about emotions and satisfactions of checking...if u replied I will share that soon please help !!
I hear you, I recommended trying the exercise above I mentioned for a start. It is meant for you to start to sit with yourself with the anxiety and slowly but surely reduce your compulsions. You needing to feel better is fueling your need to check it again and again. The goal of the exercise is to resist the compulsions and to sit with your emotions. A way to cope with the anxiety can be music, listening to podcasts, talking to a friend, reading a book. The need to feel satisfied, is something that will continue to pop up, but sitting with those emotions is a start. I won’t say this is easy because it’s not. But it’s a step forward. You don’t need to take my advice, but I am hear to listen. You can also book an appointment with a therapist if that is an available option for you.
Yes that comes with checking. The thoughts & emotions of feeling better because of checking still fit into checking for ocd.
this is major problem currently
wanna clarify that this current ocd is very new just 5to6 days and i have developed almost no compulsion but such is dangerous to my integrity and dignity that's why it's my main concern
So at night I have these intrusive thoughts that I leave the door wide open. This causes me to fear that someone will walk in the house and harm my family. I also have this back massage device. I fear that if I leave it plugged in on accident a fire will happen. So I went down to make sure that it was not plugged in. The thing is that I never used the massager that day. When I went back up I felt like I opened the front door (an entrance to my house) even though I didn't. I had to get my wife to check the door other wise I would not have slept. When I checked it I became more insecure. This has been reoccurence with me.
i keep having this stupid ass checking or obsession, idk to grab a piece of metal and see if ill put it in the microwave and make it blow up or burn the house down or something and im getting so so fucking tired of this shit, ill explain the story how it happened (cause of one incident where i did give in to the checking to the point of putting a magnet in the microwave, hitting the timer but immeditaetly stopping it, then starting it again, stopping quickly, all while screaming at myself to stop cause im terrified what im doing, then my dad came to see what was wrong and when i showed the magnet, he gave me this look of...fear? dissapointment? like i am a danger, even heard him telling my mom later how they need to be careful with me or else i could burn down the house, thankfully my mom knows my ocd a decent amount and brushed off his fear and comforted me, but ever since that day) Now my brain loves to torture me with the idea im a one slip up away from burning the house down, so ill be grabbing metal and seeing if ill put it in the microwave, and thing is, because how scary it is, its hard for me to breath or be calm, all i can do is scream and eventually call my mom when i can get myself to finally speak to tell my alexa to call mom im so tired of this shit and i dont know how to approach it
I think I have OCD since last year but I just realized that I’ve got OCD this year even I haven’t been to any mental clinics or hospitals to test if I have OCD or not. I realized i have OCD this year when i watched movies or videos but i feel like to watch them again and again to check some specific sentences in that movie. Like if that video has subtitles and there are always have some phrases or sentences that make me read, look at every single words of that thing. Even sometimes i check that thing just want to know at the end of that sentence has a dot or comma, kind of like that, i know it’s hard to describe about these situations for me even i know checking these things doesn’t help me anything in my life but the more i watch, read and focus at any details in anything i look so when i remember about something that i watched or red, if i cannot remember exactly all the words of that sentence in the movies, videos, post i feel like to check just know what it is again. Most of my compulsions are related to anything i look, watch or read in my phone. Even sometimes i feel like to check if that is just an account name of anyone, comments on social medias. And before i had so many bad problems with doing things to just “feel right” after i watched those movies and videos. There were some rules that came in my mind so when i watched them again - i had to click this, touch this, replay this over and over again in the video or even look at video duration at the end. There are so many things that i did before that i couldn’t describe enough but i just want to say i used to want to complete many missions in my mind to just feel right or feel completed. If i don’t complete that stupid mission (i called it stupid because i kept me stuck with my life), I’m gonna do it again and again whenever i free until i finish it. At the moments, i don’t have any stupid missions to do about those things i watched but still have some thoughts about them and want to check to know what they are. Can anyone help me with my problem about OCD? My English can not be really good as I’m not a native English speaker. Thanks.
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