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Ocd or me?
How to know are your thoughts OCD or it’s just you. (if that makes sense)?
How to know are your thoughts OCD or it’s just you. (if that makes sense)?
The key is to stop asking that question. Instead: learn to see how it feels and acts.
Well to answer the question indirectly, if we fixate on what is OCD and what is not we can "develop" meta OCD, OCD about OCD. And there exists anxiety about anxiety, etc. I've learned from professionals that the key is whether it causes _dysfunction_ or disorder for you. If it does, then professionals can help provide guidance, diagnose, etc.
@A23 Weirdest part is I think my whole life I’ve had something, just last 3 yrs THIS time of year it flares up bad, just everything in general? Stomach feels funny, then just goes away.,
@Boss34 I can feel it come on and feel it go away..
I wonder that too, is it ocd or just a bad habit that plays over n over in my head?
Could be both pretty much
I'm really struggling to figure out where my OCD ends and where I begin. I’m scared of most things—not in a panicky way, but in a deep, cautious, worst-case-scenario kind of way. Example: I haaaaaaaaate my spectacles. I’d love to do Lasik, or even just wear contacts, but the idea terrifies me. I’ve heard about the tiniest risk of blindness or infection, and once that thought is in my head, it takes over. I picture the worst, and then I don’t act. TRIGGER Also Lasik involves cutting TRIGGER which petrifies me. I’m stuck between wanting change and being too afraid to make it. The same goes with wanting to travel but being scared I'll be trafficked or someone will plant something in my bag & I'll get arrested overseas. No amount of praying will fix it. Does anyone else feel like their OCD makes them freeze in everyday decisions? Like you can’t tell if you're just being practical or if it's the OCD gripping the steering wheel again? Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's not OCD but my personality, that's what I'm trying to figure out.
How do you know if it is OCD or just anxiety caused by inner conflict that needs to be resolved? Thoughts - discussions?
Does anyone ever feel like you know you have OCD, but at the same time you think it might actually be you connecting to a higher consciousness or vibration that is trying to control your decisions so that the outcome does not turn out bad kind of like the butterfly effect. It drives me crazy because I know I’m conscious that it’s OCD but at the same time I overthink and feel like it might be a higher power trying to warn me that I’m not doing something right, like example; if I flip the trash can lid a couple more times it’s going to pervert something bad from happening and that why I’m sensing I’m not doing it right, because if I spent a little more time there and if I would have left earlier the outcome would’ve been different. Or say I just fight through it and choose to ignore it, but then I’ll carry that negativity/worry of not feeling like I did it right and will project it out into existence because the thought won’t leave my head and in a way your seeking it out into existence since you keep thinking about it, kind of like an affirmation?
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