Its good for exposures I guess, but everything on their is so black and white and opinionated. A lot of relationship themed tiktoks and other social media content makes me feel like if we don't do things a certain way we're not good together or we should break up. It can be really triggering at times.
i had to delete tiktok bc of how badly it affected me in that way sometimes. if you’re up to it, i think getting rid of it could definitely help
Absolutely. What sucks for me is TikTok is a compulsion for me.
Oh my goodness, yes!!!!! You described perfectly what I’ve been feeling for so long. Now I usually clicked not interested on the videos and slowly my feed becomes more of what I want to see. But sometimes, you don’t have control and sometimes triggering pops up. It sucks. ❤️🩹 But ocd is a liar, I try to remember that.
This!! It always makes me compare and think am I with the right person just because we aren’t perfect all the time and makes me overthink but idk what to do because I use the app all the time for distraction but it also triggers other ocd themes so idk if I should maybe delete it
Do you think social media (Instagram specifically) can be harmful when in a crisis or in a period of time where OCD is particularly strong and present? I deleted Instagram from my phone because it felt like it implied exposure to too many triggers.
Recently, I had a really bad bout of ROCD, but when my boyfriend came to visit for the first time in a while it settled down a bit because I was happy to see him, and things have been pretty good since then. But this morning I saw a tiktok about a girl complaining about how her boyfriend doesn’t do that many little things, which is a very minor problem I have in my relationship, and everybody in the comments was telling her to leave him. It was extremely triggering, even thought I’m very happy with my boyfriend and he treats me well. I wish I had never watched that tiktok.
Is it a compulsion to get rid of social media. I feel extremely triggered by social media, even before I had ocd my boyfriend told me to get off tik tok because it was feeding so much bullshit into my head and making me worry about my relationship because there was so many cheating video things on there… I took myself off Facebook when me and bf broke up months ago, we got back together but social media was one of our biggest problems in our relationship so he still chooses to not have me on there which is fine. But I sorta just don’t even see a point in having it? At the same time tho, I don’t want to go on there also because I get triggered easily by things. Was thinking of if I go back on there one day to just make all new accounts for things, if I choose or want it again one day…
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