Try to stay off of social media and the internet? I don’t want my OCD to get worse or attached to something new so I don’t have any social media and limit my internet access. I know this is a compulsion but I think it’s also self care…. Maybe. 🤔
Yeah it’s important to have a healthy relationship with it. Someone blocked me recently and I’ve been overthinking as to why. I’m really not even close to this person and in reality they probably haven’t thought about me in years, so it’s funny how social media can impact our obsessive thoughts.
@cole_53 Oh baby I feel that! I have to stop being on it as well it is absolutely destroying my mental health. Especially when rejection hits. I have rejection sensitivity and OCD, not a fun combo so I completely understand
I understand this a lot actually, I'm sorry that you're having trouble with it : (
@bubbleyippie Thank you my dear, it means a lot to me💖💜🥰
@bubbleyippie I’m sorry you have to experience this too, we will both get better! Big hugs!!!
Yes! I actually just spiraled due to it. A big compulsion for me is to just completely wipe my entire digital footprint and I’m really trying not to give in which is the only reason I haven’t deleted my socials yet but hopefully soon once I’m not doing it for relief.
@mon12 Why do I do the exact same thing?!?!? I will get my iPad to be the exact way I want it and then make it so that I am unable to change settings, or add more apps or go on the internet, then I’m like oh no I need to reset it because” I forgot about this app or whatever.” And it’s a never ending cycle!!! I’ve had countless emails, countless phone numbers like I swipe my digital foot print clean!
I agree, sometimes it really triggers me cuz of comments/posts, just now I got triggered by a reel talking abt hiw p3d0s comment weird stuff under children's posts. I hate it so.much, sometimes I think I'll just delete my socials in a few years when I'm a bit older
@GermanCowboy Amen!!!!! I’m trying so hard to stop using the internet because it just leads to more anxiety and can make me have new fears
I think it's also important to set boundaries for urself tho
@Ocd9239 Absolutely!!!!! It’s so hard to find that happy medium
I remember reading a comment someone had made to one of my posts on an OCD subreddit and they told me how they believed their OCD symptoms got worse during a time in their life when they were socially isolated. Reading this comment made the brightest lightbulb go off in my head because it basically summarized most of what I’ve been going through. In addition to OCD, I also struggle with depression and social anxiety. I feel like these three things and the profound sense of loneliness I’ve felt throughout my years in college (undergrad) feed off of each other. I know that OCD can manifest in so many different ways regardless of what your social life looks like, but I can’t help but feel like the lack of relationships (specifically friendships)/community in my life has something to do with my mental health and the delay in my recovery. Side note: I’m still relatively new to NOCD, but I’m happy to say that I’ve been making some good progress in my therapy sessions <3
like the title says, i also suffer from cancel culture OCD, even more these last two months in which i have noticed that several people have been deleting me from social media, in fact two days ago i had a spiral as someone recently blocked me. i won't go into it to avoid the compulsion to confess but basically i had issues before with my ex and some of his friends that he himself ended up involving, even though we are on good terms he made sure to make me look like i was the problem and several mutual friends have been detaching themselves from me. the thing is, i see many people say that to fight their cancel culture OCD they delete their social media and then just. disappear. but i don't want to do this - i don't want to hide, i want to stay in the public eye and create things, in fact, i am an artist. but since the last year now i live in constant fear and also somewhat sensitive to what others think of me thanks to the rumors about me and i'm afraid that one day i might be "exposed" or something like that; and i also feel like i'm "pretending" to be a good person all the time. so, with what i already said, how do i deal with this without having to resort to deleting my social media? i think that exposing myself every day and continuing to post things on social medias despite the constant fear and guilt i feel would count as ERP, right? thanks.
I feel like I’ve had a lot of different categories of ocd. Some categories stick with me more and are repetitive. I’ve been doing well with mental health - not having anxiety stick around. When the physical feeling of anxiety sticks around, every thought is horrible, but when the feeling of anxiety is gone the obsessions don’t really impact me. If I can keep anxiety at bay, my life is good. I’ve been doing well lately, although this week I was scrolling through tictok and watched a video about someone in a coma and wondered if I was in a coma right now and didn’t know it. I had a panic attack for about 15 minutes. Anxiety, sweating, etc. It didn’t take ahold of me and it quickly lost its impact on me. It still shook me and I was just like “wow” where did that come from. Now I am staying away from social media. Is that avoidance? Should I make myself keep watching social media? Many ocd problems have come from social media or watching a movie or show that triggers something and then spirals. I am limiting what I watch, which I believe is good because I shouldn’t be watching that stuff anyway. What do you think?
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