- Date posted
- 1y
A better way to manage my compulsions?
So I’m new to OCD still, very much in my ocd infancy as I was diagnosed in October and am still learning what is and isn’t ocd. My ROCD is still my worst by far and I’m scared I’m getting too comfortable with these thoughts and that I’m starting to mean them. My compulsion when I have the thought of hating my girlfriend is to test how I feel when I say that I love her and how I feel when I say that I hate her. The problem right now is that I can’t stop thinking about doing it so I can know that I love her, because the thoughts are here and they are violent right now. And what’s scary is that I’m not actively challenging them. Like when my brain says I want to break up it doesn’t feel necessarily bad. I’m also scared because I’ve been in a depressive state that I can’t tell what emotions are mine or not. Like today we went on a date. Every time she smiles I smile, I laugh with her and I listen to her, but there’s some emptiness there. I’ve felt that for pretty much everything recently though so I think it’s a general depression and not being around her. God I hope that’s true I don’t want to lose her. Again I’m having trouble determining what is a compulsion or not. Because on one end I know me testing it is, but I’m scared that me saying I love you to her even when I don’t 100% feel it right then (she genuinely has done nothing wrong and is nothing but supportive and wonderful) is a compulsion, or that the thoughts I have where I’m thinking of spending the rest of my life with her are obsessive/compulsive and that it’s not real. I’ve posted a lot about my ROCD here but I know I’m around people that understand. OCD is so fucked up and I wish I didn’t have it and that I could just be in a happy normal relationship. We compliment each other so well and it doesn’t make sense why I feel this way when I left my ex for her, she is the light of my life and she treats me with so much love and respect so why am I scared of being unhappy, why do I think I’m unhappy? It doesn’t make any sense. My guess is that I’m generally unhappy and my brain wants to make sense of why and is blaming her. I can think of a lot of reasons why I’m unhappy. Im burnt out frankly. Im so behind on schoolwork and I’ve had a lot of body dysmorphia recently and I can’t tell if I’m trans or if I’m just tired of being fat. I think also having the intrusive thought of needing a trans partner is also TOCD which I tho j I do have to some capacity, however I have had feelings of wanting to be a woman since I was a kid so I’m not doubting those feelings. I get scared when I feel numb to everything and everyone because that means I could break up with her and I don’t want to. I don’t want to lose her. Im not saying I would never find anyone again but I don’t know if they’d be as great as her. Sorry this was long I’m just really struggling.