Did anyone delete tiktok for their Rocd and how did it go?

TikTok has been the biggest trigger beyond belief - I feel like I'm constantly being bombared by relationship Tiktoks and my biggest fears. In the past 15 minutes scrolling while taking a break from work I have seen -"when I spent 7 years with the wrong man because I was too scared to leave him" (didn't watch the video) -8 signs your dating a narcissist (i nitpicked all my memories with him to make sure he didn't fit any of the qualities) and then started worrying I was secretly a narcissist. -red flags in dating Every single relationship Tiktok good to bad triggers me so much. I am having the worst day ever because of this and can't get off reddit and have been avoiding my partner. I work in literally influencer marketing so my whole day is revolved around being on social media unfortunately so I'm not sure if I can delete the app. The other thing is me and my partner love showing each other funny little Tiktoks. I am also sick to my stomach about Taylor Swifts new album about her breakup with Joe Alwyn coming out and how many tiktoks there is going to be about it and if I will possibly relate to any of the songs. I don't even want to explain what ROCD is to my friends as they are all in very new relationships (around 3-4 months) and simply will think I am in the wrong relationship or not happy. So sorry I went on a bit of a tangent but if anyone is triggered by tiktok as well let me know. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day too!

Relationship OCD

SoggyFroggy

Date posted: 1y

Um YEA!!!! deleting tiktok has been one of the BEST things I've done for my mental health ever. I also saw a lot of relationship stuff that was very triggering. My OCD themes really center around getting in trouble/not being accepted or liked and seeing "so and so is exposed or so and so is cancelled" started to wear me out badly. Of course I miss the memes but the mental clarity is so worth it

@khyatt

Date posted: 1y

TikTok, reels, random relationships posts that pop up in my Facebook by pages I don’t even follow- they all trigger me.

Foxy

Date posted: 1y

Hey, I very much find social media triggering for ROCD. Specifically around the types of examples you explained. I deleted TikTok for a short while and have more recently got it back. I tried to search loads of random things and click the I don’t want to see this button to try switch up what comes up on my fyp. Tbh a lot of my feed did change, so hopefully it will work for you xx

Foxy

Date posted: 1y

@Foxy There can be a few helpful tik tok pages around rocd so try searching that as well. Maybe if a negative post comes up it will be shortly followed by something that will help🙂

rodria49

Date posted: 1y

Removing TikTok made me really nervous but I’m excited. I trust that if someone wants me to see a TikTok so badly that they’ll send it to me. I’m planning on sending my bf YouTube shorts or compilations as the funny little videos we like to send instead of TikToks. Memes too. I’m trying to minimize my time on reddit by over subscribing to threads I love so I don’t get the shit recommendations that trigger me. I may or may not go back to TikTok once I learn how to deal with triggers in a safer way. :)

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