Does anyone else with ocd feel like it’s hard to feel things sometimes. Like for example thinking of someone passing away u don’t feel sad. Or like just everyday things it’s hard to like know how u feel? If so what is this?!
It’s overthinking the experince of what YOU SHOULD be feeling. However, should is a very odd word we must be careful using. Because we all process and handle situations differently even though we all have a lot in common. Just because others feel a type of way doesn’t mean YOU have to.
Yes I get that ! I feel like we are so desensitized from awful feelings because or obsessions are full of them and we are simply to tired to feel anything else
I had dissociation with my ocd and wasn't aware until I got therapy. I started to feel stuff I hadn't in years. Was like seeing colours you forgot existed. Sometimes our brain protects us from perceived threats and lets us feel them at a later date when it's safer. Either way, therapy will help
@Wolfram What type of therapy would u recommend? I’ve tried a lot of different therapies and haven’t seen improvement in any.
@G.M With the ocd or feeling stuff?
@G.M Erp worked for me and emdr worked for me best
@Wolfram What is EMDR ?
@G.M Emdr was for my trauma that kind of triggered the ocd in the first place and other traumas that reinforced / justified my ocd's compulsions. Mainly works on eye movements and similar things to help your brain process stuff that's kind of stuck and hps your brain process it properly like any other experience. It can be used for other things but it's primarily for trauma
Definitely! I don’t process my feelings until a while. Or however you say it…
I have panic disorder, and OCD and anxiety. Does anyone else ever feel just off the edge all the time? Like I always feel like something’s off or something’s gonna happen. I don’t know how to explain the feeling. But I always feel off and when I feel off I panic
Hey everyone, I wanted to come on here today to just share this post because I’ve been struggling with this recently. I just wanna know if this is a common thing in relationship OCD. So last Friday me and my boyfriend had a conversation that was important, and my emotions were high and I got a little emotional about something he said and we had a long talk about it, the conversation went great and afterwards everything was okay. On Saturday I was so excited to see him after work and I was overflowing with feelings of happiness and excitement. Sunday was great and we stayed on FaceTime just enjoying the day together after he went home that morning, and then came Monday. I remember getting a thought like this, “What if I’m losing feelings for him and I’m just leading him on?” And even this thought, “I don’t really feel anything towards him right now, does that mean I fell out of love with him?” And then the anxiety came, I could literally feel myself breaking out in cold sweats and I could feel the pain in my chest after these thoughts crossed my mind. But what bothers me so much about this is on Saturday and Sunday I felt so content and happy with him and I was so happy and I didn’t have any anxiety whatsoever, and then Monday came, and I had those thoughts and I feel almost numb and I can’t feel anything else except the feelings of worry and fear and my anxiety has been at a all-time high and I keep feeling this pain of guilt and hurt in my chest and I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced the same. Because personally one thing I hate is that one day I can be so happy and energetic and then the next day I can feel numb and feel absolutely nothing towards my boyfriend. I’m not sure if this can correlate with my menstrual cycle as well, but I’ve heard that that can also make your relationship OCD worse and cause you to feel differently about your partner. Just wanting to see if anyone has dealt with the same!
I posted about this the other day and a therapist responded that if it has the usual ocd tells, then it’s most likely ocd. I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. They say even if it’s new for you chances are others have had the same or similar ocd experience. So, this is new for me and just like when I get an intrusive thought i’ve recently been getting what I call intrusive emotions. I will feel something like sad or jealous in a situation when in reality I don’t feel that way at all. For example, my ocd targets certain family members and if one of them is watching tv and thinks a woman is pretty i’ll suddenly feel sad or jealous when I don’t actually care or feel that way because that’s my family member and I don’t think about or feel for them in any inappropriate way. Also, sometimes when I have a harm intrusive thought my ocd will say that I want something horrible to happen to my family member and I will feel like I actually want it but that’s not what I want or how I feel at all. Is there anyone who has had this or something similar happen?
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