Honestly trying to live every day to “save” people is exhausting. My days are filled with tasks to ultimately “save” somebody from harm. In my rational mind I know it’s OCD but why take a chance. In my mind I suffer so no one else has to. Exhausting….
Jcmente I know pure ocd feels real but it is just fear and thoughts. The only way to break free from your pure ocd is do the things you wanna do and be with the people you want to be with anyway and even though you think you’re gonna hurt them, you’re not and spend time with them and not avoiding them. I got pure O in high school and I’m telling you right now avoiding people or doing things to save them from yourself it’s just gonna make it continue to make yourself suffer. You just need to spend time with love ones anyway and show yourself that is just fear you’ll feel 1 million times better just got to take my word on that one.
I thought I was alone in this. Sometimes I feel like I’m drowning and I need to take a step back, but if I take a step back and someone gets hurt or ends up suffering…how can I be that selfish? Sometimes I just figure I’ll live the rest of my life feeling like I’m drowning but I really hope I learn to live better
@chhall06 Chhall06 as someone who’s had Pure ocd for a long time since high school even though it’s hard and it’s really painful what do you need to do is  tell yourself it’s just fear and be with the people that you’re afraid you’re gonna hurt and show yourself that you’re not so that you can break free. I know that’s easier said than done I was afraid for a long time I would hurt my little sister and I felt horrible and I didn’t feel any better until I started to hang out with her even though I thought I was gonna hurt her anyway and since then I learned that it was just fear and I felt a lot better. Pure ocd is a painful disorder where you will not feel any relief until you push through it and it is really scary to trust your self to push through. You have to learn to trust yourself that you’re not gonna hurt people it is the only way you’ll ever feel better. You can do it you just need to believe in your self. 
I'm really struggling to figure out where my OCD ends and where I begin. I’m scared of most things—not in a panicky way, but in a deep, cautious, worst-case-scenario kind of way. Example: I haaaaaaaaate my spectacles. I’d love to do Lasik, or even just wear contacts, but the idea terrifies me. I’ve heard about the tiniest risk of blindness or infection, and once that thought is in my head, it takes over. I picture the worst, and then I don’t act. TRIGGER Also Lasik involves cutting TRIGGER which petrifies me. I’m stuck between wanting change and being too afraid to make it. The same goes with wanting to travel but being scared I'll be trafficked or someone will plant something in my bag & I'll get arrested overseas. No amount of praying will fix it. Does anyone else feel like their OCD makes them freeze in everyday decisions? Like you can’t tell if you're just being practical or if it's the OCD gripping the steering wheel again? Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's not OCD but my personality, that's what I'm trying to figure out.
i don’t want to do my compulsions. I feel like if I don’t somebody will get hurt, sick or die. It’s a very scary thought to feel like if I don’t do my compulsions it will be my fault even though it isn’t & nor will it happen. I know it’s magical thinking & my thoughts are not true nor will they come true. it’s just im so tired of doing these compulsions. im so tired of feeling like I can stop something bad happening if I don’t step on this or touch this 4 times. it even got me believing that if I do something I want to do & love, something bad will happen. I just want to be able to live & feel like I use to. I hate ocd. how can I calm this down so I can be able to navigate in my own life?
I feel like my life isn't my own anymore. I live by OCD's rules. I can't ever switch it off. I spend most of my day mentally reviewing and constantly checking myself. I have to do things in a certain way or i dont feel safe. All this time that i've lost and for what? Idk how I let thoughts have so much power over my life and yet here I am. Every day. I can't even get away from it in sleep because i have dreams about it and I wake up anxious if i manage to get any sleep at all. I'm so over it all.
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