Have you ever been blackout drunk or on any substance that causes you to blackout and your ocd tells you that you did something horrible or something happened to someone and you were there and you were under the influence so your ocd gets triggered and makes you think you did it even though you weren’t having intrusive thoughts at that time in your life?
Yep! On my birthday last year I was extremely drunk, and I thought that I had hurt someone when I went into the bathroom at a gas station. I ruminated on it for days (also I was not driving!), but I decided to go completely sober as of July 5, 2023! It has helped tremendously!
Yes, very similar. When I drink a little too much I’ll be having lots of fun and enjoying myself but the next day I feel so guilty. My head makes me think I did something I shouldn’t. Or what if I kissed someone and don’t remember. It got so bad I stopped drinking for a while. I will only drink if it’s a controlled environment or when I’m with someone that can reassure me the next day I’ll be fine it really sucks :(
Yes this happened many times for me in college and I definitely did some regrettable things. I would panic the whole week and then end up drinking again in a week or two. Now 10 years later, I am having worse guilt and ocd. If you still are drinking heavily and blacking out, please try to stop for the benefit of your current and future self’s mental health (I can’t think back to any time drinking that much and being proud)
@Anonymous It was in the past. I haven’t drank like that in years but my ocd has focused on the past lately.
Does anyone have advice for intrusive thoughts while tipsy? I haven experience this before and then a random thought hit me! Had this happen. The buzz had warn off but it still freaked me out cause I don’t know it was OCD or an actual thought. I got anxiety really bad after.
Hi everyone - having a pretty bad episode currently and can’t eat/sleep. On Thursday, I went out with my boyfriends friends and got a little too drunk. I remember getting to the bar and I made it home safely, I just don’t remember the in between. (I know the consequences of alcohol and OCD - this was an accident and will be avoided!) On Friday morning, I woke up in intense distress that something happened with one of his friends at the bar - so much so false (or real??) flashes of a memory popped in my mind. I can’t tell if it’s OCD again or real this time. Cheating ocd is a common theme for me but still feels really scary and real. I’ve avoided asking the guy bc that could come off bad/crazy or remind him it actually happened if it did?? But the guy liked my IG story and a post and it’s sent me spiraling. I feel (and my friends I’ve asked feel) if something actually happened I’d be confident that I did something bad and have heard something by now but what if the information is being hidden? I’ve been running all around on Reddit, forums google etc. for answers if it’s OCD. am I just faking the OCD fear to absolve myself of doing something bad? Is it real this time? It feels really bad and scary but I haven’t heard anything? It’s getting a bit better but is my mind just hiding it from me? Any tips? Please help. Would I know for sure if this happened? Would someone tell me? Help.
Has anyone ever had an intrusive thought or false memory about a person and then some time later in the future that person says something like what your thought/false memory was about happened to them and you immediately think it was you even though you know it was just ocd and now you doubt and question yourself?
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