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One of my most severe ocd subgroups is dea()h (I can’t type it). If an image of someone who is de()d comes to mind I have to do compulsions to get rid of it. This of course all stems from the fear of dy()ng and I have this irrational fear that if I do anything at all, including breathing, with those images in my mind or actual images in front of me (like a picture or on tv) it would lead me to possibly have a higher chance of d()ing or earlier. I was wondering if anyone struggles with a similar issue, and if there was something you tell or convince yourself to help alleviate it. I had a really bad episode tonight where it was just constant image after image and I’m exhausted. Thank you!

Username: 120120

Date posted: 27w ago

The best thing to help it long term would be doing exposures and allowing the anxiety to come without doing anything compulsive to try to reduce it. Example exposures could be typing the triggering words or looking at triggering images. You’d want to start with smaller exposures and work your way up but that is the best way to cause the obsession to go away long term

Username: ambermayxambermayx

Date posted: 27w ago

I have similar thing with my ocd about this subject I always have to do compulsions to make sure nothing bad like this happens

Username: OCD_SshmOCDOCD_SshmOCD

Date posted: 27w ago

There’s a phrase amongst my peers when we are laughing hard or shocked by something we say ‘I’m dead’ and I was able to say that phrase maybe 3 times before I really started thinking about how I could be manifesting that outcome if I keep saying it. And I stopped. My fear of dying used to be wayyyy worse and a lot like yours. What helped me on that front was guided meditations, on youtube, by either Sri Mooji or Samaneri Jayasara. I spent many years meditating and nothing much came of it until I found these two channels and I remember crying happy tears on a christmas morning that I spent alone 2200 miles away from family because I finally felt like I had permission to LIVE. (I had bad issues about enjoying myself i would immediately feel ashamed and guilty if i felt positive emotions even if its around something as innocent as reading a book.) And after using those meditations to essentially brainwash myself going further I was able to shake that fear of death. Now that I am on prozac I feel like I have even more control of the other ocd aspects that plague me and the next step will be erp. You can also find fear based erp sessions on youtube as well I recommend Michael Hetherington. It’s been a journey but I’m almost able to take full control of my mind, my life and my business.

Username: OCD_SshmOCDOCD_SshmOCD

Date posted: 27w ago

@lajackson8 I should say the main thing prozac helped with is easing the emotional charge of everything but it doesn’t help your mind so using both in combination to ease the emotion so that your mind will be more open to the meditations and therapy has made me feel so powerful.

Username: _rs2004_rs2004

Date posted: 27w ago

@OCD_SshmOCD Okay thank you so much I appreciate it! I’ll definitely have to check it out

Username: _rs2004_rs2004

Date posted: 27w ago

Thank you! I appreciate that. I know exposure is one of the best ways to help, it’s just tough. I have had ocd my entire life so it’s really difficult to just go against it, but I do agree with you.

Username: wannabeokay

Date posted: 4y ago

I believe I have undiagnosed OCD but was wondering if anyone else goes through this struggle. I constantly think of ways my loved ones might die. Whether that be from an event happening or a situation I am in with them and I am afraid to leave them in fear that they will die and I will be left alone. For example, I could be indoors with my family and they all go outside without me. I immediately imagine a tornado coming up, knocking over a tree and killing my family with me left to survive. Or I think of certain scenarios where a disease (especially with Covid-19 going around) could infect a loved one and my mind creates vivid images of how they could die of the disease. Does anyone else experience this? How do you cope?

Username: OCDstephie

Date posted: 3y ago

Really struggling with the idea of death, scares the shit out of me. My OCD has really clung to this and all I can think about is my Loved ones are going to die one day and so am I. I’m flooded with so many emotions ranging from fear to guilt. It’s gotten to the point where the thought of death is always in the back of my mind 24/7. I’ve been having nightmares about it now and will wake up in a full blown panic. Anyone deal with something like this? And any tips to move past this?

Username: 0045

Date posted: 1y ago

imagining loved ones dying

i don’t know if this falls under a specific theme or is even related to ocd. if someone could help me out i would really appreciate it ever since i was younger, i’ve had really upsetting thoughts about losing my loved ones and it would get to a point where i vividly imagine their death scenes play out in my head and it’s started to effect me during a day-to-day basis. sometimes i even imagine myself dying and the imagery shows me how my friends and family react to my passing usually when i think of something happy, my brain enters this cycle where i begin to think of some upsetting and distressing moment and i cant help but think about it for the rest of the day i’ve had a common fear of death for a really long time, but it’s gotten really bad now is this a form of some intrusive thought? please let me know what you think

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