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One time I was looking at a photo of michael cera and I got the most bizzarre intrusive thought ever that was like "he looks jewish". I was literally stumped by that thought because I have no idea what makes a person look jewish...at all. I started thinking stuff like "why would I think that? Am I an anti-semite? Why would I think he looks jewish is it because of those horrible anti-semetic portraits???". I even looked up his personal info only to find out he had italian heritage and I'm still so confused about why I thought that. Possibly some dumb intrusive thought but of course I'm gonna worry that there was more than that. I don't think there's anything that makes a person "look jewish", so I just sat there feeling like a moron for half an hour.
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Omg I’ve done that!!! Exact same thing!!! I forgot who the actress was, but I did that exact thing
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@vimli I have that obsession constantly! But not just that, stuff like am I racist? Am I homophobic? Am I sexist?
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Literally same. Racism OCD honestly felt like the last straw for me, because I was like "I can't live with more guilt than what I already experience, this is torture."
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Constantly re-reading messages or stuff I write out just to check that it “makes sense”... as if I’ve suddenly forgotten how words work... ?
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OCD sucks. My worst one is the homophobia one because I’m LGBT+ but racism OCD is bad too
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for me racist and ableist intrusive thoughts really make me feel like garbage because my best friend is literally black and disabled and I would never want to think these horrible things about a person that's been by my side for so long. I literally tell her sometimes like... I feel like I'm being fake nice to you because I have these horrible thoughts about you and I never wanna hurt you and she says "you are not your mind...Remember that? That's what you told me"
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I thought it was something only my OCD brought up though I’ve thought that about a lot of my themes
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Your friend sounds great and yeah, it’s always worst if it is something to do with family or friends
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I would obsess about staring too much so I would count how many seconds in my head that I would make eye contact with people. If I did it for more than 5 seconds, they catch on and think that I’m weird.
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Today my boyfriend was sitting and talking to this girl in class. He shuffled closer to her probably because he couldn’t hear her or something. That made me panic a bit because “he’s shuffling closer to her omg she’s basically sitting on his lap. hes MY boyfriend” and then I managed to convince myself that he was ignoring me and that he hates me. Stupid thing to think because I mean why would he be dating me if he hated me? Lol typical
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I’ve done that so many times! I’m better about it lately, but it was horrible.
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@InfiniteLoop yeah it’s hard but we all have to get over it eventually haha
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This is a great question because there are so many small things I’ve obsessed over. If I had to choose one I would say it would be the specific time , date , and everything I did a specific day in 2007 to make sure I didn’t have time to do something horrible ??? and I used a calculator once to count the days since a specific day to make sure there wasn’t enough time for me to forget if I did something bad ???
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i always obsess over my brothers saying goodnight an exact way and it’s so dumb but it seems so extremely important in the moment lmao ffffff
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I have to check my purse again and again several times in a day just to make sure that there is nothing in there that shouldn't.
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Turning off sink or charging phone
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My smallest one was about... my phone battery. I obsessively checked my battery health, every day multiple times a day. I was afraid it would get “old” and not hold a good charge.
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i do that too lmao
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So this is not a very major thing at all, but it's something that came up yesterday and I couldn't sleep because of it. I'm a big fan of this video game, it's called Xenoblade Chronicles X. Well, after 10 years, it's finally getting a re-release on modern platforms. It's super exciting. From the clips I've seen, it seems to be a very faithful remaster that improves upon the imperfections of the original. However, what my brain is stressed about is that they sort of changed the user interface/font style of the game in order to make it more legible and less crowded. They also revamped some of the character models too. Not a bad thing at all, but I was such a big fan of the old user interface that all the new changes are stressing me out. It's making me want to purchase old hardware just so I can replay the original instead of the re release So all day I've been looking at side-by-side comparisons and getting disappointed by the new one. Which sucks because there is objectively nothing wrong with it! All of my dreams last night were about the game and I wasn't able to get proper sleep. So is this perfectionism OCD or is this an aftereffect of my other subtypes or am I just being extra nitpicky?
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Idk if this is OCD per se, it feels more like perfectionism than anything. but I was wondering if anyone can relate. I’m a girl approaching the age of 20 and there are certain things I really want to be able to enjoy and pamper myself with, like getting my nails done, or getting a lash lift. But I’ve discovered that doing either brings me a lot of stress. For example, I just bought some nice press on nails last week and I put them on last night (which took me soooo long) and I’ve been so stressed about them since. I keep worrying that they’re going to fall off right away and I keep checking them and pushing on them to see, so much so that I worry I’m going to make them loose. I already had one looking like it was starting to lift, and instead of leaving it I pulled it off entirely cuz I’d rather start over and redo it than have it fall off, and now I’m worried my other nails are gonna fall off and that I should just pull them off now before they do. I keep pushing on one nail that feels loose to me. But it hasn’t lifted, but I’ve pushed it so much now that I want to rip it off. And another example, when I get a lash lift I worry so much because I start obsessing over the evenness of the curl on both sides. It always feels like one side is more curled than the other. Or that one side looks more fuller (more lashes) than the other and it makes me stressed. And I also obsess over those pesky lashes that just didn’t want to curl and I try pulling them out sometimes to make it look for even. It’s just little things like that which make these experiences unenjoyable for me, even tho I so badly want to enjoy them. I spent money on these nails and I want them to last and I’m so worried that I did them wrong and ruined it. I just don’t want them to fall off. But they’re caused me a lot of stress in the last 24hrs and I’ve been hyperfixating on them so much.
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I think it's important to be able to make fun of yourself and joke about these things, so, just for fun, what's the silliness obsession you've had? Here's mine: when I was six I convinced myself that my overdue library books would create a butterfly effect that would end the world
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