InfiniteLoop
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- 5y
AnonymousAnonymous
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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.
InfiniteLoopInfiniteLoop
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Omg I’ve done that!!! Exact same thing!!! I forgot who the actress was, but I did that exact thing
OCDduckOCDduck
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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?
AnonymousAnonymous
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- 5y
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."
orangeyorangey
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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... ?
OCDduckOCDduck
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OCD sucks. My worst one is the homophobia one because I’m LGBT+ but racism OCD is bad too
AnonymousAnonymous
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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"
OCDduckOCDduck
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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
OCDduckOCDduck
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Your friend sounds great and yeah, it’s always worst if it is something to do with family or friends
EsosaEsosa
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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.
AnonymousAnonymous
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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
InfiniteLoopInfiniteLoop
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I’ve done that so many times! I’m better about it lately, but it was horrible.
AnonymousAnonymous
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@InfiniteLoop yeah it’s hard but we all have to get over it eventually haha
andrewt_andrewt_
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y
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 ???
flowerboyflowerboy
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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
Sahe1984Sahe1984
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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.
chocolatesoymilkchocolatesoy...
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Turning off sink or charging phone
InfiniteLoopInfiniteLoop
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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.
notplausablenotplausable
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i do that too lmao
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