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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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i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
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So recently i had really obsessive thoughts about something and once i got over it i kept bringing back more stuff to make myself feel like a bad person. Why am i doing this? Why do i need to look for something else to burden someone with once they have forgiven me
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I’ve noticed this new obsession with having to pee right before bed, like even if I have to pee a little I can’t fall asleep until my bladder is completely empty. Anyone else have a problem like this or knows how to cope?
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