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- 1y
Magical Thinking OCD
Anybody else with Magical Thinking OCD? I feel like it is the most rare kind, I can never find stories or other people who relate to it. For example, turning off the light switch a certain way until it feels just right, otherwise something bad will happen to me or my family if I don’t do the compulsions. I also have a very hard time with like, if I forgot to say goodbye to someone when leaving a place, or sometimes I’ll leave for work and realize I didn’t give my daughter a hug before leaving and I will seriously go back home to do it before I go because otherwise I’ll have horrible anxiety. Same thing with leaving my wedding ring at home. I’m also so afraid of how it will affect my daughter and if it’ll cause her to have OCD as well because of seeing me do my compulsions and routines. It makes me feel like such a horrible person. It started getting really bad when I was 19 and went through a traumatic event, but I know that I’ve had OCD for my entire life. When I was little I slept in my parents’ room because I thought my own bed was cursed and something bad would happen to me if I slept in it. Things like that. It started being *severe* once I got pregnant with my daughter, and has only gotten worse since then. (About four years now). I search tirelessly for success and recovery stories with my form of OCD, because I just want to know that someone stopped doing their compulsions and everything was okay. I always feel like that’s what it would take for me to start the ERP therapy and actually stop doing my compulsions. Just looking for someone who relates I think really.