any way to help stop doing compulsions checking? I check my social media, messages on any platform, etc alot. Right now I feel like checking messages which I know weren’t some good things I did on a gaming app that I haven’t checked yet. Should I check or just leave the past in the past? How do i stop rechecking stuff or thinking of new things to check?
Something that my therapist told me to help with checking is to see if I can wait until the feeling of the compulsion has passed until I do the thing. So if I get a compulsion to check, sit with the feeling, go do something else, and see if I can wait out the discomfort of not checking. When I feel calm, that’s when I can check. This method has really helped me, maybe give it a try!
Start to checking a smaller amount a day. Like for example if u feel like I need to check 10 times a day start to do it 9 times tomorrow and so on. Even if ur ocd tells u to keep checking. Just sitt with the bad feelings and do something’s else. Don’t overthink just think that okey now I checked 5 times I don’t need it anymore I’m gonna do something else🙂
I’m with you, I fear people (actually one person) are posting lies and stuff about me online. It gets to me going and all anxious. Mornings are quite challenging for me, but we have to learn to sit with the uncertainty and eliminate the compulsions because the compulsions will never be enough. One time or one hundred times… it won’t be enough. We have this! I believe we can overcome this.
I can’t stop checking. Someone help me break the cycle, what do I do?
Is anyone else’s primary compulsion googling, reading articles, taking quizzes, etc? Any tips on how to stop/limit these urges to engage in compulsion?
I dont know if this is considered ROCD, but Im always checking up on what my boyfriend is doing on social media and put thoughts into my head that he’s cheating on me... I’ve caught him sending messages to another girl, and it broke my heart. I was so close to breaking up with him but decided to give it another try and my trust in him is growing back. We have been really really good lately but I always am engaging in compulsions to check Instagram and every platform of social media. It is especially worse when I text him, and he doesn’t answer and I see him active on another platform... it triggers me to think he’s messaging another girl and my thoughts start spiralling. I do not try to engage in the compulsion to always check my phone but somehow I always do. It’s consuming my professional life and distracting me from work!! Any advice?
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