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Also, why do you feel it’s important that you’re not diagnosed? Does that mean for you that since you’re not diagnosed that maybe ‘it’s all for real’?
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Because if you do, the terrible guilt and fear you’re describing definitely sounds like OCD, at least to me (I’m not a doctor)
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I’m so sorry you feel so bad, please have a virtual hug from me ? It’s ok that you are not comfortable enough to be with your sister right now. You will get there when you’ll get there, and there is no reason to feel guilty. You obviously love your sister very much, and care for her feelings and safety. It’s not your fault you have OCD. It’s probably a genetic thing anyway, or something that develops in infancy, so definitely not your fault. And you will feel better, and when you do, you will challenge yourself with letting your sister in for a while as ERP and, step by step, everything will be back to normal. But right now you’re obviously dealing with a crisis so please don’t be so hard on yourself!
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Thank you so much.
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And maybe you can explain to your sister that you really want to spend time with her, but right now you feel ill? And that you will get back to her asap
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I did that back in the day but that would make her feel really worried.
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@Vimli Oh I see. Maybe that you’re super busy with school/work then?
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Because my experiences are more on the terrifying side (orgasmed more than once testing myself via masturbation, groinal responses and real event OCD have me terrified, false memory OCD seems genuinely real sometimes) so the irrational fear feels pretty dang rational with stuff like that. I do acknowledge that no matter how messed up my case is, I am still symptomatic and fit the ocd diagnostic criteria, it just doesn't make it any less scary for me.
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I see, yes. I have something similar of a feeling. I think the most important thing for us is to always remember that due to OCD we experience thought-action fusion. We equal thoughts and urges with reality. But it’s too very different things, and to actually do something that a rational part of you doesn’t want to do requires an actual state of psychosis, a state when you don’t remember your name, where are you etc. I’m sure you’ve never had one of those, so there is no real danger to ‘lose control’. People in psychotic states don’t doubt, don’t reason, they just don’t reflect at all
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@scaredbunny I actually never experience urges. Just thoughts, compulsions and groinal responses.
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@Vimli It’s ok too. I also think that the difference between thought and an urge is somewhat shady. Anyway, whether you do them or don’t, your thoughts and sensations are purely fictional, in a sense that they won’t become reality unless you choose for the to.
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- 24w
I feel so horrible and guilty, I've been pretty depressed lately and I don't know if i'm doing something wrong or not but my mom keeps getting mad at me, and I keep getting snappy with her. The other day she tried to take a selfie with me and I kinda got mad at her because it was in front of everyone and I didn't want to get anyone uncomfortable if they were accidently in the background so I told her stop in a kind of mean way. She stopped talking to me for the rest of the night and she keeps bringing up how disrespectful I am. I tried to explain to her I didn't mean anything mean by it?? It's triggering my OCD so bad and tonight i'm going to see a band I really wanted to see, and i'm super afraid shes gonna start bringing up how mean i've been lately. I've been really depressed and upset because of school and how much work their giving me, and I've been in my room for mostly more than 10 hours a day doing nothing but watching TV because I can't bring myself out of it, I don't know what to do anymore and the guilt of me possibly being a mean and aggressive person is haunting me.
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There are moments when something takes over me, like I have to fight myself (literally restrain myself) from acting on my thoughts, like causing harm to my parents or brother. I get these feelings that feel so real, like they are genuinely my own. There are moments when I feel like I like them, and it makes me question whether this is truly OCD or if it's me. Then I wonder whether this is me lying to myself, because I feel the urge to smile at the thought, or feel like I have some pleasure. I check whether I like them, and then I feel like I do, so I stop immediately. I feel like my old self is gone, and I've become this person, and that it was never OCD. Right now, as I type this, I feel like I'm lying to myself. There are moments when I feel like my brain splits, as if this is my new personality. Or there are moments when I feel like it might feel liberating or freeing if I do it. I genuinely feel like this is not OCD. There are moments when I stop the thought, and I feel like it's out of principle, as if I don't truly want to stop at that thought. I truly can't picture this to be my life now. I never had these thoughts in my life until two and a half months ago. It truly makes me question whether it was OCD. I don't get why. I used to view my family as my world, and now my mind is making me scared and feel like my room is my only safe place from them, from me.
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Afraid to tell people about when I'm down. I've been told that certain people don't want to hang out with me because if I encounter a trigger then my mood changes and makes everybody else be down too. To me, this means I have to hide what I'm feeling because they don't want to deal with it. I should be able to openly talk to these people without judgments and without worrying if they'll get tired of my condition. I grew up with one of the people who told me that and she used to be depressed. Never did I feel like I wanted to distance myself when she was feeling down so how could someone say that to me. I feel like I don't have anybody to talk to anymore. One of the other people who told me that is my mom and she has said before that I'm lucky that they are still with me because anyone else would have left a long time ago. I feel like I'll never find someone who wants to stay with me because they won't want to deal with my sadness and the depression that ocd brings me. I don't know what to do anymore. I don't. My family and I were gonna go to the beach but I started feeling really sad all of the sudden. last night my brother looked down so at night I blew him a kiss and the my mom was like go give her a hug to him but hugging and physical touch makes me uncomfortable because of my ocd and she knows that and not only did it bother me that she kept insisting despite all the times I've told her jsut that but it bothered me most that she kept insisting with him right there. I don't want to make him feel bad or feel like I'm not hugging him bc it's him. and idk but I couldn't go to sleep until I explained that to him so I had sent him a text last night before either went to bed. and then I explained in person today earlier too and I told my mom over the phone since she was out all day about how it bothered me and that it bothers me as it is because I'm an affectionate person and the ocd takes that away from me constantly I don't need her to keep pushing me to do what makes me uncomfortable you know? but odk why I suddenly got a wave of sadness now but I didn't want to bring the mood down at the beach and I also kinda just needed to be alone and cry alone
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