- Date posted
- 1y
OCD being a burden on other people
(Kinda a rant sorry but there’s a point I’m making) Jersey shore is one of my favorite shows I was watching it and notice Deena having like a lot of things I relate to with pure ocd and her not being able to explain it and just breaking down and I looked it up and saw she dealt with ocd later in the show sammi talked to her and basically said how she acts and breaks down is annoying and exhausting another movie I watched turtles all the way down (about a girl with ocd) her best friend also had a talk with her about how it’s exhausting to be around her and I feel like I make people feel this way especially my boyfriend and family when I have ocd flare ups and obsessive thoughts i just feel like it’s really hard for someone who doesn’t have ocd to understand it so looking at it from the outside I understand why it could be annoying for other people to hear me constantly ask for reassurance and worry about the same things over and over and that’s exactly why growing up even I never really vented or talked to people about how I feel now that I have a bf I do it a lot more but I can’t help but feel like I’m being annoying worrying about the same things over and over everyone always tells me to stop thinking about whatever’s bothering me but the point of ocd is having OBSESSIVE thoughts I literally can’t stop thinking about these things and I noticed this is jersey shore too with everyone making fun of Deena and just telling her to calm down and stop thinking about it I feel like to other people it definitely looks like I’m just being annoying I wanna be able to talk to family and friends without feeling like a burden or being annoying I’m really self conscious also so a big thing for me is looking dumb or being annoying and I feel like that exactly what I am when I vent does anyone else feel this way how do you explain it in a way that’ll make people understand