- Date posted
- 51w
OCD flaring up because of school
Vent My real event ocd is flaring up badly again, I just started school and keep having the intrusive thoughts that I don’t belong here because I’m a horrible person, that I should just give up because I’m a monster, and that I shouldn’t even try and pursue a career in the field I’m interested in because my real event will come back to haunt me and I will end up in jail. My real event happened when I was a child around 10 or 11 and at the time I had no bad intentions and didn’t realize what I was doing could be perceived as inappropriate or sexual since we were both girls, I just thought it was me and my friend who was younger than me being stupid. I have really struggled moving on from this real event, I’m 22 now and started really struggling with obsessive intrusive thoughts over this real event when I was 19. The intrusive thoughts have come and gone over the years but it’s currently flaring up really bad as I am starting at a new college, my ocd actually impacted my college life so much that I’m about two years behind everyone else. I should’ve graduated last year but because my ocd consumed my life, i basically dropped out and now I’m starting fresh but I feel like I don’t deserve it and that I’m a monster and I’m horrible and that I’ve ruined someone’s life. I also have the constant fear that I’m going to get into trouble, go to jail, lose everyone and everything, and that everyone will hate me. I also have so many false memories involving this event that feel so real and terrify me because it felt so real and I felt like a monster. I’ve told my mom about this event and she said I did nothing wrong and that it’s normal and that I was a child, but it’s impacting my life to this day. I’m getting back into the routine of taking my meds but god I just feel like I’m horrible, I keep feeling the need to confess and then my fears are temporarily gone but they always come back and it’s a constant cycle.