sexual ocd is driving me crazy
I'm so afraid of thinking something inappropriate around family and friends that I overthink everything I think. I've been dealing with this for months and I thought I had learned how to deal with it, but I feel so suffocated. Right now I really can't breathe. I don't know what to do, I talk to people in this community but I still feel so alone.
I think many people with OCD struggle with THESE anxious thoughts that we actually don’t think about it’s just our ocd brains being difficult!! It’s okay to not be okay and it’s okay to think of weird insane thoughts. You know why your not crazy ? You are not crazy because a crazy person would act on the thoughts and not be anxious about it on this app right now! You are stronger than you know! Thoughts are not facts and either is our feelings!! Feel the shit to feel the shift! Nothing last forever. Find ways to cope with the thoughts and know they are not true and do not define you
@blisskhloe2017@gmail.com thank you!!!❤️🩹
Yes... knowing that the thoughts don't define you as a person is the way you need to look at.
I hear you! I have the same thing. I hate it
It's so hard...I know, but try to look at it in a different light. You don't want to do these things, so it goes against all your morals. I struggle a lot with it, so I know where you are with this and it isn't easy. Give yourself a break and don't beat yourself up about it. I know it's easier said than done tho.
@Speckles Thank you!! Right now I'm scared to even think about things I like at the wrong time and it makes me feel crazy. All the best to you too.❤️🩹
@llalala I thought I was gonna snap today. Felt crazy, so took a anti anxiety pill. This is so hard....I know just how you feel. I wish there was a way to make it all go away
@Speckles Yes!! I am practicing uncertainty. I try to think “I can live with this”. But some days are so hard.
@llalala I need to practice that. It makes me feel like a psychopath some days and I feel I'm losing it
@Speckles Yes, I go through that.💔
@llalala I felt pretty good in July and then hit a brick wall. Not sure why it happened again. I'm trying to read a book "How to overcome intrusive Thoughts". Maybe we can find some videos that'll help
@Speckles Yes!!❤️🩹
@Speckles Hey!! How did you feel today? It was pretty tough for me. My brain was having intrusive thoughts almost 24/7. Could you find any good coping mechanisms?
My OCD has massively spiked from last weekend to tonight. I usually can pinpoint why. Tiredness, not feeling well, stressed, dreaming (out of my control); these are all wonderful times for OCD to attack because you're already feeling crappy and less on guard, which makes it easier to flare up. However, I have zero clue why it's so bad currently. I'm not stressed, not tired, not not feeling well. And it's not a little flare where it's picking on just one thing. It's picking on the ENTIRE spectrum of sexuality: incest, beastiality, pedophilia, and homosexuality. It's horrible. I seriously want to cry and feel like I'm suffocating. I can't listen to music, go places, really do anything without it taking something and trying to twist it. Like driving in the car with my mom and maybe a more sexual song comes on on the radio: Oh you're listening to a sexual song with your mom. That's weird. That means something! You're into your mom! Cuddling my dogs and just feeling loved: Oh you're too close to your dogs. You're into them. You're sick. Oh you really like your trainer cause she's super nice and funny: You know a good deal of female trainers are gay right? You were wondering if she was gay or bi. Why were you wondering? Cause you're gay and you like her. Like seriously NONSTOP. I can't even watch tv and see a character that's gay or a celebrity who is gay and not start freaking out. I have absolutely nothing against the LGBTQ community. It's just I don't want it or like it for myself. But here I am freaking out. Then you have random physical arousal that goes with all that crap, and it just makes it all worse. There are seriously no therapists where I'm from who understand and properly treat OCD. It's all reassurance based. And then there's all these places I hear about that sound great and like they really get OCD. Think they offer online/on the phone therapy for my state? lol NO. Like how are you supposed to feel any better feeling like no one can help you? I know there are self guided therapy books. But I'm terrified. Petrified. I need a professional to help me get over that first hurdle. Can anyone relate?): Also, does anyone get triggered by seeing the posts on here? If there's even anything that slightly mentions sexuality on here that someone is having trouble with, my OCD latches onto that and turns it into a new attack for me. That's why I've always been hesitant to join OCD support groups. Because I KNOW my OCD will see someone's own OCD issues and latch onto them to further attack me. It SUCKS.
I'm having a hard time with sexual ocd kinda stuff. I feel like I will never know what's real or get any kind of certainty around my fears. It's just so scary and uncomfortable and it's so hard to talk to my therapist about. I've overcome pretty much everything else, but I've been avoiding this part so bad. I've just been obsessing and compulsing about this stuff for so long it's left me so confused. I genuinely don't know what to do, I'm so scared of talking to my therapist about it, I say very minimal things in my sessions.
does anyone else have this? it really really sucks, i have bad intrusive thoughts about anything that could be “sexual”. I cant even eat a banana anymore, without my brain telling me its sexual. I feel so so much anxiety from it, and i cant be around people and i dont like when people look at me cause im afraid their sexualizing me and i just cant. I hate this, can anyone give me tips for thoughts like these? because it makes me incredibly uncomfortable. I dont know how to ignore it.
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