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AnonymousPoster

Date posted: 40w

Stop scrolling and go outside. Honest advice. I've scrolled out of OCD got to find it anxiety, don't do it. Also, a trick I used in OCD recovery and still use, is I tell myself that if xy or z still bothers me in two hours I'll consider doing the compulsion to fix it. When the two hours rolls around, I'd either forget why I was anxious, or it wouldn't seem important anymore, or it would still bother me. If it still bothered me, I'd push it off another two hours. This gently trained my brain that not everything is an emergency.

User type: Therapist

Date posted: 40w

What you're describing is very typical for someone with OCD. It's not uncommon for OCD to latch onto things that are important or meaningful to you, like the job you're excited about, and then link them to intrusive thoughts. Your mind is creating a false connection between the thought and the job, making you feel like you need to "fix" it in order to feel safe or to prevent something bad from happening. This is part of the compulsive cycle of OCD. The intrusive thought came up, and now your brain is telling you that you need to find that specific live stream to neutralize or correct the thought. But the more you engage in that compulsion (in this case, scrolling to find the live stream), the stronger the anxiety and the false connection between the thought and the job will become. The reality is that the thought has no power over your future or your job—it's just an uncomfortable, unwanted thought that doesn’t reflect reality. The goal with OCD treatment, especially through Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), is to learn how to sit with these intrusive thoughts without acting on the compulsions to fix or neutralize them. In this case, resisting the urge to continue searching for that live stream, and accepting that the thought is just a thought, will help break the cycle.

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 25w

I really need help please, please

I know a few of you saw my posts about my ERP and the googling urges. That didn’t end up going well. My therapist actually decided we needed to halt it for now. The thing is it’s almost like I learned googling is harmless from those few exercises and my brain keeps generating more things to google. Normally I would just spiral and be done but now I can barely hold back from searching for long. I eventually give in. I’m horrified because it feels like I want to find illegal content. I swear on everything I am, I don’t want to find anything even close to it. I’m freaking out because I don’t understand what’s happening. I keep compulsively searching/testing/checking or idk. I keep remembering details and I feel like I need to google again to be sure of something. I feel absolutely insane can someone please help me??? I’m petrified I’m going to get in trouble.

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 22w

I don’t know what this is. Help please?

Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?

Blueberrycows

Date posted: 17w

Real event having brain fog don’t remember subtype

Mentions pocd Tw Tw Tw Tw Tw Tw Tw Tw My brain told me I looked up cp and I know I definitely did not but my brain played a memory of me looking it up and being on a website … I know it’s from a TikTok video about Africa and saving kids from slavery that the thought appeared from but still it’s terrifying I didn’t look it up

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