Staring ocd (don’t read if you don’t have it)

IF YOU ONLY HAVE COMPULSIVE STARING OCD THEN STOP READING RIGHT NOW I DON’T WANT TO TRIGGER OTHER TYPES. Nearly 4 years ago I had experienced more common types of ocd and were easier to deal with from what I didn’t know that was coming later. In 2020 I suddenly started noticing that I was staring inappropriately at peoples genitals then I found out that it was compulsive staring ocd then a while later it got worse I started to experience what was called peripheral staring ocd and later on I experienced a type of staring ocd that I don’t think has a name where I stare at objects like when someones talking to me I can’t focus and my mind randomly forces me to focus on random objects or I stare at expensive things like bags or watches and people that own these things think that I want what they own or they think that Im a kleptomaniac. Basically I got to a point where I physically can’t just stare at anyone in a normal way and I lost every single person in my life from this the only people that I sometimes talk to every few months are my family other than that no one was able to accept who Ive become. Im saying this because im begging anyone that has OVERCOME this specific type of ocd to reply to this text please I know that if someone is over something hard they went through they typically don’t want to talk about it but please anyone that got over just reply and tell me what did you do to get over this did you take any medications and did they help and how much did it help.

lifelover

Date posted: 31w

girllll i get you on a different level. no one on here really talks about this. i relate heavily to randomly finding myself staring at others genitals and feeling really guilty and pervy about it. i don’t have the klepto tendency but i totally understand it. i see you.🖤 for me ‘uncertainty’ dosent really resonate, and i think that’s okay. i saw something on youtube shorts that massively helped me out when i practiced it and now i’m feeling a lot more confident, so you recognize that you’re having an intrusive thought, it sounds like common sense but when you’re in the moment all you really see and feel is anxiety. label it, and then it is outside of you, and you don’t have to be it. 2nd step is to loosen your grip on the thought and detach and become neutral about that thought, people have these thoughts all the time, but it is when we don’t let it pass by is when we act compulsively. how i do this is through nervous system regulation. i realized you can’t think your way out of your anxiety. you have to fix your mental state. there’s many simple techniques to regulate like tapping your chest, alternating taps on your knees, taking a deep breath, then a short breath on top of that, and then sighing. and the 3rd step is to give yourself kind affirmations, or think about something that makes you really happy, like a goal you have for yourself. this really helped me and i’m hoping it helps you🖤 i wish you the best

ABC’43

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 31w

The channel “OCD and Anxiety” made a video about the compulsive staring theme. It may help you to check it out, so long as it doesn’t become reassurance.

Sam0506

Date posted: 18w

Any tips for staring ocd?

Hi everyone, I suffer from a really embarrassing form of ocd and it’s one of the worst ones-staring ocd. I quit my job last year because of it and I’m going back to work next week and I need some tips as my job is very customer forward. I have really bad anxiety around people wearing anything that shows their stomach or cleavage. My ocd always fears I’m going to look at the wrong places and it even goes to their movements randomly and makes me look like a weirdo because my eye darts to their hands. It’s gotten so bad it’s become a habit and now my eye instantly goes to those areas. It’s very frustrating and it’s ruining my social life. Please no judgement, I know it’s a weird form and I wish I never developed it. Any help is appreciated.

GG5

Date posted: 15w

Harm ocd

Hi guys. Hope everyone is okay I just wanted to ask for some ppl to share how they overcame harm ocd completely so that I can get an idea of how to work towards healing. Thank you :)

Medicine2021_

Date posted: 13w

Suicidal OCD and harm OCD

I’ve recently been struggling a lot with OCD. I have had OCD for a long time I just didn’t realize it until more recently. About seven months ago I developed panic attacks one day randomly at work. I thought I was having a heart attack and went to the hospital where they told me it was just a panic attack and I assumed I would snap out and be better within a few days. However it didn’t. Here’s where it gets scary, I was staying at my then boyfriends house while dealing with blurry vision, anxiety attacks everyday, and more (unsure of what was going on). But at some point I saw my bfs (pew pew 🔫) on his table and it sent me into an anxiety attack after sudden thoughts that I was going to hurt myself with it. I begged him to put it away when I’m not looking so I didn’t know where he put it. He did. These thoughts lasted for about four days but began to go away. (I thought that was it and I would be back to normal). Unfortunately though I ended up moving back in with my family when we couldn’t get my panic attacks under control in time for me to get back to work and pay bills. However, coming home brought up a lot of trauma from when I was kid. My anxiety got worse but I didn’t have those thoughts again. About two and half months ago though, I got sick and went to the hospital where they gave me steroid pills and a steroid shot but sent me into some kind of psychiatric event. Ever since then though, I have been suffering from harm OCD, I have had moments of intense anger that I usually have to completely walk away and go on my own because of how intense they are, and it feels like it’s getting worse. Today I felt fine until about and hour and half ago where I started to dwell on the fact that my suicidal thought was influenced by my OCD and at the moment my OCD is at the worst it’s been. This caused me to get suddenly really depressed and I started crying thinking about how I can’t handle this. I then saw a post talking about how suicide rates are high for people with this form of OCD and it made me question if I am mentally strong enough to pull through this. I fear that at times I’m getting worse. I have good days but I have a lot of bad days. Unfortunately this sent me into such a bad panic attack I went over to my nanas crying about how I can’t deal with this. I took a 0.25 mg Xanax which helped calm down the panic attack portion of it but my brain is still uncomfortably active. I guess I just need hope. I’m so saddened by this. It’s like my life took a total 360 in 10 months and got even worse since the steroid shot. Idk what to do about it. I can’t stop the spiral. I talk to two different therapist weekly and start more next week, making it 5 times a week. I feel no improvements…

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