I literally was sipping sparkling water and I immediately get this thought “Is this what p**** taste like?” Ugh. OCD is a creative jerkwad.
Same, I've been having thoughts of "oh I want to kiss my best friend" and it makes me nauseous. I hate it I'm sorry you are going through this
@Viny I’ve been there! Had random thoughts about my best friend too and my coworkers and now even family members (which is new). I’m sorry you’re going through this too!!
@krelia OCD tends to twist everything lol sometimes you just gotta laugh at it fr
@Anonymous That’s what I’m learning I just started to laugh a little 😂 sometimes those thoughts scare me, others pass by, but this one was weird and a little funny
@krelia I’m 35 years old I’ve been dealing with it my whole life essentially starting as like the stove and appliance theme and now it’s just jumping around, like all Over there’s no real theme it just depends on the week lol
@Anonymous I’m 25! I got diagnosed in November of 2023 and struggled with SOOCD and ROCD but honestly I think I’ve had it my entire life. I had an obsession with needing others approval and experienced perfectionism and harm ocd. It got really bad with SOOCD and ROCD I think because it was two months before I got married 😂 now I have themes combining with each other but SOOCD and ROCD fitting into them. It’s so stupid
@krelia How are you now ? I feel it to trust me there’s days where there unbearable and others where I’m like ehhh I’m good.. sitting in the anxiety is what I’m learning to do and it can be hard, depending on the theme!! You doing erp !!
@krelia Yep, like the dude below said. We need to learn to laught about it
@Viny Same here. It’s this “what if I see my friend who is across the country and fall in love with her?” Bro?? No?? We both have bfs 😭shut up
@Anonymous I’ve been doing okay. Had a relapse a while back in December and I’ve just been dealing with feelings and urges. Especially just this overwhelming feeling of doubt. I’m meeting with a psychiatrist Tuesday to get medicated. My compulsions are a little rough especially with Rumination as well as reassurance seeking. I’m getting there. I just wanna enjoy my life and my boyfriend
@krelia Well I hope It gets better and better !! Is erp doing good for you ?
@Anonymous It is for the most part. I’m dealing with a divorce and struggling with all kinds of emotions that are adding to my ocd. It’s been tough but I think I just need time and meds
@krelia I never been a medicine kind of guy… But every once in a while, I wonder if I should try, but I’m just trying to stick to ERP. I seen a therapist for the first time the other day and I see her twice next week… My grandpa died last December, and it seems like that’s when things started going downhill the most
@Anonymous I’m so sorry to hear about your grandpa. That’s awful. I hope therapy goes well for you and ERP!
@krelia Thank you 🙏🏼
@LiaExe28 True!!!!! It's annoying as hell like a bully just installed himself in my brain
@Anonymous Sorry for you loss man
@Viny Thank you it’s been rough that was the man who raised me
Ugh I know exactly how you feel. I had a tuna melt for lunch the other day and I’m sure you can imagine the thought my brain came up with. They make me nauseous!!!
@LV4523 I hate that for you!!! What’s funny was I had tuna today and thought nothing but when I took a sip of this nasty water thing that’s when it popped up! This theme sucks 😂
god i relate so much to this. it hits on the most random moments
@ichooseme Yep how long you been deal with ocd ??
@ichooseme Most random moments forreal!! I thought it was kind of funny but it was a little scary at first!
@krelia Yep it’s awful fr!!! What part of the country are you ?
@Anonymous I’m on the east coast!
@Anonymous like since 2021
Yess sometimes its so ridiculous! 😭
@mightyspencer It is!! What sucks too is the overwhelming feeling of doubt with no thoughts. Ugh
Was listening to the diarrhea song cuz I remember hearing it as a kid, this one guys version ended with “when she’s sitting on your face and you get a bad taste.” Anywho I had a whole thing bc of that involving different people but the main one that’s bothering me is I thought of my sister and her bf. They’re pretty edgy and I guess in general edgy people are freaky. Anywho I had the urge to imagine them while he gives her oral. And I tried to ignore it but it seemed too real and so I gave in and imagined it. And shocked, I think I liked it. Whether it’s because it’s sexual in nature so it was a general thing, or a taboo thing and that’s why I liked it BECAUSE it was gross and I shouldn’t think about it. But anyhow people say ocd can’t make you do things but I believe it still in a way made me purposely think that. Any words of advice appreciated !!
Hi I’m new to the community and I have such weird ocd tendencies I was curious to see if anyone else has so I’m just going to list them in no specific order: 1. My brain goes “I hope” every time I think of something bad happening. Like “I hope that pedestrian gets hit by a car” or “I hope a demon snatches me under the bed right now.” 2. I have dermatillomania mostly on my arms, chest, face, and shoulders. If I have a bunch of open wounds on my body, I make myself feel “cleaner” by doing an everything shave in the shower. Conversely, if I’m having a period of mostly healed skin, I like to leave my body hair growing out for a couple days as a way to gloat to myself how “clean” I am even without shaving. 3. After my whole life living with these symptoms, most of them I’m able to brush off. But this next one still shakes me and disturbs me to my core every time it happens and it’s picturing sex acts with people I would NEVER want to do sex acts with. My earliest memory of this is when I was a little kid, as young as 5 years old, I had an image in mind of what I thought God looked like. Every time I would imagine God, I would automatically imagine him naked and I would shove my head under the pillow and shut my eyes tightly and try to make the image go away because I thought I was being blasphemous by imagining such a thing. 4. This one is relatively new, the past year or two, but cutting my own bangs. The only reason I consider it an ocd tendency and not just self sufficiency is because I SUCK at it and botch it every time!!! But I keep trying to find the perfect parting that contours to all the existing cowlicks and kinks in my hair and try to carve out my “natural bangs.” I convince myself a hairdresser is just not familiar enough with my hair growth patterns to give me what I want. This one is particularly embarrassing because it’s like I’m wearing my mental illness on my face. I have been wearing a headband for the past year to try and hide it but it doesn’t stop me from cutting it again because I am so insistent to get it right. I always regret it after. 5. I don’t know if this one is ocd but I suspect it might be and it’s that I rarely ever am not drinking water. If I finish a glass I’m filling up another one. Sometimes it will be a different beverage like coffee or matcha but I almost always am sipping compulsively on something. I use the bathroom about once every hour and 3-4 each night. That’s all I can think of for now but I wanted to share some atypical traits to see if anyone relates! This isn’t by any means all of my ocd tendencies unfortunately:/ just the ones I’ve never heard anyone else share before!
I got a thought while looking at a picture of a kid saying that she’s going to look good when she’s older. Why did I have this thought? I know it’s not even true, as peoples appearance change as they grow up. Does this mean I was attracted to this kid? Did I think this image of a kid was pretty in a way that suggested me to have this thought? I know I’m supposed to label these thoughts as ocd but how do I know I don’t truly believe this thought.
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