I have not been diagnosed with anything but the things I saw in the tik tok I watched about this app is very true to what I’m feeling. I am scared to feel this and I just want it to stop. People around me make me feel like I’m trying to seek attention but I just seek answers.
hii!! i’ve been on here for a few months and i’m undiagnosed too! im not even sure if i have ocd but i just know that the methods to treat ocd help very much for me. i struggle with relationship anxiety and feeling things/not knowing how to feel because social media has warped my head about what a relationship should be. the key to peace is actually not searching for answers. i’m not sure what you’re going through but i have feelings and thoughts i don’t want to have however ultimately i know what i want and im continuing to choose that everyday. if you need someone to talk to don’t be afraid to reach out ❤️❤️❤️
@1twilightloverr Thank you so much!
@1twilightloverr I definitely have anxiety about my relationship. I love my boyfriend but sometimes I get thoughts that creep in that tell me I don’t. I don’t understand these thoughts and they usually turn into panic attacks. I hate the thought so much because other than the thoughts there is absolutely no reason for me to want to leave he’s perfect. I just am afraid
@Kas01 i get thoughts like that too and sometimes they turn into feelings because i let it affect me so much. thoughts in reality don’t really mean anything unless you put meaning into it. an average person gets 6000 thoughts a day and what happens is we cling on to the thoughts that give us negative feelings. usually i can tell what thoughts aren’t what i want by usually figuring out what i want lol. like if i know i don’t like the thought and i don’t want it i simply ignore it because i know i love my boyfriend and i know i want to be with him. also being scared is totally normal too because im scared im gonna hurt him/he’ll hurt me in the future but realistically you’ll never find certainty about the future. i hope this helps because when i started this anxiety and overthinking i was so panicked and i didn’t know what to do, so hopefully this helps and it’s definitely an ongoing battle
@1twilightloverr It definitely helps. I never have looked as thoughts as something that I can just ignore. Sometimes they feel so real that no matter how hard I try it won’t go away. It’s so hard and I don’t want him to get to the low point that I’m at. I know I love him so much but for the last month I’ve let the thoughts get the better of me. Thank goodness my boyfriend is persistent and won’t give up on us that easy because I think if he would have let me just go once I told him what I was feeling I would have left. However the truth of the matter is I can’t even picture my life without him. I believe there’s some underlying cause as to why I’m feeling the way I am. The last month I haven’t been able to feel much emotion especially happy or joyful emotions only the anxiety filled stressful emotions and trying to not let them get the better of me is one of the most exhausting thing I’ve ever gone through. I’ve lost joy in the things I once loved and that’s been really hard.
@Kas01 omg same, my bf has been so supportive and resistant to giving up even tho i offered because i was scared of hurting him. i’ve been struggling since i got a new job because change rlly triggers me 😭 i had a huge spiral in september-november and it went away for a bit and now it’s back. healing is an up and down process so if you ever see yourself getting better and falling back into a bad place just don’t give up
@1twilightloverr I completely understand that’s exactly what I’ve been going through. With school changing and stuff especially the weather I think it’s a trigger for me too because it’s been so bad. It started last month and it’s been so hard
@Kas01 oh definitely, but this community is really great and i’ve learned some tips and stuff to help calm my nervous because unfortunately thoughts never go away. one thing someone said was that they write down every bad thought you have so when you look back you can realize how repetitive it is! usually if you stress about thoughts and feelings it means that it’s not what u want, at least for my case
Please research about it more, there is no harm in wanting to take care of oneself, ignore others
@Kinu Ignoring others is my weak spot
i’m a new user on this app, I downloaded it just cause I was curious, I don’t really know if I have OCD. Because in school all I learned about OCD is things being out of place and having it to be perfect almost like perfectionism, but I’ve just recently realized there’s a whole kind of different types of OCD, some things I struggle with daily is a fear of bad things happening or almost like an impending doom of when is it gonna happen? I’m always in my head thinking feels like I’m having multiple conversations at once. Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like I’m having a conversation with myself. I have horrendous anxiety about everything and anything talking to people being around people. It just feels like it consumes my everyday life and I don’t know what to do. I can’t clearly remember anything from my childhood and some things I feel like I may be imagining I just don’t really feel like a person. I’m always thinking the worst in my relationship over analyzing and stressing out thinking of scenarios or thinking, my boyfriend‘s cheating on me. It almost all feels out of my control.
I’m irrationally terrified of being found somehow by someone who knows me but I’m trying to post anyway. Not sure if I qualify as young adult or mid-life at this point because I’m about to be 30. Hi, I’m new here and I’m in the process of getting a diagnosis. I’m already diagnosed with autism, GAD, and probable ADHD, and I believe I’ve had varying subtypes of OCD since childhood. My worst OCD-related issue right now has been constant reassurance seeking. I’ve fallen into a trap of constantly doing it and without reassurance I’m terrified to make decisions in my new job. It’s causing me to ask too many questions I already know the answers to which makes me not look competent. Even though I’m somewhat experienced in my field of work, starting this new job has me feeling like I’m starting in the field all over again because I’m so bad these days with working independently since I can’t reassure myself that what I’m doing is correct. I’ve been stressed out of my mind and have come close to losing my job because the stress has exacerbated my autistic struggles such as meltdowns and social issues and I’m also battling the ADHD and GAD on top of it. I’ve also been pushing away people who are close to me with my reassurance seeking because I have problems with not being satisfied with any piece of advice or reassurance given to me by friends and family. They can say things will be okay a thousand times and even though I’m the one who asked I will fight them on it and I’m getting tired of my own difficult behavior and obsessive thoughts. I finally got into therapy again to try and save my job and my relationships from the clutches of my various mental illnesses and I’m just looking for community here.
Hello, I’m new to this app. I’ve always had an anxious brain, and I’ve had coping mechanisms for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, from as early as I could spell, until I was probably early teens, I would constantly write words in my head along to the beat of music. It’s such a vivid memory because I never stopped doing it. The word had to perfectly match up to the lyric and I loved that it kept my brain busy. I grew out of that, but felt like good context. My anxiety increased drastically around ages 17-19, and I began therapy. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety and panic disorder, due to having a panic attack nearly every day at that time. I overcame that as well, and now the panic attacks are every now and then, but the anxiety is constant, and some recent symptoms have led me to believe I might have some form of OCD. Maybe not. I’m trying to understand myself and get better so I joined this app to make sense of things. Lately I’ve been having really intense intrusive thoughts. I’m really embarassed and they make me feel like a bad person. Thoughts pop in my head seemingly out of nowhere. It will be an image of me harming myself or someone else in a really bad way. (Trigger warning) for example the other day I couldn’t shake the image of me putting a knife through my own forehead, although it’s not something I want to do. Or I’ll imagine someone killing me. I imagine my loved ones dying often. The thoughts feel so out of my control it’s insane. I hate them. Another persistent issue that isn’t as new is replaying social scenarios. I’m a hairstylist so this one is difficult since I meet a bunch of new people every day. I obsess over how I act and if people like me. I will impulsively say things all the time and they will haunt me for weeks. I question even my closest friends and family who show their love. I find myself so angry and numb and like I have so much built up emotion and a busy mind always. While doing my job I spiral really badly if any little thing goes wrong and it’s embarassing. I know there’s more but I can’t think of it now. I just want to feel better and like I’m not constantly battling my mind.
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