I am very sad. I have obsessive thoughts from night to morning or in a week. I am scared. I am 23 years old now. I have been suffering from obsessive thoughts for eight years. I am not from a rich family. Please someone help me. I can't do anything because the thoughts don't make me progress. I have no friends at university. No one talks to me.Help me, help me, please.
Hi I’m so sorry you’re feeling this way. Just know, you’re not alone. We all have a form of what you’re going through. What’s going on?
Just to add, Reddit is also a great place to talk to people too. Look up the OCD community.
Hi. I got a message that you posted something. I’m sorry you’re going through this. I know how you feel. I have obsessive thoughts from mornings to nights as well. I know the thoughts are hard to ignore & for me they feel real. I try to remember they are not true thoughts. For me it’s very hard & I find myself doing compulsions but sometimes I get the strength to say “don’t listen to them, they’re not true thoughts”. I don’t know if this really helps but I’m sharing my experience. I also like music & if you do maybe get lost in music & it may take your mind off of your thoughts for a little bit. Is there anything that interests you in your university to join? Do you have a roommate who you can connect with? Hope this helps a little.
I'm really sorry you're feeling this way. It’s incredibly tough dealing with OCD, especially when it feels like it's been running your life for so long. I can totally relate, and I know how exhausting it is. Please know you're not alone in this, even though it might feel like it sometimes. Have you been able to see a therapist or talk to someone who specializes in OCD? I know it can be intimidating to reach out, but it really helped me when I finally did. You don’t have to feel alone in this. Here are some places you can search for help: https://iocdf.org/find-help/?_listing_types=iocdf_clinic%2Ciocdf_program%2Ciocdf_support_group%2Ciocdf_provider%2Ctreatment_group. I’m not sure if affordability is an issue, but some of these places offer payment plans or lower-cost options, and some even have scholarships available. If you give me a bit more information, I can help you find resources that might work for you. You are not alone in this, and I’m here to support you however I can.
Thank you very much
I'm so scared that by thinking about things I can make them happen. I know that's a central thing in OCD but I googled it and a lot of people actually say that if you think about stuff you can make it happen. I've been processing a lot of trauma and having intrusive thoughts about it and I'm so scared that if I think about people who hurt me it will make them contact me and it's making me feel really paranoid and scared and panic and I'm just so scared that I'm somehow conjuring bad people to come into my life and that I'm going to somehow get sucked back into my past or that I am somehow calling people close to me who could hurt me or that something bad is going to happen to me because my thoughts have been so scary and triggering. I'm also feeling really dissociated and I'm worried that these thoughts are actually me starting to have some sort of a psychotic break or something. Please help I'm so scared.
I feel like it's got to a point that I just can't deal with stuff on my own anymore. I've tried to help myself with compulsions and thoughts and behaviours and it helps to an extent but I feel like I just need more help. But I don't even know where to start, I've felt so ignored in the past and I don't even know where you can turn to. I'm in the UK so it's difficult, especially considering I'm only 17, to get any help for this kind of thing. I just want someone to talk to, something to help – medication, maybe? I want to try it, I want to see if it would stop the overthinking for a while. Stuff isn't as bad as it has been before, but I feel like I can't just leave this anymore. I just don't know who to turn to or where to go from here.
My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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