Sometimes people with OCD find that it has an impact on their self-esteem. In what ways has OCD impacted your self-esteem?
idk if this is necessarily rooted in self-esteem, but it makes me feel like i can't trust myself
It makes me feel like I'm a terrible mother and don't deserve my daughter. All because of a situation that happened where I feel like I acted or gave into my thought.
I'm not diagnosed, but i feel all the time like i can't separate or differentiate myself from bad or criminal people. That affects my self-esteem a lot
I feel like I lost friends because of it and if I tell someone about it we end up not being friends
@mood027097 Thank you for sharing that. I can understand why OCD could make you feel like you can't trust yourself. Have you ever tried ERP?
i'm aware of ERP but to be honest because of all the anxiety and checking, it seems really difficult for me go not engage in the thoughts so I feel like i can't do it without a professional facilitating. but i also don't have the resources to see a specialist and can't do therapy on here :(
In these years of ocd i have lost lots of my self-esteem as i feel very confused and like a bad person
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Im was an instuctor and was alway nervous about teaching and not knowing enough or teaching it correct and my students would get hurt or die becuse i left something out or didnt know enough. So now i dont teach it. I dont have the confidence that i know enough. I have 4 college degrees and several certs just for context. So yes i have very poor self esteem.
I had low self esteem and after Ocd they just start feed each other . I don t have boundries in my realtionships I want everyone likes me but its not reality . I could nt get over this . Maybe because of that no one respects me
@Bb280120 It s just so important for me what other people s think about me I feel like I dont live my own life I just do what other people expect from me or tell to me I t s so annoying I m just addicted other people ‘s approval
Has led to a lot of isolation for me
What irritates me the most is that during intimacy with my husband, it happens that OCD puts an image and scene in my head, my sister or someone for whom my OCD is attached and it's literally as if that intimacy is happening with that person, and it seems real that I can and it's exciting! I'm working on ERP during that, but it's still hard to digest... I don't know if it's the same for you?
So I have been trying to work out over the past 5 years where my OCD come from and have began to realise that ruminating on where it comes from is actually a compulsion in itself. I believe mine come from having a low self esteem and a lot of stress in my life at that time. I then attended talking therapy to try and understand my feelings and intrusive thoughts and all this did was fuel the OCD further because trying to assign meaning to the thoughts is actually the opposite of what we should do. Does anyone else feel like they know what triggered there OCD?
Need some advice please. I'm trying to fix my social anxiety, self esteem and confidence but ocd infests itself and makes me I had all these issues because I my ocd was true all along. For example, Im extremely uptight/awkward around people and have a fear of being judged, laughed at or seen through, fear of not being liked etc. One cause of this I read is it's because i suppressed my real self/feelings and pretended to put on a fake mask to be liked by others/fit in and now that im older that mask is breaking and causing me disconnect from my real self. My hocd inserts itself and makes me feel because I was gay all along without knowing it is why it happened. It genuinely feels like that's the case but then I feel dreaded and depressed because it feels so real I'm ready to accept that scenario. But back then I didnt think I could have been gay or anything. Im not sure how to handle this difficulty. Please any advice?
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