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- 14w
This is common in OCD, so you are definitely not alone in this. OCD can be very convincing, especially when you want strong reassurance. Do you work with an ERP therapist? ERP helped you learn to tolerate the unknown and accept your doubts, to minimize how long you’re living in fear.
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hey i struggle with this as well! in the past, I used to religiously check social media before I went to bed just to make sure I hadn't accidentally uploaded or posted something super weird. I've also deleted social media accounts and thought omg what if i did something weird but now I can't go back and check. So I understand how you're feeling. It is super scary and sorry you're having to deal with it. With anything related to OCD, we always have to go "maybe. Maybe not. Never going to figure it out with full certainty", but that's easier said than done so it takes time. I hope it gets better
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- 14w
Are you able to see a ocd therapist that is practicing ERP and accepting uncertainty?
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This is so totally normal. In fact, I've had almost these EXACT same thoughts. With that in mind, the best thing we can do is accept the uncertainty. When we accept and sit with the uncertainty of these thoughts/fears -- without compulsing, checking, seeking reassurance, etc. -- we take some of the negative charge off the thoughts and that lessened charge gives them more space to pass through us. Either way, I'm sorry you're feeling this. If you haven't already, I'd encourage you to check out ERP -- Exposure and Response Prevention. It changed my life!
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- 14w
@June123 It’s tough I know!
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- Therapist
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Shall you live your life or shall you live your life in fear? Let's just say for sake of argument that I wrote something and I will get arrested for it one day. Should I sit and wait to get arrested, or live my life until I do get arrested? I choose to live my life, and not sit around and wait. It does not seem like a fun thing at all to sit in fear. Now, I wish it were that easy to just go and live your life. But, it is possible. If you want to get help with that, check us out here at NOCD. We have therapists who are waiting to meet with you! We can help you live with doubt and uncertainty. OCD does not have to be in the driver's seat of your life.
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- 19w
im going to be vague here, but basically i did something in the past that i regret and it became a huge point of my OCD but i have talked to my therapist and i have mostly moved past it. i watched a video by an OCD youtuber that really put it into perspective. anyway, i have been with minimal worry for a few days, but now im having worries related to i think false memory? basically it’s like “oh but what if i said/ did this and just forgot that means i harmed this person im a bad person”. to me it sounds like textbook OCD but im just wondering if anyone else has experienced false memory / real event at the same time. i have a really horrible memory which is making it even more stressful. any responses are appreciated!
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- 19w
Very brief mentions of pocd and nsfw jokes,id like this to be adults only . Repost bc i had to edit something Does anyone have experience with real event ocd attached to your online footprint etc? I keep checking old messages,trying to find old people i knew i used to talk to etc. To find out every problematic thing I did and if I've ever been unfollowed or blocked by anyone I used to be friends w online/atleast on good terms w. I am particularly concerned abt doing something bigoted,esp racist bc i have racism ocd,and doing something predatory bc of my pocd. I remember hanging around people who could use 'edgy' or offensive humour in my teens and i remember a lot of sex jokes and that i would join in on sex jokes sometimes . i dont remember details w the offensive humour as much,i feel like i didnt join in on it as much but i was definitely WAY passive abt things and prob let a lot of bad stuff slide i shouldnt have bc i didn't speak up it was wrong,I remember one friend in an online community would say slurs and horrible jokes when i was 16. I dont remember my response to it as much but i feel i didnt speak up abt it aside one time i found in the dms where he made a bad joke on a thing i shared for social justice. I cant stop going thru old messages and stuff or trying to find ppl from the past. I feel like if I don't check it now,that eventually it'll come to haunt me or that I'll stumble across it eventually. I worry what if someone messaged me on one of these apps I un-installed or on one of the accounts I don't have access to,confronting me abt all this stuff I did. I had an obsession w this back in 2020 and did check in depth on all my accounts,but now that it's been 4 years the obsession is back in full swing.
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- 12w
How do you know the difference :( I genuinely cannot keep living in this torment. it all started with an ‘intrusive thought’ where I had like a hazy flash of something reading an article. and I remember thinking ‘what if’ and ‘what is this’ and then that intrusive thought turned into me ‘remembering’ something else. which caused me panic. then I started trying to find evidence because it contradicted what I remembered this entire time. this was last year in like september. fast forward to march this year, it came back up- but this time stronger and with more ‘details’ and what nots. and I’ve been ruminating on it since then trying to remember and connect and It’s like I’ve added all of these details. but are they real? or is this just my OCD? I just feel like if it were real I would have never been able to keep it to myself. but also what if it was so traumatic that I blocked it out? because it all makes NO sense for me to do something like that. but it also fits what I was thinking at the time. idk
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