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- 5y ago
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I have!! Near the beginning of last year, I constantly worried about whether I was stopping myself from eating. Even though I was eating normally, my brain would tell me that I had an eating disorder every time I refused food or didn’t want a certain kind of food. It was very scary and it made me rethink every choice I made at meals, to make sure I was consciously eating enough. I hope you’re doing okay ♥️ I think there are probably a lot of people with this theme, it’s just less known.
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- 5y ago
Meeee. Except it’s more complicated. I have contamination OCD that makes me fear all food is contaminated. That’s why I’m not eating... but my OCD has been latching onto the fact that I’m not eating and trying to make me think I have an eating disorder and that it’s not because it’s the contamination fears. So my OCD is making me afraid food is unsafe to eat, then when I don’t eat it tells me that maybe you’re making up the contamination fears and really you have an eating disorder. I don’t know if that makes sense. Lol
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- 5y ago
Yes it is possible. I get thoughts about choking when eating so I avoid certain foods, eat too slow, eat less quantity, am less hungry (because of the anxiety, I'm just less hungry), etc. To me this is probably the most horrible form my OCD can take, because I can't physically force myself to swallow...
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- 4y ago
hi, i searched for this thread but i’m glad i found it - i think i have that although it latches in with my wider mental health theme which stems from my suicidal ocd. i get scared that i might be restricting (i’m not) or focusing on my weight (i’m not) and i have real issues with foods that feel like they could be raw or mouldy which definitely doesn’t help. i think i’ve managed to have one theme feed another theme. i have anxiety and i also have a couple of medical conditions that make me nauseous and less hungry at times but i always get scared that means i have an eating disorder or such. idk. it’s weird
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- 25w ago
can someone with this theme help me i’m so scared and i can’t stop having panic attacks is this OCD??? So i always have struggled most with sucicidal ocd and harm ocd. i never really had any other themes. but recently ive struggled with SOOCD. My whole life i have never EVER been into girls ever and i could never even think of ever being with a girl in my entire life. i’m having extreme amounts of anxiety and i have compulsions to make sure i look at a girl and don’t feel anything towards them or anything. My mind is literally going “what if your just in denial” or “what if you’ve just been hiding it all these years” When i know i haven’t. i have all of the symptoms of SOOCD and i still know that im not gay,but these thoughts are extremely distressing and have been the worse to deal with. I’m constantly panicking and doing compulsions to get these thoughts to leave and they won’t. i’m scared and these thoughts are making my mind scared. What if i’m going against my morals and i’m lying to myself like and i just went through a tough breakup too so that is shooting these thoughts and anxiety. Please help omg!!!
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- 24w ago
Hey guys! So I struggle with OCD, especially harm, relationship and moral stuff and I am somewhat recovered now. However, my current girlfriend has started showing signs of OCD but it’s abou5 something I don’t know much about so I wanted to see if anyone on here had thoughts about it. She is constantly thinking about food (when to eat it, what is healthy, what is too much, what is too little) and controls the thoughts by giving in and controlling her entire day around food. She don’t really know the feeling of being full. She never starved herself and always eats, but then she feels extremely guilty afterwards. Her thoughts do have to do a lot with her body image and not gaining weight but also not losing any either. Does this sound like ocd or an eating disorder?
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- 16w ago
Does anyone else struggle with this? It's been the main thing powering my POCD, and it's only been getting worse. Especially when I see posts online of people sharing their personal stories relating to CSA, specifically grooming. It's so triggering now, but before this theme developed, the most I'd feel while reading posts like that would be disgust targeted towards people who did those things. Now, my first thought is, "What if I do something like that one day? What if I've done it before and I don't remember or didn't know I was doing it?" I have many, many different intrusive thoughts or worries related to this theme, but it all circles back to this specific fear that I'll become like the people who hurt and took advantage of me. Does anyone have advice for this? I'm not sure if I've asked a similar question in the past or not, but is this something I need to deal with separately before beginning ERP for OCD? I'm just curious and also lost on where to begin with all of this. I'm just glad I'm able to begin working through all of these issues now, rather than later in life when I'd probably have a lot more responsibilities. Anyways, any feedback is appreciated! 🤍
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