Overthinking or ocd

I feel like my whole life I’ve been overthinking everything. I remember having really bad intrusive thoughts as a kid but I thought I had gotten over it. I feel like I’m starting to see that it’s just not manifested in different ways. I tried to bring it up with my therapist but she thinks it’s just anxiety. I feel like it’s something more. Does anyone have any advice on what personally showed you what was the difference

anonymous00981

Date posted: Yesterday

what made me realize I just might actually have ocd was when I was buying pregnancy tests and and having anxiety attacks because I was afraid I was pregnant. I’m a virgin…. That’s a little beyond overthinking. Basically I had an obsessive fear that led me to perform a compulsion to get rid of it.

Coolgirl321

Date posted: Yesterday

@anonymous00981 Thank you for your response :) but I find that so relatable. It not as bad now I would say. But as a kid I used to feel sick and think I was pregnant and maybe someone took advantage of me. I hadn’t gotten my period yet..

Kate8099

Date posted: Yesterday

OCD is an anxiety disorder. I have had it all my life. I know what you mean about over thinking and over analyzing. And the compulsions only help for a bit, then it starts over again. My Grandma had terrible ocd. My brother has it too. It definitely runs in families. Praying for you

Coolgirl321

Date posted: Yesterday

@Kate8099 Thank you. Prayers for your family as well.

emma345

Date posted: Yesterday

I'm not a specialist so I might be wrong, but as far as I'm aware while intrusive thoughts are a huge symptom of ocd, there are other symptoms, and intrusive thoughts can be a part of other stuff like anxiety and other disorders. So it doesn't necessarily mean you have ocd, but there is a chanse you do. Especially if you feel like you have other ocd symptoms, like compulsions for examlple, they are not always physical, they can be mental as well. Maybe try to do more research and if you notice that you do mental compulsions or have some other ocd symptoms, bring it up to your therapist again.

Coolgirl321

Date posted: Yesterday

@emma345 I have tried to bring up mental compulsions to my therapist. Like the fact that I’m constantly trying to reassure myself with things such as telling myself I’m okay, explaining away my thoughts, trying to think good thoughts instead, or just analyzing everything. Knowing it will only make me feel better for a couple of minutes. One of my parents also has it which is why I’m more open to the idea. But like you said it could be symptoms of bad anxiety so it makes it a bit harder for me look at.

emma345

Date posted: Yesterday

@Coolgirl321 Yeah it kinda sounds like ocd, pure O maybe, still not sure but the things you are describing sound like it. But I'm not sure. Maybe try another therapist if you can, or try to talk to your therapist about it again.

Coolgirl321

Date posted: Yesterday

@emma345 Yes I plan on trying a new Theapist soon. Thank you for your input!

JediMJ

Date posted: Yesterday

My therapist figured out I had OCD because I was irrationally fearful and upset in a relationship that was really solid and consistent. My partner kept reassuring me, but it wouldn’t make a difference. I was compulsively asking for reassurance and thinking through worst case scenarios. I thought that was just me—thinking too much. It never occurred to me that the thinking itself was the problem. I think many people are unaware of mental compulsions and OCD goes undetected. Everybody has intrusive thoughts—it’s just that OCD brains are “sticky” and we have trouble letting them go. Other people are like…what a weird thought…and we want to analyze it and see if it means something and worry over it and build up evidence for or against it, etc. You know…we obsess. And it’s kind of automatic. And you treat anxiety differently than OCD, so I think it would be helpful to know what you’re dealing with.

Coolgirl321

Date posted: Yesterday

@JediMJ Thank you so much for your response, that’s exactly why I want to figure out what it is, since it’s treated differently. But yes I relate heavy to the analyzing intrusive thoughts.

Anonymous

Date posted: 24w ago

I'm fearing myself and I hate it

I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but when I learned more about it, I never related to anything more. A little back story: when I was younger, there were a couple of youth suicides in my area and the schools felt the need to have someone come in and talk about suicide. Well the person they had come in did a horrible job teaching it and basically made it seem like the smallest negative emotion or feeling or change in behavior made you suicidal. This ended up scaring me so much that I got horrid anxiety. Fast forward to now, Everytime I feel anxiety and panic, I fear I'm going to kill myself. Everytime I feel down and depressed, I fear I'll end it all. I'm scared to be around anything sharp because the "What if" I hurt myself comes into my mind. There are always intrusive thoughts at almost every point of the day. And it's not only for me. Everytime I hear someone being negative, I fear they will be suicidal. I know in my heart that none of this is true but it's terrifying me that it's stuck around so much that it makes me scared that maybe it is true. I've had a lot of death in my family in the past year and a half and a lot of other family drama that I'd never had before that is now also bringing up existential intrusive thoughts. And I'd never questioned anything about life before but now I get the "why is life like this?" and "does anything we do matter?" and I hate it. I don't want to think like that. I just want to go through life being able to handle things normally again. It terrifies me even right now going "what if you give up?"

Vee4

Date posted: 23w ago

I think I have severe ocd

So I've had OCD since I was a child. Like really young. The first intrusive thought I can remember was when I was 5. It just keeps getting worse and lately they've been making me physically ill or throwing me into extreme panic attacks again ( ones where I can't move my body ) the other night I thought God was trying to kill me because I was thinking about ending myself from OCD+ life issues but in reality I was just having a panic attack😭😭it affects me daily. It gets a little better with therapy but I don't see therapy coming into my life any time soon and I'm not even sure if I would want to go (for multiple reasons). To wrap this up if you have severe ocd can you tell me what it's like?? I don't want to label anything without proper research and hearing others perspectives. Thank you!! <3 (My profile says all of my subtypes if that helps any)

Chels0212

Date posted: 17w ago

Intrusive thoughts

I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅

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