Does anyone else’s OCD or brain..

cause immense guilt when receiving gifts? Or when someone is nice to you, the guilt just floods every vein of your existence. I feel so awful :( awful about my compulsions, about some of my thoughts, about who OCD has made me. My boyfriend just gifted me something, and I have such a heavy feeling in my chest. Worst part is: when I’m not feeling guilty I’m spiraling over that gift was enough, if it could’ve been “better.” I feel like an idiot. I don’t understand why I’m like this

mcocd

Date posted: 5d

For a spin on this, I feel guilty when another man outside of my relationship is friendly with me. I almost feel like I am being disloyal chatting with them even in work settings. Work trips are my worst nightmare.

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 2d

@mcocd Same, and my brain tends to attach to people who have been nice so extra ammo for my OCD lmao. I’m sorry ❤️‍🩹

BigGyro09

Date posted: 5d

Do your best to separate OCD from who you truly are. I know that's really difficult but it's all illusions to try and make you seem like whatever it's telling you that you are. Do you journal? If not, maybe it can help to start doing that so you can sort of write all of that you're thinking out somewhere and read it to yourself. It works for me. I've been doing it so much for myself on many different things like self compassion, self esteem, goals, and putting thoughts into helpful perspectives.

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 2d

@BigGyro09 I feel like my OCD has really blended with me because I spent decades unaware I had it. Some of my own quirks ended up being OCD 😀. I’m working on separating myself from it. It’s just really frustrating when I rarely even hear intrusive thoughts, I just get a stomach drop feeling and I have to figure out whatever my brain is saying in the basement of my mind I guess. I journal infrequently, it helps me see myself but then my OCD has also managed to convince me at times that I’m just gaslighting myself into thinking I’m a good person. It’s a work in progress 🫩

BigGyro09

Date posted: 2d

@issphra 🫶🏻 Yeah, it's really hard to not have OCD take over every little thing. I feel like I've had some moments of OCD when I was a child but didn't understand them. I don't remember them fully but it wouldn't be surprising. I always felt like I functioned differently from other kids but not in ways that made me bad. I really relate to the "basement of my mind" phrasing because it always seems like those unhelpful, unwanted thoughts are always sitting there. For me, it's constantly thoughts that put me down or compare myself to others all the time. It's hard for me to feel fully confident in myself and that's just the way my mind thinks.

mutazyounis

Date posted: 5d

oh jesus. i could go on and on about guilt and ocd. for me, im having one of the dumbest obsessions in ocd ever and nobody is really going through it like me (check my page out for what it is). But anyway as a result everything cool me and my gf do or any gift shes ever given me has made me feel super guilty that my ocd obsessions one day will make me break up with her and all of the stuff shes giving me and all the stuff we re doing will be useless. id say whatever the stimulus of this guilt is, you should start doing erp for it. it helps HEAVILY

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 2d

@mutazyounis ROCD is hard :/ I’m sorry you go through it. I want to do ERP for this absolutely but I don’t know where to start. The basis of my guilt is just my OCD thoughts and compulsions. Some of my own **normal** thoughts that my OCD claims are disloyal. The pocd thoughts, the checking. All of that. I love gifts but I also get flooded with guilt after the first few seconds. I don’t know where to go from there

mutazyounis

Date posted: 2d

@issphra 🫶🏻 i would the main basis of erp for any ocd is just the idea anytime you get a bad thought or anything that causes distress, you kinda sit with tbe idea or maybe or maybe not and resist all compulsions INCLUDING rumination or stress relieving thoughts (as someone with pure o, this is HARD i know). erp is not linear so dont stress too hard if you dont immediately improve. the whole point of erp isnt to feel anxiety leave your shoulders, its to just get used to uncertainty.

Michie

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 9w

Please help

Why why WHY do I feel the need to constantly overshare?! It’s making me feel guilty af! If my boyfriend tells me something in confidence but my ocd twists what’s said into some crazy big problem I feel the need to run to my mom for reassurance, it’s getting to the point where he doesn’t trust me not to talk about stuff and I don’t want him to feel like that obviously!! But it’s like I can’t stop! Does anyone else have that? How do you stop it?

iLikeDaniel

Date posted: 4d

OCD Guilt

I can’t help but feel so anxious because of guilt. I feel guilty about not sharing everything about my OCD to my partner, but because I understand that confession itself is a compulsion and would not help anyone. I feel so anxious too that if all my fears come true and she finds out, then it would be so devastating for everyone especially her. Does anyone feel the same thing? How could I change my perspective on this?

Generiname

Date posted: 20h

Guilt from the Past.

I've had a horrific subtype that has been affecting my day to day life. I think it's snuck in due to good things occurring in my life. If I can't forgive myself for my past, why should others? I'm happy knowing I'm not alone with these thoughts, but knowing it was OCD all along and I could have suffered so much less if I was diagnosed as a child... Decades worth of compulsive checking, thinking I'm worse than a monster... I just want to breathe normally again. I feel guilt with each breath. It's too much.

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