Something I don’t really understand and it grinds my gears 🤣. I am a 110% certain on something that will never happen in my life time but my ocd won’t accept it? Like my heart feels yeah that’s never happening ever I a million years…. But my ocd is like nope I’m against your values and morals! It’s draining 😴
Hello friend! Yes. That is how OCD works. There is a reason it's nickname is the "Doubting Disease." It will make you doubt things that have the smallest of chances of not being true. It will even make you doubt things that are obviously, provably true (maybe the oven you just checked 3 times already is actually on). One of the tricky things with OCD is that people with OCD also often recognize that their obsessions don't make sense. You can fully recognize that your obsession makes no logical sense, but still feel like you must do a compulsion anyways. This is opposed to someone with something like schizophrenia who actually believes the thoughts are real. Often with OCD, people can recognize "That makes no sense." and still feel the "need" to make sure. The solution is to give up the search for certainty. Risk it. You'll never reach the level of certainty your mind craves. When your OCD is saying "Oh we need to double check that." Tell it no. It won't help. Instead, ignore it's questions. The more answers you provide the more questions it will have or the more it will doubt your answers. Break the cycle. Act. Go do something. Live in uncertainty. The more you do so, the easier it will get.
@Iceberg Climber Brilliant response. Thank you. A don’t understand why it’s looking for certainty in something that’s never going to happen? There is no uncertainty cause nothings going to happen 🤣🤣. Head pickler. Know what amean? Like why is there even a Question of uncertainty if your heart knows for certain a billion % something isn’t going to happen. It’s mentally exhausting man
@keane10 I know exactly what you mean. I've been through the exact same thing. It makes no sense at all. I know it to be true. Why do I feel the need to check? Research? Confess? Sorry you are going through that. Unfortunately, that's just how OCD works oftentimes. It will get easier to deal with the more you ignore it. Remember that you are not your thoughts.
The best thing you can do is tell ocd you’re uncertain about it, even if you’re not. Drive the ocd crazy. It lies to you, you can lie back to it. OCD loses all power when you are ok with uncertainty. You can pretend you’re uncertain even if you’re not actually, remember that you have nothing to prove to ocd. It hates logic and uncertainty but the logic doesn’t work because it makes you doubt, the uncertainty works because ocd craves it and if you don’t try to give it certainty it basically starves.
@Tcp2025 Amazing way to look at it mate. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Just hard to try and do what you mentioned especially when your heads in that ocd mindset…. It’s a pain 🤣. I appreciate the words man
Torture mate 🤣. Yes thank you very much. I appreciate that. Take care
I’m 25 and never ever thought this before my soocd relapse. I have a bf of 5 years. Never been a high libido kinda girl. Don’t get me wrong I do get turned on by my bf but not like every day you know? - That had always been in the back of my head, is this normal and ok? But my ocd has latched onto the most scariest what if EVER. My brain is now saying How do you know you won’t prefer to sleep and kiss girls if you haven’t tried it: and it’s that unknown that is scaring the shit out of me. I DONT AND NEVER HAVE wanted to sleep / kiss a girl. But now my intrusive thoughts is all I think about!!! I don’t want I don’t want I don’t want??? So why does my brain think BUT WHAT IF??? I know ocd thrives off uncertainty which is why I think this is happening? But I don’t wanna find out or work it out because all I want is to be with my bf and marry him!! Is this just the epitome of OCD?
Sometimes i think everyone on the right is evil. I ask myself “how can i love people with values different than mine?” I struggle accepting the fact my parents political beliefs are different than mine. I love them so much but it baffles me. We have talked and they say its fine to have different opinions but i can’t help but wonder if i’m doing something wrong by having my beliefs. And then with all the economic chaos today in the US, I can’t help but think that I was right about everything and I just feel like it is my fault that the world is in turmoil. Idk. I think i wish i could stop thinking about it but ever since the election cycle began around a year ago it has been dominating my life. I question myself, i question others, i appear very extremist and rigid and i don’t like it. I want my OCD to go away. Its apparently OCD but it feels so real right now. Can anyone relate? What are yalls thoughts on this subtype?
Hello everyone. I often get the feeling that I will go crazy or in a state of permanent suffering. The thought is very persistent and I think is OCD repeating that disturbing thought. If anyone feels the same way. What do you do about it?
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