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how can you tell the difference between rocd and a real thought you should act on?
how can you tell the difference between rocd and a real thought you should act on?
It really depends on your thoughts, this has some good examples - https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/relationship-ocd What are you thinking about?
@JakeTheSnake98 well it's two things that are distressing to me rn, for one when i found ocd i really relate to it and it helped me feel grounded and able to separate my thoughts from myself so i don't spiral, but my therapist is making me question if i have ocd, and it's making me lose my mind, because now i think what if my doubts are real, and i actually want someone else who's not my partner, but i love my current partner, i just want it to stop
@Pandora_2003 If it’s an obsessive thought that you can’t stop thinking about no matter how hard you try, it’s most likely OCD. Does your therapist specialize in OCD specifically? Sometimes finding the right therapist is similar to dating, you can’t expect to find “the one” right away. Talk to someone else, get multiple opinions and know that your feelings are validated!
@JakeTheSnake98 I truly cant stop thinking about it, like every second of every day, as soon as i wake up, its exhausting, im afraid theres truth behind it and what it could mean, ive tried a lot to move past it but idk who i am anymore bc of it, idk my life goals or values, feels like im just a hollow body trying to get through the day bc i have to, i think you're right i might have to go to a specialist with ocd, thank you for responding
@Pandora_2003 Hey, I just wanted to come here and say that I know exactly how you feel. Word for word. That’s how I felt when I first developed ocd and it was devastating. Couldn’t work up the energy or courage to do anything, I was able to get up and go to work because I had to but during and after work I was ruminating 24/7 so far in my head I isolated myself from everything, others and myself. But just know it gets better. If I could tell you and younger me anything it would be that there’s no other way than straight through, it’s terrifying I know You just have to ground yourself and remind yourself of what truly matters to you. If you value kindness, focus your energy on being present and kind. If you value love, focus no matter how hard it is on showing love to your partner even if it’s hard, because love is a choice you make everyday. Keep doing that and it’ll slowly get easier in a way that feels like the love was always there. <3
@Anonymous Thank you for being so kind and giving me hope. I just wish I knew what I valued. It's all so buried and blurry now. Like yes I deeply care about my partner but still question if I should stay every day. But I can't bring myself to leave. It's torture. But I do value kindness and I continue to be kind, even when I don't see the point in anything anymore
i think i’m struggling with rocd but the thoughts feel so much more different than they have before. i was just wondering if the thoughts i’m going to list are also the thoughts other have had, and if so, do you have any tips to manage them? my thoughts are: “do i love my boyfriend?” “i don’t love him” “what if you don’t love him?” “i do love him” “is he the one?” “is he attractive?” “does that give you the ick?” “is this character trait of his bothersome?” “because this happened it means we aren’t compatible” “you need to break up with him” “do you want to break up with him?” “do you want to marry him?” i was just wondering because i feel so tired from trying to overcome them, that they’re just now starting to feel true. and just thoughts im gaslighting myself or that my thoughts are real and i really don’t love my boyfriend
I am in love with my girlfriend I know it I feel it and think about it all day but I obsess over the fact I may hurt her or maybe I don’t actually like her and I’m only leading her on because I’m evil but I imagine our house in the future and our kids and it makes me feel so warm and good. But then I imagine me breaking her heart and I feel sick.
[ vent ] At times, I'll be doing fine, and I won't be thinking about anything, and then boom. I have thoughts like, you don't love your partner, you only say I love you to convince yourself you love him, you don't actually like him. It makes me really upset because I genuinely do like my partner, I genuinely do want to be with my partner, I wouldn't do anything to hurt him, and I love him so much. But I always tend to talk to AI, and AI is always telling me my symptoms are just ROCD. And I just want to get rid of it because I didn't have these problems before, and now I do, and I just want them to go away. Yesterday, I was literally crying because of how bad I felt. My partner does me amazing, he treats me amazing, but my thoughts always lead me to wonder, what if this isn't ROCD and I just genuinely don't like my partner? Even though, as much as I want to, what if I don't, but I really do, and I want to be with him, and I do love him. Recently, I've talked to him about these feelings, and he told me that he's felt like this before as well, but the way he comes with it, he doesn't think about it as much. But me, it goes in my head over and over and over and over and over and over, it's like a loop or a cycle that never ends. And I always look up, how can I heal from ROCD, and it just says to settle with the thoughts, don't look for reassurance, and it's hard not to do that because like, what else am I supposed to do? It's hard for me not to do that because it's so heavy, and to me, for my ROCD, it never shows up as what if questions, it always shows up as statements like, you don't, you don't love him, you don't want to be with him, you're only saying that you love him to convince yourself you do, stuff like that. It's hard
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