Community discussion: What OCD told me vs. reality

We had a really wonderful family trip. When we landed and loaded up in our car OCD told me that the trip was so good that we would die in a car crash on the way home. Because things can’t be that good. Then what happened is we got home safely. No terrible death of my family by a car crash. Just another normal drive.

The other day mine told me my boyfriend was going to break up with me because there was a stain on the carpet at my moms house when we visited. Later that day he said we should buy a house together

When I was 12 or 13 I watched an interview with Martina Navratilova. She is gay and plays tennis, I also play tennis so I must be gay. This one took about a year to move past. During that time I was diagnosed with OCD. I am now 49 am not in fact gay, still love tennis and feel silly for wasting so much time on something that didn’t matter either way in the end.

One day at work one of our padlocks had broken, I happened to be the only one strong enough to use the bolt cutters and another lady watched me do it… my brain said I must be a lesbian because I looked masculine and I must’ve been trying to impress that lady 😂 still with my boyfriend but that was rough

Constant battle of my ocd telling me my food is going to poison me, me forcing myself to eat it, and now look at me. Fed and not poisoned

My OCD loves to convince me that I’m a disgusting monster who doesn’t deserve to get better. But it’s wrong because my real event happened when I was a child and what I’ve done then doesn’t mean I’d make that mistake or decision again. It doesn’t define me.