Community discussion: Extremely specific OCD fears

When I was much younger, I used to think those engagement based posts had like real consequences. Like “reblog or your parents will die in 2 days” and I had like the WORST anxiety and paranoia from that. It fed into a lot of my OCD as a kid. Even like nowadays in the back of my mind when I encounter a post like that, it can bother me a little bit. I’m not as scared of em as I used to be, but it puts like a few thoughts or so in my mind.

When I was a kid I would do counting compulsions to try and reduce the likelihood of monsters being in my room at night. It makes logical sense that OCD would focus on whatever I was scared of at the time but still... spooky scary monster OCD 😆

When I was a kid I was so afraid of the world ending in 2012. This was a popular myth at the time, and I obsessed and ruminated over it constantly. I was sure I was going to die no amount of reassurance could help me. I got really into researching the maya civilization to figure out why they predicted this and what they thought was going to happen. None of this was even true but it didn’t matter, I would cry myself to sleep thinking about everyone’s impending death. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder a short time later, which was also an incorrect prediction 🙃

As a kid I had to have my stuffed animals faces all up so they wouldn’t suffocate. I wouldn’t be able to go to sleep if I didn’t turn them all in a way they could breathe.

When I moved from my country of birth to the U.S at 6 years old, I started having compulsive thoughts making me do things twice or else if I didn’t I would be sent to a different dimension🙄 as I grew older it changed to something bad is going to happen if I don’t do something the exact same way twice …

When i was younger I used to think about ghosts alot and If i thought “i want to see ghosts” i would then have to followup with “no i dont i hate ghosts” then I had to apologize to the ghosts that might have heard my thought because i didnt want to hurt their feelings and they would end up haunting me so I would have to say outloud “i dont want to see ghosts but if i do thats ok too im not even scared it would be kindve cool, but i dont want to, im sorry”

I was obsessed at age 8 of the sun burning out in my lifetime after watching a documentary

I keep thinking that I have practices on the days that I don’t have sports practices and I have to keep constantly checking my schedule and texting my teammates to prove it to myself that I don’t have practice, but then I still get scared that people are gonna be there practicing without me even though I know there’s not a practice

Yesss multiple times. I have this one which more of also maybe paranoia idk but probably ocd where I would struggle with hygiene or taking care of myself because I have this voice or thought in my head saying I’ll be at more risk of guys coming up to me and trying to harm me or take advantage. So I purposely make myself look ugly to avoid it. It’s a strange one cause I’m actually super insecure and I want to take care of myself but oh no. I never told anyone about this except my therapist but we’re gonna work on it.

As a kid I was so afraid of cursing and saying bad words that if I even said anything close to a curse word id immediately confess to my parents lol

Crowds and germs.

I was so afraid of someone else throwing up on a roller coaster and it getting on me at 10 years old I would avoid so many fun things because of this obsession and be so anxious at any amusement parks or anywhere with this possibility.

I have a specific memory as a child we had to get our tree treated for bugs or something and I believed that I had gotten sprayed with the poison and I freaked out and my mom had to call poison control and give me a bath because I believed that some of the “poison” had gotten on me. I also remember that things that were too close together like rice grains really bothered me. I remember telling my mom it was “bent” because the closeness of the grains freaked me out.

I have a specific story that’s so specific it’s making me wonder if I want it deep down

When I blow out candles I always wish my family will be healthy in the coming year but then I also have to mention my partners family and my dogs and his dogs and all my friends and their families and my coworkers and their pets and families because if i leave someone out they might die

When I was younger and started losing teeth I was terrified that I would swallow a tooth and die.

I don't know if this is OCD (I'm undiagnosed), but I have always had this fear of the wind and it taking my valuables away from me. I get super scared and make sure I always have bags and pockets with zippers when I go to a theme park with rollercoasters or when I go out on a windy day. I alway worry about if I closed my window properly or not. So yeah, wind it is.

All my life I’ve enjoyed hurt/comfort themes in books/movies. Sometimes I’ll watch or read specific parts just to experience them. But I’ve started to realize that the sensations they give me feel a like being turned on and that scares me. Am I attracted to people getting hurt or almost dying? And it’s even worse when the people in question are kids or teens. That triggers my pocd for sure. Also, sometimes it happens when I hear real stories from real people on line. I don’t mind so much being turned on by the comfort part, it’s the hurt part that scares me. But then my OCD pops in and tells me I like it. That I want to like it. Just another way my OCD tries to convince me I’m a terrible person

When I was a little kid I imagined monsters everywhere when I was trying to sleep, or spiders crawling in my space. I did this weird blinking and tongue clicking routine that would create an imaginary force field to make those images go away so I could sleep. I started getting them during the day as well and ended up using the routine every time I felt scared or grossed out lol Could’ve just been a little kid thing but I still do it sometimes!!

one summer i was absolutely petrified of getting a paper cut, i would look away any time i saw books or paper 😅

That I can’t trust anyone of my siblings which anything I own🙁

Losing gravity or randomly falling into space

I had a fear when I was a kid that if I didn’t cover myself entirely with the blankets when going to bed, that I would be visited by this skeletal monster I dreamed up that would reach from under the bed up to touch the unexposed parts.

Does Any time I've had a fear of one specific person count