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OCD will probably make it impossible to really know that. I mean you can ask yourself: I’m I otherwise really happy and excited about who I am, but worried others won’t be? But chances are, OCD will find a way to twist and manipulate your emotions to make you think the answer is yes. So the answer is: maybe. Allow for maybe and only maybe. Not yes or no or probably. Just maybe. Sit with that uncertainty and the anxiety it causes until it drifts away without trying to resolve it further.
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Well I feel sick at the thoughts and don’t enjoy them but when I think of girls I feel nice and happy
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I’m guessing you’re taking about HOCD, and the answer is still: maybe. You can’t know 100% that your fear isn’t true when you have OCD. You just can’t.
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@pureolife Yes hocd
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One thing that is the hardest part of OCD is you have to accept that you will never know truly. This does not mean you are what your thoughts are telling you it means you have to accept the uncertainty. No matter how many times somebody tells you, you aren’t that way your OCD will never let you believe them. So biggest step to recovery is accepting that you may never know! That’s what helped me, and I was dealing with the same type of ocd.
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Yeah I’m trying to accept them I just have to remember feelings are not facts
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@JS0406 Yep exactly! Keep working hard, that’s one of the hardest parts of recovery so it’s ok if it doesn’t always work. You can do it!!
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There’s something that happens that keeps me stuck in a thought, it’s when I can see some part of myself agreeing with or relating to it in some way. That’s when the doubt creeps in. If I can understand *why* the thought is there, doesn’t that mean it’s not just random? Doesn’t that mean it actually reflects something about me? For example **(TMI/TW)**: I had the thought, *“I wonder what other people’s kinks are (including friends, family, even teenagers).”* And then I caught myself thinking, *“Well, I guess that could be interesting information… maybe I wouldn’t even stop someone from sharing it with me. Does that mean I actually want to know? Wait—does that make me perverted or incestuous for even having this curiosity?”* The same thing has happened with other thoughts, like wondering what someone’s privates might look like. I recognize that, on some level, that could be interesting—but does that mean the thought is truly mine? Maybe the answer is super obvious and I just can’t see through my OCD smoke. This was a bit embarrassing for me to write 🥲, but can anyone provide some insight?
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hi! i often fear im going to lose my job because i made a “mistake” (not really) that my manager caught and is waiting to tell me about or i fear im going to be kicked off the roster of a team im on for small mistakes that everyone makes. this often compels me to ask those people if i did good or not and gauge their reactions to see if theyre going to remove me and i fall into a cycle of asking and asking. how do you guys deal with these feelings / compulsions? when im flaring i often just spend as much time around these people as possible to gather “evidence” of their opinion on me, but then i get nervous that they hate me for being clingy. i also abandon other duties / tasks so i can spend time with these people to make sure they like me. what do you guys do? anyone else experience the sentiment?
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i’m terrified to get a diagnosis. What if it’s not actually OCD??? I made a list of reasons why i think so and then i think what if im lying and i actually don’t do this stuff and am just dramatic and i just want to have OCD so then my thoughts are justified?? I have struggled in the past year with Pocd & Rocd and then also some bits of thinking im constantly in danger or being watched? I’m scared.
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