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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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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
@pureolife Yes hocd
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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
Yeah I’m trying to accept them I just have to remember feelings are not facts
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- 5y ago
@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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- 4w ago
I think when people are saying OCD is egodystonic is really triggering me and I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? I’m going through a really bad relapse and right now I’m trying to figure out if my thoughts are truly egodystonic, like I how do I know I won’t act on them, how can I trust my emotions and everything. I feel really confused and I feel like I don’t know who I am anymore or how I carry on with life because it’s so long and I’m so unsure of everything that’s going on in my head. Like how do I know that this is OCD and true desires/urges. I’m so confused.
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- 25d ago
Hi I just have a few questions! (Im 14 btw) Okay so basically I’m really worried I’ll become a pedo/I already am and I don’t know it yet. I’m also really scared if I SA someone, even tho I don’t want to and I’d never do something like that but I feel like this part of me is saying that I will and it’s really scaring me. I feel so alone and I’m so scared I’m a bad person on the inside and this isn’t ocd and I’m gonna unleash hell on this earth I’m so scared. I’ll get a thought like if I’m walking past someone random it will be like “What if you sa them?” And it scares me so bad I feel horrible for thinking that. Is this apart of it? I feel like I’m always fixated on the topic of sa to check if I would do something like that, I don’t know anymore I just feel like a bad person (btw I have not done anything like that to anyone!)
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