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- 4y ago
I also struggle with obsessions over past decisions and actions and even accidents I caused, even though the accidents are just: wrong place wrong time things.. I also don’t know which memories are real anymore..
I'm sorry you're going through this :( but you're surviving/dealing with this and that is impressive. Sending you a big hug pal. What techniques have you used to cope?
@Daffodil Thank you, hugs for you to. In terms of coping, I have not found anythings yet. I cannot forgive myself for many things. My OCD started about three months ago, but I’ve had symptoms for a long time. I still have toget diagnosed officially (waiting list), but my psych thinks it is and so do I. It explains the symptoms I had since I was younger, but they were only minor. It was until the breakdown, the OCD got really bad. Ever since then I keep thinking about the pas and many regrets. I have always felt guilty rather fast and felt responsible for bad things that happend around me. What does kind of help is writing things down or saying my thoughts out loud
I'm currently in the midst of this real event OCD. I done something's in my past that I'm really not proud of but I can't change the fact I did. Only thing now we can do is treat it like a regular OCD thought and understand the level of guilt we feel, even if what we done was wrong, isn't an appropriate level.
I would say you should not look at your study abroad experience as a huge failure but as a huge learning opportunity. You showed great courage in getting out of your familiar environment and trying something new. This is very hard with OCD. As people with OCD, we have to be ultra careful that our hierarchy of needs is met- safety, housing, food, clothing, then social and emotional needs then lastly career/educational. You uproot your whole life to go study abroad so it is easy to see how the foundation of your stability was disrupted
Thank you! I just cant stop being angry at myself x
Hey thanks for the advice! I'm so sorry about the breakdown, but its great you're seeing a psych and you're using this app! Things will get better, even if it doesn't feel like it. I'll try what helps you to see if that works for me too. Theres lots of links between hyper responsibility and fear of guilt within OCD, I'm not sure if that helps but sometimes it helps me to know the way I'm feeling is more or less a hallmark of my disorder . It sometimes allows me to get a bit of space. ?
Hi there! Does anyone else experience real event OCD? My days lately are filled with (sometimes) crippling guilt and shame over real things that have happened in the past. These are all things that are relatively minor in the grand scheme of things. I’ve talked to friends/family/therapists about them and I’m reassured they aren’t “that bad” but my mind can’t seem to let them go. Anyone else dealing with this? Any tips for forward progress? Much love to you all. ❤️
There are my pasts which I am not proud of and make huge mistakes.......now after so long suddenly these memories are coming back to me.....getting a worse anxiety...and feeling shit about myself...I don't think so I can ever forgive my self It turns me to a bad person...I don't know what to do.....how to live anymore..Is this even normal in OCD....or it's not my OCD...I don't know how to correct my past..
How can I accept uncertainty about a real event that my ocd is latching onto (past mistake)? How can I do erp for it and does anyone have any tips that could possibly help me out? It’s about a mistake I made a long time ago, I think a few years ago, that is haunting me and I feel like it’s so bad that no one could possibly understand and there’s no way I could get better. If anyone has overcome this, do you have any advice that I could use to possibly heal from this or maybe learn something from it? I would truly appreciate it
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