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- 6y
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- 6y
This is normal to want more knowledge on your illness so you can understand it and fight it! But if you start searching for reassurance or reading about other peoples ocd then I really highly recommend you dont
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- 6y
When I first learned about intrusive thoughts and ocd, I did so much research and read forums, articles, studies, watched you tubers and everything. I definitely used it as a compulsion and have stopped because it was only feeding my ocd. I think knowledge is power too though and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to know what is going on in your head! Just be careful to not let it be a compulsion!
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- 6y
OCD shows itself in different forms, and the way it shows itself doesn’t really matter. The truth is that we latch onto an intrusive thought and obsess over it (the thought doesn’t matter, the obsessing does) and it’s all just fear and anxiety-nothing more. There is no exact definition for OCD thoughts, feelings, or actions because we’re all different with different brains and thoughts and compulsions. You’re OCD will manifest itself as whatever scares you and it will make you feel like you need to do something about this irrational fear so you perform compulsions. It’s totally normal for ocd to look different in each sufferer, the similarity is the obsessing and compulsions.
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- 6y
Yeah but I can’t tell what is triggering it, it’s like any free time I have it’s there. And I see in this moment how obsessively searching about ocd is ocd but then in a lot of other places in my life I don’t see it.
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- 6y
Well I would refrain from searching them. You will get confused when you read someone’s situation that is similar to yours but you may not have the exact same symptoms and then this can trigger you to think if you even have ocd. It can be trouble ha
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- 6y
Yeah probably. And yeah that is my fear, what if I don’t have a correct diagnosis, a friend of mine has ocd and he thinks I don’t cause his looks so different.
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- 16w
i’ve thought that i have OCD for about 2 years now, but i’ve had a lot of the symptoms for as long as i can remember (but i don’t really remember a lot of my childhood- i need to check w family to confirm). i’ve talked to my gf about it, and she thinks i just have GAD and am a hypochondriac. i definitely do have GAD, but the things i have obsessions and compulsions ab aren’t just health related (even tho a lot are), ill imagine that people are injured or dead if i don’t hear from them, i ruminate on childhood events and think about if i could have changed things, i blame myself for things that aren’t my fault, i check all of the locks in my house every night to make sure nobody can break in (even tho ik they’re locked), etc. my GAD more shows up in worrying about like worrying about an upcoming exam or about going into work, or that my friends/family/gf are/is mad at me. i know you guys can’t diagnose me, but the i can’t see a therapist on here until i am able to tell my current therapist that i need to see someone else. i just wanted to talk about it i guess, ive taken so many online quizzes and psych classes that i feel like i somewhat know what im talking about.
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- 16w
Ever since I found out about relationship OCD, I’ve been researching non-stop. Google, Reddit, ChatGPT, this app… I regret it deeply. Before I knew what ROCD was, I still had disturbing thoughts, but I didn’t spiral like this. I didn’t question reality this deeply. But now… it’s like I’ve implanted in my mind that I have a disorder that’s “unfixable” or that only gets better with time. And even though I struggled before, since I started researching obsessively, I feel like I’ve completely lost control. My boyfriend told me that I’ve gotten worse ever since I began searching. And I see it — I used to be able to express love. I used to say “I love you” a lot. Now I can’t even say it. And when I did say it before, I think I was using it like a compulsion — like if I say it enough, maybe the thoughts will stop. But they didn’t. Now I can’t even be intimate without feeling this horrible discomfort, sometimes even disgust. And I remember telling my therapist that — and she said it’s not normal to feel disgust when your partner touches you. That devastated me. It stuck in my head. And now? It all feels real. Not like “just thoughts.” It feels like I’m denying the truth, like I’ve ruined everything by digging too deep. I’m not myself anymore. I’m not the girlfriend I used to be. I feel like I’ve lost everything — even my ability to feel love. There’s a constant pressure in my chest, like a weight I can’t describe. And no matter what anyone says — whether it’s hopeful or scary — it doesn’t bring me peace. I feel completely lost inside my own mind. I don’t even know why I’m posting. Maybe because I just want to feel less alone.
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- 16w
Does anyone else feel, if they know everything about a topic that you then have control over it? For example, when I first started trying to figure out what was hurting me and identifying it as OCD, I would and sometimes still do, research every detail I could find and read other people's experience obsessively. Doing this made me feel like I would be able to control my obsession and compulsions, the more I knew the more I could control. A lot of the time it just makes me more anxious and discouraged but I still do it when I think I can fix myself. I also this with other mental health disorders and topics, where I research until I feel like the learned information will equip me with more control.
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