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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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!
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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.
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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.
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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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- 25w ago
Everything feels so real. I think learning about non-offending pedophiles has really screwed with me. I feel like I’m not even doing compulsions anymore like I genuinely cannot remember if I do them or not and the groinal responses are messing with me. I keep having intrusive dreams and I’m in that half asleep state and I feel nothing after that or I feel weird like a good weird, I don’t know. It’s a really weird feeling when I get those thoughts but I don’t like them, I don’t think. All I know is, I keep seeking reassurance and I feel like I don’t have OCD because the way I feel, like the way I get worked up isn’t the same as others. Whenever I try to watch a show, like 9-1-1 or daily dose of sunshine, I feel like I’m watching something I shouldn’t be. Or if I’m just on my phone, I feel like something is going to happen. I feel red flags whenever I’m on my phone, like somehow cp will appear. I know that OCD is the doubting disorder but my god, this is just crazy. I feel like I’m going crazy. Everything is just nonstop, it’s so constant and I’m genuinely scared that I’ll do something when I get out of my room. I don’t know anymore, this whole OCD thing is just making me lose my mind.
- Date posted
- 24w ago
Earlier today for about a few hours i spent the whole entire time in my room researching a certain topic and feeling 100% convinced it was true and that it was the real me and i never had ocd. There was convincing evidence too. I was freaking out, crying, etc. i hardly remember what i was thinking, its almost like i blacked out. I keep trying to remember because from what i do remember some of the thoughts kinda bother me. I ended up calming down and snapping back into what i think is reality, and felt completely opposite of what i was thinking just 5 minutes prior. Im so confused, i dont know who i am, i feel like im actually going crazy.
- Date posted
- 21w ago
I have constantly been feeling like if I hit one arm, I have to hit the other and if I set something down and it just didn’t look right or feel right I had to do it again or I had to move it to a different spot in my room I’ve had never been a clean freak, which is mainly what I get told is OCD And I don’t know if I should even have this app. I don’t know if I actually have it. I’m constantly worried that I did something in my past that harmed others and that’s why people don’t like me or I’m constantly worried People are constantly watching me and I don’t know if that’s OCD or if I have it so please tell me I will delete this app and never think of it again if I don’t I just really wanna know
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