How do y'all deal with guilt and shame which comes after the gruesome, disgusting, disturbing unwanted intrusive thoughts? I am just 20 years old and I have so many dreams for my future I really miss my old self without OCD. I really really have these big dreams for myself, I've always been ambitious but sometimes the intrusive thoughts can be so dark it makes me think I don't deserve to be happy and chase these dreams.
I am facing the same thing. My OCD makes me believe that I killed someone even though I know it's out of my moral and I can't harm anyone but my intrusive thoughts and false images are so convincing sometimes that It's too difficult to differentiate between reality and OCD and after those thoughts and images I have been feeling strong guilt and shame. My OCD also tells me that I don't deserve to be happy. It's exhausting tbh and I am also looking for a way to manage.
Do you have anyone to talk to about it?!
@Anonymous Tbh I do have people to talk about these things but the people I know don't have OCD so they don't understand me clearly
I am 19 years old and I also want to live a peaceful live and have many goals I want to achieve but OCD doesn't let me live normally.
It's hard when you're so young and have dreams I completely get it😭
@Anonymous 😭😭😭
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Thank you so much 😭the river example really helps I will try that out. Also I'm gonna 100% get a therapist as soon as the funds are available because the cost is higher than our monthly income. Till then I am reading books from licensed psychologists and therapists and joining nocd and iocdf support groups has been really helping me not feel isolated.
Yeah. I'm 24 and the last 4 years that I have wasted have made me question my value as a person, and if I truly deserve any grand sense of happiness or a lavish life. I still want those things, of course, but there's some shame associated with that desire sometimes.
If you don't mind can you share what type of thoughts you have. I desperately wants to talk to someone.
I only wish that you are still able to achieve the things you want, guilt or not
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