Guys I'm scared. It was finals week this last week, so I've had to do a lot of studying and preparing for tests. This has kept my mind busy and my ocd hasn't been nearly as bad as it's been. Now that the week is over, I fear my ocd will get exponential worse, as it tends to do when I get bored or have nothing to do. Any tips? I feel like forcing myself to be busy will just make it worse, because then I'd be using it as a compulsion.

Rylieraz

Date posted: 5y

I can relate completely to this too. Just finished yesterday and I’m already worse in my OCD and anxiety. I don’t have many tips because I’m really new to this whole OCD thing and my family doesn’t all know about my diagnosis either so it’s kind of hard to be around them with all my obsessions and compulsions. All I can say is that you’re not alone in this feeling and I believe in us that we can get over it! ❤️

Jordean

Date posted: 5y

Aw I’ve been there too. I’ve basically had ocd my whole life but only discovered that I had it about a year ago and it completely changed my life. I bawled for 2 hours when I figured it out. I had hocd at the time so I was compulsively searching on the internet for evidence that “I was gay” and came across a bunch of articles describing it as a symptom of ocd. Absolutely changed my life. I don’t know how yours manifests and you might not know everything yet either but I promise it can only get better from here. I hope you have a supportive family who will understand—but if that’s not the case the people on this forum understand. My biggest piece of advice is just to never submit to it, know who you are deep inside, and look your fears in the face even when you’re scared. People with ocd are the bravest people I’ve met simply because we look fear in the face ever single day and keep going regardless. You made it here. We can get through this ❤️

Rylieraz

Date posted: 5y

@Jordyn ? This really helped me- I just posted something about how I have obsessive thoughts and dreams that essentially feel like I have imposter syndrome in the OCD community. I feel like when I read about people with different or more intense types of OCD that I don’t really have it because mine seems small and new. Thank you for your support- I need all of it that I can get going into this holiday season ??

Jordean

Date posted: 5y

@Rylieraz No problem! And it’s super common for people with ocd to doubt they even have ocd, it’s a weird thing that happens but I’ve definitely been there too. You got it!

Jordean

Date posted: 5y

Aw girl I totally get this. I just got back home after my finals and had the same kind of worry. You just gotta let those thoughts come to you, kinda like letting a wave crash over you. Remind yourself that you’ve been here before and you can get through it again. I had an ocd moment last night actually, because my family wanted to go to the movies and movie theaters are weirdly enough one of my triggers because as a kid I was always afraid of what the screen would show me in the dark, and now I have negative associations with the smell of popcorn and loud surround sound. But I love my family so I forced myself through it. You just gotta let those feelings come and go and be like, okay, I know this feeling, but I also know it can’t hurt me. It’s really hard, but I know you got it girl. You can get through this I promise

bluerose

Date posted: 5y

Thank you everyone ❤

Ellen_l

Date posted: 23w

Advice?

I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!

johnnn

Date posted: 23w

whats up guys what are some tips dealing with ocd and what to do when a thought makes u anxious ??

ConstantPain

Date posted: 23w

Dealing with a lot. Need support and company.

My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.

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