What is truly the worst subtype? (I would appreciate if you took the time to read this <3)

I gotta say mine was POCD & real event ocd mixed together 🥺 it made me not want to have kids or be near any at all.

I would definitely agree that your current theme is always the worst theme. Two years ago I thought I would never recover from Health OCD and was going to die soon. It was horrible at the time and it felt so real. My theme shifted more to taboo thoughts and harm and I wouldn’t want to go back to health OCD but I now think this is the worst theme. OCD will always find what matters to you most and attack it. I think the theme doesn’t matter so much because the approach is always the same. Sitting with the discomfort and letting the thoughts pass without compulsions!

My worst theme was either Schizophrenia OCD combined with real event/false memory (being paranoid that someone I could have hurt in my past was going to come hurt me out of revenge). And currently False Memory is really painful for me.

Health OCD is really horrible. Every little shift in my body causes catastrophic thinking and being convinced I’m dying. No one can talk me out of it. It takes over everything. I haven’t experienced a bunch of other subtypes but living every second in fear of death is debilitating.

Hello my friend. Hope you're doing well. For me, existential ocd about the nature of reality and eternity is the hardest by far because it feels like there is no exit, no end to the suffering, it makes you feel existentially isolated and doubt every single thing. It's like there's no ground under your feet and it never will be. You will also never get the answers to your questions either. Schiziphrenia ocd and health themes have also been tough but not on the same level for me. Take care <3

For me ROCD has been the most consistent and awful and consuming. I feel its so much stickier than other subtypes, but pocd is horribly unpleasant as well. I personally experience cycling through different ones when i have a flare up and itll start small and ramp up. But rocd is the one thats most distressing to me, and i hate how it affects myself, and my relationship.

In my experience each obsession feels like the worst one because they’re all different names for the same thing, and each time they get more personal and clever. I agree with another user who said ROCD is particularly difficult because it impacts the relationship in question so negatively. But I’ve had many themes and always I thought it couldn’t get worse, and it did.