Community discussion: OCD’s biggest lies

Someone will understand if I keep explaining

That im a bad person

that I'll be able to rest after I complete something

that i ran over someone, despite confirming with evidence that it was literally impossible to have ran over someone without feeling a bump or seeing anything when my eyes were on the road

"Some thoughts are bad and need to be understood and stopped." I no longer believe that my thoughts make me evil, and I don't need to figure them out or ascribe meaning to them. They can exist, they can even still be scary and upsetting sometimes, and that's ok. I don't need to do anything about them.

That I ONLY have to do something like 24 times and then maybeeee I will feel better ❤️‍🩹

That I am going to be abandoned

I need to do everything I possibly can to fight intrusive thoughts

That I’m secretly ill so I have to keep checking because I probably missed something

It’s makes me think I’m going mental and gives me the worst intrusive thoughts

i’m schizophrenic

I'll always feel bad if I don't do a compulsion.

It's silly body image things for me sometimes, IE if I don't wear hair gel I am ugly

Which one? They all have been quite big and degrading. Literally the complete polar opposite of what and who I am and represent.

OCD has tried to make me think that I was going to suffer a stroke if I ate certain foods.

I’m not responsible enough to have actually closed the fridge, turned off the tap and locked the door.

OCD constantly trys to convince me over and over that I am in trouble, not doing things right, and a terrible mom. I know that is all BS intellectually but the anxiety of that thought is pervasive.

That everyone around me were actors and demons 💔💔💔💔

That something bad will happen if you don't act.

The unlikely scenario feeling like the only possible outcome hit hard for me. Trigger warning: Undergoing some medical tests for an issue. One of my results was very low. Google said one possible cause is a fatal disease. One that would be exceedingly rare for my age but still on the list of possibilities. My mind is stuck on that potential diagnosis. I practiced ERP today and even though sitting with fear was very difficult, I did not spend hours researching like I usually do. My therapist and I worked on saying, "I don't even know." OCD tries to steal my peace by preparing for an outcome that's not even guaranteed.

The worst of it was a year or so of “this is within your own mind, therefore you can’t prove it to anyone, and you being here observing this happening doesn’t mean anything” triggered over-explaining everything and seeking reassurance, feeling alone in it doesn’t really do the feeling justice. It’s truly awful.

It said that I didn't deserve to be healthy and I would never loose weight.

That I can find the PERFECT way/ time/place to say something so that I can control how it is received.

That I am crazy

I’ll have the answer if I can just figure out this final piece of the puzzle. Let me ruminate on it more - ugh.

I can save everyone

That's not that weird

I actually attribute all negative thoughts and things as ways the devil tries to keep us from the life God himself promised us! He always wants what God wants, but see he ain't never been anything more than a liar, a thief! God ain't lied to nor left me, or not brought me thru anything thrown my way! I literally kid you not!!!

That I am actually evil and that I am so evil that I tricked myself into thinking I have OCD to use it as an facade for my evilness and also that I gave myself amnesia to forget Im evil and actually believe I have OCD

It put you to sleep

That first comment said it all for me