Sensorimotor and checking OCD ~ First post on NOCD. Does anyone else have an abnormal amount of focus on bodily sensations? How do you deal with it? Also the doubt that comes with harm coming to your loved ones if you don’t check something in a “special” way. What helped you the most?

Perfectionism OCD

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 4y ago

If I don’t turn the light switch or sink off the right way, I worry that something bad will happen to a family member. I have coped with this by reminding myself that there is absolutely no way this is possible and that my family wouldn’t want me obsessively turning the switch on and off for them. It’s not like they would be upset with me if I didn’t give in to this compulsion

Username: guavasliceguavaslice

Date posted: 4y ago

I relate to this completely, whether it’s switching the light on and off or stepping the “right” way with my feet there’s no way that my loved ones would want me to be under so much duress and occupied with trivialities for there sake. Thank you for sharing!

Username: magical-thinking-kannamagical-thin...

Date posted: 4y ago

@guavaslice What I do this too. I do it a lot. But it’s never really been mentioned in magical thinking OCD. could I have checking OCD?

Username: magical-thinking-kannamagical-thin...

Date posted: 4y ago

@magical-thinking-kanna I’m so hyper aware of my heart too, I hate it, I feel it beating and it’s all tingly all the time. But my intrusive thoughts are so focused around bad things happening to people I love, so I have to do these rituals to make those thoughts not come true

Username: guavasliceguavaslice

Date posted: 4y ago

@magical-thinking-kanna Look into “sensorimotor” ocd, Im not sure if it goes into checking or magical thinking or whether it has its own category. It’s definitely super frustrating though! I tend to overthink about whatever body part I’m using at any given moment.

Username: lucas..lucas..

Date posted: 4y ago

I do struggle with sensorimotor OCD a lot. On top of that it kinda mixes with my counting obsession and my head just stays a mess. About dealing with that, I usually have with me a chewing necklace for anxiety and it helps me to calm down and I found that I can stop focusing on my body sensations by switching the focus to the chewing on my necklace, like chewing a certain number of times and things like that. Idk if it made sense to you or if I couldn’t explain it correctly but that’s what I found That helps.

Username: Hope8Hope8

Date posted: 4y ago

I literally got so hyperaware of my swallowing when I was 8 that I convinced myself that I couldn’t swallow. My parents took me to all of these GI doctors, who all said theres nothing wrong, its all psychological. My advice for when i cant stop checking my body or focusing on swallowing, I remind myself that my body knows what its doing with out me paying attention to it. Then i distract myself with a tv show or a good book to focus on something else.

Username: Christian

Date posted: 6y ago

Hello everyone! (Existential Obsessions) I have struggled with anxiety since I was a young boy. I remember worrying when I was younger that I was inadvertently trying to harm my mother, even though I love my mother more than anyone in the world. It’s shifted more times than I can count, from worrying about poisoning or contamination to thinking that I had heart disease. It’s all the same animal just shape shifting into whatever I fear most at the given time. Currently, (trigger warning) I am constantly obsessed with the fear of developing some sort of delusion or schizophrenia. I am 25 years old (I know that it would’ve probably developed by now) and have no schizophrenia in my gene pool. But I am constantly checking my thoughts to see if they sound delusional or if I am hallucinating my reality. This of course if extremely frustrating for someone with OCD because there is never going to be any definitive proof that I am not going mad. It has caused me extreme discomfort over the past few months and has brought me to extreme states of panic. I was wondering if any of you deal with existential OCD or fears of losing touch with reality. Of course, some days this seems laughable and others I can almost taste the insanity. On paper, everything in my life is going amazingly but in truth I can’t seem to enjoy any of it because I have these nightmarish intrusions of everything falling apart around me. Is this a common symptom? P.S I already run a few miles a day, meditate, do yoga and am working on strengthening my CBT. Any other suggestions?

Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 6y ago

Anyone else have purely obsessional Ocd and has issues with “checking” by replaying conversations and events and exploring all possible worst case possibilities in their head incessantly?. Experiencing this with work right now and could really use some support in this moment.

Username: T123

Date posted: 5y ago

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