Does anyone else feel shaky and spacey when they’re having a bad ocd day. I feel like I’m barely in my body. I keep having to manually refocus and resume what I’m doing.

Yes! I can relate. Even when I try to refocus, the feelings are still there...subtle reminder of the anxiety at all times.

I have stretches where I feel completely disconnected from everything around me. Like I’m just living in a dream. It’s awful. But, when my anxiety eases up, that symptom typically does as well.

I absolutely have a tremor due to the ocd and also yes to the spacey. My tremor is so bad literally every day that other people notice, like my friends have called me a chihuahua before and I’m constantly knocking things over. When it’s really bad I literally look like I’m having a seizure like when the anxiety goes up around 7+ the shaking really gets that bad. And the spacey thing... sometimes I dissociate but that’s rare. On a daily basis I get “stuck in my head” or my brain gets stuck in a loop or sometimes it feels like my brain shuts down. I can be walking from one room of my house to another room and boyfriend says something that upsets me (it doesn’t even have to be mean I can spiral over anything) and I just freeze wherever I’m standing, looking wherever I was looking, mind goes blank, forget what I was doing, etc. That one I call paralyzing. I can also just be “not here” and by that I mean I can be at work doing things but I’m totally mentally absorbed in some kind of reassurance or analyzing or ruminating or trying to solve something that’s not even in my vicinity and it’s stupid shit. Like my brain will obsessively get stuck on rearranging a cabinet or something and I can’t make my brain be present because no matter what I’m doing all I can think about is deciding how I want to arrange it. Or googling something bc I have to know all the answers and I read every single website on the first page of google and then all of a sudden it’s like midnight and idk where my day went. No matter how hard I try to pay attention to the thing I’m trying to do, I can’t control it for longer than 5 seconds because the intrusive thoughts take over.

Yup. Feels surreal almost, like you’re just existing and vibrating from tension

When Im having a bad ocd day I cant focus and I just feel panicky. If its really bad I will start crying and just not being able to do anything ?

yes!! i feel almost out of focus and tend to find myself zoning out for longer periods of time

I’ve been even having weird thoughts like “if I’m just a body being run by electrical impulses in a brain, then am I really me at all?” I hate how our own mind does this stuff.

Yeah same