- Date posted
- 5y
- Date posted
- 5y
This is one of my main obsessive themes, so maybe I can help. I’m also hypersensitive to my environment and find myself searching for sounds and checking if I’m hallucinating or not. How did I move through it? Lots of ERP. Face your fear and run towards it, not away from it. Am I hearing things that are not real? Maybe, I do t know for sure. The uncertainty around this thought makes me feel anxious and uncomfortable, because I truly do not know for sure. I am going to keep telling myself this any time I feel myself doing a compulsion...including mental compulsions like mental reviewing and scanning.
- Date posted
- 5y
It’s hard because I know my ocd will obsess over it ?
- Date posted
- 5y
I completely get what you mean. Looking at it from an ERP standpoint, we’re supposed to just sit with that discomfort of avoiding checking and have that anxiety slowly decrease. But it’s def hard!
- Date posted
- 5y
Battle what fears you have. You can start slowly. Don’t avoid anything that may trigger you. This is one of my main fears and I let it get to the point where I couldn’t be alone. And had to work my way out of it. It gets better if you live your life by your standards and don’t let your fears control it. I couldn’t even say schizophrenia now I can watch those who have it online and realize that their life isn’t over like I feared mine would be.
- Date posted
- 5y
That’s so amazing. I’m trying to not let myself get to the point where it is controlling my life, but I do notice it’s something that comes up sometimes and I need to not give it the power and meaning it wants.
- Date posted
- 5y
@Evelyn4416 Keep up the good work! Ocd is powerful but we are stronger.
- Date posted
- 5y
I was just reading something about it too and freaked myself out.....I’m on the same page...
- Date posted
- 5y
We should just make a pact to not search out or read things on that subject ?
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y
Ooooof my biggest OCD. I have a lot I could say but at the moment all i got is that you’re not alone and things truly do get better if you work your treatment — whatever that may be for you individually. “The only way out is through” Lots and lots of love
Related posts
- Date posted
- 24w
I’ve been feeling the urge to avoid intimacy or purposefully engage (for reassurance that I won’t give into a compulsion) because of intrusive thoughts and fear that I’ll “check/test” my reactions. My OCD is making me so scared that I’ll purposefully think of a child and try to see if I like it. It’s so complicated but I guess I’m mentally checking if I would mentally check during intimacy. I’ve even envisioned myself checking and it’s making me so nauseous. I know it’s a compulsion like any other but the sound of “touching yourself to the thought of a child” sounds atrocious and vile. I’m terrified I’ll automatically start checking next time I am being intimate. I truly feel so worried. If anyone has gone through something similar, I’d appreciate hearing your experience. Or if anyone has any advice?
- Harm OCD
- POCD
- Students with OCD
- Mid-life adults with OCD
- Older adults with OCD
- Young adults with OCD
- Real Events OCD
- "Pure" OCD
- Date posted
- 22w
I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
- Date posted
- 21w
i have such a fear of psychosis and schizophrenia, so i’m scared that i’m going to develop it and lose control over my OCD thoughts. If im very tired and my eyes get heavy i get so scared that im going to go crazy or that i have one or the other. and if i have a panic attack im convinced im going to develop it. does anyone have any tips on how to work though this? i saw a thing online that said people with these dont know the have it and that scared me into thinking i have it and dont know.
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond