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I completely understand. It feels as if we are what we think we are. After all, we have “solid evidence” that backs up our OCD’s claims, correct? It’s extremely difficult to have self compassion when the feelings of guilt and shame envelop you. We must forgive ourselves, admit that we are human and we inevitably make mistakes but they do not determine who we are as a person. We must look ahead and proceed to live life. Take care
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It’s so draining. But if you learn to have some self compassion I promise you will be able to get past whatever it is you’re thinking about
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is it normal to want to seek external validation for what i did? like, to tell certain people i love what i did,, to somehow get approval... even though i know what i did was wrong and horrible. It’s hard keeping it in, but i never want to confess. i don’t want to see it as a “confession” either. but.. idk.. it’s eating me away at this point
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@AlwaysHere It is very normal to want external validation
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@Itz Thank you! It’s so draining. I have to keep reminding myself I am not my past actions.
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@AlwaysHere My pleasure, and know this too. You are not you're worst moments and they do not define you.
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Can real event be something you did repeatedly? Or is it usually a one time thing that you feel guilty about doing
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It’s either. For me it’s both. I have something I did repeatedly, but stopped doing. And I have one that I did once, that I have overwhelming guilt for.
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@AlwaysHere I have the exactly the same but honestly talking about it did help however when I went down the rabbit hole of coffensing to my family I ended up thinking of more and more to confess to even if it wasn't bad or relavent
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@Itz I don’t tnink i’ll ever be able to confess, honestly. That’s too terrifying for what i did. I’d rather just keep it to myself, and learn to deal with the guilt.
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@AlwaysHere I understand that, good luck :)
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Yeah self compassion is key. I've told people in my life so I feel better but at the time I would just confess the lies of what the OCD feelings make me feel I must have done (way overblown). As sunflowers said, you have to stop trying to figure out how bad it was. For me that's what led into me thinking I did 100x worse even though that was delusional. I'm glad to feel much less guilt and confusion than I did back then. It only started to get any better once I did self compassion, and ERP/emotional processing to ruminate about it less. Accurate realisations of "how bad" it was and the actual facts of what I was responsible for Vs not came later.
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Hey, I wanted to message you again. Is there anyway we can chat? Like on skype, or email, or anything?
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Oh god yes it is exhausting
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Yesssss! I’ve done things in the past to ppl and now that I think about it, it’s not even that bad. But for some reason my mind is blowing it out of the water and making me feel like the person is going to get revenge on me. And I’ve just been feeling regret and anxiety bc I don’t know what’s real and what’s not
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im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.
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Hi there I talk about religion (but I'm not trying to force it down anyone's throat) So my main event (which is the one that truly bothers me) happened in 2015 when I was 14. I won't go into any details or anything. I will say that it got so bad once that I almost committed something detrimental to my health earlier this year. Not long after that I spoke to a doctor and basically confessed what's been happening to my brain and my mistakes, he mentioned things that really resonated with me, I'll paraphrase a bit: "Okay, so what you did was not good but it's not something to condemn yourself for. It falls into the grey area, you've apologized and have been forgiven (even though I apologized over text, which comes across cowardly)but it seems that you haven't forgiven yourself. There's a whole lot of difference between you at 14 and you at 23. Try to have some perspective." This really helped and it still does, but unfortunately ocd tries to find a way around this. I'll get a thought of "oh but you forgot to mention that other part of the event" and it magnifies it. Can anyone relate? I've done everything but fully move on because I sometimes feel like I don't deserve to move on. And I'm still worried over the future.
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Feel guilty for not giving into compulsions like rumination and confessing? I feel guilt for having an intrusive thought, trying to shrug it off or just giving it a few seconds of thought and moving along. This sounds like improvement but I still struggle with the anxiety and the guilt. The shame. I’ll be okay and then I’ll remember I have OCD and my stomach will drop and I just want to curl up and cry.
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