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I'm 26 and live at home because I'm severely mentally ill lol. My parents pay for whatever, just like MJ I procrastinate and I also struggle to work full-time and that makes me feel like a total bum. And just like MARS, I was constantly blamed for things and accused of being manipulative when I was a child and nobody else thinks I was in the slightest, it was projection of my mother's own mental issues whenever she felt jealous (of course her being awful made my dad more protective and it was a cycle). I never dared ask for things as a child and now I feel awkward about getting anything. I look at my belongings and all I feel is guilt and like I don't deserve them. But am I spoiled? Probably not. I'm comfortable, my parents def aren't poor and they don't let financial stuff become a stressor to me. Society tends to condition us to feel unworthy of anything we haven't slaved for. And I feel as if I'm just taking from my family when I want to be able to give. It's rough. But feeling guilty about it isn't going to motivate me to change what I'm not happy about, it only puts me in a worse state of mind to improve things.
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Yes. I'm 22, I live at home. I'm an online student because I didnt do well in my exams the first time round. My mental health is crap. I dont work, my parents pay for my tuition too and they said i dont have to work as long as i pass my exams. I procrastinate a lot when I'm stressed and i feel like a spoilt brat. I dont think in my heart I'm spoilt, I know how lucky I am but i feel that others will think I'm a brat and I've not had struggles because my parents helped me out so much. :(
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When I was a child before my parents lost their jobs/my mother got sick, I was an extremely spoiled child. It didn’t help my dad put a lot of blame on me and said i was manipulative (me being a literal child at the time) so I completely understand your guilt. I can see where the ocd in my own childhood would come from now that I look back because I too felt this same exact guilt to where I would stop asking for things because I felt so bad. Katie is right, ocd takes things completely out of proportion.
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Look at OCD there ready to leap into action at any moment! It's blowing this out of proportion
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Sometimes i feel like im using ocd as an excuse. What if i dont really have it and im just freaking myself out? Does anyone feel this way
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I feel like a really terrible person right now, I keep replaying this, and no matter what I can’t remember what happened, it’s like my brain is purposely not letting me think about it. Without wasting any more time, I’ll get into it. Basically, I was at Walmart, and looking at cards with My Dad, I saw anime ones, took pictures of them for my sister, even ones that were anime kids, because I did my best to ignore it, so I looked at a Hunter x Hunter card, I stared at the black haired kid, being all like “ I’m glad I’m not having any thoughts about this, I’m glad I’m having normal thoughts and not thinking anything” I felt happy, then as soon as I looked at killua (white haired kid), everything collapsed. I don’t know what happened, my brain won’t let me remember. But I’ll give bits and pieces. I think that I had false attraction, and something in my head, said “oh, I wouldn’t mind being attracted.” “He is attractive, and I’m attracted to him.” “I remember a girl thinking he is attractive and he is” “ It’s not wrong to be attracted” “ I don’t care about his age” .. something along the lines of that, and now I’m panicking super hard, because I’m worried if I said those things, I feel like I ruined my life that I’m a pe//do and deserve nothing, idk what to do, I feel terrible… I remember when I was having the intrusive thoughts, I was panicking and was worrying, but it kept playing out, and I kept hearing things talk, it was drawn out too long, that now I feel convinced that I was saying those things, I tested it too, and I can confirm that I didn’t say that, but why am I still not convinced? I know I wouldn’t say those things, I was hoping the complete opposite would happen. My brain kept making me feel like it wasn’t wrong and it was okay. Maybe that’s why I’m so convinced I did that. I’m just spiraling super bad right now, I don’t know what to do or what to think, I don’t know if I said that or not… even if I did test it, I genuinely just feel like I said it, and I wanted it, because I still feel uncertain, I still feel like I said it, part of me just wants to be like oh I did and so I can move on, not because I agree with it, I just don’t know what else to do… I’m really scared.
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