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- 6y
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Knocking on wood is one of my biggest compulsions. Whenever I have a thought about something bad happening to someone I care about I have to knock on wood... I feel like evil spirits are watching me and will act if I don’t ?
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That’s exactly what I do. Wow I thought I was the only one! Knocking on wood is one of the main compulsions that I have. Every time I see an intrusive thought I have to tap on wood 5 times.
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ugh yes. religious ocd is usually used to describe stuff specific religious fear, but i’ve also heard that it falls into superstitions. that was a big problem for me. superstitions are so easy to have compulsions around bc they’re ritualistic and make you feel safe. honestly? i keep a piece of wood on me. i have a piece of wooden jewelry to knock on, but i used to just keep a pencil in my bag to discretely knock on. and if you can do that it may disrupt your life less, which can let you slowly knock less and less when you want to
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Yup! I used to knock on wood 70 times a day
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I believe in superstitions too. I read somewhere it’s common with OCD sufferers. Im scared of walking under the ladder, walking on the crevices on the sidewalk, avoid numbers 4,9,13, but I’m okay with opening an umbrella inside the apartment and I absolutely adore black cats!! And yes I do “knock on wood”.
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That's one of mine!! It drives me crazy honestly... I understand that it makes no sense... Like logically I know that knocking on wood won't do anything, but at the same time WHAT IF IT DOES?! It doesn't... But my brain won't accept that. Part of my brain is like hey this is dumb and the other part is like nah, you gotta or something really bad will happen. It's a constant inner struggle where my brain is fighting itself and I'm fighting myself. I only knock on wood if it's available... If it isn't I knock on my head & it's embarrassing to do it in front of other people but i feel so unbelievably anxious if I don't.
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know from a long time ago, but, I’m new to NOCD. I thought I was the only one going around saying or mentally knock on wood/actually knocking wood at a time several times a day. I feel better just knowing that. Thanks :)
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Me too, I felt so weird about it but now I know more people have done it too!!
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- 24w
I’ve had many types of OCD, but I gained control over them over the years, but a new one has started to arise. Do y’all ever have scary thoughts about something you might do? Recently I’ll get extremely uncomfortable no matter where I am because I can’t stop thinking about “what if I screamed really loud in my lecture class tomorrow?” And other stupid stuff like that. Also, this one is kind of funny, but sometimes when I use the bathroom I pause before because I think “what if I’m actually in class right now?” I also cannot control the thoughts about past embarrassing moments. I know everyone does, but I will become visibly uncomfortable and harp on something from years ago. This happens all throughout the day. Also, does anyone else do things that resemble tics when you get these thoughts. Like when they happen I’ll curse under my breath or like jerk my head a little bit. When I’m in public I keep it low key but when I’m alone sometimes I’ll physically get up and pace or something when those thoughts happen. Just curious if anyone has had these experiences
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Every night when I get home from work, I have this habit of touching the tree at the end of my street. Tonight I had an intrusive thought/ image of myself laughing at someone getting a serious health diagnosis. It caused my anxiety to increase as that’s so unlike me and I work in a hospital so I’m dealing with health problems on the daily and it’s not funny. My brain basically was telling me I had to go and touch all these trees again to rectify the situation or I can no longer buy items I was wanting to buy (had my eye on a few things to get). I just keep going doing I circles, I know it’s not logical but I can’t help it :(
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- 15w
I think it's important to be able to make fun of yourself and joke about these things, so, just for fun, what's the silliness obsession you've had? Here's mine: when I was six I convinced myself that my overdue library books would create a butterfly effect that would end the world
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