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- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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
- Date posted
- 6y ago
Yup! I used to knock on wood 70 times a day
- Date posted
- 6y ago
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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- 6y ago
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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- 4y ago
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 :)
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Me too, I felt so weird about it but now I know more people have done it too!!
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- 12w ago
Does anyone imagine they are doing their harm thoughts during an action, making you feel like you acted on your thoughts? For example, someone gave me a hug and at the last second I imagined I was touching something I shouldn’t during the hug? I want to make it clear it’s something I have zero desire to do! But the problem is, I thought it on purpose and it makes me sick !! Obviously nothing happened but my mind is telling me that was me trying to do it. Even though it was physically impossible to do. Am I a monster or could this be OCD? I’m freaking out and don’t want to be here anymore. I feel like I’m the exception and that this isn’t OCD. I know I post about this stuff a lot but I’m struggling and don’t know what to do.
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- 9w ago
Today I've let myself go down a huge rabbit hole regarding this phrase and it's stressing me out. Sometimes, yes, it is that deep. But other times, it really isn't. I keep finding myself torn between these two ideals. I've been seeing all these videos regarding the rise of anti-intellectualism and the anti-woke mob, all that. These videos make me extremely worried about cancel culture and moral guilt, and they had me rethinking every morally wrong, gross, questionable thing or thought I ever had. I saw many comments saying that yes everything is that deep and it feels like my mind is on constant security and asking myself "what would the internet think about the things I've thought of or may have done?" On one hand, I feel like if I say "it's not that deep", I feel like a hypocrite or a bad person or an idiot. But on the other hand if I say "it is that deep", my OCD begins to spiral and analyze everything about myself. It's not healthy to overanalyze everything but it's also not healthy to ignore bad things. It's very stressful Does anyone relate to this?
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- 9w ago
When I was a child, before I knew this was OCD, I struggled with constant "magical thinking" compulsions (don't step on the crack or mom's back will actually break, etc). When I later learned this was OCD, it almost immediately solved it. Any time I got a magical thought, I would say to myself "that's just an OCD thought. ignore it." and it just stopped coming! Like seriously it fixed the magical thinking stuff forever. But of course the OCD has resurfaced in other ways. So naturally, I've tried to use the same strategy since I had so much success with it previously. But I wonder sometimes if telling myself "that's just OCD" is almost functioning as a reassurance compulsion? I hate how meta this gets. For example, I have ROCD that comes and goes. So sometimes I'll get a thought like "what if i'm still in love with my ex?" and then I'll tell myself "that's obviously just an ROCD thought" and will feel relief, almost like reassurance. But it comes back. So is telling myself that it's OCD a reassurance compulsion ?? It's just so weird because it worked so perfectly as a kid with the magical thinking thing.
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