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Yes OCD will do that. It sure happened to me. When I was getting better I one area onto the next theme. That’s why we need to be on top of our ERP and ultimately be okay with uncertainty. OCD has a lot of themes. When it realizes that the original theme is no longer as affective as it on e was (which was to make you worried, scared, doubt etc) it will go into another theme to reel you back in. It doesn’t want to give up the power. It hates losing. It wants to dominate you. That’s why OVD needs to be wiped out like you would if there’s rumor in your body. You don’t want the doctor to only take a portion, you want to get rid of it fully. Just keep realizing it’s your OCD. Once you recognize it is OCD, no matter the theme, then you know how to get better.
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- 6y
Yes it’s very possible. When you’re recovering from a theme, OCD can try to do a lot of things to get you back into obsessing. It’s what your brain is so used to. Now that you are learning that contamination isn’t something to be so afraid of, it wants you to be afraid of something else. Since we’ve let OCD be in control for so long, when we start fighting it and are winning, it attacks in different ways. It can try to hit you with the same theme again, or hit you with other themes. Your mind is just used to questioning things. Congratulations on the progress and keep recovering ?
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Yes!!! Totally. I said on another post that It feels like I’m playing “whack a mole” with themes. When I feel like I’ve made progress on one, my anxiety finds another place in my brain to call home.
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me. Each comment has been very helpful. ?
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My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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Hello, I unknowingly have lived with ROCD or OCD (not sure what one. I’m new to this). It has ruined so many amazing romantic and platonic relationships and I am so sad that just now I am finding out what the hell is wrong with me. Maybe life would be different if I have known. My OCD and anxiety is at an all time high (ATH) due to some horrible events that have happened in the recent months. I am at the point where paranoia has taken over my life now. I had my first panic attack a few weeks ago where I fainted. My anxiety attacks are so extreme I go thought cognitive distortion that has lasted days. My girlfriend of 3 years is my emotional guardian and she no long has the energy to be that and honestly it’s not her responsibility to be that. She is bi and wanted to have an open relationship and for someone who has OCD this has not been good for me. She also was assaulted in my own home by a good friend of ours when I was out of town but it’s not a clear situation because it sounded consensual at first. I just left my very high paying job. I am financially secure but the job was emotionally abusive and looking back made my OCD worse. I am taking some time off to get my head right…but now, all I have to do during the day is live in my OCD. I’m very happy I finally figured out why I act the way I do but I don’t know if I can get better quick enough to save my relationship. I have never been so worried about myself (M 28 years old). I am a confident young professional and never thought I would be writing on a page like this. Anyway…I hope it gets better.
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- 19w
I’m new to the app and wanting to know who else experiences this form of ocd. Some background I was a therapist for over 10 years now I am out of the clinical space. So I have background knowledge of ocd but never knew much about relationship ocd. I realized over the last several years with my now fiancé, that I have a hard time just letting go in general, whether that’s an argument or statement or feeling. I want to be able to just accept things at face value and move on (and talk later if my partner is ready as needed). But when conflict arises I can’t disengage till there is a clear resolution. It’s causing serious strife as he can feel trapped and it escalates the argument. I am reading more and this sounds like relationship OCD. Anyone else experience this? Curious on what others have done to work on this for themselves. I do have a therapist but we are not doing work in this area yet as I am realizing this is an actual concern.
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