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You say you're convinced. But the way you worded your post demonstrates that part of you isn't. If you truly believed those things about yourself, you'd have asserted "I'm a racist, a psychopath, a weirdo" without distancing yourself from it by starting the sentence with "my OCD convinces me". Listen to the part of you that is still whispering "but I'm not...". Nurture it by acting as though this is OCD, even if you're not sure. We act as if all the time. For example, by saving money for retirement even though we know we might not live long enough to use the money we save
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Thank you this is very helpful!
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Thank you so much I really needed this and you gave me hope.?
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i am the exact same way. im glad to see im not alone, and people are fighting right along side me to get better and stronger
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Thank you! I feel so much less alone:)
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OCD is such an awful beast, and I’m sorry you’re having trouble. I have been there, and please know there is light at the end of the tunnel and you can get better. Something that helped me to reframe my experience was taking one of my thoughts and reframing it like this: “If I am a racist, what’s the worst case scenario?” I find it usually helps diffuse the thought and take its power. Or saying something like this, “You know, maybe I am a racist, but I’m choosing to go on with my day,”
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Thank you! This was very helpful I really appreciate this?
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Hi hun! I promise you that what you are going through is not abnormal! For people with OCD, these thoughts are quite common. I have lapses often too, and with severe OCD, it’s often like tunnel vision where I can’t imagine any possible scenario in which things will be okay. Please know that this feeling of hopelessness is TEMPORARY. If you are in a position where you can’t afford help or anything like that, I recommend checking out resources for people with OCD online. Lots of websites provide books with tips & tricks you can practice at home. Check out the International OCD Foundation’s & Peace of Mind’s website. Both provide video’s, books, article’s & support groups that you can join for free. OCD is a doubting disorder, it often makes us even doubt whether we have OCD...but it is important to remember your intrusive thoughts are egodystonic to your values. I won’t say anything more about that because reassurance does not help in the long run. Just know that no matter how hopeless you feel, I promise things do get better and that you are not alone.
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I have been really really struggling for the past 3 months and haven’t been able to stop intrusive thoughts/ rumination and confessing. It’s making me question my entire life, my relationship and even who I am as a person. It’s mainly effecting my relationship, I am so afraid that I did something or think things that are definitely hurtful to my partner. I know my brain is contorting my own memory and making things seem so much worse. I also know I haven’t done anything bad, all my things I’ve confessed about have been considered “normal” and I’ve been told that “you’re normal, you didn’t do anything wrong”. But I have felt this intense sense of guilt and shame and it doesn’t go away, I can’t even be a normal person anymore. And I keep searching for “just one more thing I need to tell” and I don’t want to keep searching my brain of every time I’ve said or done anything that I can distort and make seem 1000% worse. I’m isolating myself and just feel like I’m a bad person. I keep confessing my thoughts, feeling, urges, etc. to my partner and while I know I would never do any of these I feel like my ocd is trying to convince me that maybe I would because “why else would you think it or feel guilty” and that makes it so much worse. I really need guidance on how to handle this. What do I do to stop feeling like this and heal?
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I have religious OCD and the thoughts have been becoming really bad. I’ve been hitting myself punching myself screaming quietly if that makes sense pulling my hair out talking to myself nonstop. I can’t even hang out with my family without doing these things or going to another room to do these things, these thoughts of overtaking my life I will always be Christian God is most important to me and I’m so scared because these thoughts are terrible. They’re disgusting they never ending. There’s always something going on in my mind. I don’t understand. I’m scared. I’m turning into a bad person. I don’t wanna dishonor the Lord God, I don’t know if this is just OCD or something else.
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This is going to sound crazy but I guess I am. For over a year now I’ve suffered from ocd. And I always thought ocd was just I turned the door the wrong way but it’s so much more. I feel as if I’ll never get better. I’m in a relationship, for 8 months now with the most encouraging and supportive boyfriend ever. I tell him all of my thoughts and he understands and accepts because he understands it’s not thoughts I mean to have. I feel so awful being the way I am and being with him. I feel like I can’t be happy because it’s always something going on with me. He has a bigger family all boys, and everyone I hangout with my boyfriend and his brothers I get uncomfortable and weird and convince myself I have feelings for them or I want them. It makes me so disgusted and physically ill every time. The thoughts never go away and it’s not even about them it’s tons of things. I cry constantly because I can’t get the thoughts to go away. I can’t hang out with anybody out of fear I’ll have a thought I don’t want. I feel like I’m so alone. A year ago I felt the same way about my dad which I know is absolutely disgusting and I would never have feelings for my own family and dad, bit thoughts pop into my head. I don’t know if it’s because my brain wants a reason and answer as to why I think those things so I tell myself I like them, but I can’t shake it. I’m trying medicines and hopefully getting into therapy soon. I just don’t know if it ever is going to get better. Some days are better than others and every time I have a bad thought I get heat flashes and and my stomach hurts and I get anxiety and I just want it all to go away. I hate it so much and I feel as if I’ll never be normal again and never be able to live my life freely. I have to constantly worry about what my brain might come up with. These are not thoughts I want to have but somehow my brain has them and I feel so disgusted and I need help so badly. I never know what to do and i feel like an awful human being. I convince myself these things are try when I know they aren’t deep down. I’m losing my charachter and I’m losing myself and the person I know I am which would never have thoughts like these. I want it all to go away. Please tell me it gets better. I don’t recognize myself anymore.
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