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- 4y ago
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- 4y ago
It’s so annoying when people think OCD is just “being neat” lmao, I’m sorry but with my OCD it makes me question literally everything and makes me think someone is gonna die if I do certain things or do something “the wrong way” or if it feels like I opened a water bottle the way my mind didn’t like. And so much more. I’m seriously gonna make a video explaining what OCD really is, all the subtypes and how debilitating it is and put it on youtube. I’m SOOOOO sick of people making a joke out of it
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- 4y ago
I’m so sick of it too. I wish people would understand. I think you should totally make a video!
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- 4y ago
@Yayfortherapy I really want to! My mind is gonna make me doubt myself and I’ll feel self conscious but really it’s for the greater good so why not!!
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- 4y ago
I blame the media for taking OCD and making into what the general public thinks it is. However, I’ve seen more and more people stand up for what OCD really is when I see people and celebrities post making a joke of it. I think with more time and education it will become more understood
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- 4y ago
They don't understand it- don't take it personally.
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- 4y ago
I’m having extra trouble lately. When I fight my OCD, I say, “I am not my OCD; I am Karen.” And now with “Karen” becoming a word meaning “racist b*tch”, it’s like my real identity is also being disseminated. (Plus it’s totally distracting from the real issues of news stories in which it often appears.). They don’t understand OCD; you have the option to educate them but don’t have to. Even if they are joking around about OCD, which causes you suffering, remember, You are Not your OCD. You are you. OCD is a jerk, and You can make fun of it (rather than others with it) if it helps you overcome it. Good luck!
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- 4y ago
Thank you! I’m sorry that you’re struggling with your name right now, I can see how OCD would take that and turn it against you right now.
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- 13w ago
So, I know my capacity to get fixated on things. And it's normally something that's relatively remote but, my latest issue is really getting to me and I was wondering if people have any advice. I'm avoiding getting too into specifics, as I don't want this to get reassurance-y but, in essence.. I came to the realisation recently that people who I'd been "friends" (feels like the wrong term now) when I was younger were not very nice people, and normalized a lot of very unpleasant behaviour towards other members of the group. They really normalized it, sold themselves as figures of authority, as older and more responsible and grown-up than others, and looking back, they acted horribly. And coming to this realisation, that I'd been manipulated into just accepting their behaviour has just... broken me. My OCD has latched onto it and I can't stop feeling irreversibly tainted by it. I've talked to others about it, and they've reassured me, told me it's not a big deal and that I hold myself to too high a standard, but none of that sticks. I feel better for a bit, then think 'Maybe when you told them you were skewing it to make yourself look better' or 'Did you leave out a crucial detail'. I keep ruminating over and over, trying to remember exactly how everything played out, trying to figure out if I fed into the behaviour, if I did something bad myself (because y'know, I feel like I was accepting of it at the time, so what does it say about my own values?). I know I need to stop doing all this if I want to improve, but then some part of me keeps saying 'So, you're just going to let yourself off the hook then?' Normally, I can rationalize my own fears to some degree, assure myself something won't happen, but the realness of the situation, and the fact I only came to understand the reality of it because the thought had been bothering me means it feels so much more all-encompassing. I know confessing in itself is a compulsion, but I keep feeling that if I'm not I'm somehow concealing what I 'really am' from others around me, and any positive interactions are me deceiving them in some way. I feel like I can't enjoy anything in life right now, and a good part of me feels I should not enjoy it ever again. If anybody has any advice on it, I'm all ears. Or even hearing if you relate to these feelings, I might appreciate the solidarity at least.
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- 10w ago
Has anyone experienced their reputation affected or misunderstood because of a societally taboo OCD theme? Others catching wind of your obsessions and misinterpreting it, assuming the worst? I’m intentionally keeping it vague because I don’t want my specific situation to get reassured, but it’s been a real tough pill to swallow knowing that people close to me (and anyone else they might talk to) think of me differently. I’m unwilling to share about my OCD because I feel pretty confident it will be taken as an excuse or denial, and feels compulsive and reassurance seeking. Let me know if anyone here has experienced anything like it, how they handled it, exposures you did.
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- 6w ago
I shouldn’t have done this (trigger trigger trigger!!) So about a month ago..maybe I watched this video (as a compulsion to prove to myself) The video was called “interview with a p3d0” And basically it was what it says, I watched or more like listened to half of it…after I was disgusted by the person, but now all I can think of is every little thing I do, I feel as if tho I’m monitoring every thought/moment and feeling I have it’s torturous and I hate it..I feel disgusting, the person in the video has empathy and sympathy and had those feelings yk, I can’t explain it you’d have to watch the video yourself but please don’t it will ruin your journey…I feel more hopeless then before, my OCD is telling me so many things trying to convince me things that Ik aren’t true, I’m just really scared I don’t want to be that person I want to be a good cousin and person to my family, I’m sick of my head and myself, I’m so tired that sometimes I can’t even think straight, my head is always in pain and idek how to help myself..compulsions have been becoming more and more exhausting… I need advice or even someone to relate to, I understand I shouldn’t have done what I did but idk how to forget it.. I had made this post already but when someone replied I couldn’t see it for some reason so I’m uploading it again
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