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Don’t stop using the app but try to perhaps turn the Compulsion into something else such as replying to the ones you read And only reading 5 a day.
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Thank you. I’m also concerned because as I read others, I notice that I do the same thing. It reminds me on what I need to work on because they’re not as severe as my checking and contamination fears so it doesn’t occur to me that they are problems. For example, I knew I always reread things. But I had to be reminded by another person’s post about it. Do you have those feelings when you read others? It really sucks because there are so many themes. :(
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I can definitely understand, sometimes I get the same way with things where Ill be enjoying it until OCD gets its claws into it and ruins my fun. I would try to set boundaries? Like I’m only going to read the first few posts that come up
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Right?? I already have my compulsion to write all my dreams for my dream journal that I started out of fun. I thought about reading first few posts too but then I start to feel guilty. I don’t know when to stop. It’s like one more, only one more. But here’s another thing, I scroll down to where I last commented and work my way up to the most recent. So if someone posts something new, do I read that too? I’m like overthinking and stressing over something that’s so silly. You know the “all or nothing” it’s “black and white”. I feel that if I don’t read and try to respond then I shouldn’t read at all. Like I should’ve never started. Sigh.
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- 6y
I completely understand! This is OCD at its finest, trying to take something that is suppose to be enjoyable and turning it into an anxiety causing event. I have such trouble with the grey areas too, I hate having doubt and want everything to be black or white as well. That’s when things become ritualized for me, when I try to remove doubt and make things black or white. I have to sometimes physical and/or mentally remove myself from situations like that or it can down spiral. I hope you can find something that works for you!
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- 23w
I know a few of you saw my posts about my ERP and the googling urges. That didn’t end up going well. My therapist actually decided we needed to halt it for now. The thing is it’s almost like I learned googling is harmless from those few exercises and my brain keeps generating more things to google. Normally I would just spiral and be done but now I can barely hold back from searching for long. I eventually give in. I’m horrified because it feels like I want to find illegal content. I swear on everything I am, I don’t want to find anything even close to it. I’m freaking out because I don’t understand what’s happening. I keep compulsively searching/testing/checking or idk. I keep remembering details and I feel like I need to google again to be sure of something. I feel absolutely insane can someone please help me??? I’m petrified I’m going to get in trouble.
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New to this app. Do members find it helps, I'm worried I will start obsessing over things I hadn't thought about before when I read other people's OCD triggers...
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Finding this app has helped me a lot in feeling like I'm not isolated and I've definitely met so many kind and helpful people here. You guys have helped me on my darkest days. However, because of my fragile state of mind, I think scrolling on here is becoming a compulsion and I feel like I end up triggering myself more by scrolling through some posts. I think it just ends up adding more to my intrusive thoughts and more ammo for my false memories and POCD to latch on to. And I know exposures are good for treating OCD, but this level of exposure seems to be doing more harm than good. So I will try to be less active (maybe I won't, who knows lol).
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