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- 6y
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- 6y
I have this too! It really sucks :( but remember that you aren’t alone
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- 6y
So, just remember ocd isn’t real, ocd is when you give a random (intrusive thought) meaning by paying attention to it. Example; I capture the thought “I’m going to commit suicide” usually the thought would be disregarded without consciously thinking about it. With ocd the cycle starts when you pay attention, this is what causes the physical anxiety that compels you to ritualise (or think about it a lot if you have pure ocd), the cycle goes something like; intrusive thought _> physical anxiety -> you seek assurance (by ritual or in your head) -> the anxiety lessons, then the cycle repeats. The way to break the cycle is to label it for what it is, choose to pay no attention, tell your self that you do not fear it as it’s all false and just an intrusive thought that everyone gets (even said normal people!).
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 6y
Intrusive thoughts can be about real life events, if that’s what you’re asking. You can obsess about the past, present, future, or just a random thought that is not tied to reality. Regardless, it is all obsessive thinking. I am not a therapist and I do not want to reassure you, so I will not say for sure if it is the OCD or something else going on, but if your therapist says it is related to the OCD, they are probably correct. It is common with OCD to not be 100% confident in our therapist’s opinions about our condition and treatment. Remember, OCD doesn’t want you to get better, so it is going to challenge your therapist and attempt to thwart any effort you make toward progress.
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i’m not a doctor but maybe look into if this could be some kind of ptsd too? ocd can cause a lot, but sometimes it’s something else!
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I’m not sure if it’s ptsd or not because my therapist said it could be related to my ocd fueling my thought so I’m not aure
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Thank you guys for your help!!
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- 18w
im going to be vague here, but basically i did something in the past that i regret and it became a huge point of my OCD but i have talked to my therapist and i have mostly moved past it. i watched a video by an OCD youtuber that really put it into perspective. anyway, i have been with minimal worry for a few days, but now im having worries related to i think false memory? basically it’s like “oh but what if i said/ did this and just forgot that means i harmed this person im a bad person”. to me it sounds like textbook OCD but im just wondering if anyone else has experienced false memory / real event at the same time. i have a really horrible memory which is making it even more stressful. any responses are appreciated!
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- 12w
17f I have a lot of events, but my main and my worst one which is absolutely fucking diabolical was done when I was 14 and repeated when I was 16. Everytime I post something about real event ocd here people are like you are probably didn't do anything that bad, and when they hear what I did they are like yeah that's bad. Someone even asked me if I'm autistic cause "it's crazy how you didn't realize that the thing ypu were doing was wrong at this age." And I kinda agree, like it's fucked up It's just that my event is bad. Doesn't mean I don't have real event ocd. You can have a reocd over the event that was bad, it doesn't mean the event wasn't that bad or you don't have recod. It's just people always expect it to be something innocent and it's not Even a healthy person would feel guilty over it, it's just that I had ocd my whole life and it's making the guilt absolutely destructive, like to the point when I sometimes have a hard time breathing when I think about it, I lost more than a year of life to it, almost checked myself out couple of times if I wasn't so scared of pain/failure, the event haunts me in my dreams, it's in my head 24/7 and I will never able to forgive myself. That ocd. But the event itself was bad. So maybe i deserve it.
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- 5w
With real event OCD, I don’t know if any of you feel this way, but do you ever feel that the past event(s) that you ruminate about or constantly obsess about are gonna come up in your future and just absolutely ruin you, that’s how I’ve been feeling for months, it just feels like impending doom, and I hate having to even think that my future would be ruined by what I did as a teenager, and I did some dumb things, that I regret so deeply, I just can’t stop thinking about that.
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