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- 4y ago
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This has touched me so much. Honestly, I am here to speak to. You don’t have to battle this alone. You are stronger than you think. I always have for remind myself that you have got this far and you will continue to move forward. Please value yourself. You are worth the battle and that’s most important. X
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- 4y ago
Wow. I’m feeling for you so much right now. I have POCD and a boyfriend who doesn’t know. I’m codependant on him too and too scared to admit my issues to him. You should be proud of yourself that you were brave enough to speak your mind. I also use my boyfriend as a coping mechanism by escaping my OCD. in the long run, you speaking out is a step to recovery for helping yourself. If he won’t stand with you through your journey, it’s better you know sooner than later. You deserve love and understanding, and don’t regret being honest with him. This is your journey to recovery and you’ve done something I am a long way from getting too. I will get there one day. Keep moving forwards. If you want to chat, I’m here. X
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- 4y ago
I am so sorry to hear you are suffering a lot now :( Despite everything OCD throws at you, you are worthy of love and compassion - I know it's difficult to accept when OCD makes you believe you are a monster or a freak but that's true :) It's hard for us to have the impression that no one understands what we are going through but I am sure you'll find someone out there open minded and ready to love you :) I don't know if it can help but I found this video quite encouraging https://youtu.be/4QobdCPzHb0 and it always calms me down to listen to John Green's Youtube videos about OCD and mental health because I am happy to see that it is possible to live a fulfilling life and build a great support system despite all our anxiety :) Take care and please reach out if you need to talk - remember you are not alone in this! ♡
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- 4y ago
im sorry youre going through this hang in there, youve always got a place to vent and get support on here you 💕
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- 4y ago
@anonymous21 @tryingtogetoverthis Thank you so much for you kind words It’s things like this that make me feel I’m not alone This is a tough thing and knowing I have some form of support makes it that much easier ♥️
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- 4y ago
I know, I have got great comfort from realising i am not alone too. I have always been discusted with my illness. But there’s some sort of beauty in the fact that I know there’s other people like you pushing through the pain regardless, and making these steps to get better. I may never know who you are but I know we are fighting together. This is the first time I have spoken out for 5 years. It’s so painful but I feel like I’m doing this for a better life. Keep on pushing forward and loving yourself regardless of whatever we tell ourselves. We deserve it. @natpon25
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- 4y ago
@frenchbadger thank you so much😓 I’ll check out the video. ♥️ I appreciate the support
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I feel awful that I keep coming on here whenever I’m down bad but oh my gosh OCD is the most painful shit that I have EVER experienced in my life and I have a physical chronic illness…. I hate to say it but I hate living right now it’s too painful… im crying as I type to the point where my stomach is hurting, I have pretty severe ocd I do have generalized anxiety and idk if that is connected with ocd but because of that I have most of the subtypes REAL EVENT OCD,POCD,ZOCD,ROCD,SOCD HARM OCD, you name it and I got it!!! a lot of also why I have have those theme is trauma growing up and involving those things^ as of right now i’m 25 and a women with the most loving boyfriend in the entire world before my ocd hit me I NEVER questioned my love and care and attraction with the love of my life I always knew I was going to marry and be with this person the rest of my life! Now with ocd it confuses me soooo much and now I think I’m gay and didn’t realize or indenial and listen I get it “don’t look for reassurance!” “It’s not the thing ocd is attacking that is the problem ocd is the actual problem!” Here’s the thing with that if I’m in a relationship and I’m gay that would mean I would have to leave that said relationship and to say that “oh yeah that stuff happens and you’ll move on” is absolutely devastating to me this is THE LOVE OF MY LIFE and your telling me that iv been lying to myself this whole time or that I didn’t realize?!?!? And that sexuality can change (even though some say it can’t google says otherwise and some people have said it can’t idek anymore) and all this other BULLSHIT I can’t take it WHY?!?! why does this have to happen why can’t I just be with my love the rest of my life?!? and yes before anyone says anything I have been attracted to girls more so when I was younger watching lesbian porn liking the body’s and fantazing them sexually it stopped when I got older but I still don’t get disgusted with women who are pretty it just makes me uncomfortable because I’m with the love of my life and before I remember talking to my partner and discussing certain childhood things I experienced and we discussed that we both could be a little bi and for certain I’m (demi sexual so I don’t even really care about looks) and I truly didn’t care!! NOW I do care even with being bi because again I don’t like thinking about anyone else but my partner but I do also know my parents are homophobic and I do think about if I am gay they wouldn’t be okay with that and I also dont want to deal with that so now I sound like in indenial right?!???? I didn’t even care about labels before my ocd it just didn’t matter but now it’s effected my sex life and it’s hard for me to enjoy sex with being so confused I’m so confused I googled everything can you still have sexual fantasies with same gender but still be straight? Can you fantasize about same gender or imagine marrying them all of it !!! And non of that disgusts me it just makes me uncomfortable AGIAN only bc I just love the partner I’m with right now!!! I’m so fucking confused do I have to leave my partner and accept that I’m gay is that going to happen in the future if I get better with ocd and find out it’s been true all along?!???
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