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- 6y ago
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- 6y ago
And by always testing I mean almost every second of the day is just flipping between two different scenarios
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- 6y ago
yeah such a compulsion
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- 6y ago
Yesssss those are mental compulsions and so hard to pinpoint so that’s great that you have! I do the scenario thing all the time and I don’t stop until I find the correct answer ...or feeling. My suggestion is to NOT do the scenario thing, just keep moving through the day (I know how hard this is but it does help after awhile because you are telling your brain that the thoughts don’t need attention)
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- 6y ago
For instance anytime I’m with my girlfriend I’m always asking myself either “what if she was a guy” and I’ll start getting anxious so I’ll make sure she doesn’t look like a guy or when I’m scrolling through Instagram I’m constantly checking to see what arouses me and if I get “aroused” (it’s usually just a movement not actual arousal) by the wrong thing I start to panic then I mistake that panic for actual arousal then I panic more and start repeating the same lines in my head
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- 6y ago
Thank you a ton
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- 6y ago
That is a compulsion that tons of people with hocd do
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- 19w ago
I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
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- 14w ago
sometimes, to try and prove my fear wrong i’ll be like “ okay, let me think of this REALISTICALLY. would i REALISTICALLY feel this way or do this thing? “ then i come up with scenarios in my head on how i think i would realistically ( or logically ) do something but then my feelings go against that thing i thought of then i start getting anxiety and start to fear that i would actually want my fear to happen or that i’d feel a certain way that proves my fear true. it’s basically just checking how i feel about something i think of to try and prove my fear wrong, checking my emotions or checking how i think i’d realistically feel towards it.. but then i may react “ unrealistically “ it goes wrong and i freak out
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- 14w ago
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
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