Help. I’ve been having these hopeless feelings for about a month now. They are terrifying to me. It’s an emotion that comes out of nowhere like despair or being stuck and I can’t escape it. The moment quickly passes and I get so anxious and obsess over getting depressed or snapping. I have no other symptoms of depression and love my life aside from the ocd and anxiety. I’ve always been an optimistic person. But these feeling are so scary and I’m wondering are these are just another form of intrusive thoughts that I’m responding to and perpetuating? Or is this depression? If so why would it come and go? Also I get so scared that it’ll come back or I’ll give in to it which seem like OCD “what if” questions? I ruminate out of fear of the feelings. But how do I deal with this? The feelings are so scary to me.

I’ve been triggered so bad this week I’ve had bad anxiety and feel depression coming on. Last night I had a thought oh let’s plan it and I immediately thought why would I think that and started crying bad. I’ve had these thoughts for 7 months I really don’t know why I’m having these thoughts, if I knew I would work on it. Like people say has something happened in your life for you to have these thoughts and nothing has happened, it all started off from what if thoughts , like “what if I’m a psycho” because I saw this fb post saying introverts are more likely to become psychopaths and it all spiralled from there I started getting thoughts about harm towards others and myself. What do you think guys should I treat it like ocd or do you think there’s something seriously wrong with me.

Hi all, I’ve been on the tail end of an extremely difficult bout of rocd for several months now, and though I’ve been improving in my response to ocd thoughts, and generally feeling better than I did at the beginning, I think the ocd continues to fueled by the fear that I have that I can’t go back to how I used to be, and I’ll never feel truly happy again. These ideas then seem to lead to depressive episodes. It’s hard to tell if it’s another obsession or not, but I find myself constantly thinking about/analyzing the way I’m feeling and I can’t really figure it out (I know, sounds familiar). Has anyone had something similar and what has helped you?

I think I’m in another OCD episode but this time it feels so different even though when I read my old posts I’m describing the same thing somehow that doesn’t register in my brain and I feel like I haven’t ever felt this way before. Even the obsessions are the same but it feels like it’s more threatening because of this feeling that it’s different. When my obsessions take over it also feels like I’m almost in a trance or like I’m not really present, I’m just in a bubble of panic that I can’t control and I don’t feel like the same person I am when I’m not in an OCD episode. I know the way to actually get out of this is to accept all the feelings and continue doing things normally instead of giving in to the avoidance and compulsions and I’ve even successfully done it before but how am I supposed to ignore the sense of impending doom and the distressing thoughts that make me feel like I’m not in my body and the feeling that it’s different and it’s dangerous? Does anyone else feel these things and have tips on how to accept it? I don’t want to be sucked back in to how bad I know this can get, I want to try to get out of it sooner than previous times.