Anyone's OCD convincing them that they're missing out by not doing the things OCD tells you to?

Same :(

Ugh, I feel you. My OCD is telling me I'm close minded which I hate because i try to most open minded person i know, but I just cannot.

@nimziewd I always used to say to friends, if you want to have more experiences with other people or really feel you miss out or feel the need to explore, you should do it, there's nothing wrong with that it just shows that you are not with the right person or not ready for a relationship. But I never felt that way, I loved being with him and being in a relationship, it felt right, save, warm and simply wonderful. And it still does, but now it's like I can't believe it is real anymore

@ｆｅｎｎａ I relate to feeling close minded, even though I often feel that I am more tolerant or respecting of other ways of living than a lot of people who are sexually more experienced. I really don't think sexual experience says that much about your open mindedness or your tolerance towards others, but OCD makes me believe that I am just telling this myself for safety

@thinkingismyfighting Exactly When I thought that the relationship wasn't right before I broke up but this time I don't want to.

@thinkingismyfighting See he thing I know for sure that if I "allowed myself to experiment" I would regret it deeply because I do not like even the sheer idea of doing those things, but something OCD is nagging at the back of my mind that I will regret not doing them even though I know that in my bed I'll be glad that I haven't.

@ｆｅｎｎａ Maybe it's partly because that is kind of the norm nowadays.. I mean I think it's great that as young we have so much freedom to date or explore ourselves, and am glad that I don't live in a super restricted or conservative environment, but I remember sometimes feeling some "peer pressure" from friends to break up my relationship and fool around, otherwise I would be a boring person and that it is kind of looked down upon if you stay with one person. This didn't really bother me much back then, but now it is nagging and trying to convince me that I will regret it and that I am not living my life the way it is supposed to be... It's so weird that I suddenly cannot trust my own gut anymore, even though I was so proud of going with my intuition and not with what other people think I should do. I get unsettled so easily now when someone says something that doesn't match up with my experience or perception and get worried that they might be right ..

@thinkingismyfighting Do you experience sweats and this weird feeling when u wake up? I wake up with these thoughts almost everyday

@nimziewd I don't have sweats but I often wake up with an unsettling feeling and I have also trouble sleeping. I experience ROCD and SOOCD taking turns in my thoughts, somedays I worry that I am a lesbian in denial, other days I worry that my boyfriend doesn't love me anymore, the SO-thoughts are hardest for me because if they were true, that would be it for us... But the ROCD is nagging as well and making it hard to differentiate between real issues that we might need to adress and things I just obsess about for nothing 🙈 I am also scared that I will cause something like self-fullfilling prophecy by making up and mentally go through all of these scenarios

@thinkingismyfighting It's like I feel even my heart mind says that I don't love him. I lost interest in my ldr online bf and used to avoid saying love u or I used to force myself and I remember it everytime I am gonna say I love u to him, I am reminded of the previous relation and it sucks. I am in ldr. I have other themes too. I am annoyed but I always was afraid of break up. But this spiked up somehow. Let's all heal and never breakup and see that this thing is evil and not us.

I remember feeling a little curious in my early twenties but not really anything I would really want to do. Nowadays in my late twenties of course I am not blind but nothing that would make me want to do anything or open up my relationship. Otherwise I also feel not as ready to completely settle down, get married and have kids as a lot of my friends seem to be which makes me worry that something might be wrong with us...

@thinkingismyfighting I am just 20 and I felt like m settled even if I had fears from past This thing striked me hard .