does anyone else have severe FOMO as a side effect of their OCD? like for example, i cannot go into a book store or a book section in a store without taking a thousand pictures of all the books. and if i don’t, i get that feeling that i’m going to miss something which makes me feel terrible. it’s just an endless cycle and i probably shouldn’t feed into it by taking all these pictures and obsessing. it sounds so silly when i talk about it but it really is a problem i feel like only gets worse. i have the tiktok app downloaded and that has also fed into the severe FOMO. i see so many videos of people traveling and going new places and i feel like if i don’t write down every place i see i’m going to miss out so horribly. i have the urge to just know as much information as possible at all times.

really? that makes me feel a lot better thank you so much

@Loser125 100%. Like I always think I picked the wrong thing or could have done things differently because of what I see other people do

@MimiK exactly! like if i go on pinterest or something and look up tattoo ideas i all of a sudden convince myself the tattoos i have aren’t good enough and i need to get prettier ones or cooler ones like all these other people have and why i didn’t think of them first, and how i’ll just be second best the rest of my life. it’s such a downward spiral.

@Loser125 I understand. You got this!

@MimiK thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️

the funny thing is when i take the pictures, i never go back and look at them for book suggestions or anything. i literally have hundreds of pictures of books on my phone. and it’s all because if i don’t do it i just feel like i’m going to miss out on this book and i’ll never find out what it is and what if i’m missing out on the best book i’ve ever read? and if i don’t take the pictures it just nags and nags at me until i go back and eventually take some.

with music, it’s not as severe as an obsession to me. however i do the same thing as with books where i convince myself that, even if i don’t really like the song at first, maybe i will, so i write it down or add it to my playlist and i always end up skipping it or not listening to it because i forget. but in that moment it seems like the most dire thing in the world yanno?