- Username
- Strawberree
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I completely agree! I’ve had OCD and intrusive thoughts my entire life and some just don’t understand. I have my episodes every six months and I’m having a hard time right now. I don’t ask for advice unless it’s a therapist or someone I know that has anxiety. The problem for me is that I have the most severe case of it, out of my entire family and even when I ask they seem to not understand. Also I’m the only one in the household with anxiety/ OCD and it takes a toll on me. I hope this comforts and helps you because I truly understand what you’re going through since I’ve had every type of OCD about everything such as contamination, intrusive bad thoughts, and constant checking to make sure I locked the door and etc. Have a great day and know that we will get through this together!!
Don’t listen to them. It takes a lot of strength to live with this. It’s like being tortured by your own subconscious. If they were able to feel what you felt for even a few moments I guarantee that their whole perspective would change ❤️
Thank you for your comment :) I have intrusive thoughts, and in the past they have ruined me as a person, and I'm still so heartbroken about it, because it's so hard to break through this discomfort sometimes. And I had to rebuild myself from the bottom up. And to hear that crap from people like my coworker who is free from that anguish makes me feel kinda terrible. Hes lucky he doesnt have to go through it..
Thanks Isabella, I think you're right about that. My other therapist (I'm seeing 2) told me I show extreme resilience, which I believe people like us must have in order to keep going
Hey there - thank you so much for your vulnerability in sharing. Your strength is definitely seen - especially in being willingly to share your struggles with a coworker, even though they didn’t respond as we would have liked. It always makes me so sad the lack of knowledge that there is around OCD which is why we are working so hard to bring more advocacy to it! Keep staying strong my friend!
Thanks for your comment Becca, I've tried to allow myself (within reason) to be vulnerable, because being honest about everything is the only way I can get help and also hopefully encourages others to do the same. To allow myself to face all sorts of feelings including the negative ones helps a lot. The same type of concept goes for recovering from ocd I'd say, dont you think? :)
Absolutely - wonderful insight!
Hey this is my first post on here. I have struggled with ocd since i was 5. I didnt know because I repressed these memories I guess but my mom told me I had to see a therapist when i was in kindergarten. Anyways, I finally opened up to my best friends the other day about my crippling OCD. And none of them seemed to really care...at all. I wish people would realize OCD is more than just being “neat” and “clean”. It makes school and everyday things more difficult. People dont take OCD seriously enough. I wish my friends cared so I could talk to them about it more, since therapy is so expensive, but I just wanted to share my experiences with a group of people who would understand.
Hello dear friends. I hadn't been on this app for a while, I've been getting by. Today I just need to vent and to feel validated and understood. I have OCD, I consider myself in permanent recovery. It is an everyday job. I am ina relationship with a wonderful guy. I deeply love and care about him, but he doesn't understand anything about OCD. I've explained it to him a million times. I've directed him to online resources. I've talked him through what to do to help me get out of a loop without giving me reassurance. And yet, he never knows what to say or do when an episode appears. It is tiring to pull myself out of the loop and then having yo explain to him what just happened to me, over and over again. I think, in general, he lacks empathy for other people's feelings, but, when it comes to me, I can see that he tries but achieves nothing. I think I don't have ROCD, I have diverse thoughts. But the last few weeks this thought got into my mind: what if he has met someone else and they are texting each other and flirting and he's gonna leave me? (He left his girl to start a new relationship with me). And he are apart due to the covid-19 epidemic, so we didn't see each other almost at all during last year. Of course, I had been able to keep this particular thought to myself, buy yesterday, it just came out of my mind after him not picking up the phone. He was in shock. He reacted defensively (which I completely understand), replied that he had nothing to explain to me as to why he couldn't answer the phone when I called him and that we was surprised that I asked him such a thing (if the reason why he didn't answer me was that he was talking to someone else). I knew it was just an OCD thought of mine, but I just couldn't keep it to myself any longer. Of course, I apologized to him and had to explain it had been an OCD thought. He was supporting and understanding and told me everything was ok and to forget about it. This morning I feel sad that he couldn't recognize this for what it was despite all the explaining I have done. I have dealt with my ocd on my own, despite being in a relationship. I just needed to vent and would like to read your thoughts about this whole thing. Thank you in advance for reading and replying.
I kinda am really alone with this one. I got diagnosed 3 years ago and never went back to therapy. I don't really want help... I'm just here to kinda learn about other people. I've never met someone who has ocd like I do. You may think "they all say that" but I just never have. I got diagnosed when I told my therapist my obsession with gore/nercophilia. I can't believe I'm even talking about it right now. It makes me feel sick. I can't stand it. My mom has undiagnosed bpd. I may be wrong about this, I'm not a professional, but she has all the symptoms. Every single small thing about it too she has, and so do I. Having ocd along with it is even harder. I researched on having both and it's not common but also not impossible? If not, then if I don't have both, I would fit under the ocd title more than ocd. My point is, I feel alone. I just want someone to read this... I hate to admit it, but I want some sympathy. My partner has been really bad to me lately and I can't leave them cause I love them too much. So I don't beg him for comfort cause I know they might leave if I do. I feel like a burden. Please don't comment on that. Actually, are their even comments on this thing? Embarrassing if not..
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