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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!!
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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 ❤️
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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..
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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
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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!
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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? :)
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Absolutely - wonderful insight!
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My mom will sit and listen to me for quite a while, but she interrupts a lot and gets angry/upset. While I appreciate her passion, it's often stressful. Every time I come to her, if I even *mention* OCD, she gets frustrated and says, "Everyone deals with these issues, you know. It doesn't mean it's OCD." And I repeat, "I'm not saying my issues are unique — I'm saying the way I respond to them is a problem." But she just shakes her head and says, "Okay, I need to get back to my day." Full context, I'm an adult, and I live with my boyfriend, but I'm staying at my mom's for the next month. After living away from home for years, I went back to living with her during the pandemic, and I only recently left to live with him. Honestly, I think living with her for so long in my adulthood really messed with me and made me feel like a teenager all over again. I feel like my mental growth is stunted, and that's part of why my OCD is so bad lately. Not blaming, just noticing. She doesn't seem to understand how relieving the OCD diagnosis has been for me, because it explains so so so many things I've struggled with for years, and it's exciting to have more resources that can help me. But I think she sees it as me finding an excuse to *not* work on myself, which is just untrue. I'm not going to let OCD hold me back or use it as an excuse, but I'm also not going to pretend it's not a problem when I know it is — I was even diagnosed through NOCD. The whole point being to fix it, not use it as a crutch. When I have an issue, it's unbearable. Any issue, big or small, feels just the same. I feel a sinking feeling, my mind races, my heart beats out of my chest. I end up running to my support systems, crying, ruminating for days on end. Then, months later, the same exact issue can feel like nothing anymore, because it's no longer an obsession. I'm sure everyone deals with issues in a similar way, but I *know* there is something specific and debilitating going on with me. This is reassurance seeking, but in the face of being told I'm making a big deal out of nothing, can someone diagnosed with OCD tell me if they relate to the specific intensity of these feelings??
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Lately I’ve seen way too many comments under posts about OCD, especially the harm, POCD, and relationship themes that are incredibly misinformed and honestly harmful. People saying things like “these thoughts are unnatural,”or “you need to go get real help” and encouraging confession ***compulsions*** when they clearly have no understanding of how OCD actually works. Let me be clear: OCD involves distressing and unwanted thoughts, images, or urges. That doesn’t make someone dangerous. It makes them someone with a mental illness who is terrified of their own brain. Saying these people are “unnatural” or implying they’re broken only reinforces shame, and shame is the opposite of what helps anyone heal. If you’re commenting under OCD-related posts on an OCD ***app*** without understanding what intrusive thoughts are, or what compulsions can look like, or **how OCD can attach itself to the things we fear most** then please, stop. You are not helping. You’re reinforcing stigma and pushing people further into silence. OCD is already isolating. We don’t need more people moralizing or projecting trauma theory onto something they haven’t experienced or don’t understand. If you really care, go learn. Read about intrusive thoughts. Learn about ERP therapy. Or maybe just listen. Because some of us are barely hanging on, and comments like those don’t just miss the point, they can do real damage. I’m sorry if I come off too angry, it just really upsets me to see people speak on something they clearly don’t understand. End of rant. Thank you for reading 🤍
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i’m trying to not let the thoughts bother me but it’s just so stressful. even me typing that feels like i’m lying when i know i’m not. i’m scared because even my therapist tells me that it’s just ocd, but in the back of my mind i slightly don’t believe her, and its making me scared that i AM like those people and im gonna act on something. sometimes in social moments i get a quick thought of me being an outcast because im like those people who are sick in the head and act on that stuff, and it just makes me feel like i truly am gonna eventually act on something. another thing that bothered me is earlier my mom yelled at me for not doing school work (it was well deserved im really slacking on it) and i had like no reaction to her screaming. it had me thinking what if i have no empathy etc etc, and what if i get mad that she yelled at me and i do something involving those thoughts. how do i TRULY know it’s ocd? like i try to remind myself and be like “dude, your therapist said it’s ocd, she isn’t wrong” but the back of my mind is like “she is wrong, it’s not ocd and she just happened to misdiagnose you. you are gonna act on those thoughts and it’s your fate”. please someone respond if you read all of this, im really struggling
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