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Yes, absolutely. I’ve struggled with this for years and recently had to face it head on when I started a relationship. I’ve come around to believing it is a compulsion, at least for me, in response to frustration, disappointment, or fear of uncertainty. Another part of the compulsion is looking back through my life and picking out pieces that confirm my compulsive feelings, to the point where I modify my memories and end up making myself feel worse. I still struggle with it but recognizing the unhealthy cycle has helped
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Yeah I've had a problem with trusting people for years. People have used things against me so many times. Makes me very uncomfortable being open.
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I feel like ROCD will mean I’ll be alone forever :(
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Sucks because it's like my thearpist gets me, people on this app get me but I feel like it's too much for most people that aren't educated in it to understand.
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I often feel this way too. I’d like to be hopeful that more people will understand OCD as time progresses but I do often feel like others will never be able to accept me & love me with my intrusive thoughts because I feel like they’d think my brain & me would be permanently flawed & they wouldn’t want to deal with that or try to understand it. I think this definitely causes me to push others away before they get too close because I think my OCD convinces me that no one could ever love me due to what I think about, even if I can’t control what I think about
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You know when you have weird thoughts about a coworker and because you have OCD these thoughts really stick and you panic and feel sick? Yeah that’s me and I’ve struggled with having intrusive thoughts about my coworker and now he just got in a relationship with my coworker and my intrusive thoughts are WORSE I thought they would be better? And initially they were because I was relieved that he couldn’t be weird with me now because he has a girlfriend. But this is the thought that i cannot get over- my OCD is like you’re jealous that he doesn’t like you and he’s not with you instead and i envy this girl he is with. Why the fuck am I having these thoughts while I’m in a healthy relationship and love my boyfriend to DEATH- like I know he is my forever. I couldn’t look at him today because I’ve been obsessing over this thought I’ve had in work and now I have to find a new job I hope no one will judge me for these thoughts or maybe someone has had this weird thought before? :(
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I’ve just recently found out that Relationship OCD is a thing. I feel like I relate but it also feels like relationship trauma. I’m in a fairly new relationship and I keep telling myself that things are going great, we are good, he cares for me, but does he? There’s this unbelievable amount of self doubt that sits in me because of what my ex did to me many months ago. I kept getting told that I do too much, i smother, need constant reassurance, then got told that I don’t care enough, the things I do aren’t enough and that I’m not enough. I feel like I am waiting for the day that I get broken up with because of these “problems” just so I can be proven right at the fact that I should be considered unlovable. I go through this every month around my period because I get so emotional and nervous that I stress over the idea that he doesn’t like me. How does someone continue a relationship with Relationship OCD? How do I explain it?
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I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
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