- Username
- Magzzz
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Your mom is a TERRIBLE example of how someone competent and trained in ocd would treat you. I understand your fears, but the worst case scenario here is that someone misunderstands you, and you stop seeing them. The best case scenario is that you finally find the help you need and recover from ocd. ERP works. And your life doesn’t need to be like this. Please get help from a specialist. It will change your life. I hope this article can help: https://battlingtheocddemon.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/erp-works-so-why-wont-you-do-it/
Thank you so much for being here with my friend. Everytime I see you, you're always ready to help someone with something they need help with strongly. I'm glad someone else has noticed this and I hope more people can. :) Now that you mention it, I can look at that article too.
Thank you
I’m so so sorry. No one should have to go through this or even get misunderstood for a disorder such as this one. You’re loved & we’re all here for you.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Hi. I'm really sorry to hear this. I'm sorry for your loss and I'm sorry that your mother isn't supporting you in the way you need her to. Any idea why she treats you that way because of this? Do you have any therapy? Have you told anyone else about your struggles? Do you have a therapist? I'm sorry I have so many questions, but I also want to say that you aren't alone and you aren't a disappointment. You are loved and we are here for you. It's not wrong for you or a compulsion to reach out for help.
I can’t do it. The things I struggle with are horrible and no one could possible understand without twisting it and making it worse like my mom did. She just doesn’t understand that I don’t want this. I never did. I just want to live a normal life. I don’t have a therapist because I’m scared to get one plus I don’t think I can afford it. My mom also doesn’t believe I should get therapy she doesn’t want me talking to anyone about it. She just thinks ocd is cleaning and checking she doesn’t believe the other stuff so when I told her about what I was struggling with I cried and cried for her to help me and she just screamed at me and called me names so I don’t want to go to a therapist and that happen to me all over again
@Staystrong❤ Unfortunately your mom is under stereotypical thinking when it comes to OCD and it's absolutely terrible to hear that she doesn't want to help you with this. I'm really sorry to hear that. However, you can share whatever problems you have with me. The last thing I will do is judge someone with a mental disorder that is hurting their livelihood. I want to help you. I don't want to make things worse. I definitely don't want to generalize OCD like it's as black and white as what people who don't understand what it's like think it is. Please. Express your worries here. We all struggle together and we try everyday to get better. That includes you too. I feel really bad. There has to be someone in your family that can help you get better. Siblings? Cousins? Aunts or Uncles? If not, I will try my best to help you out. Or at the very least listen to you. :(
@BigGip09 I don’t have anyone I can go to about it. I’m so sorry I appreciate that you are willing to help me but I don’t think it’s a good idea. I truly appreciate it though. You have always been so nice
@Staystrong❤ Oh.. well I'm here for you and you matter to me. I don't want you to go through your life dealing with this alone. Everybody needs someone to lean on. We're made to be social and we're meant to get help. I'm sorry you feel that way.. I hope things get better, u really do.
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@BigGip09 Thank you so much
Hello everyone. I have been having horrible thoughts ever since I turned 13, and now I’m almost 16, and still having them. When I turned 13, the thoughts were constant and nearly drove me to kill myself. I thought about killing my family and pets constantly, but, worst of all, especially my mother. Now, I sleep with my door closed to try to stop the thoughts and to keep from hearing or seeing my mom or dad. I love my parents and pets, especially my mother— she’s an amazing woman, and has done so much for me, but yet I’m still having these damn thoughts. I was at a bad school when I was 13, and then moved to another when I was 14. After a switched schools, the thoughts gradually began to lessen, but every few months, they get really bad again for a few weeks (I still have them daily out of those bad few weeks, but when they get bad, they get bad.) I’m currently going through one of those spurts. I have tried to talk to my dad about getting help, and even though he said that he’ll look for a therapist, it’s been nearly a year, and I still haven’t gotten help. I desperately want these thoughts to stop because I feel like a horrible person and I love my parents, family, and pets so much, but I’m terrified of opening up to my dad and telling him everything that I think about (I also have thoughts about sexually abusing children, but I don’t want to do it! I’m not attracted to children whatsoever, but I’m still thinking about it.) My self-esteem is absolutely horrible, and I feel like a monster for thinking about these things. I’m very much a daddy’s girl, and if he is disgusted or angry at me, then I honestly don’t know how I’d handle it. I really, really need help, but just don’t know how to go about doing it (I’ve thought about going to the school councilor, but they’ve made it known that, if they’re concerned about a student, that they’ll either contact their parents or the police.) My dad has said to just calm down and relax, but I literally can’t. We have mental illnesses on my mom’s side, and many of those people take pills, and when I’ve talked to my dad about my anxiety and depression, he’s said that pills aren’t the answer. Honestly, at this point I don’t care what treatment I get— all I care about is these thoughts stopping. I’m sorry if this is rambling and a little confusing, but my mind is all over the place right now. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Guys... I didn't know I would post again so soon. I'm extremely sorry but I can't stop crying and I think I'll explode from whatever I'm feeling. I thought I was a bit better especially with the kind help I received from my last post, which, again, I'm really thankful for. I was ready to go to bed when a memory from last summer resurfaced. It has always been at the back of my mind but I've always tried to ignore it by telling myself that I didn't do anything bad, but now it has resurfaced with full power. I don't think I'm ready to share it here because it's so disgusting but it's related to POCD. I think I will need to confess it to my therapist tomorrow when I see her but I'm so scared. I'm scared she will have me sent to jail. I'm not asking for advice. I just wanted to talk to someone because I feel so, so lonely. (But then, at the same time, I feel like I don't want to talk to anyone because of how bad it is; I'm sorry, I'm so weird.) I'm sorry, I don't know what to say anymore. And I know I sound so dramatic but I promise that's not my intention.
Sorry this is long I don’t know where to begin but, at the beginning of the year I went through something that was hard. And I was so mad at God bc I was so hurt and I felt like I was in so much pain and I was so alone. And I remember I had some bad thoughts. I don’t remember these thoughts exactly but lietrally months later I was sitting down all normal and dealing with other forms of OCD that were so painful, but less painful than this. Anyways so then since then I have been stressing that I might have acted of these thoughts. I don’t have a memory but my brain keeps telling me I did that. Anyways I have been having intrusive thoughts since and it hurts so much. It hurts so bad and I can’t do this anymore. I don’t wanna do this anymore. I keep having these thoughts and it makes me stress so much and want to throw up. It makes me hurt myself. I have bruises all over my body and I’m just so done with this. And sometimes my brain will bring these memories of these intrusive thoughts into my mind or say my trigger thoughts and it makes me hurt so much. And then I start to go over these thoughts bc I feel so bad and I don’t want to have them. Sometimes when I am stressing about theee things they pass by and it makes me panic so bad. I was lietrally just eating and I was punching my hand so hard while thinking about all the thoughts I have had and the things my OCD had made me believe I did, and while I was doing that a thought came to my mind about what my OCD keeps telling me I did and I panicked so hard. I had to eat so fast just so I can lock myself up in my room. I didnt want to have the thought. I think I was just lost in listening to my OCD and then I started talking to myself about what I think I did and when I had the thought I was punching my self so hard that I didn’t even have time to shake it off straight away. I have this conclusion where whenever I have a bad thought I write it down bc my brain tells me that I’m a bad person and I should forget about these thoughts so I grabbed my phone as soon as the panic set in. Sometimes I question whether I had those thoughts intentionally or if i forget them and then I remember the wrong thing and it makes me feel even worse. My brain tells me that if I don’t panic staright away and hurt myself then it means that I mean the thought. I’m in so much pain. I’m really don’t want to think about it but it happens and it feel so real and that it comes from me and that I did something bad. I know this makes no sense but I don’t want to be like this. I go to bed most nights hoping I never wake up. I really don’t mean theee thoughts, sometimes they come when u I’m justify thinking about all the bad things my OCD has made me believe I did and then I panic over remberinf these things. What if im thinking this on purpose? What if the thought I had is so much worse? What if God will never forgive me? I don’t want to live anymore I hate my life and im never going to get out of this. I was just trying to have a normal dinner but my mind never stops. Whether it’s me imaegnitn things or thinking about my thoughts and going over them, I feel so guilty. I can’t even get any help bc I can’t afford it. No one knows I go through this. Ok all alone. Im all alone .
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