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- 6y
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
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Yes
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You just asked what I was going to ask. Yeah I think so and then you start obsessing what it meant whether you were thinking anything or just feeling. Worrying about worrying.
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Yes, for me it always been a feeling first!
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yes! I’ve always described it as more of a feeling than a thought! I find this quote helps: “What you feel is often only what you fear”
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Thank you everyone! Do any of you often worry it’s GAD not ocd?
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Yes but my thoughts are obsessive so??
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Yeah mines very obsessive too! What theme of ocd do you have?
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At the moment ages ago there was a film or a tv show I saw where an older guy came onto a 19 year old girl( I remember her age because He asked how old she was and then she said 19) anyway he starts calling her a little girl and she’s being all cute and child like, then they get it on. Problem for me is I thought she was quite hot and I need to know if thinking that was inappropriate. I also need to now how I felt when he called her a little girl. Which is impossible. So for two years everyday I have been obsessing constantly about this, to the point of what feels like insanity.
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Actually seeing this written down makes me think how stupid this is.
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I had a similar experience with a different obsession Tally. Where you forget what your exact thought/feeling was at the time and you obsess with trying to remember. I’ve noticed also when it comes to reassurance, once reassured we sometimes have to remind ourselves what the reassurance was. I wonder if some of us with OCD have poorer short term memories: https://www.verywellmind.com/is-ocd-associated-with-memory-problems-2510678
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Yeah it’s so tough. But as far as obsessions go, looks like people on here have way worse. So I can be thankful for that. But nevertheless it’s still stressing me out!
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- 21w
So, yesterday while I was laying in bed, I was relaxing when suddenly I had an intrusive thought about someone, but the thing is that it brought me a sense of enjoyment or calmness for a few seconds before it went away. Once it did, it was only until hours later when I realized what had happened and I began to freak out because I'm reading everywhere that when someone experiences this type of thing, the anxiety happens shortly after the enjoyment or "false" enjoyment. Can OCD do this?
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Does anyone else find that their compulsions actually make their OCD/obsession worse? I don’t mean in the obvious way, like that it strengthens the OCD cycle, I mean in the way that when I perform my compulsions, they make my anxiety so much worse in the moment. My main compulsions are ruminating, arguing with my thoughts, and memory reviewing, but they all just end up giving me more intrusive thoughts/questions, making my anxiety more intense, and making me think my intrusive thoughts are real. I’ve always read that you perform compulsions because they bring you relief, and I suppose for me, they more make me feel like I’m working towards “solving the issue” or “answering my question”, so then is that my version of “relief”? In reality, it just makes my anxiety worse because the more I ruminate/memory review, the more jumbled together and foggy my thoughts/memories become, which in turn makes me think that if I ruminate/memory review just a little more, I’ll be able to “push through that fog” and find my answer, which then also causes me anxiety because my brain feels foggy and hence makes completing my compulsions/figuring out my obsession impossible (which I guess is good because I’m not supposed to complete my compulsions). All of this is making me believe that I don’t have OCD and that my intrusive thoughts are true and that’s why I can’t shake them and that’s why I feel the need to figure them out and why I feel so foggy… Or is this just meta OCD playing it’s devious tricks on me? Has anyone else experienced this or is this not OCD and I should be concerned that my obsession is true?
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Can it feel like you're enjoying the thought in the moment but then later, hours later feel anxious and do a compulsion?
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