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- bodhisattava
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Take it a day at a time :) and I also second the opinion above; be very careful about reading self help guides. They force you to think about perfection. Self esteem is built through time, and it is not a linear process. Finding things you truly love to do, accepting things about yourself, and just doing your best each day (whatever your best looks like for you) is how I've personally grown. These things in life aren't meant to be so intense. In Western culture, we are constantly having these perfectionist ideals being shoved down our throats. But in reality, we're meant to take our time and fall a few times. Have a great day and keep going! :)
Thank you so much!!
Yea, I suggest the book the happiness trap. It would be really helpful.
Thank you
Or maybe not read books about it. If it is obsessive-compulsive treat it like any other obsessions and compulsions. If this is obsessive-compulsive reading books about it would only play into the compulsion of figuring it out, finding the "right" self esteem. Building self esteem is about doing esteemable things, getting good at something, claiming your opinions and doing good for others. Its not about reading yet another self help book (no matter how great it is).
Ah thank you
@bodhisattava Im not saying reading books is wrong, it can be very helpful. But it can also be compulsive. Been there, done that. I read so many of them, and did it all, I ended up in a locked psych ward. Not saying it was the books fault. But it made the OCD worse and worse and worse, because it was compulsive. I had an obsession about something about me being wrong and bettering it. I even took nice baths because "it would make me better".
@asdfghj Haha yeah it’s kind of like I need to be perfect and have a perfect life
@bodhisattava Yes, and reading about having a happy life plays into that! I wish I could go back five years and realise this. But I'm just grateful im finally getting help from an ocd specialist. Hope you are too!
Hey guys so i wanted to see if this could possibly be ocd or maybe something else idk lol and im not trying to like get reassurance km just curious cuz i’ve never thought about this until now. So my whole life especially recently since i’ve moved to college, i always analyze whether or not i fit in with people. I’ve always been pretty hard on myself my whole life aboit feeling different than my friends or just feeling like i don’t understand how everyone can just be themselves so easily and not anxious or how i think people are just more likable than me. i don’t know if that makes any sense, but i feel like i’ll hang out with a group of girls and then afterwords i’ll be like why do i feel like i wasn’t the same as them or why do i feel like they’re better than me etc. just constantly trying to figure out what’s wrong with me and why im different then them. I think that may have been ocd itself or maybe not im not sure. recently i’ve been struggling with trans ocd and my mind often likes to think back to that and how my whole life i’ve kinda worried about how i felt different than all the other girls . it scares me cuz it makes me think that maybe i really am not a girl and i just haven’t realized it until now. but now im realizing that those worries from my whole life might have just been ocd to begin with. idk if any of this makes any sense and im just rambling on and on but im just curious to see what u guys think
This feels new to me. Has anyone had their OCD almost make them feel like they can trust anything about themselves anymore? I am obsessing over these thoughts of doubts I’ve had recently and I’m feeling kinda down and sad about it. Any tips would be spread! This is new for me. My OCD has really kicked up the volume and trying new things on me.
Hello! I recovered from my severe religious themed OCD about 3 years ago. I thought my OCD had went away but I'm starting to think it's still impacting my life. Or maybe I just have high anxiety now. I have been told I'm a perfectionist and I have a huge fear that I'm not always "living correctly" which causes me to intensely compare myself to others and other things. This fear got so bad last august that I got into a relationship with an emotionally abusive person just because I thought I was falling behind. He was my first boyfriend and now I'm dealing with the affects of this. Im a baton twirler and although I'm getting better with exposure therapy.. I have anxiety attacks when I don't perform or practice perfectly. Where I can't even twirl in front of my mom right now without just shutting down and panicking because I somehow think she's judging me harshly when she's not at all. I also avoid doing assignments in school or asking questions because I have a huge fear of being considered slow or getting a bad grade. But this also makes my grades worse so it's a terrible endless cycle. I'm out of the relationship and I'm starting to take care of myself but I'm just kind of rusty on OCD knowledge and I'm trying to figure out if these are just new obsessions or if I'm just a perfectionist. Ever since I was little I've had this cronic fear of missing out or not feeling perfect for myself or others. And failure makes me flip the fuck out.
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