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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
Hey, I can totally relate to this, I am so frustrated with my ROCD because for me it often takes away the warmth I feel for my partner. I find that it’s helpful to accept the way you feel right now (without giving yourself reassurance - you should accept that you don’t know if this is going to go away too), and commit to behavioral activation. So for me that looks like still sending her cute, romantic messages, still saying I love you, still regularly spending time with her. For you it might look different. But still acting like that, even when your OCD is telling you you shouldn’t, even if you don’t feel it, can feel better than just listening to everything OCD says. Lemme know what you think, and I hope you do well! We’re both in this together :)
Yeah that works better than ignorance
Sometimes as someone with ROCD we are very observant of our partners flaws and our brains are constantly asking ourselves if they are who we should be with, or if they are a healthy relationship for us. I ended up having to look in the mirror and ask for the first time, am I A HEALTHY person to be with. We can often have a selfish perspective and mindset. And prior to NOCD I don’t think I was. I am thankful for help in my own growth. I can honestly say I am working every day to be the best version of myself for both myself and the man I love
wow :(
wow :)
And I feel extremely depressed at times
Good times when I didn't doubt my love too haha. But it switches all the freaking time.
Idk I think we need help or meds bc I don't know what to do
YES. So I was the same way. I would constantly be doubting him, and if loved me and having intrusive thoughts despite reality. This was especially hard because I Went though a breakup that would make anyone without OCD have a hard time trust again. I was sick of letting it get in my way and knew I wanted to give my relationship my all. So I enrolled with a councilor at NOCD (relatively VERY inexpensive) and Started taking Sertraline (a SSRI I have gone on and off of throught college). I was having a lot of self sabatoging thoughts about us because I’m going to medical school next year so I’d be constantly measuring everything he did and was like maybe I should end it now. BUT my councilor has been able to help me bring my stress/anxiety from OCD Down from a 10 to a 3. When she said “your stress has never been at a normal level until now” wow what a feeling, I could have cried tears of joy. I now feel in control of my thoughts. I could not recommend more the combination of counciling though NOCD and medication. Should you choose to, it will completely change your life and allow you to think in the way you want to
That's amazing
Literally just now I am on vacation with him, and I told him I was Going to go to ERP therapy in a separate room (the OCD specific therapy) and he was like okay let me grab what I need out of the room so I don’t interrupt you. I don’t tell him specific thoughts I’m working on getting past or having about him, but he knows I struggle with uncertainty about when I leave for school. He is sooo supportive and respectful about me trying to control my intrusive thoughts and knows part of my therapy is working through my thoughts alone. Prior to my starting NOCD counciling I could totally feel that my constant reassurance seeking, questioning him, and fears were starting to wear on him. I was so frustrated with myself and knew I wanted to make a change for myself, and for him. Of course no relationship is perfect and that’s why as someone with ROCD it’s so wonderful to get it under control, because then you can clearly see what is reality and maybe an actual flaw, and what is OCD and abnormal thinking. I see soooo many less flaws in him and I love and respect him and he loves and respects me. For a while I was feeling hard to love, but after starting medication and NOCD counciling I feel like myself and my relationship is better than I have imagined it could be. Could not recommend NOCD counciling more because they teach you how to require your brain specific to OCD. It’s extreamly hard to find a OCD specialist and the ones in my community were $400+ a session. I pay $60 every 2 weeks now and it’s just such a blessing
Good morning everyone, I need some opinions or help on what people might think is wrong. March 2024 is when I started questioning everything about my relationship for no reason he is everything that I wanted, but my mind is trying to tell me that it isn't April 2024 was probably one of the worst times of my life I stayed home from work because I was constantly crying and totally sick because I didn't know what to do. The thoughts slowly started to not bother me as much. I feel like since it ever started I never have gotten that. Love feeling back for my boyfriend, but I want it back so bad because when I did have it, it was absolutely amazing. I have no desire to kiss him or be intimate with him either which also scares me fast-forward to today. I am waking up with so many doubts in questioning myself. Is this ever gonna go away or am I ever gonna feel that love back for my boyfriend ever again? I feel like I'm wasting his time and my time because it feels never ending. I went to a therapist shortly after starting to deal with this and she didn't really seem to help so now on Wednesday I have a new therapist that specializes in OCD I think does anyone have any advice? Thank you so much in advance.
Hey guys, I’m reaching out in a pretty weak spot of desperation. I feel so insane and so sick of my mind recently, I’m completely drained from my mind. I’ve had such bad spikes of RCOD in my relationship of 1.5 years , which kills me because I truly want nothing more than to just be his peace and for us to work out. I love him more than anything and I would do anything for him. I feel like the pressure I placed on making sure I was “perfect” was so counter productive becuase instead I find myself doing everything wrong. I tell myself not to think of the wrong thing, then I think of the wrong thing, then I feel so guilty, and it plagues my mind for days. I feel so guilty it makes me feel detached and like I’m a bad girlfriend. I feel so bad for always burdening him with my anxieties and my “wrong thoughts” becuase he doesn’t deserve it, he’s so amazing. Recently, I began overthinking if I “love him” which I KNOW is so silly because when I’m calm, I laugh that I even got so worried , but when my anxiety creeps in, it feels so debilitating. I spiral and then try to prove to myself that I do love him , which then makes things in that moment feel “forced” because I’m acting out of intent to win the battle in my head. My RCOD has been a persistent issue, but this particular theme is pretty new and I hate it. I feel like I’ve been placing pressure on myself to overly appreciate him and it’s so counterproductive. I feel so bad because I told him about everything and he now thinks I don’t love him. Which is so wrong. I just want this to be fixed. Sometimes I feel like he’d be better off with a girl that isn’t such a headache and wouldn’t drain him all of the time but at the same time , I could never accept him being with anyone but me. Also, I have seen a psychoglist but it just didn’t feel right and I hated vocalising my thoughts because I felt it gave them more power - it feels like the only person I can truly be raw with about this stuff is my bestfriend. If anyone has any tips , PLEASE help me.
I just read a post that said “people with ROCD know they love their partners” right when I read it I got this horrible anxiety feeling rush down into my stomach. My partner asked me to be his girlfriend in December and literally since that night It’s like a switch of doubt turned on and I was suffering with consistent doubt about loving my partner, I felt like I didn’t feel anything anymore and I didn’t know what to do and through out the past months it has been an absolute wave of things going on. He is aware of my ocd and in a way I’m glad that this happened because I have had harm ocd for the past 4-5 years and had no idea what it was until 2 months ago when I got an OCD therapist, I just thought I was crazy so I’m happy to know I’m not. Buuuuttt back to the ROCD, my main thoughts and feelings are about not feeling like i love my partner anymore and if we’re compatible, I hyper fixate on the weight he’s gained in the past few months and all the bad food he eats, I think about if our lives even align, we have very different views on some things but are we too different, what if we really don’t know each other at all and we thought we did because we’ve been best friends for 10 years. This is so frustrating because I’ve gotten to the point where my anxiety is barely there, I was have constant outrageous anxiety for 3-4 months and now I’ve gotten to this numb, I literally feel absolutely nothing feeling and it’s not even with just my boyfriend it’s with everything, I just don’t feel happy with anything anymore, I feel like there’s something wrong with me. We got into an argument the other day about how rude I was and I didn’t even feel sad or apologetic when he was talking to me about it, and I couldn’t stop crying, like I just don’t feel anything. I feel like there’s something really wrong with me. All I can describe it as is “blank” does that make sense? I feel like a bad person and I feel like we’re going to break up and I can tell how sad he is. All I do know is that I don’t want to break up. But anytime I think about him or anything along the lines of my ROCD everything like freaks me out. I like scream “NO” and “STOP” in my head all the time. But it’s starting to really feel real. I’m so scared, and now I read that post that said that “people with ROCD know they love their partner” but WHAT IF I DONT KNOW!!! I WANT TO LOVE MY PARTNER. I want to feel the love I had for him before this all started. We were so happy, and we didn’t even get the honey moon phase because my ROCD started right when we made it official. This is seriously so crippling.
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