feeling defeated once again, i noticed a small blemish on my leg. it looks like a mole, but it’s risen and reddish and now my health ocd is spiking and i think i have skin cancer. i hate this so much, now i am scared and i can’t stop thinking about it. i just wanna get it checked today, but i know that’s impossible and i need to calm down. i hate whenever my health ocd spikes, it feels like i am always saying goodbye and i am about to get the worst diagnosis possible... :(

Hi, I’m so glad it helped! It’s definitely OCD, it always does that to me, the minute I see something someone else has that could mimic something I have on my body or in my mind I feel the instant doom and drowning feeling. No one understands this but us, it’s just so illogical but so real feeling. You are ok! I keep reminding myself to accept ocd, and try to move away from it. Always here if you need to share. Like I said I totally understand this!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Hi I just want to say you are not alone! I have harm OCD and I also have health OCD, they go back and forth, I noticed a blemish on my ear that just is a sun spot but I thought it was skin cancer I was obsessing all day when I saw it, and I needed to get to see someone also right away, I had so much fear it was insane (it’s always the same!) and I did eventually show a doctor and it was nothing of course. I went through so much agony though that it was the end and I was going to die and it was all too late, my OCD always presents itself this way whenever I have a health related issue and harm. it’s always the worst and I’m always dead right away and my life is over and now I’m really trying to recognize when this happens because it’s so awful to live through the cycle. I can’t reassure but I can stand back and see it’s just how I think too. It’s very upsetting. I would try to sit with the discomfort and bring yourself back from the spiral, just breathe and slowly start getting involved in an activity without thinking about the mole. Just let the anxiety be there without attaching anything about the mole or fear to it. It’s very uncomfortable this anxiety but if you let it move over you it will. Just pay attention when you find yourself wanting to think about the mole. I try to hard now not to do a compulsion as necessary and as immediate it feels. I hope this helps and it helps to remind myself, I am challenged so much, but I can’t stand it. Just need a good peaceful day. 🙏🏻

You am so it !!💕