- Username
- Tanaya
- Date posted
- 3y ago
I'm right there with you š
It's horrible isn't it, feel free to share your feelings on the post ā¤
I totally understand how you feel. Itās gonna be alright though hang in there friend and keep living.
I relate to this a lot! I feel like my thoughts aren't my own, like my mind is a separate existence that's dictating my life, but at the same time I feel like I'd be nothing without it. Like it's a part of who I am that can't be changed. It's hard to accept that you can get better, but you can do it!ā¤ļø
What you said is so relatable! Sometimes I feel like I'm a puppet and my mind and thoughts are my master, it makes me wonder how much control we really have over our thoughts. Thank you! š
@Tanaya I guess we have very little control over our thoughts and our lives, but when you've been experiencing OCD for so long, you are scared to let it go. You know yourself that way, the people around you know you that way, as sad as it sounds, and don't know how your life will be if you don't have it. The road to recovery is long.
@Marinaa The road to recovery is a rocky one but it's one worth taking I suppose
Thank you! I'm still alive thankfully so I'm hopeful :)
@tanaya hang in there. Weāre all here for you. Donāt worry nothing wrong with ocd. I donāt know you but I bet your great kind person and have a lot of friends. Iāve had these thoughts many of times also like would have I done things in life differently if I was ānormalā. But think about it we are normal maybe people without ocd arenāt LOL :) hopefully that made u smile. Donāt worry stay strong and do the erp.
Thank you! You're too kind. I try to keep a level head but sometimes I get a little tired fighting OCD all the time, I dont stop no matter how tired i am because i know it's worth it
Yes itās exhausting. Iāve had it my whole life I just turned 40. I got an amazing wife, dog, place to live and great family. I wouldnāt change anything. Maybe the ocd helps we donāt know lol. I look at it like a reset. You get bad episode you have to learn everything from scratch again. Remeber life is amazing no matter what and stay positive. I just went through a 2 week full episode nonstop while on a vacation and look Iām still here and after 4 weeks of erp Iām happy again. Believe in yourself is the best advice and believe that ocd is just triggers things you love and care about that you would never do.
Wow, thank you. You give me hope! I
Iāve been feeling the same way (shifting moods, emotions, thoughts) for a year. Iām sorry youāre going through this, and thank you for being brave and sharing your experience. OCD makes me feel so alone. Itās helpful to hear people who understand.
It's crazy, it makes you feel like an imposter in your own mind/body sometimes but I'm trying to find some clarity in all of it. Having this app helps tho, because whilst I hate others are suffering it makes me feel less alone
If the uncertainty leads me to accept the thing i am running away from how was that not true and if the uncertainty the may be or maybe not in the future gets me to do something i might be in denial of what then?!? This is a possibility and a big one cause if i would have been so sure if myself why would i even question in the first placeā¦And with uncertainty how do i know anything for sure and people who don't know will say they are gender queer so how am i not that.ā¦.. Ā” have stopped feeling the anxiety and all these feel real and I don't even react to it cause i am tired and numb to them its like I don't know who i am anymore and everyone with soocd constantly says they know they are straight or whatever and i used to earlier and now I don't why dont i?! Why do i feel like thats a lie or could be a lie and my brain has confused my emotions and feelings to the point where nothing feels real anymore and i feel like an imposter and someone who doesn't know who she is and is sufferingā¦ā¦ is this ocd doing this or my thoughts being real just me not realising? Is this ocd i am constantly trying to figure out if the thoughts are real or not and then i say if its real i type all this because i am scared and fear and in denial like where does this end?!
Having constant intrusive thoughts is exhausting. They have made me question my relationship, my sexual orientation, if i am a good person, and so much more. Itās weird how they are all connected in a way too. A lot of these thoughts that I have feel so real, and iām just now learning how to tell the difference between what is true and what is an intrusive thought. but at this point i cannot tell. they all feel real but still make me so uncomfortable. iām scared i actually feel a certain way, whether that be i donāt actually love my boyfriend, i am actually bisexual or a lesbian, or that i am actually a horrible person and have done horrible things. itās hard to not believe these things when they are constantly nagging at you. im scared im not with the right person. im scared that im not attracted to him enough, im scared we donāt have enough in common and im scared we donāt think the same way. im scared im supposed to be with someone else and that i am hurting him by lying. and im terrified i am lying about my sexual orientation and using him to deny my true thoughts. im scared i am actually bisexual or lesbian. i think i can accept being bisexual more than being a full blown lesbian, but itās still scary. im not sure if i am actually bisexual or if i just have intrusive thoughts. and i donāt know what to do from there if i am. if i am bisexual that means to me i have to be with a woman? even though i donāt want to and iāve never seen myself with a woman. i keep replaying memories with girls and if i showed any signs. and then i get scared that because i was aroused by āspecificā porn that it means i am lesbian. all of these things make me feel like a horrible person for treating my boyfriend this way, lying to myself, and for being so confused. itās exhausting. i donāt even know where to start to get help. im scared that i have had OCD my whole life, and if i have, iām scared a lot of my feelings and thoughts werenāt even real. im scared when i liked a boy, it was actually my OCD. im scared that when iāve been attracted to something, it was just my OCD. i donāt know what to do
Does anyone else feel like OCD is asking you to ruin your life and make decisions/things that you don't want to do because it's "what I secretly want"? It feels hard to even know what's real anymore.
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