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In a way ? I feel regret when I lie to people (I used to be a chronic liar ) even if its someone I dont know , if I give any impression of something that is inauthentic it doesn't feel right , even though logically i dont have to air out truths to strangers and I shouldnt , still gets to me and gives me anxiety
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Intresting- does the anxiety ever turn into ocd?.
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It has with lies i have told people , sometimes I obsessively confess and then worry they didn't understand what I was saying , and confess again and again . Like making sure they get every detail of the truth even things that don't really matter. It hasn't happened in a while , but i definitely feel heavy compulsions to make sure people always 100% understand my meaning and thought process cause im afraid of being inauthentic or accidently lying again . Even if i just add a little detail i have the urge to confess i exaggerated. So for me I guess its more real event too . I do the compulsions so quickly thought that I dont let the anxiety sit , which is something I heavily need to work on . How does it manifest for you ?
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That sounds tough. For me, its ocd about a date I went on. I was tense, uncomfortable, not present, not 'myself' and have ocd about how I appeared to this person and whether they think im boring as a result. Its based around misrepresenting myself. Ill compulse by replaying the date and correcting it in my head. Its a bloody nightmare! I never feel guilty though as what I did cant really be catorgorized as 'bad' as such, just so much regret!
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- 3y ago
Yeah dude its awkward ! I used to have social anxiety and now i have ocd so its hard to understand what reactions come from what! But trust me you aren't alone , people constantly and consistently replay things in their head over things that could have done differently , or how you would have acted if you could just go back , or just being heavily embarassed or worried about people's perception of you. I still have thoughts about an argument I had in highschool that was embarassing for me and replay other scenarios that could of acted better in my favor ! This was 6 years ago ! You aren't alone in this for sure
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- 3y ago
Yes, that sounds like social anxiety. I have social anxiety and that’s normal for me. I’m an awkward nugget 🤣
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Hi there I talk about religion (but I'm not trying to force it down anyone's throat) So my main event (which is the one that truly bothers me) happened in 2015 when I was 14. I won't go into any details or anything. I will say that it got so bad once that I almost committed something detrimental to my health earlier this year. Not long after that I spoke to a doctor and basically confessed what's been happening to my brain and my mistakes, he mentioned things that really resonated with me, I'll paraphrase a bit: "Okay, so what you did was not good but it's not something to condemn yourself for. It falls into the grey area, you've apologized and have been forgiven (even though I apologized over text, which comes across cowardly)but it seems that you haven't forgiven yourself. There's a whole lot of difference between you at 14 and you at 23. Try to have some perspective." This really helped and it still does, but unfortunately ocd tries to find a way around this. I'll get a thought of "oh but you forgot to mention that other part of the event" and it magnifies it. Can anyone relate? I've done everything but fully move on because I sometimes feel like I don't deserve to move on. And I'm still worried over the future.
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His so I have a question. Should I feel guilty for things I do like without thinking or naturally. Like for example if I’m around a person I find attractive I will naturally try to be funny or come off as attractive not in a bad way like it just happens I’m not usually aware of it until after it happens.Sometimes I do and say things without an intention it just kinda happens and then My brain after it will Be like oh you did that because of this and that. Or sometimes it’ll tell me I did it for a certain intention that I didn’t do it for, but it’s hard sometimes when I do things without a certain intention so then I can’t tell my intentions and I spiral but sometimes my brain is right and it makes me feel guilty because if I knew that’s was my intention I never would have done it if that makes sense. Is this part of OCD
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