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Also for me, I used to be very scared of flying and I had a ton of compulsions. Counting to ten. Touching the plane before entering, playing music at a certain time and playing games at a certain time, if I ever violated these, my thoughts told me we would crash.
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I see a lot of HOCD, POCD, and sexual intrusive thoughts. Ive never dealt with any of those. I rarely see contamination OCD. Yet supposedly its one of the more common OCD themes ?
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Relationship intrusions. Getting worried with friends so you blow up their phone by calling or texting. Asking questions over and over again about a person and getting different answers from the actual person. Wanting the truth and feeling if I don’t have the truth all get emotional and that’s the worst circumstance to me
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I have several. Mainly I worry about people not liking me and that makes me not like myself. The other one is I’m always afraid of throwing up and I even get scared when people cough in a certain way.
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“ur tying a plastic bag, u must be doing it to flirt”
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Ocd: “oH ur walking behind them? ur flirting for sureee
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I had intrusions about my teachers, priest, and family
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It’s awful
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I’ve had sexually intrusive thoughts about teachers when I was younger. I didn’t even realize that could’ve been OCD untill you said something @meloday_fair
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I imagine people yelling at me all the time. It makes it hard to talk to people.
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So you know how the more widely known ones have to do with keeping clean? My OCD did the opposite for me. When I was about 12, I only showered once a week because every time I got in the bathroom to shower I'd start having sexual intrusive thoughts about randomly stripping down in the middle of class and I would start thinking "well what if that's really what's happening and I only think I'm in the shower because I'm hallucinating or something?" Also for some reason my sexual intrusive thoughts most commonly include teachers. Its disgusting and I've never met anyone else who has that problem!
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Used to avoid pools and sharp objects bc I was afraid I would drown myself or stab myself or someone else. Red is a “bad” color. Never been able to have bangs that swipe to one side or part my hair to one side, because it is asymmetrical and feels like the side with slightly more hair weighs like 10 more pounds? That whole half of my body throbs and aches. Anything to do with food, I am very leery of and will wash food/utensils over and over until they feel clean. I get panicked when my phone is at 66%. Even numbers and multiples of 5 are “right” and odd numbers are “bad.” And the list goes on...
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for the past few years i have been struggling with a certain theme of ocd as well as most of the other themes. but this one i have not figured out a good way to do my own form of erp or non-engaging responses. basically i will be daydreaming or thinking and have a very random thought. i wouldn’t call these thoughts intrusive thoughts because it’s not necessarily fear of the thoughts coming true, its just fear that my thoughts are too unique. my ocd will latch on to random or weird thoughts and may also add in that i was doing something weird while doing the thought. let’s say for example i thought of something random while i was rubbing my feet. then my ocd would be like “why are u having such a unique thought while doing something weird? nobody has ever thought about that specific thought while rubbing their feet before” (just an example). but basically it’s like my ocd bullies me for having thoughts that are too random and things i’ve never heard people talk about before if that makes sense. i am just trying to see if anyone relates even a little and how i can accept that everyone has unique thoughts.
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I haven't been able to read about experiences similar to mine when it comes to my perfectionism OCD so I was wondering if anyone had any "uncommon" experiences.
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Hi I’m new to the community and I have such weird ocd tendencies I was curious to see if anyone else has so I’m just going to list them in no specific order: 1. My brain goes “I hope” every time I think of something bad happening. Like “I hope that pedestrian gets hit by a car” or “I hope a demon snatches me under the bed right now.” 2. I have dermatillomania mostly on my arms, chest, face, and shoulders. If I have a bunch of open wounds on my body, I make myself feel “cleaner” by doing an everything shave in the shower. Conversely, if I’m having a period of mostly healed skin, I like to leave my body hair growing out for a couple days as a way to gloat to myself how “clean” I am even without shaving. 3. After my whole life living with these symptoms, most of them I’m able to brush off. But this next one still shakes me and disturbs me to my core every time it happens and it’s picturing sex acts with people I would NEVER want to do sex acts with. My earliest memory of this is when I was a little kid, as young as 5 years old, I had an image in mind of what I thought God looked like. Every time I would imagine God, I would automatically imagine him naked and I would shove my head under the pillow and shut my eyes tightly and try to make the image go away because I thought I was being blasphemous by imagining such a thing. 4. This one is relatively new, the past year or two, but cutting my own bangs. The only reason I consider it an ocd tendency and not just self sufficiency is because I SUCK at it and botch it every time!!! But I keep trying to find the perfect parting that contours to all the existing cowlicks and kinks in my hair and try to carve out my “natural bangs.” I convince myself a hairdresser is just not familiar enough with my hair growth patterns to give me what I want. This one is particularly embarrassing because it’s like I’m wearing my mental illness on my face. I have been wearing a headband for the past year to try and hide it but it doesn’t stop me from cutting it again because I am so insistent to get it right. I always regret it after. 5. I don’t know if this one is ocd but I suspect it might be and it’s that I rarely ever am not drinking water. If I finish a glass I’m filling up another one. Sometimes it will be a different beverage like coffee or matcha but I almost always am sipping compulsively on something. I use the bathroom about once every hour and 3-4 each night. That’s all I can think of for now but I wanted to share some atypical traits to see if anyone relates! This isn’t by any means all of my ocd tendencies unfortunately:/ just the ones I’ve never heard anyone else share before!
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