- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y ago
this was me and it’ll attack when i’m with him and it is hell. but i know just sitting with it was hard but it helped! i’m not going to lie, my boyfriend and i HAVE had some issues so i didn’t just dismiss but now i can decipher which is ocd and which is i’m genuinely upset rn but your feelings don’t magically changes in one night! and ROCD is a hard one! it’s very tough but you can do this! don’t forget, love is a choice. NOT A FEELING!
thank you for the advice ❤️
i get worried because it feels like my feelings are hardly there for them lately but they also are the only person who gives me comfort and i can’t seem to stay away from them. i just feel out of it and my emotions and sense of self feel gone. i also keep going over interactions between me and them all the time to see how i’m feeling until i feel right about it
i totally get this and do the same thing. you’re not alone
@ anonymous it’s so hard knowing whether it’s rational or irrational and it breaks my heart because all i want to do is feel the way i felt about them before. this all happened out of nowhere. how do you cope with it
@getwellsoon literally same exact thing with me. happened out of no where and all i want is to go back to the way i felt before. i had a different theme then and it feels like that one was so much easier than this one
@ anonymous me too. this one just came so unexpectedly that it’s hard for me to tell if it’s an intrusive thought or not but i know deep deep down i don’t want to give up on them.
Yes, very much so. I have had this happen to me where you question the relationship n ocd makes you obsess
Absolutely. When I was dating my (now) wife I had that kind of ROCD really, really bad. It took a very deliberate choice. Marrying her had more to do with a firm choice than it did about how I felt all the time. I just knew that when I wasn’t anxious, things were good, and that when I was, I couldn’t connect. Obsessions often focus on things that are important to you, so no big surprise that it has latched onto your relationship! Just know that when you’re analyzing how you feel about someone it basically makes it impossible to feel positive emotions. I will tell you that as soon as I made a “final” choice (getting engaged) my anxiety didn’t disappear but it did reduce by a significant degree.
thank you so much, that gives me so much hope
Glad we are here to talk to each other about this.
feeling very drained
Does anyone else get “I hate you” thoughts towards their loved ones? For me specifically it’s towards my mom. I have harm OCD and it tends to be directed towards my mom. I have always been close to my mom, she’s my best friend and I know I do love her. I had not ever questioned my love or closeness to her before. However, now with this flare up, I keep getting “I hate you” thoughts whenever I’m with my mom. Even just looking at her can bring this thought into my head. I don’t feel anxiety towards it, but it does make me feel sad and down. I ruminate about how I truly feel, like I’m testing my feelings towards her - do I really hate her? Have my feelings changed and I know longer love her? I have told her this before, out of guilt and seeking reassurance, and she knows I have OCD, but it makes me feel guilty to tell her that since I know it makes her sad. So I guess my main question is, does anyone else get these kind of thoughts? And then do you question your feelings and just feel hesitant to even be around the person?
Ok so I’m a 17 year old female, and I’ve always thought I was straight. But I just really want to know how you would know the difference between so-ocd and actually questioning your sexuality. I have nothing against the LGBTQ community (in fact I am very much a token straight friend, lol) but I saw a video about comp-het recently and it sort of felt like what I was experiencing. I don’t want to be gay, I want to be with men, I want to like men, I’ve always liked men, but now I’m questioning whether or not that’s real? Because people can be gay but not want to be right? I’m single and I always have been. I think women are gorgeous, but when I try to imagine actually having any sort of romantic or sexual relationship with a woman it feels wrong, at least most of the time it does? Sometimes I’m less sure, and I’ve never been particularly boy crazy. I’ve liked maybe 2 or 3 people in my life, (not to say I’ve never found other guys attractive, but it doesn’t seem to be as often as most people) I have no particular reason to be afraid of being gay, very supportive family, safe area ect, but I don’t want to be, does that mean this is ocd, I don’t know what’s going on every time I say I’m straight I feel like I’m lying, but that might just be because I think about it so much. The idea of being with a woman doesn’t feel like something I would want, but is that just because I don’t want to want it? People online say things with so much sureness, if you feel like this it means this. Ect.
my therapist suggested that some of my less bad rocd intrusive thoughts are actually mine, and not intrusive. She ended up taking it back when she saw the alarm on my face and saw how panicked I got. I feel really freaking anxious. We were only talking about it because I mentioned a lot of doubt surrounding those less bad ones, but it only filled me with more doubt. I don’t want those thoughts to be mine. I really don’t. I feel scared and so discouraged after this session. I feel scared about the worst thoughts, what if those aren’t intrusive. I feel so much doubt.
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