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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
Yes. It's a compulsion. It's a way of seeking reassurance which is gonna make you feel good for some time but will make your OCD worse. Don't do it.
I have never heard of a theme like this though. Is it still ocd?
@Anyonomous If your thoughts are bringing you anxiety and you fear that, it's OCD. Consult a professional as I am just an OCD sufferer with little knowledge I have gathered over the months.
I LITERALLY DO THIS. I wasn’t sure if it was a theme, but I think it might be.
Wow. Glad to see I am not alone in this! I think it could be a theme. I am obsessing over it and googling a lot.
@Anyonomous Mine doesn’t consume like all of my waking hours with terror like hocd does though so I’m wary of calling it an obsession
@missbluesky Yeah I get that. I definitely have had more troubling things but still wonder if it's ocd related or I guess it could be a general anxiety thing? I'm not sure
@Anyonomous Do you think about it constantly?
@Anyonomous Lol I worry that if it’s just general anxiety that I don’t actually have OCD
@missbluesky Not constantly but soemtimes its more constant than others. Today it has been worrying me a lot and I have been googling and trying to not feel anxious about it.
@Anyonomous I totally relate. Totally.
@Anyonomous Lol I never try to resist googling about it, but I should. I had a phase where I would check if celebrities I looked up to had dated in high school, like, compulsively. I think it’s probably ocd related
@missbluesky Me too with the celebrities!!! That's crazy! How old are you btw? I'm in college and I'm afraid I won't date until after or never 😕 I also would try to think of all my friends or peers and think if any of them hadn't dated yet 😅
@Anyonomous Really!?!! Wow! I’m in college too, I literally have the same fear. All my friends date and I feel so weird and ugly for not having a boyfriend lol
@missbluesky Oh my gosh. Exactly my thoughts haha 😅 I can't tell you how often I have thought that it must be because I am ugly or weird lol. It's like you are reading my thoughts 😂
@Anyonomous I struggle really badly with HOCD so my brain also likes to say I haven’t had a boyfriend because guys can “tell” I’m a lesbian or the universe won’t allow me to have a boyfriend because I’m actually a lesbian. It’s so weird what our brains come up with.
@missbluesky Me too! HOCD isnt one of my main themes. Its a secondary one though and I always think things like that too. Like maybe I am a lesbian bc I haven't dated or maybe I just give off that vibe 😕 why is ocd like this??
@Anyonomous ugh yes. HOCD is my main theme (literally has tortured me for almost 8 years off and on) and somehow all my other obsessions relate back to it. Even when it’s not at the forefront of my brain, I still do subtle compulsions.
@Anyonomous I REALLY worry that I give off that vibe because I’m a bit alt as far as style goes and my major (English) has a lot of gay people in it.
I was looking up stuff about kinks, because my friend is trying to help me "get out there", and I took the bdsm test to see where I land on it. I got 100% vanilla, and I was a little embarassed so I decided to Google things like "is it normal to not have a lot of kinks" or "what % of the population is into kink" and when I scrolled down a bit, I clicked on one of the little suggestion things with the arrow that said "are men more prone to enjoying kink than women" and it revealed a blurb from the website that said that men are in fact more inclined to kink, but also mentioned that it also means they're more inclined to p*dophellia, which sort of set off all these questions in my head of like "Wait so if p*dophellia is just a kink, does that make it more likely that I have it? Because scientenists still don't know what causes it so what if events in my childhood led up to me having it to some extent" and I started kind of going down this internal rabbit hole of trying to figure out how likely it is that I have it or some form of it bc if it's just a kink and not a mental illness than it feels more feasible? Idk I'm a woman so ik it's not AS common in us but it's still possible. I'm doing a little better with redirecting my attention and cooling my anxiety but I had an onslaught of intrusive images before falling asleep like I used to have when I first started experiencing this fear. It's been really catapulting me back to the beginning and I find that I'm ruminating on when it started and if it really means I'm a p or not. I know it's classic ocd but it's hard when it doesn't feel that way ;-; anyway, I'm too scared to Google bc i know it'll be a form of reassurance but also I'm just scared of having anything related to that in my search history so I just thought I'd post here. Anyone else have conflicting thoughts like this?
This might be super specific, but something I struggle with is feeling the need to consistently look up things for reassurance. I feel the need to look up the same things over and over again just to make sure. Example: googling what to do in serious situations like a car crash, if someone’s having a heart attack, seizure, etc. I’m (soon to be) a healthcare professional and I feel like I know these things like the back of my hand. I feel like if I ever get to these (extremely unlikely) situations, I won’t know what to do. I feel the need to constantly reassure myself the proper protocol for situations that will probably NEVER happen. Anytime I think of this possibility, I can’t help but become trapped in a spiral of googling what to do. It’s come to a point that I’ve started noting down what to do over and over again if these situations happen. I really just want to know if anyone relates.
Ok, I’m 23 years old guy and I’ve never had a girlfriend or anything intimate with a female. There’s reasons for it I think growing up I was awkward, shy, and at times out of shape. But now I take good care of myself and though I struggle a lot with my mental health I think I could bring a lot to the table but I’ve just never been able to find somebody. I put myself out there on apps(no success) or just being out in the world hoping to meet someone naturally just nothing. I was pretty fine with this fact of waiting for the right person and taking more time than others to find love for most of my life..but everyday I get older it gets more embarrassing. Seeing friends and peers in relationships and talk about intimacy feels like I’m missing out on such a core fundamental part of the human experience. I try not to compare myself to others and have my own journey but I feel kind of pathetic honestly. I’ve been a hopeless romantic for my whole life I think it’s such a beautiful part of life and I’ve been dreaming of the day..that might be a problem honestly because I have such a romanization of it and idea of what it should be that the few chances I might’ve had I overthought or dropped because it didn’t fit that image I had…love at first sight, sparks flying etc..maybe I should be more open..And on top of all of that I do struggle with the fear I’m far to broken or far gone mentally to ever be able to maintain a relationship which hurts because as I’ve expressed it’s what I want most in life. Thank you for reading it might not be 100 percent ocd related but I needed to express this somewhere and I love this community helps me a lot, if anyone in my age group struggles with something similar feel free to share.
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