- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
Just take it slow and go with the flow. Just see what happens. Don’t rush it. You got this!
So should I just wait and see if he messages me? Or should I reach out again? I don't know. I am the worst and social interactions. This is probably why I have no friends : (
@Anyonomous It depends.you can message him saying like “hey, wanna chat” and if he responds wanting to talk go ahead but if he doesn’t respond maybe just wait until he talks to you. He could just want space or time to think. Sometimes people aren’t good at communicating their thoughts or feeling and he could be that type of person. Or he could also just not be a chatty person. Just go with flow.
@LoveyDuck Most importantly do what makes you comfortable!!
@Anyonomous My take on it: it honestly just doesn’t matter. If slightly too many messages is a huge turn off for this dude then he probably just isn’t interested in you anyway. And if he is interested in getting to know you, a few extra messages don’t hurt. Avoid messaging him constantly, give him some time to respond. Beyond that, the frequency of messages just doesn’t matter that much in my opinion. Sincerely, a guy who used to do the same kind of overanalyzing when it came to this stuff
Well he just messaged me 🙃 i need to stop overthinking things.
Don't be so hard on yourself, I also have a really hard time making friends online and in real life, I always feel socially inept, a couple of months ago I ghosted I girl I like (she has a boyfriend though and yep I feel guilty about it), I did it out of insecurity and anxiety (maybe even due ocd, remember it takes something and turns it into a catastrophe), to this point is killing me and I would really like to apologize, then I remember I probably just come into her head when she's drunk and that she has way better stuff and people to spend her time with. You see everyone has different reasons to begin/end communications and sometimes we pay extra attention and value to situations that are not as big as they seem. Try not to reread messages or ruminate about what he's thinking about you. CHOOSE not to ruminate about it.
Thank you :) its good to know I am not alone. I always feel like a social outcast. Went to a bible study the other day ans felt sooo awkward and like no one liked me. I wish I chose not to ruminate about it. He actually just replied back. I need to stop overthinking and realize people may be busy. I just wish I knew how to interact with other humans better
I don’t know what to do anymore I made a friend recently in college and was texting her the other night and she mentioned she was doing her nails and I said nice and asked her if I could see. Because I was curious about what she did to them this time around and since then she has not responded to me I apologized to her saying I’m sorry if it bothered her but still nothing. Some of my friends just don’t answer me anymore I feel like I’m a burden of the ones who do still talk me I’m so done with it all. I’m tired of trying to find love as well I feel nothing to it anymore it’s only left me with disappointment and sadness I feel like I’m an unlovable husk of a person and that I would only ever be a bother I cannot fathom the idea of someone loving ME I just can’t I feel like it’s impossible I feel like everything about me bothers people to the point where I think is it even something I should try to achieve anymore. I should honestly block myself from trying to make new friends and relationships I’m so so tired of it. I feel unappreciated and annoyed that I am the one that has to try to keep up any sort of relationship because if I don’t reach out they never will reach out to me the reason I know this is because it’s been proven time after time since middle school that I am nothing to these people and I might as well no longer try. I don’t know what to do anymore I feel like I’m going to be all alone for the rest of my life I’m just so lonely now.
Recently me and my ex partner broke up. We met recently and when he asked me how I was I told him I was suicidal and broke down crying. I told him instantly that obviously the break up hasn’t made me suicidal but the ocd that’s come with it has. I felt so bad that a few days ago I messaged him to say sorry for how much I’ve contacted him and for being such a mess. I asked him if he still wanted to be friends and he said we would but now I can’t stop thinking that maybe he’s just saying that because he knows I’ve been suicidal. I just want this all to stop, I don’t know how to stop thinking about all I did wrong and how much harder I’ve made this break up
the past month ive been ruminating about a time last year where i hurt a friend by unintentionally bringing up a traumatic memory when i was really drunk, enough that i didnt remember it, so i went 6 months without apologizing until i was worried when they werent talking to me anymore. so they told me when i finally tried to talk to them. i apologized and they told me we were ok now, and still want me in their life, but now they stopped talking to me again and its been 3 weeks, and im terrified that i did something again, especially since they stopped talking to me when i made a mistake before, and wont tell me outright. the event triggered horrible horrible guilt over what i did, mostly guilt About the guilt i was feeling, because its not a normal amount of guilt for a regular person, and eventually my compulsions for confessing and ruminating reached a high point. and when they stopped talking to me again they got even worse . they are aware i suffer from ocd and anxiety to an extent (we've been friends since we were teenagers) so its hard for me to believe they wouldn't do this unless i did something wrong again, especially due to the events of my past mistake. lately ive been wondering, 'have they found out my abnormal reaction to what happened ?' 'did a friend who knows about it tell them?' ive been avoiding asking them if i did something wrong again, because i dont want to make it a habit since i can fall very deeply into that hole of asking for reassurance and i feel even regular reassurance, without the ocd, im the last person who deserves that right now. im scared they somehow found out about my compulsions (which isnt entirely irrational) and i feel the need to apologize to them again. ive been having panic attacks about this. i feel like no matter what i do i cant fix our friendship, and its going to end badly. i feel like a terrible friend, and im too mentally ill to have friendships. i don't know what to do.
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