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here’s something that I’m using at the moment to help me with a real event ocd: “Getting past Real Event OCD doesn't mean convincing yourself that what you did was okay, or seeking forgiveness. It's about accepting what you did and what you've learned from it, and allowing yourself to move past it.”
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I’m sorry you are feeling this way. I had a similar experience, I did something to my grandmas dog when I was really young. & I think back and question why would I ever think to do that. Breatheee, you deserve to live . Feel enjoy around family and pets, you deserve it. You made a mistake, sit with the discomfort it brings, & move on from it by learning from it.
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Also, thanks for venting because it makes some of us feel less alone in this journey.
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It’s no problem. I just really needed to let it out but it seems like it helps other people too so i’m really glad.
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Hi! I’m really sorry that you’ve been feeling like this. I understand how difficult it can be to cope with guilt. I think I know something you can try that may be of some help. Everyone is different, but it has helped me in the past. I believe it would be really helpful if you visualized your situation in someone else (a friend, someone random, etc.), and thought about how you would feel for them. Would you forgive them? All people do many (many!) things they regret in the course of their lives. Would you want a person to feel undeserving of food and/or life if they made a mistake years ago that they feel very guilty for long after? Probably not! Treat yourself with the care and understanding you would give to someone else. Sometimes, we’re much harder on ourselves than we are other people, and it’s hard to remember that we are just as deserving of life and happiness. I know that it gets really hard sometimes. The numbness that you may be feeling at the moment is just a way of coping with the pain, and once you forgive yourself, things will start to get so much better. Just remember that you are so important and deserving of happiness. I know it’s difficult, but you might want to consider about talking about it to someone in your life (family, trusted friend, etc.) , because when you get those negative feelings out in the air, it can feel like a weight being lifted from your chest, and the thoughts no longer seem so powerful. You can always talk to me too if that seems like too much. Again, when you find yourself feeling guilty for something you’ve done, picture someone you love in the same situation, and think about if you would forgive them. If you forgive them for making the same mistake, you should forgive yourself too. I hope that this helped! Please message me if you need to talk to somebody. I’m always here. Surround yourself with the people you love, and remember that you are never alone.
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thanks i appreciate the advice :)
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@Rey ⚜️ You’re most certainly welcome:) I promise that it will get better. You can always message me if you ever need somebody to talk to
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- 25w
I genuinely feel like the worlds most horrible person deeply for my past actions in childhood and general mistakes I’ve made. I feel like I shouldn’t be here or there’s no hope for me despite doing right ( trying to do right ) I’ve wanted to open up to my mom about things from my past but when I was talking to her about a situation that happened just to share, she was like “Thank God you’ve never done anything like that” But really my past mistakes are worst. It’s like I feel like I should disappear. I don’t know how to deal with the guilt and I feel horrible. I’ve made good and bad decisions but despite this being a long time ago ( which doesn’t erase my stupid actions ) I still keep bringing back into the present and I’m filled with guilt I genuinely think it would be better if I wasn’t here. I wake up think about my past things and I’m filled with guilt and shame that maybe I am a bad person and voices don’t stop, they keep telling me a lot of things that I start to believe. It makes me upset that I did something like that in my past and I try to be understanding but I can imagine the reactions of people and being condemned so much. I literally do this to myself every single day and it’s exhausting I don’t know how you guys can treat me with so much compassion and understanding. It really doesn’t feel real or like I deserve it. Like even on nocd, it makes me feel worst because I come across comments that say “as long as it’s not —-“ or something and I compare it to my past and I feel like a horrible unacceptable person.
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- 25w
All the past stuff can’t seem to let go of me. I lied, I normalized horrible things, I’ve tried to be moral in an immoral environment. Two people are dead and I could’ve done something. One of them probably deserved it. They were a pedophile, and I know the relationship they had with me was horrible. The other was a close friend. We were in that environment together, and while I grew away from it, he got further into it. And now he’s dead, hanged himself over some sick perversion someone placed in his mind. I’ve seen such sick things. I knew things were wrong. I tried telling people. I told that friend, it isn’t normal. Isn’t this stuff wrong? Aren’t we being influenced? He didn’t see it. I should’ve tried harder to make him see my way. I’m away from all of it. But he never got to get away. I remember telling people I knew from that environment, those online spaces. Since I was sixteen, I knew it was off. I knew these ideas planted in our heads were sick. I tried to convince people when I turned eighteen, but nobody saw it. Everyone was still brain washed. I’m a horrible person, I haven’t done enough to stop anything. I’ve always had a passion to help people, but I never was able to. I’ve been uncomfortable with sex for a while, but I can’t stop. I remember being uncomfortable with a girl in my school. She was really sexual towards me. I tried to tell the office, nobody listened, it’s just a crush. And then I started to like it, but it still felt wrong. And then she got expelled, and I was telling people she harassed me. Nobody really took it serious, it was just funny, so I exaggerated and said she squeezed my crotch and it hurt. Then people finally sympathized with me. There was another lie, a lie that still hurts me. There was a girl in our class. Everyone made jokes about her, I tried to be nice and talk to her, but then she got a bit creepy towards me. She wouldn’t stop following me. It got uncomfortable. What did I do? I lied again, because everyone started making jokes about how she liked me and I was uncomfortable. I said she made a suggestive comment to me, and they all laughed. I just wanted it to stop. I lied, again. I am deceitful. That poor girl wrote in my yearbook and thanked me for being a good friend, but I made her into a joke just to save my own skin. I am a coward, I hurt people, and I deserve to be put down like an animal. I’m sorry for making myself seem like someone else, I tried to help as much people as I could, I tried. All I want is to be good, but too much bad has happened. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to try and redeem myself everyone. You all are so strong. I’m not going to harm myself, but I accept that I have evil within me.
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- 23w
(21+ ONLY: TRIGGER WARNING) I love my dog. He just turned seven months old yesterday. But sometimes, I get so frustrated. I came home from work and I just wanted to sit down and relax and watch my favorite TV show. But then he started jumping on me, barking, and getting into things he shouldn’t be. On top of that, I was feeling lightheaded because I haven’t been taken Zoloft lately, which is completely my fault and irresponsible of me. My dog got into a laundry basket and tipped it over, spilling all the clothes on the floor and grabbing a pair of socks. I just lost it, at that point. I chased him and yelled at him and as I went to grab the socks from him, I thought about hitting him. I don’t think I did, but I don’t know. Either way, I’m truly disgusted with myself. I hate that that was my first automatic thought. What is wrong with me? I put him in his kennel for time out and I completely just lost it. I started crying and hyperventilating. I feel horrible for feeling sorry for myself when I’m not the one hurting here. I’m truly a disgusting manipulative POS that deserves to be locked away forever
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