- Date posted
- 4y
- Date posted
- 4y
Yup! I use to think the same while in a college class…like I would lose control and same something absurd or scream!
- Date posted
- 4y
I’ve been that way before. I also had the worry, as a child, that thinking a word made me bad. I vividly remember not being able to say “hate” when I was four, and I thought that I hated something- so I ran upstairs to confess to my mom that I thought the word hate.
- Date posted
- 4y
omg when I was like 11-12 my ocd theme was like almost being scared?? of "bad words." like i would constantly ask my mom if a word was a "bad word" or look words up to find out what it meant and I was like scared of saying or thinking of swear words or "bad words" lol
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
Yes! There was a period when I was so scared I'd accidentally blurt the N word even though I have literally never once in my life said that word
- Date posted
- 4y
OCD will make us believe that just because we think something it means it’s true or that we are bad! I still have some of those today where my brain is trying to convince me to do a compulsion to get rid of the anxiety I have towards having negative thoughts towards myself
- Date posted
- 4y
Yep!!!!! All last year that was a huge issue of mine. It still happens sometimes those thoughts are just so intense. That’s how I got diagnosed in the first place.
Related posts
- Date posted
- 20w
I woke up disassociating really bad ,I was super tired and if you read my prev post I've been having problems w depersonalization after a bad thc trip the other night. Im so so so scared I just said a slur or whispered it to myself because I cant properly remember things rn. I remember getting the thought and im scared i whispered it to myself and I cant tell if it happened or not bc waking up things feel rly blurry . It feels really real. I would never want to say such a word and im scared i did bc I was so out of it. I dont remember if i just had the thought or acted on it
- Date posted
- 13w
I just woke up and I keep calling God this terrible word in my head and it feels so real and I’m not super freaked out. I feel kinda numb to the thought but I just feel terrible at the same time because I don’t wanna talk this word I’m scared that God is gonna take me away. I don’t know what to do.
- Date posted
- 7w
TLDR; i'm terrified that my past confessions/need for reassurance to the wrong people will get back at me one day from them not knowing it was undiagnosed OCD/not understanding. back when i was 17/18 i began struggling severely with POCD. at the time, i wasn't diagnosed and had not much idea what OCD was, so naturally i just thought i was a terrible person. i needed reassurance from everyone - even coworkers, friends, anyone, some who barely knew me. i'd tell people about the thoughts i was struggling with and when i look back it upsets me because i know deep down they thought it was weird. i don't know why i felt the need to tell these people about my POCD. i even remember one of my supervisors looking at me with this horrified look on her face. the job i worked at back then, i sometimes had to do parties for children so naturally i refused because of my theme, i was (still am if i'm honest) scared of children. i ended up not being kept permanently at my job (i was seasonal) due to me not doing the parties. i ended up going back to that job a year (ish) later after being diagnosed. i made it clear i had OCD and wore lots of pin badges about it and made it my mission to spread awareness of what OCD really is. i was on meds (still am). some people had left naturally, so i know there's some people out there who never actually found out i had OCD and i am terrified they think of me as this dangerous, weird p*do because of my intrusive thoughts whenever they hear my name/think of that job. i'm terrified that my old coworkers talk about me and describe me as a bad person. i had someone come into my new job a few months back, and being in customer service, we were having a friendly chat and she mentioned she just started working at my old job. i said i used to work there, she then asked me if i was *my full name* and i said yes, she said she'd heard about how bad my manager was back then. she tried to follow me on instagram and i blocked her. i'm terrified on how she knows about me, what does she know? what was she told? it haunts me to this day. what if she thinks i'm a bad person, because my old colleagues have told her stories of my POCD? why was i even mentioned? but yeah - long story short i'm just mortified that i was so open about POCD and that there's people out there who know about it that probably shouldn't, some who i know didn't like me very much anyway, and that it might come back to me later in life and i'd lose everything, and just overall the thought of someone thinking of me as a bad person. anyone else relate?
Be a part of the largest OCD Community
Share your thoughts so the Community can respond