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i do:/
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It is the worst thing, really. :( because you can’t change it. I don’t know how to “forgive myself”, especially with anxiety. That seems like a hard thing for those of us with anxiety.
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Me today - I'm lost in the thought pattern.
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Me too. It’s even things that happened many, many years ago as a kid. I can’t just “get over it” like people tell me to do. Like thanks, that helped me so much :(
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@MRR7221 Yeah, today I'm super worried that I screwed up my new job. Because it probably appears worse than it was. I was accused or mildly accused of stealing which I wasn't trying to. I'm so never that person. I'm worried that I sought too much reassurance and now I appear to be a bad person that can't be trusted. Like what do I do?
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@ucsancy I feel horrible and incredibly anxious.
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@ucsancy Ugh I’m so sorry you feel like this. Anxiety seriously just makes everything worse. Like why must we have to overthink the smallest things? Then those small things become big things and then all of a sudden you’re obsessing over that small thought for weeks into months… :(
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@MRR7221 Exactly! It's freaking me out. I'm so worried they'll fire me because of that. I'm seriously anxious.
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@ucsancy I hate that anxiety can do soo much damage to us. You won’t get fired from that! Just explain the story to them, they will be forgiving! I had a similar thing that I was scared about with work. :( but it was just all in my head :(
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It is just getting so tiring. :(
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Im worried I'm a super bad person 😔
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Because of stuff you did in the past? Me too. I feel like my husband can be with someone soo much better because of stuff I did so long ago as a kid… :( I know you aren’t a bad person!
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I get it. I'm in a new relationship after seven years single. I'm incredibly worried that I've screwed up and like why would somebody so great like him want somebody who's worried about being a bad person? I just wish like God or something could appear and let me know if I'm bad or not, so I can either let go of it or just accept if I am bad.
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I ask God so many times to just tell me the truth of things to me soo many times… like I do the “God please tell me, did I do that??” And I’ll get a “no you didn’t” I truly believe it was him telling me that but then I overthink and say “no that was just my head saying what you want to say” and the cycle just continues…
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All of mg experience with OCD has been extremely tiring. It drains me of all of my energy.
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I will literally sit blankly just all caught up in my thoughts and then when someone mentions how I’ve been or like I mention my anxiety to them, I just break down. I cry and continually cry. Sometimes I feel like I have no support either :(
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@MRR7221 I feel the same way. I keep feeling like I'm bothering the people around me with the things I do. The most aggravating thing is that I annoy myself. I don't WANT to do these things. I just can't help it. I recognize the things I do are unnecessary but I just can't snap out of it. I don't reallt expect the people around me to fully understand since they aren't experiencing it. I just want people to understand that this isn't really me. And just to have patience with me until I figure this out. My ocd just randomly got really bad like a month. It was almost like overnight... just so sudden. There's things I was able to do a month ago, that I am terrified to do now. Or I just avoid doing because it will take too long or require too much energy.
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@TLee182 YES! Me too!! I was perfectly fine and then all of a sudden I had a random thought that I sexually assaulted a toddler at my old daycare 12 yrs ago when I have no memory of doing it. It literally was like an instant. No warning or anything. The energy thing is such an issue. I worked out all the time but now it just I have no motivation from my anxiety. I hope you can get to feeling better ❤️
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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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I know I keep talking about This but I’m too tired :( I’m really struggling and I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel like I might be the only person who experiences this in the way I do. It’s gotten so bad that during intimacy or self-pleasure, I feel like I’m acting on a thought — like my body is moving because of it. It’s terrifying and deeply hurtful. The moment it happens, I immediately panic, try to rewind everything in my head, and ruminate to figure out what I was thinking at that exact second… but I can never remember. That makes it even worse. feel so lost and hopeless, like I’ll never be able to heal or move on from this. People tell me “it’s just OCD,” but it doesn’t feel like OCD to me. It feels like I’m the exception — like no one else truly experiences it like this, especially the part where it feels like I physically responded to a thought. I know people say “others go through this too,” but my mind keeps saying, “not like this, not this specific thing.”Sometimes I just wish I could go back and relive those moments so I could be sure what happened, but I know that’s not possible. I feel so stuck in guilt and doubt that I don’t even know who I am anymore. I’m scared I’m a bad person and that I’ll always feel this way. I’ll never be free or be the same again everyday I live with deep depression
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I would really appreciate it so much if someone took the time to read this and help me. I don’t know what to do anymore. I haven’t posted here in awhile. I had my OCD managed pretty decently for a year or so on medication, but I had to stop taking it, and after around 3-4 months, the OCD has become unbearable again. It used to be much more surrounding existential themes, eating, and others, not really real event/false memory stuff. But now it’s gotten really out of hand and I don’t know how to do it anymore. It’s surrounding a time of my life a long time ago. It was a dark time. I wasn’t myself and I was going through a lot of things, and I did a lot of things I regret. I self-destructed, embarrassed myself, and wasn’t good to the people around me. I was able to get my mind off of it for a long time, even though I would still think about it a good amount. I was able to be in the present, at least moreso than now. But now that I’m off medication, the guilt has become my obsession again. I can’t move on. I can’t do anything without thinking about all of these memories. I’m obsessed. I’ve started hating myself again, so much so that it’s hard to do anything anymore or believe I deserve anything good. The people around me tell me it wasn’t even that bad, but to me it was. To me, I failed myself, lost myself, and failed everyone around me. I can’t stop thinking about every person I said something wrong to or every time I screwed up. I’ve now started to convince myself I did terrible things I can’t remember, and that my mind just can’t deal with it. And that’s why I feel so guilty. There’s nothing to really support this though. But I’m starting to really convince myself that’s true. I’m trying not to listen to it, because I’ve convinced myself I have hit people with my car before and haven’t remembered when I absolutely didn’t and I know I never have. I drive back over and over to check there’s no one, even though I never heard any bang or felt myself anything. I can convince myself of some crazy false memories. So I know that I shouldn’t listen. But it’s hard not to when I have this guilt gnawing at me constantly. I come to conclusions that this guilt must be because I did something terrible that I don’t remember, even though I already think the things I remember were bad enough. But I would know by now right? If I did something bad I don’t remember? I don’t feel like this all the time. But it’s a lot of the time. But maybe that should be reassuring, that I only start obsessing like this when I think to. The past haunts me though. And I can never be in the present. I’ve started to resort to some unhealthy behaviors to distract myself or help me work towards something. I am starting to hate myself so much and feel like there’s no way I’ll ever be able to get out of this loop. I feel like I just can’t do this anymore. Maybe I need to go back on medication. But I don’t know. I don’t really want to. But will I ever fix this without it? Why do I feel SO guilty, all of the time? I do all these things for people because I feel indebted to them, because I feel undeserving of everything. I feel awful about myself. I don’t know what to do. Does anyone else deal with this?
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