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- 4y
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- OCD Conqueror
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Yes and I want quiet to “think through” my thoughts but it just makes it worse.& I don’t want to be around anyone because I’m scared I’ll get an intrusive thought about it
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yes
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Yes from my gf
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Yeah I have ROCD and I want to from my fiancé
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@AnonymousA Same! And I also isolate from my fiancé. My wedding is in 2 months. It is so hard.
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Yeah and that leads to major depressive episodes.
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Same
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All the time. But I push through it and make sure that I visit people even if I find it hard to text them
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Yes definitely, it feels very isolating
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Yes
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Yes. Sometimes it it makes me want to isolate. Other times, it makes me want to be around people. Just depends on what type of intrusive thought I have.
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I basically isolated for about 3 years. I didn't even know it was ocd, please don't isolate, it'll make things worse hun
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It’s so hard not to isolate though. Ocd feels so scary that it’s hard being around people because you’re scared they’ll trigger an ocd spike and you’ll have to deal with it
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@Earlymockingjay That's exactly why I avoided literally everyone, trust me...it makes things so much worse because its strengthening the ocd. Its letting it know that you're afraid, and that will only cause you to isolate more. Don't let the ocd win, i wish I would've had someone tell me that
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@Earlymockingjay Facts
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sorry this is super long i just wanna know if anyone else has been thru something similar bc i feel super alone 🩷 i have super bad contamination ocd. it was bad already but my house was like my safe space until a few months ago someone brought something into my house that i considered ‘contaminated’. and so then i felt like that part of the house was contaminated, then it spread to everything outside my room (since family is moving around touching stuff) and then somehow i got convinced everything in my room except my bed is contaminated and i need to wash my hands after touching it. in my mind its like the contamination just infinitely spreads to things after the tiniest bit of touch. idek what im afraid of anymore or even what the original thing was but i can’t let it go. when i have to wash off contamination i have to wash at least 4 times or until it feels right, or sometimes take rlly long showers and wipe down all my stuff. i even throw away food and clothes or just whole items sometimes because they feel so contaminated i don’t want them in my space. i can’t be super near people or have anyone touch me, and i also can’t bring anything new into my room since it had to go through the entry of my house which feels contaminated. i feel like all i do is lay in bed and then wash my hands and do compulsions so i can go eat or do other stuff around the house. also i never go out because i’m bc people outside make me feel dirty, and i hate thinking about how many people have touched stuff in stores or in public and stuff. so im just in my room worrying all day. i feel so trapped and the contamination/avoiding it is all i think about anymore i barely have time for anything else and im never present when i talk to people because im worrying about if i accidentally got contaminated. im starting erp next week and knowing that im going to have to expose myself to things is really freaking me out. does anyone else have this kind of ocd ? im exhaustedddd 🥲🥲💔
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My perfectionism OCD has me looking for the inevitable flaws in people, and when I find those flaws, I distance myself. This only leads to loneliness and isolation, which brings its own set of emotions. I’m doing this to myself and hurts.
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i haven’t left my house in a whole month because of contamination OCD and it’s extremely isolating i don’t know what to do anymore i just want to be able to be happy again i feel so alone i just wish i never had this at all sometimes i just think to myself and say why me why me
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