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Remember it's just a thought. Ive been in your exact situation. And particularly, I noticed that when I felt especially happy and/or confident in my relationships the intrusive thoughts would come and try to ruin my confidence. Don't let it girl! I felt exactly like you, I did not want to break up at all but the thoughts were getting so intense that I ended up breaking things off because I couldnt handle it. I was MISERABLE afterwards (he was toxic though high key 🤣) and had so many regrets. If your relationship is good and healthy, please practice ERP to your thoughts in order to save yourself from doing something youll end up regretting
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My therapist had to reschedule to the 25th, and that’s only going to be my first appointment. I don’t really know how to do erp
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@raeniedays Agree with the thoughts but DON'T make yourself believe them or engage with them further. The key is the second part, do not believe that the thought is real. You are simply agreeing and making a joke out of the thought to dismiss it
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@alexisrae1999 Has this actually alleviated some of your themes and detached you from them? I’ve never done it so I’m skeptical
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@raeniedays It has given me a better grasp on what is real and what is OCD, its really hard to start off doing though so be patient with yourself!
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Thank you! It just felt so so real like my true self
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@BlueMountain Thank you so much ❤️
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I’m struggling with it feeling real and like I want it, you are not alone!
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Yup, that’s ocd. “It feels so feel”. And that’s why it’s such a struggle. I sabotage everything and feel so relieved but then my true feelings return and I’m like “nooo!” Just know thoughts and feelings will pass. Don’t do the compulsions. Eventually you will unfuse from these thoughts and feelings and the love you know will return.
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I’m just so scared it won’t it feels like everything is ruined. And it was such a calm thought it felt like me
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@raeniedays OCD is the biggest liar. This is not your true self thinking here.
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@LisaP99 It just has a way of feeling like it is sometimes
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I’m really anxious because I know my ocd is really bad right now so I shouldn’t try to figure it out cause my thinking is a mess but I’ve been having feelings of like I’m not sure if I love him anymore or worrying that I haven’t felt a lot like numb (a lot because ocd has been getting worse and worse) and thinking of like how I’ve been focusing on the negatives and only been looking at him through that lens and analyzing and also feeling like I don’t want this anymore. Basically just like negative thinking in feeling like I’m really scared it’s that it’s I don’t love him cause I don’t want it to be over and the thought of having someone replace him makes me ill. But like it feels like I’m not seeing him how I used to and it makes me upset. Today I was near someone I was like oh this person is cute and then I was thinking that the possibility of meeting someone new sounds exciting and now I’m freaking out because this in combination with feeling like maybe I don’t love him anymore is bad. Also my thoughts keep changing. and like sometimes it feels like I don’t care at all and this has happened but like worst it’s ever been and then other times I’m like I do care I do still feel. I’m just really anxious has anyone else felt this before and it was still ocd? 😭😭
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Right now I feel like I’ve realized something awful. Like maybe… I never truly loved my boyfriend. Maybe in the beginning I was just excited to be in a relationship. Maybe I confused that excitement with real love. And when the intrusive thoughts started, maybe it wasn’t ROCD — maybe it was the truth hitting me. I write this and it feels real. That’s the scariest part. It feels calm and clear and like maybe I’ve just been lying to myself all along, holding on because I “should,” not because I truly want to. I can’t remember how it felt to love him — and that makes it worse. I feel so disconnected, so numb, like nothing makes sense anymore. Every time I try to feel something for him, it feels like I’m faking it. Like I’m playing a role, not being myself. But the thing is… I’m not at peace. If this was really the truth, why does it hurt so much? Why does this “realization” come with panic, guilt, emptiness, and so much fear? I don’t want to hurt him. I don’t want to lose him. But I also don’t want to keep living like this — doubting myself, my feelings, and my past. I feel like I’m stuck in a cycle I can’t break, and I’m scared I’ll always feel this way. Has anyone ever felt like this before?
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I have had ocd in my relationship for a while now. When I originally met him it was like this insane spiritual soulmate feeling and we just clicked instantly and he never judged me. I’m scared cause when I picture breaking up with my boyfriend I see myself being ok and being sad but moving on which I never was able to see before doesn’t this mean that this is what would happen or I don’t know till it happens? I still can’t imagine what life would be like without him but I just feel like I have lost feelings that I never wanted to lose. plus that’s also when I just picture knowing how people move on and how I’d just have to move on without letting myself picture processing the losses of all. I’m just really scared cause I used to think of wanting other things in someone else and what it would be like but I just thought how nice it would be to have it and not actually meaning it bc every time I thought about it I got upset and now it feels diff. He knows I have ocd but I never explained the ROCD because I thought it would have offended him so every time I went through a flare up I never told and acted like I was fine and it kept happening and OCD kept getting worse and worse. Maybe that’s part of the issue cause I haven’t been feeling like myself. But this is a feeling I never wanted to feel ever with him. I have gone through the feeling of numb but not like this. And he has a lot of positives but I can only see him overall as negatives and I’ve been told that’s ocd but it’s affecting how I feel. And yes there are legit actual things in the relationship that upset me but ocd has been affecting the way I look at him also. I keep being told my judgment is being impaired but this time it rly feels like not. And I’m Scared why don’t memories and things affect me like it used to doesn’t that mean I want this. Has anyone experienced this or is this the end 😭
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