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I have had this exact situation happen. My therapist helped me work on it. Instead of avoiding them I put myself in situations where I would have to see them(they're a coworker) as an exposure. It was terrifying because of the thought that if I was around them I would find out I did like them and have to leave my wonderful boyfriend, but with time and exposure, it dissipated on it's own. I still get those thoughts from time to time, but they no longer give me much anxiety and I'm able to tune it out so to say. It became more background noise.
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Same here. If I can get pass the “gross” feeling maybe the anxiety will go away towards this person. It’s this intense feeling of gross and my whole body feels it.
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No one else makes me feel this way, just this one person I avoid at all costs.
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But I have so much sympathy for you and that situation. It was SO difficult. I felt guilty and gross and miserable for some time because of it.
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OH MY GOSH ME!
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my relationship ocd theme is back and it hasn’t for a while. i keep having intrusive thoughts about a friend even tho i have a boyfriend of 6 years. i like do not like this person they are good looking but im not like into them. i like feel guilty for no reason and i feel like i need to tell my boyfriend even tho like we’ve been through this before and it only gets better if i tell him but if i don’t i feel like im hiding something. AHH like i don’t even wanna see that person anymore
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Trigger warning So I can’t stop wondering if I was attracted to this kid I saw a few days ago because I felt something that felt like genuine attraction, it made me worried I was a p, so I tried to leave the place immediately. I also had urges to look to check if I was attracted or not and urges to not to look. All of it made me feel like a genuine P. What is all of this I’m doing, are they compulsions? Or are they pr3detory actions?
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Ocd sucks. I’m at a stay away multiple days long event for school rn and ran into someone I used to talk with. We had a will they won’t they kind of thing for years and knew each other all growing up. I knew when we were really young that he had a crush on me for a while. And then when we got older there were times I had a crush on him but I don’t think he liked me anymore at that point. I never fully knew where he stood because he often was in a relationship or living somewhere else. Because we never dated or kissed or anything, only hung out on ambiguous date-like occasions, there has always been that what if sitting there for me and I hadn’t seen or spoken to him since before I met my current partner years ago. Well they happen to be at this place I’m staying at, where we are in the same places everyday, and I ran into them, said hi and caught up for a bit. It has totally triggered my ROCD in a way I’ve never experienced. I feel guilt and shame and keep having intrusive thoughts that are so extreme and catastrophic like what if I leave my partner of 8 years for him, what if I find him more attractive than my partner, what if I cross a line while I’m interacting with him this week, what if I’m a terrible girlfriend to my partner and a fraud??
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