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I went through this too, but what really helped is realizing I have a past too and my girlfriend as far as I know didn’t seem to care or get jealous about that. I also kept myself busy by in my alone time focusing on bettering myself so there’s nothing I should feel jealous about
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- 3y ago
i feel you! i’ve been in this position
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- 3y ago
I feel you… I used to do this a lot before I deleted all my social media. It’s a sickening feeling for sure. I always just remind myself that there is a reason my partner and I are together now, and the love we have can’t be overshadowed by anything from the past. My jealousy is all rooted in my not feeling like I am enough for him, which is rooted in my fear of abandonment. OCD loves this and uses it to its advantage. One thing I think about is would I have really wanted my fiancé to not have been with literally anyone else and be 27 years old (his age when we met)? No, of course not. Because my fiancé is interesting and has lived a life, he has a dating history. As I do as well. I am planning to do an exposure soon where I read a story about a man cheating on his current partner with an ex, and imagine it as my fiancé and his ex. It sounds like torture even just writing this now, but that type of exposure is really the best way to reduce the anxiety. Face your jealousy head on. Knock it on its back with exposures. You can do this! And so can I ❤️
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- 3y ago
What a great exposure exercise!!
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- 3y ago
I also struggle with my bfs past relationships even though I’ve never met the people and my bf tells me he wishes he met me years ago. I still imagine what they did together and wonder if I’m really better than his exes. My compulsions were either to search the people or ask him endlessly about them and who was better sexually etc etc. don’t give into the compulsions they just feed the cycle. And if you have to cut off social media so you don’t have access to that stuff, that might help. If I had Facebook I would be in big trouble.
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Our compulsions are the exact same. You’re exactly right about not giving in. Keep up the good work! And yeah I need to delete FB lol
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Very brief mentions of pocd and nsfw jokes,id like this to be adults only . Repost bc i had to edit something Does anyone have experience with real event ocd attached to your online footprint etc? I keep checking old messages,trying to find old people i knew i used to talk to etc. To find out every problematic thing I did and if I've ever been unfollowed or blocked by anyone I used to be friends w online/atleast on good terms w. I am particularly concerned abt doing something bigoted,esp racist bc i have racism ocd,and doing something predatory bc of my pocd. I remember hanging around people who could use 'edgy' or offensive humour in my teens and i remember a lot of sex jokes and that i would join in on sex jokes sometimes . i dont remember details w the offensive humour as much,i feel like i didnt join in on it as much but i was definitely WAY passive abt things and prob let a lot of bad stuff slide i shouldnt have bc i didn't speak up it was wrong,I remember one friend in an online community would say slurs and horrible jokes when i was 16. I dont remember my response to it as much but i feel i didnt speak up abt it aside one time i found in the dms where he made a bad joke on a thing i shared for social justice. I cant stop going thru old messages and stuff or trying to find ppl from the past. I feel like if I don't check it now,that eventually it'll come to haunt me or that I'll stumble across it eventually. I worry what if someone messaged me on one of these apps I un-installed or on one of the accounts I don't have access to,confronting me abt all this stuff I did. I had an obsession w this back in 2020 and did check in depth on all my accounts,but now that it's been 4 years the obsession is back in full swing.
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I shouldn’t have done this (trigger trigger trigger!!) So about a month ago..maybe I watched this video (as a compulsion to prove to myself) The video was called “interview with a p3d0” And basically it was what it says, I watched or more like listened to half of it…after I was disgusted by the person, but now all I can think of is every little thing I do, I feel as if tho I’m monitoring every thought/moment and feeling I have it’s torturous and I hate it..I feel disgusting, the person in the video has empathy and sympathy and had those feelings yk, I can’t explain it you’d have to watch the video yourself but please don’t it will ruin your journey…I feel more hopeless then before, my OCD is telling me so many things trying to convince me things that Ik aren’t true, I’m just really scared I don’t want to be that person I want to be a good cousin and person to my family, I’m sick of my head and myself, I’m so tired that sometimes I can’t even think straight, my head is always in pain and idek how to help myself..compulsions have been becoming more and more exhausting… I need advice or even someone to relate to, I understand I shouldn’t have done what I did but idk how to forget it.. I had made this post already but when someone replied I couldn’t see it for some reason so I’m uploading it again
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I know I am going a bit cuckoo because my period is coming up, but lately it feels like every intrusive thought I have, I *like* it. Like I genuinely feel like I like it, and then I immediately panic because I start checking. Mentally, emotionally, whatever it is. And I know that is a compulsion. I *know* that. But it feels so real that I cannot stop myself. Every single time I check, it still feels like I like the thought, and it is driving me absolutely insane. It is especially the POCD thoughts. They feel so real. I feel like something is going on mentally, like some kind of confusion or glitch, because I swear I was not like this before. I would have intrusive thoughts, and they would feel real, but not *this* real. And I do not even know if this is normal. I know OCD is **supposed** to feel convincing. That is the whole thing. But I have never experienced it to this extreme. I have never gotten the same thought so many times and still felt like, “Oh my God, I did enjoy it,” even after checking a million times. It is like no matter how many times I check, it feels like I liked it. Especially during intimacy :( and it is making me lose it. Then I start thinking, “Well, I am in distress, so maybe that is proof it is not actually me.” But right after, I am like, “What if I am only panicking because I care about what society thinks and not because I actually have morals?” And then I spiral again, wondering if maybe I just care about how I am seen rather than who I am. I am panicking so much no today. I had to take my Xanax today for the first time in two months, and I needed three separate doses. I really need some support right now.
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