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Dating involves a lot of anxiety-provoking things! When our anxiety is high, we tend to be more aware of intrusive thoughts and might be inclined to assign meaning to them. Try not to analyze your thoughts or figure out why you have them - that just fuels the OCD. Work on accepting the thoughts and continuing about your life.
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It’s sooooooo hard. But I’ll try. Thank you for responding!
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@LoveyDuck I know, it’s unbelievably hard! We can do hard things. Be kind to yourself :)
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@Orange-Colored_Glasses Thank you so much. Your comment helped a lot. Hope your doing ok as well!
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@LoveyDuck That makes me so happy to hear ☺️ I’m about to do an exposure now - feeling motivated to keep going through the discomfort!
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@Orange-Colored_Glasses Good luck!
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I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
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I’ve been single for a very long time. I’ve always attached really heavily to people and highly prioritized being in a relationship. I know I can be happy on my own but sometimes all i can think about is how I wish someone loved me like that, it consumes my entire brain. For that reason Valentine’s day feels pretty sad to me. I’m gonna have to stay off social media so i don’t see people posting about how much they love their significant others because i know it’ll make me spiral. Also since it’s valentine’s day i keep having intrusive thoughts of my loved ones having sex and it feels really gross.
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Whenever I have a non flirtatious, friendly interaction with a male my brain accuses me of cheating. I go into a full panic attack until I tell my husband then it goes away Same thing with intrusive thoughts. I'll have a random sexual thought about someone and my brain tells me that since I thought that it must be what I wanted and accuses me of cheating. Sometimes these thoughts come with actually physical feelings of what intruded. Thoughts of "what would it be like .." but I stop myself and then freak the flip out. With erp am I just supposed to let the sexual thoughts or accusations play out in my head?! It's excruciatingly painful. Also if I sit there and give into a sexual thoughts paired with the "mood" feelings how is that not mentally cheating 😵💫
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