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OCD can be about anything. Since we experience so much fear about our OCD themes, it feels like the theme matters, but it really doesn’t. I think our brains are just wired to always be obsessing over uncertainty in one area of life or another. We can get triggered out of nowhere and develop a new OCD theme about something that’s never bothered us before. The OCD is giving you explanations as to why you feel anxious. “It must be because you’re a liar.” “It must be because you’re a bad person.” The real reason is simply that you have an anxiety disorder. Try not to analyze why you developed OCD about a certain event. It won’t help you treat your OCD. Best of luck finding peace ✨
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Thanks. I think I need to understand that I couldnt and cant control things like this.
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@Heello Yes - you didn’t create your OCD, and you can’t force it to go away. You can only work on how you respond to the anxiety.
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- 21w
With real event OCD, I don’t know if any of you feel this way, but do you ever feel that the past event(s) that you ruminate about or constantly obsess about are gonna come up in your future and just absolutely ruin you, that’s how I’ve been feeling for months, it just feels like impending doom, and I hate having to even think that my future would be ruined by what I did as a teenager, and I did some dumb things, that I regret so deeply, I just can’t stop thinking about that.
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Real event, legal ocd, and false memory ocd around events that happened years ago but never bothered me till a month ago and now my life is being destroyed because I feel sooooooooooo guilty
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my real event is so bad today. has anyone got any support. i’m in therapy, ive been on meds, but yet i can’t stop feeling guilty for what i did when i was 11-13. the fact that i cannot remember exactly what age or exactly what happened, how many times or anything, im 20 now, and it makes it worse im trying not to ruminate but im constantly trying to figure everything out. i get these intrusive thoughts that tell me if i was 13 then it’s worse, or that i don’t deserve a good life. but i can’t remember and the guilt consumes me. i remember what i did. just nothing else about it and it honestly is eating me alive.
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