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And I don’t have anxiety either. And I feel annoyed by him constantly. I did not feel like this at the beginning
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Aw girl :( I’m so sorry, I felt annoyed by everyone I was with ALL THE TIME (not in the beginning) to the point where I just couldn’t be with them and ended up ruining our relationships bc of it, but I know now it was all bc of my condition and my hyper-focusing on things..we’re here for you.
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hey! i understand how this stage feels, my ocd latched onto how my girlfriend looks and i don’t even get anxiety when it tells me i should leave her over small things i don’t even really care about and things i never found unattractive- needless to say it may not feel like OCD anymore but that’s just part of healin, that thought usually keeps me calm
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I feel you. It’s so hard but you have to keep trying ! Don’t let ocd win
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I feel this so hard. Like anything they do that upsets me or makes me uncomfortable I feel like it's the end of the relationship. Even though it makes me cry and I don't know.
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It doesn’t even make me cry anymore. Like I can’t pull an emotion out of myself. And I keep feeling like I have a crush on this coworker but I really don’t want to but my brains telling me I like it. So I’m so lost
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@cozycat I can relate to this. Do not let your brain convince you of that. I fell for it too. The constant rumination and guilt basically convinced me I had a crush on this other person. It’s all rooted in the constant obsessing, it’s not real. And even if you were to end your relationship, ROCD follows if it’s not healed properly so it would just wind up being there in the next relationship. Keep fighting you will conquer this !
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@PotatoChip21 I was just sitting here and I had a thought and I was like that’s not true and then it felt like I thought “no you know it’s true”
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@cozycat Oh trust me I do the same thing. My logical realistic brain always fights my OCD brain. I started to call my OCD brain by a name and whenever thoughts like that come up I tell her she’s wrong and I’m confident I know what I want, just trying to be positive about the situation
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@PotatoChip21 Even if it makes you not feel confident about what you want. Like at this point I feel like I don’t even want to be here it’s so weird
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@cozycat And like it feels so real. Like I feel like I don’t want to be around him and like I don’t even like him. And I’m pretty convinced it’s true and not ocd so that’s been stressing me out. Because I want to believe it’s ocd I want it to be ocd but it simply doesn’t feel like it anymore
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@cozycat I get what you’re saying. What makes you want to stay in the relationship?
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@Romans510 Because I loved him so much before all of this started. And he honestly is my whole world. And I love him so much. I just don’t want to feel this way and I feel like I’m lying
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@cozycat I completely relate. Try to stick with your values, OCD really freaking sucks but it doesn’t have to define you. I understand that feeling of feeling like a liar but love is mostly a choice ❤️ hang in there!
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@Romans510 Even when it feels like I have no idea what my values are anymore. I’m so lost
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It also may help to make a list of reasons why you want too stay with him. I know you love him, but don’t let that be one of the reasons you stay. Sometimes, love is not enough! I recently broke up with someone who I loved very much because they were not treating me right. So, like I said, loving someone doesn’t necessarily equal a good enough reason to stay. Make a list of other reasons you are with him and why u 2 are compatible in your eyes. Every time OCD says u don’t love him, ignore that voice and refer back to your list that clearly shows you why you are CHOOSING to be with him. Like many have said before- maintaining a good relationship is a choice. You CAN choose him. :)
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He treats me well! My ocd just tells me I don’t. There’s no reason for this at all
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I am so tired of this. I feel ashamed of myself. I waited until it was late to post this because I can’t take it anymore. My boyfriend is at my house right now. We saw each other today—he brought me a bouquet of flowers, we went out, and then came back home. But I just couldn’t stop thinking that he was annoying me or that I couldn’t stand him, even though he wasn’t doing anything wrong. I felt irritated and distant the entire time. And when we got home, it got even worse. We ended up arguing because of how distant I was, but I couldn’t help it. All I could think about was that I don’t love him, that I don’t like him, that I’m a liar, and that I’m just pretending when I’m with him. I kept thinking that I’m only with him because I’m used to him and that I just don’t want to accept the truth that I don’t love him. When he hugged me, I couldn’t be present. When we kissed, I felt absolutely nothing. Nothing. He kissed me, and I couldn’t even focus or try to connect with what was happening—I just wanted to cry. I feel like a liar who refuses to accept the truth. I started going to therapy, but I’ve only had one session. My psychologist told me to write in a journal, to reflect on what role fear plays in my life and why I feel so unsettled. I wrote, “The possibility that my thoughts might be true.” But now I just think I’m lying—to myself, to my boyfriend, even to my psychologist—because I want to believe I love him, but my mind tells me I don’t feel anything. I couldn’t even sit comfortably with him, I couldn’t enjoy being in his arms—I just felt sad. I’m so scared that this is real. It feels real. I don’t understand what’s happening to me. I feel like I’m lying to everyone. Like I’m in denial. I don’t know how to do this anymore.
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I feel so lost. My boyfriend tries so hard to help me, but nothing seems to work. Every time he reassures me, my mind finds another doubt. He asks me, “So you’ve been questioning if you love me for almost 2 years?” and instead of feeling comforted, my mind jumps to “Maybe I just can’t accept that I don’t love him.” I keep telling him every thought that comes to my mind, hoping for relief, but it never lasts. I feel anxious, disconnected, and stuck in this endless cycle. He tells me that if I truly didn’t love him, I wouldn’t care so much about these thoughts. But still, my brain won’t stop questioning everything. I don’t understand why I feel this way. Why does it feel like I’m forcing something? Why do I feel like I can’t just know how I feel? I want to feel okay. I want to be present with him without analyzing every moment. But no matter what I do, my mind keeps telling me “What if you don’t love him?” I feel like I’m stuck between wanting clarity and being terrified of what that clarity might mean. It feels so real, and I hate it. I don’t know what to do.
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It hurts so much to write that. Lately, every time I talk to my boyfriend — whether it’s through text or in person — I feel this deep irritation, like everything he says or does annoys me. Sometimes, it even feels like disgust, and it’s terrifying. I don’t feel love. I don’t feel excitement. I don’t even feel sadness about not feeling anything… just numb. I look at him and I don’t feel like I used to. I don’t know what happened to me. I used to be so sure I loved him, and now I feel like a completely different person — cold, distant, empty. My brain keeps telling me: “You don’t love him anymore. You never did. You’re only staying out of habit.” My mom told me that if I don’t like him anymore, then I’m hurting both him and myself by staying in this. And hearing that broke me. Because that’s exactly what I fear — that I’m faking everything, and I just don’t want to admit the truth. I feel so lost. And I don’t know how to separate my thoughts from reality anymore. All I know is that I want to feel something again — anything. Because right now, all I feel is guilt, fear, and confusion. i used to know these thoughts are just thoughts and that if i didn’t have them i would be so happy but now, i cant think aboyr that bc the thoughts feel too real.
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