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You aren’t alone ! I’m a googler too so I spend so many hours a day just googling my thoughts and obsessions which interferes with my daily life because I can’t focus on school & work
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It is so hard to stop googling!!! I just feel an anxiety at not acting on it.
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I Google ROCD articles all the time for reassurance on what thoughts it can give, so you're not alone on that!!!
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I have relationship OCD as well. It was going okay with therapy and ERP. Then I got strep throat. Every time I get strep my symptoms increase dramatically. My family and I believe it is due to a condition called PANDAS. Anyways, I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for over a year and now it has become so hard to be around him because of my guilt I feel around my intrusive thoughts towards him. I just want to go back to how it used to be when I was happy with him. It has gotten to the point where idk what is OCD and what isn’t.
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I noticed my thoughts/feelings became more difficult when I was sick too. I think pain, lacking sleep, and hunger can aggravate my ocd.
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I feel that so much on a very personal level!!!! It's so hard to be around my bf sometimes because if all the guilt I feel and the panic that I'm gonna say one thing to ruin our relationship....
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My best friend of almost five years and I started dating about five months ago. I love him so much, but my mind keeps questioning whether I love him "the right way." We have romantic moments and intimate moments, but when those aren't going on I find myself questioning if I have those feelings all over again. My brain focuses on whether I find his looks and personality attractive. It hurts so much. I just want to be able to fix my brain. 😔 he deserves wonderful things.
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Mine deserves wonderful things too you are not alone in that mindset!!! My bf is everything perfect and amazing and I can't believe he even exists. We've been through so many hard things together and every single time we've made it through and became stronger. Then ocd comes into my head like a big sumo wrestler and crushes my brain and makes me think he is unattractive, cringe, and I just wanna hurt myself sometimes because of those thoughts.... He actually flat out texted me and told me to tell me what's been going on in my head and what things I've been sugar coating to him. When I told him everything, he literally just loved me more and didn't break up with me or anything and it made me feel bad cause my big attraction to him I had before got crushed and he says he is so in love with me all the time. My ocd makes me feel guilty saying that to him even though it's true 😭
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@Animaniash I know you are experiencing anxiety right now, but I want to compliment you on your relationship. Your communication and devotion to each other is beautiful. You two can get through this and be all the stronger.
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@Animaniash My ocd crushed my attraction to him and it's making me look at all the flaws he has 😞
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@Animaniash When we feel fear or sadness, it is difficult to feel attraction. That doesn't necessarily mean it is gone for good. It does mean that it is muffled right now.
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I've just started dating this really great girl. She doesn't know about my ocd which is fine but I've noticed that a lot of my intrusive thoughts and worries about not following routines now revolve around losing her or her believing I'm a bad person. I just don't want this relationship to make me so paranoid. I also know have this where if I see a girl on my Instagram or on the Internet, I'll feel an overwhelming urge to clean myself and the device I viewed it on. This is part of a moral reaction and I also worry I'm not being loyal. I feel I should try and not follow through with these compulsions but as they now revolve around keeping my girlfriend I'm not sure. Any advice?
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You know when you have weird thoughts about a coworker and because you have OCD these thoughts really stick and you panic and feel sick? Yeah that’s me and I’ve struggled with having intrusive thoughts about my coworker and now he just got in a relationship with my coworker and my intrusive thoughts are WORSE I thought they would be better? And initially they were because I was relieved that he couldn’t be weird with me now because he has a girlfriend. But this is the thought that i cannot get over- my OCD is like you’re jealous that he doesn’t like you and he’s not with you instead and i envy this girl he is with. Why the fuck am I having these thoughts while I’m in a healthy relationship and love my boyfriend to DEATH- like I know he is my forever. I couldn’t look at him today because I’ve been obsessing over this thought I’ve had in work and now I have to find a new job I hope no one will judge me for these thoughts or maybe someone has had this weird thought before? :(
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I’ve just recently found out that Relationship OCD is a thing. I feel like I relate but it also feels like relationship trauma. I’m in a fairly new relationship and I keep telling myself that things are going great, we are good, he cares for me, but does he? There’s this unbelievable amount of self doubt that sits in me because of what my ex did to me many months ago. I kept getting told that I do too much, i smother, need constant reassurance, then got told that I don’t care enough, the things I do aren’t enough and that I’m not enough. I feel like I am waiting for the day that I get broken up with because of these “problems” just so I can be proven right at the fact that I should be considered unlovable. I go through this every month around my period because I get so emotional and nervous that I stress over the idea that he doesn’t like me. How does someone continue a relationship with Relationship OCD? How do I explain it?
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