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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 wanted to talk about my experiences with rOCD since I currently do still suffer from it but I know if I talked about them. My thoughts are just gonna get stronger, but I’ll do it for the sake of talking about my experiences to others who feel like they’re alone. I have a very loving relationship actually my first healthy relationship we are currently still dating one year and six months. I would say these intrusive thoughts started to happen once I hit the one year mark with him. Nothing in the relationship has made me think these thoughts, but it just came. Like when my mind tried to make me think I liked another guy other than my boyfriend and that I was losing feelings for him. I started to panic because I knew that my heart belonged to my boyfriend and having thoughts that were against that belief it made me really anxious cause I never had those thoughts before. I was in and out of the care center at my school constantly having anxiety attacks, and it was affecting me day by day. I talk to my boyfriend about it because my mind can never keep secrets from him because then I would feel like that I’m lying to him… my mind just kinda works that way and I believe it’s due to the situation I have with rOCD. Luckily, he was really supportive.. in thoughts I’ve had was what if I don’t like him anymore or if he doesn’t do this does that mean he likes me or if he’s even the one just a lot of doubts about me and him in the relationship. And for anyone who’s experiencing stuff familiar to this you are not alone invalid only what you believe is what is true. And I know it’s gonna be hard to know what’s true or not because these thoughts that you have versus what’s in your heart you get confused but if you know that you love that person then that’s what true. Also, the only reason why it affected me a lot was because I kept trying to solve it and the only solution is to let those thoughts in and accept that you have those thoughts. I don’t mean as an accept that these thoughts are true, but accepts that those are the thoughts that you’re thinking because if you keep on trying to find a solution to remove them, it only just get worse.
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Hey, I really need your opinion – I think I might be struggling with Relationship OCD, and these thoughts are driving me crazy. I’ve been officially diagnosed with OCD, and I believe I also have ROCD. My obsessive thoughts often focus on one specific girl from my boyfriend’s past. She had messaged him a few times, and I think she liked him – but he never liked her back. He barely knew her, never found her attractive, and never wanted anything with her. She’s just a good friend of his best friend – not an ex or anything like that. He told me that he happened to be in the same group as her a couple of times – once at a birthday party and once at a fair – just because his best friend brought her along. He made it clear several times that she’s not his type at all, neither in looks nor in personality. He described her as someone who likes to go out and party a lot, and said that’s just not what he’s into. He also said he didn’t ask about her – these things were mentioned to him before our relationship. Almost all of this happened before we met – except for one thing: the fair. That was just one day before our second date, back when we had just started getting to know each other. She was with his friend group that night. He said he only said hi and bye to her, nothing more. The next day, when we met again, we were talking about his friends’ heights. He casually mentioned that his friend was the same height as that girl – 1.70 m. Ever since, I keep wondering: If she meant nothing to him, why did he even talk about her? Or did he actually talk to her that night, even though he said he didn’t? I know he said they barely exchanged a word, but somehow he still knew that detail. I just find that strange. Another example: He once said she was “kind of slutty.” Then, one or two months later, when I brought it up again, he said he didn’t know if she was or not, and that he didn’t care at all. That really confused me. I keep wondering: Why did he say something like that in the first place if he supposedly doesn’t care about her? I also notice this really frustrating cycle: When I talk to him about something that doesn’t make sense to me, I feel brief relief. But then, almost immediately, another thought or detail pops up that feels “off” again – and I feel like I have to bring that up, too. I can’t tolerate the uncertainty. It’s like an endless loop. These little “inconsistencies” – or what I perceive as inconsistencies – make me spiral, even though I do believe he’s being honest with me. I want to trust him. But I have this constant urge to bring up every little thing that doesn’t feel logically right. Every detail stays in my head for days, and it’s really hard not to talk about it. Does this sound like Relationship OCD to you? Do any of you go through this constant analyzing and doubt? I’d really appreciate your thoughts. I’m slowly ruining my own relationship.. Today, for the first time, my partner cried because of it .. I didn’t know how to deal with my thoughts, and seeing him like that made me realize that I really need to change something. Anything that doesn’t make sense to me feels unbearable. And as soon as I talk about one thing, the next thought comes into my head, something else that doesn’t make sense and leaves me feeling uncertain again. I honestly feel extremely helpless right now.. Just as a side note: I was officially diagnosed with ROCD in a previous relationship, not with my current partner, but in a past one.
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This will be my first time venting about this but I have been feeling super anxious towards my boyfriend lately. I’ve just truly discovered the world of OCD and all of the subtypes. I love my boyfriend of 3 years. He’s my person and i know I can see a life with him. Although, i’m suddenly feeling really anxious when i’m around him or even the thought of him. I’m constantly questioning everything about him and our relationship. I have to constantly reassure myself to stay that i love him or that he’s attractive to me and etc! I even have thoughts that maybe he’s not for me when that absolutely kills me. This fear has had be in a choke hold for a couple of days. It’s been especially tough since we just got back from a mini vacation. Idk if i’m nervous about us potentially moving in one day together. I’m trying to tell myself that i’m overthinking bad and i have all these fears because he is my first boyfriend— my first EVERYTHING! Please tell me i’m not the only one that feels this way. I just want to go back to the 1st year where I was obsessed and loved him unconditionally. (which i know i still do know, I just have this annoying thing going on)
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