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Your behavior is the RESULT of your OCD not the cause of it. OCD is believed to be caused by a malfunction in the brain. Its not something you can create. That being said, can you do things that make your OCD worse? Absolutely. Every time you do a compulsion, you increase the intensity and number of intrusive thoughts and make your OCD worse. BUT that doesn't mean that's its your fault you have OCD. Its really important that you find a therapist that specializes in ERP and understands OCD. Traditional talk therapy does not work for OCD. In fact, it does more harm than good. Prior to realizing I had OCD, I did about 10 years of talk therapy. I went weekly, opened up, and did my homework. But I never made any progress. Even changing counselors didn't help.
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Cbt didn't work out for me I just have one psychiatrist and she is pretty good
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It's not your fault!!!
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Definitely not your fault. No one is waking up and thinking "I should get OCD". View it like this: Your brain is a harmless thing inside your head, trying to "protect" you, from irrational things and is going all in and over the top. It’s a trained reaction, which you can unlearn. This process is called neuroplasticity.
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Neuroplasticity that's a fancy word what is this process and how is it learned did you learn it in cbt
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Been dealing with OCD for quite some time now. Doing a couple of online courses and a ton of researching. Because I am from Germany and OCD isn’t a thing over here. Therapist aren’t familiar with it yet. First two therapists I have been to made it even worst. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to adapt and form new patterns. As you "learned" reacting with fear/OCD to certain thoughts you also can "unlearn" them and form new behaviors and thought patterns.
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It is! Also meine Therapeutin weiß zum Glück was eine Zwangsstörung ist, aber ja glaub allgemein hast du da schon einen Punkt 🥲 da gibst noch viel zu tun
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@harabix Kommt vielleicht auch noch ein bisschen darauf an wo man wohnt;) Wobei ich kurz vor Hamburg wohne und irgendwie ist der Wissensstand um OCD hier noch sehr dünn bzw. denkt man hier eher an Zwangsstörungen und so. Sowas wie ROCD kennt keiner der Therapeuten bei denen ich war. Die wollten immer ganz viel reden und analysieren.
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@Olaf Okay now I am curious about what y'all are talking about 😂😂
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@ammu123 Just about how Germany needs to up their game in terms of OCD hahaha
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@Olaf Dude Germany atleast has free health care nd stuff...even though OCD is common in india the health care system sucks it's too costly 😬
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@ammu123 It depends. In the end it’s not really for free. We pay for it by taxes, a part of our income is used for it. But I get your point. I myself am self employed and need to pay it myself. For my health insurance as well the therapy sessions. German bureaucracy is so wierd and unnecessary complicated hahah
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Cool y is OCD not a thing in Germany it's pretty common where I live even though I barely know anyone with mental health issues
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I don’t know. It’s like living behind the moon😀 But I see/know quite a lot of people with OCD behaviors getting misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all.
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@Olaf My OCD doesn't even feel like OCD it's like I have a lot of werid annoying thoughts that's it...😂😭
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@ammu123 I know absolutely what you mean. If remember correctly it’s called meta OCD. Obsessing if you have an obsession.
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Trying not to seek reassurance, but rather connect the dots on my OCD and possible reasons as to why I am the way I am. I have severe OCD (or at least I hope I do) mainly surrounding POCD. I've had symptoms of OCD the majority of my life but this theme has come up more recently. When I was a kid, and i'm talking 6-7, I was first exposed to some really gross adult content online. It was introduced to me by a friend of mine around the same age of me. I saw some really disgusting things that a 6-7 year old should definitely not see. This was not a one time occurrence, as I had been exposed to taboo topics online years to come after that, such as the same friend introducing me to Omegle... And i'm sure you can imagine how that went, theres a lot of genuinely disgusting human beings on there. Coming back to the reason for making this post; is it possible to early exposure to this content could be one of the reasons I struggle with POCD? It genuinely scares me to death because you hear that real p*dos dealt with simular situations when they were kids, so thats kind of making me feel that this could be more than OCD, and I could be a genuinely bad person. My POCD feels so real, that at times i'm fully convinced its not OCD. Sometimes I can't even distinguish the feelings of attraction between a younger person and an older person, except for the feeling of anxiety and fear. Its really hard to explain without going into detail, but it just feels so real. Some feedback on this would be great, thank you all.
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I don't really know if it's OCD, but lately I've been thinking a lot and in a very obsessive way that every single one of my actions, words or even thoughts will affect on how God will make decisions about my life. For example, if I lie to someone or yell at them out of anger, God will make happen something bad to me as a "punishment". I know it might seem silly, but it really really freaks me out sometimes... Does anyone feel the same? And if so, do you do something in particular to feel better? Thanks for your understanding❤️
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(20f) I have been dealing with severe OCD symptoms for as long as I can remember. I recently got diagnosed about a year ago, and even though I know that these thoughts are probably my ocd, I still cant shake them. Growing up I was always very sexually curious. I was sheltered from a lot of things, as I went to a private school and things like sexuality and sex were never talked about. I remember doing some weird sexual things growing up (never affecting another person), looking up taboo sexual things, etc. I always seemed to become aroused no matter what the situation was, even if I just saw someone getting changed. I have no recollection of being SA'd, so i'm wondering where this all came from? Was I just curious and wanted to experiment and try different things? Or am I really a pervert, pedophile, etc. I have all these thoughts racing through my head and it's killing me. Everything I did as a kid I look back on and am disgusted, as those don't align with my views at all today. I never thought growing up thinking these things were wrong, or actually realize what they were until I got older. I'd like to think it was just my curiosity, but i'm not sure. What if i'm in denial and actually do like these things? I just need to know if theres something wrong w me, I cant keep going on like this. Could really use some advice.
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