- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
Thanks for responding btw
I haven’t really been able to engage with someone meanfuly today
I understand what you mean like when im spiraling i dont wanna speak nobody at all. Maybe you can write in a journal and tell it about your situation.
That’s great advice I used to do that before and it worked but as always when I felt good I stopped doing it
@Legallyocd Same with me and resisting compulsions accepting their presence and staying in the present moment actually worked i swear theres so many damn layers to OCD.
@HiOcd With me the difficulty with all of us this is how do you explore your sexuality while practicing erp?
@Legallyocd I dont understand? Well personally me i legitimately questioned my sexuality when i was around 16 ((((( TW))))) because i remembered being touched by another kid when i was 5-6. Which in turn i had a flash back of that moment and made me question myself.
@HiOcd Something similar happen to me as well with what used to be my step dad. So I was exposed to sex at a really early age which often makes me think that this is a factor of why I have sexual obsessions
@Legallyocd Yeaj even tho ive already made peace with my past it developed into my ocd theme somehow.
@Legallyocd And im sorry to hear that. :/ You here now tho and nobody can take your future from you not even ocd.
@HiOcd I’m sorry you went through that too. It’s hard because sexual obsessions are so difficult to prove or disprove etc. I guess that’s why this theme stays stuck with people
@Legallyocd Thabk you for your kindness at first it felt was angry at myself for not stopping him, but ya know i was just a kid and he was an older kid had to forgive myself and him. And yeah it is because ocd will latch on to any speck of doubt and make it grow and grow until it pushes to do a compulsion to get rid of it. Mine went from checking sexual attraction, to mental attraction, emotional attraction, liking etc the lost goes on. I hate its so difficult for me to make friends my same sex anymore. Besides the ones already established. I fell like ive died and revived a million times already. Thanks so much for taking time out your day to respond to me. Is ok if i follow you?
@HiOcd Sure ! Thank you for talking to me too! I have written a post yesterday that I felt very lonely because I don’t have friends that I can really talk to about this that understand you know? Like there’s a section of me that thinks I may like women but even as I writw that it seems so ridiculous ans in my head. I’m still learning and everyday I’m doing my best to let go.
ive been feeling alone lately with these thoughts in my head. you’re not alone
i feel the same way
It’s hard because I getting off of my medication so it’s been a while since I felt this way
A therapist?
Yeah I’ve asked but she tells me that it get tricky when we have this subtype
I don’t know what to do anymore I made a friend recently in college and was texting her the other night and she mentioned she was doing her nails and I said nice and asked her if I could see. Because I was curious about what she did to them this time around and since then she has not responded to me I apologized to her saying I’m sorry if it bothered her but still nothing. Some of my friends just don’t answer me anymore I feel like I’m a burden of the ones who do still talk me I’m so done with it all. I’m tired of trying to find love as well I feel nothing to it anymore it’s only left me with disappointment and sadness I feel like I’m an unlovable husk of a person and that I would only ever be a bother I cannot fathom the idea of someone loving ME I just can’t I feel like it’s impossible I feel like everything about me bothers people to the point where I think is it even something I should try to achieve anymore. I should honestly block myself from trying to make new friends and relationships I’m so so tired of it. I feel unappreciated and annoyed that I am the one that has to try to keep up any sort of relationship because if I don’t reach out they never will reach out to me the reason I know this is because it’s been proven time after time since middle school that I am nothing to these people and I might as well no longer try. I don’t know what to do anymore I feel like I’m going to be all alone for the rest of my life I’m just so lonely now.
Sometimes I feel like nobody really gets me. Nobody knows what’s going on in my head. I try to explain in vivid detail, but my ocd immediately reads the other persons face and registers that they don’t get it. It’s a very isolating experience. Anyone else have something like this?
I had a really stressful couple of weeks and it's all hitting me right now. I cannot for the life of me shut off my brain my thoughts for a little and it feels like drowning. It's 1 a.m. here and I'm feeling completely hopeless like this feeling is going to last forever. I'm feeling like I can't use the tools I've been given my my psychologist and my meds feel like they've stopped working. I feel like by the end of the end I'm going to lose my mind. I usually am able to find some silver lining but today has been so bad. Everything triggers me and I have really bad intrusive thoughts about dying and finding some peace but I know that's not what I want. It's just so difficult navigating life when your brain works against you. I'm so tired and defeated and I feel like I have no one to turn to, but even that is some form of reassurance and it makes me spiral that I decide actively against it. I just feel like I'm losing my mind and I'm going "insane" from the distress. All my failed friendships and relationships have come back to haunt me and I feel like I can't get out of the house. All my sort comings are layed out in front of me and I feel like I am the worst person in the world and nothing will fix that. I have some real bad thoughts about my friends and family. And I know alla of this is classic symptoms of OCD but even though I know I can't rationalize and come to peace with them. I'm so envious of people being able to lead a normal life without this burden and in my mind it's just highlights all my shortcomings. I've had moments like this before but the last really nasty one was four years ago when I was yet undiagnosed and I really felt insane back then. I was hoping that when this happened to me again I'd be more capable of handling it but I don't think I am. I'm constantly on a battle against my mind and some times I win and sometimes I lose. I'm sorry for the rant I just feel extremely hopeless right now.
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