Does anyone doubt that they even have OCD at times? I feel this way when I have low symptoms or the intrusive thoughts aren’t as loud. I start to doubt everything and even when I’m feeling calm I feel uneasy. Like what if I’m crazy and I’m pretending to have OCD. 🤦🏻‍♀️ ( and even on the calm days I still have anxiousness as to why I’m not reacting to my intrusive thoughts). Just yesterday I was feeling awful and now I’m feeling calmer ??

lets_be_happy

Date posted: 3y

You know, I just had that thought yesterday for the first time! I was at my doctors and they were asking about my OCD. But mine is a lot of mental compulsions but then she asked if I did any hand washing or checking. I might have been interpreting it all wrong, but I felt the sense that my OCD wasn’t OCD enough for her 🤷🏻‍♀️ and then I spiraled for a while. But from what I’ve read on here, I guess that can be pretty normal for us to doubt it

Sarah🕊

Date posted: 3y

I have been having really scary intrusive thoughts lately. Some are connected to old intrusive thoughts and some are new. Some of the new thoughts revolve around false memory; or more accurately memories that are normal but my intrusive thoughts attached to them trying to make me doubt whether I did something bad and just forgot, or make me doubt in the way that maybe I blocked it out because I’m a bad person. I know it’s just OCD, but the thought or mental images are so scary that I start to doubt even more. I get extremely scared that I will start to believe the intrusive thoughts and I won’t be able to distinguish anymore. Lately I also have fears of well what if I actually don’t have OCD and I’m just using OCD as an excuse to cover up that I may have done this bad thing that the intrusive thoughts are suggesting . It’s so upsetting and frustrating. I get so sad and start to cry so much and then I get angry and then feel hopeless. There are no words to describe how sad and frustrated and scared I get. I start to think how can I live like this? And then when I have a calm moment ( could be a day, half a day or hours or minutes) I start to even feel more confused and doubtful😔😢

Pushingpissed

Date posted: 25w

Feeling “normal” again

Anyone else feel that when they aren’t experiencing a theme that their ocd is almost non existent. It almost makes me feel like I’ve been faking it, and also makes me feel ridiculous for obsessing over things. I feel sorry for myself :/ I know that my themes are valid and felt very real in the moment, but after I “get over” them I just can’t believe that I was obsessing over something that either wasn’t true or didn’t apply to me. I would also like to know how to prevent themes from reoccurring. Health, religion and existential OCD themes tend to take turns throughout my life, I just didn’t know that was it ocd. Trying to break the cycle.

Aldxma.steph

Date posted: 19w

Anyone else has this happen?

Anyone else just have days where they feel more calm and don’t have as many intrusive thoughts? But then later at night time it just comes back so you only had relief even for a little bit 😞😞 I feel like even when I’m not having my OCD send me intrusive thoughts, I always have a feeling in my stomach that something is wrong/off or a sense of doom. I always just feel on edge and anxious as if my mind is always preparing itself for the next horrifying intrusive thought to torment me with ugh 🫠

Holl1

Date posted: 16w

OCD

So I’ve noticed that my OCD has calmed down, I’m getting less intrusive thoughts but I feel more uncertain than ever. Is this normal for recovery?

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