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i understand you completely. i relate to this a lot. it’s sucks
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i am so sorry. it really does suck :(
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This is literally my brain, can totally relate. I get it worse if I’ve been out for a few drinks. I always feel like I’ve upset someone or acted stupid and embarrassed myself. I don’t really drink great amounts but I feel like I forget things and that’s when I start worrying and panicking. I’ve had horrible thoughts before that I’ve cheated on my husband on nights out (when I’ve been with him all night and we were apart for 2 mins when I used the toilet!). It happens for me with everyday conversations too, like I’ll have to remember what I said or who I had a particular chat with else it’s proof that I’m going/have gone mad… I always crave the reassurance too. It’s a vicious circle and is SO exhausting. I wish I could just turn off my brain sometimes.
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i am so sorry. i literally started questioning myself if i cheated because my boyfriend is long distance and this guy gave me and all my friends a ride home (i was the last to be dropped off & him and i have known eachother from before) and my memory was so foggy at this point. it sucks so badly trying to remember what you said or did because it feels impossible and even if we think know what we said we start to question it.. it is so so exhausting and i cried all day because i just feel like giving up. like i should just stay home and never go out again and that would be so much easier. thank you for telling me your experience & good luck
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@bunylala How are you feeling today? I find only time helps with the anxiety after socialising/drinking alcohol. I ALWAYS crave reassurance from whoever I was socialising with and most of time I do cave and ask for the reassurance. It’s extremely exhausting to overthink and analyse every social encounter in life, and especially made worse by alcohol! Hope you’re doing ok, you got this :-)
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@cupcake55 thank you so much for asking! i went out last night and i did so much better, and i didnt drink as much either. i started to overthink 2 convos but for the most part i think i brushed them off. i feel like i should just get myself out there a bit more little by little. i agree with you completely and i really appreciate your words and taking your time to share your experience. it really helps when you know youre not alone. thank you so much! we can both do this! :)
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For context, I was previously diagnosed with GAD and OCD. Months ago, after a night of drinking with coworkers I experienced slight hangxiety, but I remembered most of the night. At work when I asked a coworker if I did anything weird he made a joke that really wasn’t funny. This joke caused me to doubt my memory. I think I had thought I was more sober than everyone else when in reality I was not. I remember checking on a coworker who was slumped over in the drivers seat of his car and in no state to drive and asking “you good?” The next thing I remember is that I was in the drivers seat of his car reversing out and I think I assumed that he and our other coworker were also in the car. Our other coworker stopped me and told me to pull back into the parking stall and come back inside. I remember the events both leading up to and after that all the way until I got home. However the small gap in my memory had been causing me a lot of distress, so I asked that coworker who I went to check on who was the only person that was present during the gap in my memory if I touched anyone or let anyone touch me, to which he said no definitely not. He also said that he wasn’t in the car when I was reversing out and that he vividly remembers that I was the only person in the car. When I explained to him that the joke that our other coworker said made me worry that I might’ve done something that constitutes cheating on my bf he said no that guy is just weird and says effed up stuff. I feel a lot better, because he has no reason to lie and he doesn’t seem like that type of person. However I still feel unsettled, so I plan to call my doctor’s office when they open in the next hour. I’m wondering if anyone has experienced anything similar/has any advice.
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This is a late night thought I get a lot not all the time but most nights sometimes I feel like my ocd would make me think that I have this thing trying to talk to me or getting me to do things that I do NOT want to do AT ALL. This is also why I try to stop being online or not talk or do anything at all. I'm trying to explain in the best way I can. The best way I can describe my ocd or mental health right now would be like Jeykll and hyde. Especially in the musical the most popular song confrontation cause like false memories or something like that. Having false memories of doing something especially online in my past that was so bad at least to me and I just have forgotten about it. Trying to remember feels like as if it was a different version of me or a complete different person cause I do be wanting to think of my past self as a completely different person cause I personally feel like I did or even said something so wrong or bad (even though I didn't do anything...) that I just want my old self to be a completely different person. My ocd has also gotten so bad that it made me have developed severe delusions of the government or government services like the police or FBI coming to get me. So sometimes I would think about turning myself into the station or mental hospital one because I also developed S**cidal ideation because it got so bad though I never wanted to acted on anything. I haven't really experienced ideation that bad until I first developed it but I just get scared of my mental health getting bad again.
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I have lots of intrusive thoughts about “what if I did something wrong” or “what if I hurt someone without realizing it” in the past and have an overwhelming urge to reach out to everyone I’ve dated and ask if they are okay with me (even though doing so would be super weird and random to them probably). Is this a common experience? My thoughts feel so convincing that it has progressed from a much more mild state to full out believing what my thoughts say about me although no one has ever said anything bad about me (to my knowledge) and I’ve always been a loving and respectful partner. Three of my past girlfriends have told me that I was the best to them and they are forever grateful for the time they spent with me yet I still have thoughts about them and others! Any guidance is appreciated, I feel as if I’m alone with these worries! I need help to stop seeking reassurance.
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