Does anyone else feel like there is something missing from you like you feel empty? I’ve been in therapy for about a month and a half and have gotten a lot better according to my therapist although sometimes I don’t feel the progress. However, on the good days with OCD I feel empty like a piece of me is empty.

Once you become used to constantly dealing with ocd, on a good day, it seems weird. Like you're missing something, ironically, that ends up triggering it. Or it may seem like you want the thoughts when its not true.

i relate. ive been dealing with my obsessive thoughts for almost like a year and a half. and whenever i have days where, for the most part, my obsessions aren’t bothering me…. i know it’s too good to be true. i know i’m gonna end up falling into my patterns of ruminating and self sabotage. for me, its like i gave a big part of myself away to these obsessions, so when i don’t have them for a little bit, it feels weird… like “a piece of me is empty”

I feel like for me the piece I feel like is missing is self love. Because I feel like somehow I don’t deserve to be happy.

The absence of anxiety to a mind formed in existential fear is a strange feeling. For me, on good days, there's a bit of a meta-suspiciousness about the longevity of the goodness. I think that as time goes on, and the good days become increasingly the norm, the part of you that feels empty will be filled with the acknowledgement that feeling anxiety isn't necessary for your survival anymore. As well as that, as Hhrose1 mentioned, these feelings can derive from a feeling of not deserving to get better. It could be beneficial to journal your thoughts and feelings on those days to see what's actually happening in your mind to animate the overall emptiness feeling. OCD is ultimately a disease of low self-love and self-trust at it's core.

i’ve had the same thing happen to me. in actuality, for the last couple of days. i’ve moved across country with very good friends. i’ve recently been feeling so much better about having new beginnings, and moving to a completely different state, and leaving my parents place, then all of a sudden, my mind starts to ruminating on harm ocd and it’s definitely made me more anxious about the move in general now and makes me question my identity as a whole. it’s so disabling to the point where it makes me want to run away and harm myself from hurting others.