- Username
- Saraa
- Date posted
- 3y ago
It would just latch on to something else. It would be a compulsion. Everything we did would be a compulsion. I know my husband is incredible and worth every bit of fight I am giving OCD. We deserve to have healthy relationships. I guess it depends on how important your relationship is to you! Or was to you before OCD took over!
Yeah; i understand that... but my rocd; even If I am in therapy, gets stronger and stronger all the times that I see my boyfriend... and each time is worse! Even if I learned to throw away doubts, now bad feelings stay, and I have to choose between cry for like an half hour ( I think it release all the stress; because that way I actually enjoy the other times of the date) or stay anxious for all the time! Also, sometimes I feel guilty thinking that he deserve someone better than me! Furthermore, I start to forget about all the really good moments we had! It is like if wen ocd strikes, I connect to my boyfriend all the bed emotions, and the only chance I have to "survive" is to run away! I know it is wrong, and I really don't want it, but it is getting worse and harder in those time restist to the urge of breaking up! How do you "get out" from those moments? (Hoping that you don't have, but in case haha)
I’ve already tried it and broke up with my bf SEVERAL times because of these exact thoughts and instantly whenever I did it I’d regret it because like you, I also didn’t want it but was also really sick of it and just wanted an escape. When you do break up, your ocd now starts saying “see they never really liked me, they aren’t even chasing after me” or “now he’s going to go with someone else and kiss/ have sex with another woman because he can, he’s single now”. Trust me, breaking up is not the answer, it’s another compulsion and another means to escape/avoid the feelings of anxiety/pain that the thoughts bring. Remember that ocd thoughts aren’t real, the solution is nothing, the more serious you take them, the more power they have over your life. Call them out, laugh at them but whatever you do, do not believe them. Once you believe them, you’re in serious danger
Thank you again. I reached the point that even if I see my him, the second after he go away I start to cry. Everything is going well, but with all the anxiety accumulated, and all the bad moments and memories caused by ocd; I feel like I can't be myself anymore and I don't know if it is still worth fighting or not... but you gave me some hope!
I feel this. My thoughts about leaving or breaking up and finally being “free” have honestly been making my anxiety decrease and go away. So that makes the whole idea more alluring and makes it seem better to break up rather than stay together. We’re all tried of these cycles and deserve to live our relationships thru. All while working on ourselves. Compulsions and ocd are tricky. Especially when mixed with our fatigue of ocd in general and the separate problems it creates in our lives/relationships. Best of luck to all of you.
YES; EXACTLY. I know that if I break up with him, things will return to "normal" and I would regain myself. It happened with my ex, I had the exact same doubts, and I (before therapy) acted in the same way. I really want to change things, but I don't know it it is possible, or is better to be single forever haha... and the fact that now it has been a couple of months that I am mostly without good feelings (or maybe the ocd make me think this way, I dunno) make me keep question about "is all af this worth it? If you are alone you would immediately feel better!". Probably another "intrusive think" but it is kind of true, and i'm scared that one of these days I will fall and listen to this! Thank you btw; you made me feel so understood! Sorry I'm Italian; still have some problems with English haha
Think about this right, if you were to be with someone new, do you think that the same thoughts will come up? Will you be able to trust them or will the same doubts crop up? That’s when you know it’s your ocd talking
I never saw it this way, maybe this could be a really good game changer. It is a very good point of view actually!! Thank you soooo much!!!!
I hate how my mind is making me doubt of my intentions when i clearly know that I don’t have any desires to act on my thoughts. It makes my intentions feel so uncertain, and sometimes it would even make me feel like if I wanted to act on my thoughts when I actually don’t, because I wouldn’t be doubting if I did. So since I feel my intentions so uncertain I need to come to an answer, and sometimes it is so damn hard to get that answer, which makes me anxious and disturbed. It would also make me think of my past like, how were you okay without having these thoughts? Or makes me think of my future like, will you be okay without these thoughts? So it would make me think that these thoughts are really desires and I won’t be okay unless I act on them. As horrible as it sounds. And I don’t know if someone gets this too but, it would also make me doubt my feelings. When my family tells me cute things like “I love you” and stuff, I would feel so bad, because my thoughts are towards them. So I would say “ily too” but I feel like an hypocrite saying it, or like I don’t mean it at all, so it makes me doubt if I really love them or not. This is all so overwhelming, and I have gone through so many disturbing and crazy thoughts, feelings and situations, that I don’t know if this might be OCD.
I know this is going to seem like reassurance seeking which it 100% is but I’ve been struggling on the same thought for a long time now. The thought of breaking up with my significant other has been going through my head for months now and I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to break up with him but my OCD is making me feel like I have no choice to and it’s starting to make me feel like that’s my only option to happiness, it’s all starting to feel so real. Any thoughts or advice? Or anyone else go through this or something similar?
Does anyone else have problems of doubting what if it’s not ocd and what if and I actually want this if so what do I tell it when it does ??
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