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What’s your best piece of advice? Amazing that you’re doing well!! :)
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So proud of you!!!! Can’t wait to meet you on the other side ♥️
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How to deal with intrusive thoughts without anxiety? It feels very real, and i have rocd about 10 month and I'm scared that i start believing to my rocd...
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Having the thoughts without anxiety is progress! It means you are getting used to the thoughts being there. I know it can feel like you agree with them since you aren’t freaking out anymore but see this as a step forward!! The less you react them the closer you are to recovery . I still get the thoughts but I try my best to act how I normally would without giving the thoughts any time or doing any compulsions
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@PotatoChip21 Thank you :)
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@PotatoChip21 These thoughts without anxiety are different from others, which were. It's like they're randomly popping in my head like normal thoughts and feels like the truth
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@PotatoChip21 Sorry, one more question! How to deal with thoughts when you for example look at picture of your partner and find him not attractive?
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Yes! Please share some advice! How do you deal with ruminating? I can’t seem to get ahold of it…🥺
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What are your main themes ?
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@PotatoChip21 Relationship OCD. I’m always questioning if I love my husband or want children with him anymore. Checking my feelings. I’m just constantly in my head. Never able to just be in the moment with him. I’m so anxious all the time. When I do ERP and start to lose the anxiety, I get anxiety around not feeling anxious anymore. Makes me scared it’s my truth. I found someone else attractive and that’s what trigger he horrible thoughts and fear response
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@Jeanie12 Literally that’s what triggered mine too! Had just a small conversation with someone I was working with that I found attractive and I immediately felt so guilty and thought about the situation literally everyday for MONTHS & it made me rethink my relationship with my boyfriend because I didn’t understand why I was constantly obsessing and worrying 24/7. I convinced myself I even had a crush because I was thinking about it so much. Then I realized it was all anxiety related. The more I tried to push the thoughts away the more They came around which only fed into the guilt too and I would Google which made me feel worse ! My problem is that if anyone shows even the slightest interest in me I freaked out because that hadn’t happened since I was single (4 years ago!) I had intrusive thoughts of being with this other person too and I would cry every single day because I didn’t want the thoughts. Constantly felt Like someone was in my head trying to torture me.
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Just wanted to give some hope to those who are having ocd spikes, spirals and worries. This past year I have regained my life back. I went from beginning to isolate myself, being convinced by my ocd that my hobbies are bad and that I should avoid things I enjoyed, and having constant panic attacks. With the work of IOP, psychiatry and nocd, I have made great strives towards my future. I now don’t avoid things and instead embrace my life and ANY possibility that may come. Don’t let the ocd bully you. Yes, I have intrusive thoughts still but I am able to go about my day instead of obsessing over them. You can find this too. I encourage anyone on the fence to please seek help if you are in a tough time, it can literally save your life.
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I am FINALLY starting to (somewhat) recover from this last existential spiral, which admittedly, was probably the cruelest my OCD has ever been to me. Only thanks to you all. You were all able to provide me with kindness, understanding and support… without the kind of reassurance that feeds OCD, of course. When I downloaded this app, I was genuinely terrified. I was so scared that I was permanently doomed to the endless whirlpool that is the thoughts produced by my own brain and that life as I knew it was over, that I would never be happy again. For anyone who might be feeling that way right now, your OCD is LYING to you! Whatever you may be going through, it CAN get better. As hard as it may be right now, HAVE FAITH! Get up and do that thing you want to do in spite of the fear and discomfort. Take the fear with you like a whiny, unwilling toddler and do it anyway. Watch the movie, read the book, order that takeout you’ve been craving, bake the cake, wash the dishes… Please do it anyway! It will be hard at first, I won’t lie. But the OCD part of your brain, like a toxic partner, WANTS to win. It wants you to give up on those things that you love, all those things that make you happy so that there’s no space for anything but itself. Don’t let it win. The more you push yourself, the more you rewire your brain to realize that as much as it may feel like, the obsession doesn’t matter! Thanks to you all, even without therapy (YET - I’m starting that journey on Tuesday because there’s still a lot to unpack, and I know that OCD won’t just magically go away), I was able to get a basic understanding of ERP and learning to sit with discomfort and how to live life in spite of it, rather than letting it take over my very being. So for that, I thank this community. I think I would be in a very different place right now if it weren’t for the people I’ve met here who truly understood my experiences. I hope you have a wonderful day. Please don’t give up. You deserve to be happy, no matter what your brain is telling you ❤️
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Hi all!! Its been a while since I've been in here and typically I come on here to give advice and encouragement which i still plan to do but i really need encouragement right now. I typically deal with so-ocd but right now its taking a back seat or just disappearing ( which I'm not complaining) but now my rocd is really coming in thick and heavy and Im overly anxious but i have had panic attacks to the thoughts and its just been heavily attack me on my feelings towards my bf. I love this man with my literal whole being and I want to marry him and I know he feels the same cause we have had discussions on marriage. But lately and idk if its because of my period starting (sorry tmi) and all the hormones but i can't feel my emotions all that well, and the thoughts are constantly telling me i don't love him, i don't want to talk to him which are all false me and him are long distance rn which is hard but we push through it. I really hate these thoughts and all it makes me want to do is scream and cry. Like i said not overly anxious but definitely just want to scream and cry and of course cause Im not overly anxious my ocd picks up on that says oh see your not anxious with that so it must be true. I'm just hot mess y'all:( But anyways word of encouragement keep pushing y'all all got this and Im proud of every single one of you!!
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