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Why does part of my brain want me to just accept and be completely ok and fine to have negative thoughts about my partner and things about him? It feels like it wants permission to think shitty things and be completely good with it like nothings wrong. I don’t understand. It makes the anxiety go away but I feel worse bc it feels like I have no remorse for these thoughts etc? Any tips or advice??
Does anyone find that meditation helps with OCD? I feel like it’s hard enough for someone without OCD but it feels almost impossible for me to not just ruminate the whole time. Any tips?
Haven’t been here in a while. I’m wondering if this is RELATIONSHIP OCD or just a regular kinda thought process. I just broke up with my boyfriend of 3 years. I just regret it and keep replaying what happened and it feels like I made a mistake and want him back. I’m kinda panicking he was my best friend. Now he’s blocked me in everything. I just keep thinking about how I should go back to him and that my feeling will change and I’ll go back to loving him. I feel like I only broke up with him cause everyone was telling me I should. I did it because I also felt like it would be okay because someday it felt like I loved him romantically and other days I didn’t. We both acknowledge our relationship wasn’t the same but I kept trying to make it work and ignore the feeling but we broke up now I’m here panicking leaving him messages and voicemails. I took him for granted and I just want him back.
I heard some therapist tell you have OCD and some don’t because it’s reassuring. What have your experiences been? I really am hoping to get diagnosed….
I think I need to accept this. Too many signs and urges. A pretty girl would definitely make me nervous if she was flirting with me like in the scene of this show I watched. I feel very sad and scared and alone but I don’t think this is just soocd anymore
I'm miserable, so down with these thoughts like I want to be with a man. What have I got to do ?. How can I continue if thus is making me miserable?
Do your family members know that you have ocd?
Literally had a dream where I was asking this guy out on a date, and a couple other gay dreams mixed in, its the norm for me now.it just felt too natural and normal more than what ive felt around and for women. I woke up feeling ive realized once and for all that I am actually gay. I think all my life me wanting a gf and sex was caused by porn and hetero culture. Sure I only found girls attractive growing up (dont think thats true either) but I dont think any of that attraction was real, it just makes me upset that I thought I liked girls and wanted a gf this whole time when Im actually gay but why be upset upset if that is the case. I dont think I understood how relationships and romance worked or what being straight meant either as I was just follwing the culture which explains why I was unbelievably awkward and clueless around women or when they flirted with me bc I didnt feel true attraction. Now therapy seems pointless. Im just afraid if these soocd thoughts came true then the thoughts that I myself am a woman inside are probably true as well. My head hurts from constant thoughts and internal monologue, can someone talk please
Hi everybody. What do you do if a thought is literally eating you alive? Over and over? Its like my brain is torturing me
i saw this post on @obsessively_anxious insta and it really stood out to me. it stated “you didn’t act on your other thoughts, but this time it’s different…” this is how i feel right now with the thoughts of my sisters boyfriend. is anyone else experiencing this? she means ocd will try everything in its power to make you feel like your case is different everytime.
I’m scared I even try to watch an animal crossing video and they were girl characters and said I don’t want to notice how hot it was sex your pretty girls are how lame is that and I’m scared I don’t know if I was feeling anything down there I don’t wanna start noticing girls and they’re I don’t wanna call them pretty like that I don’t wanna notice how hot or sexy any girl is i’m scared of the way I was smiling like I was liking the hair in the I don’t wanna start liking women of any species real or fake and I hate this a lot I don’t want to start noticing this I’ve never thought women were pretty like that I was basically checking to animal girls out and I don’t like it I don’t wanna like any girls real or fake any species I don’t wanna notice how pretty they are I don’t like girls I don’t like the way I’m smiling at them I don’t wanna change it I’m scared I’m not over guys and I’m not into girls and I don’t know and I hate it
Why do I freak out when a guy wants to hangout 😭😭 like I’m so nervous to date ugh
For those of you that need it today. Excerpt from “Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought” by Lily Bailey.
Are there any movies or tv shows that trigger some of you ? I watched one that triggered me a little bit but I was able to sort of overcome that trigger.The movie was Moonlight , it’s a really great movie and I would even recommend some of you to watch , I got triggered sometimes but I guess I moved on with a major exposure , feeling happy about this
the guilt and shame from my thoughts just won’t go away. i wanna go shopping? “no you’re a sick person!” i graduated? “you don’t deserve to be happy.” i wanna eat? “no you don’t deserve it” im so so so tired dude.
It's been getting so difficult to consider intrusive thoughts as "unreal." I continuously pick up on certain things my partner says and have intrusive thoughts on their morals. It's getting so tiring :(
My bf has been dry lately and I’m worried he doesn’t like me but he did tell me in beginning he was bad txter and dry. And even when he says he’s not mad I still think he is
I don’t know if my love really loved me or not. It’s crazy. I keep feeling like she love bombed me and got what she wanted and left. What’s even worse is she left me with the crib, not responsible for any debt, and said don’t worry about anything. It just makes me feel like I’m not seeing something🤷🏾♂️ All on top of moving to Delaware with her sister right away and getting a job within the next week. Am I tripping? But I just can’t seem to shake this thought. All on top of that my neighbor just started being extra nice to me and we been hanging out but she’s like invasive. Asking way too many questions. Then I get this weird text. Please talk this out with me.
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