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I feel really panicked about school Monday . I did two facials and the whole time I had unwanted urges and thoughts toward choking my client . I'm freaking out that I won't be able to do this career and if I actually act on the thought . I'm panicking any advice?

Is it not incorrect for someone to write, “I prefer to work on Friday’s.” ? Or, “Friendly dog’s wanted!” ?? I always see people add ‘s to days of the week or when discussing multiples and it seriously makes me🤬👹👿 I suppose it’s because those rules were taught in school when we were very young, and I hate to break rules. It infuriates me when I see adults or bosses/managers do it. Like, aren’t you supposed to be smart? At least smarter than me? How does one earn a master’s degree and still not get this? I know how absolutely annoying and ridiculous this sounds, but trust me, I keep it to myself. I know I make mistakes too. Especially adding commas where I should just end the sentence, that’s my favorite. Seriously, I never embarrass or correct someone unless they ask for help. I’m just here to vent in case anyone feels this too.

Peace be upon all of you, guys there's an assignment which has to be done in two days and the professor said we should write the assignment in our own handwriting and hand it in to him, after I finished writing the draft on my laptop, I started transferring and writing it on paper in my own handwriting but since last night I was only able to write one paragraph out of hundreds because of my obsessive compulsive disorder OCD, the handwriting was supposed to look PERFECT in my eyes but it didn't I've even re-written dozens of times !!! So today i thought about telling my professor to allow me to submit the assignment electronically, but at the same time I STRONGLY FEEL THAT I AM LYING TO HIM because I didn't try enough even though I tried, I don't want to tell him that i have obsessive compulsive disorder OCD because deep down i know he won't truly and completely understand and I don't want to lie to him on another pretext, i don't know what i should do!!!! Should i tell him ? What if he said no? Please HELP ME!

Ive posted on this app a few times this week, and I don’t like being a negative person, I just feel like I need to vent to people who get it. I’ve had ocd since I was a child, and I’ve been doing ERP for like 6 months and I’m still STRUGGLING. The spirals are horrible and I just worry I don’t have the strength to recover like a lot of other people have. Has anyone else felt like this and gotten through it? One of my motivations is to come out the other side and being able to post my success story here to hopefully inspire others. Curious to hear your success stories if you’re comfortable sharing.

I’m writing this to let you guys know that there is hope. I literally cannot believe that I’ve overcome OCD. I feel like I’m 90% better, and I see myself becoming 100% better than I was even before OCD very soon. This isn’t a boasting update, but simply to let you guys know that there is hope. I literally last year was on the verge of dropping myself over a bridge (multiple times) because OCD convinced me that I was the worst person in the world and 24/7 constant pain & torture - I thought I was a pedophile, a different sexuality, an incestual freak, and absolutely obsessed with everything & being perfect. If you asked me a year ago If I would have ever imagined myself getting to this point, I would’ve said no, and I possibly wouldn’t even still be here. But I persevered and I did a little bit of therapy, lots of YouTube watching, book reading, and I taught myself how to get better. The most difficult thing I’ve ever done, but 10000000% worth it. So there is hope, and feel free to ask me any questions below

Comphet is literally killing me. I can’t stop thinking about it and can’t stop reading it. I’m freaking out I’m suffering from comphet and that I’m not really straight or suffering with HOCD. Anyone else get this fear

So my OCD has been horrible lately...I constantly feel like I'm a bad person...I got bullied a lot...and I had abusive ex's and friends...who I would get bullied and treated like absolute crap..all the manipulation and gaslighting has really got me questioning everything...I also have PTSD...I have constant flashbacks...does anyone have any advice? Much appreciated..

Anyone here considers themselves recovered from ocd? How does it feel?

NAC for intrusive thoughts? Has anyone on here had any positive experience taking NAC (N-acetylcysteine) for reducing intrusive thoughts? My naturopathic doctor recommended for me to take 1000mg in the morning at night and I feel like I have had a major reduction in thoughts but I am just wondering if anyone else has had that same experience too?

Some days ago I had the realization that my cats weren't going to stay forever with me. They reached a certain age and it won't be very long until they pass away. Today these thoughts spiralized into the fear of losing my mum. We didn't make any special memories. I don't have a lot of photos with her. I'm actually crying as I write this. The realization that my mum isn't going to stay with me forever hit me hard. That she too is going to pass away. I don't want to forget her face, her voice. Doesn't that frighten you? Forgetting the very person you love? Even a photo or a video wouldn't do justice to a person's entire existence. There isn't a perfect way to remember every single detail of someone. And if you forget one detail, that it's gone forever, because you're responsible of holding the memories alive of thar someone. Even if you had a photo that would be just it. It wouldn't be enough, or anything remotely close to having that person beside you. It wouldn't bring them back. I don't really to know how to put this in words. Maybe it has something to do with perfectionism ocd. That I want the perfect memory

…..why.. do I get relief when I agree with not loving him…. 😞

There’s a movie on Netflix called awakenings it’s an older movie but a doctor comes to an inpatient mental hospital and is being shown round the place there’s ppl wit different mental illnesses and other illnesses that required them to be in the inpatient hospital to be cared for but most of them were in wheelchairs and just sitting round in the hallways the new doctor asked wat all the patients were doing sitting round the nurse told him nothing that they can’t do anything for them the nurse told the new doctor they called it the garden cause all they do is feed and water the patients cause there wasn’t any help for there illnesses but some of the patients that were in a paralyzed state in wheelchairs had been that way for years and noone new wat was rong so they just staid in the hospital until this new doctor arrived and realized they all responded to different things like music physical touch watever clicked for the patient everyone was different they all had the same illness this doctor thought maybe they all had Parkinson’s that caused them to shake but the worst case of Parkinson’s were they shook so much all over they just froze so he finally was able to prescribe Parkinson’s medication in high doses to 1 patient and it worked he had been in this paralyzed state for 30 years and once given the medication he began wlk and moveing and riteing and slowly could do more and more like a normal person again and then a nurse told the doctor she couldn’t imagine loseing 30 years of her life stuck like that and asked the doctor if he thought the patient new it had been 30 years so he took a picture of the patient and when he seen it he had no idea it had been 30 years they eventually gave the Parkinson’s medications to everyone and it was helping these ppl get there life back and I just think that I see all the time ppl wit ocd spend years suffering and mostly misunderstood there’s not alot of help for us and being in the mental hospital we’re all just being fed and watered cause they don’t have alot of help for ocd in most hospitals and I’ve heard of ppl missing out on school and work and being able to take care of themselves and then the depression that comes wit that keeps ppl in there homes and in bed and the agoraphobia anxiety and anxiety attacks panick attacks social anxiety alot of ppl just don’t have any quality of life years waisted on an illness that doctors and therapist don’t understand themselves therefor we don’t get help unless it’s an ocd doctor and ocd therapist I just think the movie was crazy seeing ppl suffer for all those years no doctor looked into it they just labeled them watever in there charts and were given the same treatment wit no improvement noone ever tried to do a different treatment for them I think alot of ocd ppl are being treated the same way were all given the same treatment but ocd needs more and no doctors and therapists seem to understand that this is clearly an issue I’ve gone 15 years doing the same treatment from different doctors and therapist been on medications mostly an antidepressant I mean 15 years and nothing changed then I learn a couple months ago ocd requires it’s own doctors and therapists that actually understand it to help 15 years I’ve never seen any ocd doctor I just thought the ppl I was seeing were helping and that maybe I was just wierd but now I no there’s help out there I’ve just been given the rong treatment now I just gotta find a place that’ll accept my insurance.

Anyone else get triggered by stuff they used to love? I really enjoyed matcha pocky sticks but once I was eating them while having severe anxiety and any other time I had them I felt like throwing up and crying. My mom was always around when I’d have OCD so whenever she’d come home from work I’d get really bad anxiety. I of course still love my mom and I got over this trigger. But I’d love to hear your guys’ triggers

My bf or should I say my not fucking bf, got into a fight a week ago and we didn’t speak for the last 2 days and he said we were on a break. He says we’re not together right now. That I could do whatever I want but it’d still hurt the same but he knows I’m not gonna do anything & he isn’t gonna do anything. But it’s the mere fact that he labels the break almosf like a break up because it wouldn’t be considered cheating if one of us did something. He’s going to San Diego this weekend with his friends and I’m not gonna lie I wasn’t worried before but now that I know there’s that little bit of room to do shit, makes me scared he’ll even just flirt with girls. It really scares me cuz I’ll never know & I don’t like it. We are talking about everything on Monday & most likely gonna get “back together”. He says it’s simple on his end where it’s a little short break from the relationship as in talking every day and doing relationship stuff, and then he comes back and we’ll talk. And I hate it. So much. It makes it hard to not over think and worry.

My partner and I are currently broken up/taking a break. Has anyone with ROCD dealt with this? How did it work out? I’m scared and relieved but I know I love them.

i don’t understand, i try to fantasize about guys but when i do it isnt like how it is with women, its more so forced.. and know i feel like im bisexual when i csnt even fantasize about men.. i was watching these videos about desth and it made me think like “u have to accept ur bisexual before u die” when i know im straight but i wasnt even as anxious about it i didnt pay it any mind and that made me think that i am somehow attracted to men when ive never even gotten w literal full on erection to a man..i just want anyones advice i feel like dying bc this is becoming to much. i cent do anything in life with this thing holding onto me, i wanna do better in life and play my sports as a student athletes but i cant do that anymore because this just completely swarms my mind with everything i do snd watch. ive just started thinking of ways to end it all unfortunately. i’d rather think about that then think ab being a gay or bisexual honestly

Anyone here who struggles with pocd, I know it’s an emotional roller coaster, but I really wanna get better. Please tell me your erp experience and or your intentional exposure Practices.

We often talk about the negatives, but wanting to hear some positives: What does everyone here do for work/what do you study in school? Etc.

Anyone here recovered who can send messages of hope over how successful treatment was or is for them?

Was watching TV. The dad's a dentist and had a celebrity visit so he was happy and the wife jokingly asked "who's the woman?" joking about him seeing another woman. The dad answers, "it's a man actually." The son overhears and says "I knew he was repressed all these years." This triggered me and scared me because I had a bad dream earlier where I "accepted" that I'm gay (I'm not I identify as straight) and in the dream it feels relieving as it meant not being scared anymore because I "accepted" what ocd wants me to believe. I woke up and felt I'm straight deep down so the dream really scared me. Then hearing the joke above on the TV show triggered that question "is it really ocd or am I repressed?" So of course I googled to know the difference and people in forums were saying how they denied they were gay and eventually came out. I'm not bi or gay. I have nothing against anyone that is - I simply don't identify that way. I've been with my boyfriend for almost 9 years. I've suffered with ocd for just over 1 year now. I'm not attracted to women but I notice how attractive they are, more so then men (never used to though), get insecure so easily, and have dreams about where I "realise" I'm gay (which always wake me up in a panic). I also struggle with validation when I logically know that I shouldn't need it from other people. I'm not asking for reassurance or anything. I don't really know what I'm asking for. I guess it's to know if anyone else has the same issues.