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I have started to develop tics. And they are slowly getting worse. Anyone know how to control them? Or am I going crazy?

hello! I am struggling right now because my intrusive thoughts haven’t been bad in almost a year, then out of nowhere things are getting awful. I’ve had them my whole life but it feels like my brain is attacking me with the most disgusting and weird things I could possibly think of. I’m not worried I will act on them but I’m more just freaked out that my mind is capable of coming up with these things and it makes me question who I am as a person. I’ve been to the ER twice this week with suicidal thoughts, I can’t do SSRI treatment because I have sensitive serotonin receptors and they always really mess me up. I feel like a freak right now and I just don’t know how to cope.

My opinions and mind changes so frequently that a single day genuinely feels like 5 days at times. It's so painful because this roller coaster of emotions can go from just accepting these thoughts, to crying in the bathroom and feeling like I'm going to act on them. My mind can literally change a dozen or more times a day and it's obviously not good as it's over obsessive about stuff I can't control. Dear OCD: you are a lying piece of shit that is making me accept things I always thought were morally wrong even if I think they're horrible. The thoughts feel so real and it's scaring me to a point where I feel like I'm going to lose control. At the same time however, I feel like I've been selfish enough before to deserve this.

As a Christian I did a lot of sins before I repented and still mess up sometimes. I lied a lot to my partner about things. I feel responsibility for these lies. I confessed a lot of things to him but not all things and not in detail. I asked for generally forgiveness, also for me to not get further exposed and to just focus on the future instead of old mistakes and lies. I feel like I cannot be free now. Like I need to make every lie right. Because if not the person cannot see my „true self“. I really really want to just let the past go and just try to not do these mistakes again and If I do I want to work on it with god in private. Can someone give me advise?

I recently saw a post on YouTube about a serial killer and now I'm randomly thinking stuff about 'oh but what if I am going to do that' I've never had those thoughts before but I don't react with the same anxiety I used to (maybe because I've been at my worst over the past month already). However I'm scared that 'oh but what if one day I snap and do something like those people?' It's a difficult situation to overcome because the thoughts feel way too real, even though I've never really had them before

Kt really feels like I’m attracted to younger peers at school 💀 like there’s this boy and he had like a fitted shirt ig and then I noticed that I checked out his like chest n stuff and he was a junior 😭😭 like ugh I hate that before I wasn’t even checking out for him like that like it was like okay whatever a person and now this happens and I feel bad and weird 💀 ughhh and then If I find out something that makes me assume that my younger peers are a bunch of assholes until they say something like they’ve been bullied before and then I’m like “oh Aw that’s why he/she acts like that🥺” then I get scared of eventually liking them or start having a crush which is what it was feeling like today 😭😭😭 and it’s so annoying that I’ll have an urge or like just an automatic checking out thing with ppls bodies like I look at everyone 💀 it’s like my eyes have no control it’s so annoying then I suppress how I feel if I feel like I have some sort of emotion or liek any if it’s on my younger peers and then I like get confused ugh I hate this what if I really am attracted to younger people all this time that I remembered my trauma and now it’s going to make me a pedo :( idk

so i’m a 20 year old straight female .. and honestly when it comes to sex i don’t care for it unless i’m really aroused but i mostly just don’t really care for it like i can go a while without sex without feeling like i need it and when i do have sex though i do enjoy it but i never have an orgasm. not that that matters but is there anyone else doesn’t really care much for sex? i love my partner so much we have no issues so it has nothing to do with our connection but then the ocd side of me is saying "well what if it’s cause you aren’t attracted to him" "what if it’s cause you want sex with a girl instead" and i know that’s not true at all but these thoughts don’t stop gosh i hate ocd

I’m a lesbian and I constantly have intrusive thoughts that being who I am is bad morally. Also, feel like sometimes I am attracted to men but I know I am not. Is there anyone with a similar experience? Whenever the thoughts come I feel stressed. Sorry, if Thai triggered anyone.

I have suicidal thoughts everyone told that yuh have to face your fears.I can't understand how I can face my suicidal fears.

So a week and a half ago me and my bf got into the biggest fight in our relationship. I snooped & found out he was breaking THE ONLY boundary I have by briefly speaking to a girl who caused major issues years ago in our relationship. I never asked him to delete any girls or remove anyone to not be controlling. But I have told him I don’t like this it makes me uncomfortable and u do what u want with that info. Clearly he chose to do what he wanted. With no regard to me. He told her he wasn’t allowed to talk to her… which why would u tell her that if u don’t even know her like u claim? Anyway. He lied to me about it then showed me then I dumped him impulsively. I messed up cuz his very old dog was downstairs during this struggling and covered in poop (he’s very old) so he kicked me out. Asked for a break. We been on a break for a long time now. And said we’re actually broke up. And he was in San Diego with his friends he started to act like everything was just fine and talking to me here and there. The last few days we been talking a littttle more but I could feel he didn’t care to. Last night, he liked a photo of this girl. After everything we fought about, I had been spending this last week spiraling trying to figure out how we both can make compromises and make this work and he did another thing that upset me. I told him, he got mad and said he didn’t wanna date someone who gets mad at stuff like that. I explained why and was in tears explaining my feelings and that this was the last boundary I had and he said well I don’t care sorry I’m not going to be told what to do. When I haven’t ever done that. I thought me explaining why it hurts me, would be enough for him to stop. He continues on to say he hasn’t felt like even talking to me in the last few days and doesn’t know if he wants to be with me and this fight now has pushed him more away. It ended up all being my fault. All of it. Am I crazy to think that he isn’t respecting me or my boundaries? Like am I wrong? Fuck. This isn’t necessarily ocd related, kinda cuz I been spiraling but now it’s just pure anxiety and anger.

I wanna talk to someone, is anyone free?

At the beginning of January, I started developing really bad anxiety (or so I thought). I am diagnosed with anxiety and have felt like this before, so it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. The only difference was that I was having these super weird thoughts. It all started when boyfriend made a jealous comment about how I like another boy, and I became fixated on the thought and started panicking that maybe I do like him, even though I have zero feelings for him at all. I avoided this boy, and the thoughts passed. But then, out of absolutely nowhere, the exact smart thoughts started happening with another boy from my school. These thoughts have been around for about a month now, as seeing this boy in school triggers the thoughts every day. The thoughts make me extremely uncomfortable, to the point of panic attacks. I have also found myself questioning and doubting my relationship, ‘do I really love him?’ ‘Am I just attached?’ ‘Am I really happy or do I just think I’m happy?’ ‘Should I end things?’. I know I love my boyfriend and I know I want to be with him and no one else, but these thoughts are making me feel crazy. I have started avoiding going to school, I avoid watching movies or TikToks about relationships, I am constantly researching every thought that comes through my head trying to figure out what it means. It’s affecting my whole life (education, relationship, even my friendships). When I researched about relationship OCD, everything was so relatable to how I’ve been feeling. But then another intrusive thought popped up, ‘Stop self diagnosing yourself because your in denial that these thoughts are real’. I’m so scared for myself and I don’t know what to do. I also started thinking recently about my boyfriend’s feelings for me, worrying that he’s slightly off with me, he doesn’t care about me or love me anymore, he’s getting tired of me being down all the time. I have also started having suicidal thoughts and I am worried that I’m going to give in to the thoughts and commit suicide, even though I don’t want to die. When I shower, I feel like my body is never clean enough, so bad that I feel an urge to actually remove my skin. I wash my body over and over and it just never feels right. My sleeping has also been affected, and I have been having the weirdest dreams. I have also been having weird moments where I’m half asleep and I mix up my dreams and reality (the last night I was sleeping, and I woke up and went to ask my friend to check my phone, but then I realised no one was with me). I know this probably happens to ‘normal’ people, but it’s been happening to me every single night and I just feel so mentally exhausted. Can someone please tell me if this could be OCD, or am I just self diagnosing myself because I’m in denial that the thoughts are real?

Feel like my compulsions have got on top of me. I give in to all of them because it's easier in the moment and I'm dealing with other things. Does anyone have any tips to help stop doing some of the checking? For example washing and scrubbing hands, checking under bed and wardrobe before sleep, checking plugs, locks etc. My intrusive thoughts are more about my actions harming others. Thanks :)

this may sound confusing but nothing seems real, i feel really dizzy in a way, like im going to faint, but im not going to? i cant explain it. i keep looking around and everything seems different, its making me feel anxious. is there any way i could fix this??

I realized that every time I talk about my progress with ocd, it gets worse. Anyone else experience this?

Hey all. I’m new to this site. I’m really hoping it works and I’m wondering if anyone with health anxiety and ocd triggers has really benefited from this site? I have depersonalization type feelings all day where my body is here and I can look in the mirror but it seems like a day dream. Sometimes I feel like my body is floating. I get vertigo all the time. I google symptoms and obsess over having some disease unknown even despite tests saying I’m healthy. I constantly check my heart if it’s beating; and I obsess over my breathing. It feels like I have to remember to breathe or like it’s not natural. I constantly worry about dying to the point it affects my life daily: I always think this is it this time it’s it when I’m having a panic attack. My body gets numb and I feel like I’ll pass out. I just really need to know I’m not alone in these feelings

I have ocd and ptsd. I guess I need to vent to feel like Im not alone. Having ptsd and ocd is hard. Ocd is constantly trying to trigger ptsd and it’s always ALWAYS bad before I’m about to start my period. My period is about to start this week. I just got back from a girls trip weekend with my family and I’m still extremely overstimulated from that. I haven’t left town since the pandemic started so this was hard for me. I’m sleep deprived and I didn’t eat very well while I was away. I can’t do things like that anymore without proper sleep and nutrition bc my ptsd doesn’t do well. Today is my first day back at work since I left for my trip and I feel horrible. I didn’t sleep again last night bc I had a panic attack. I had racing thoughts and images that made no sense in my mind so of course that triggered ocd and made me panic. My brain found out that bothered me and keeps replaying the same sequence even after I’ve woke up this morning🥺 I feel extremely nauseous and just anxious and so uncomfortable. I know this won’t resolve until my period starts I wish it would just start even tho I’m about to be in a lot of pain. I’ve had so many subtypes in the span of five days I’m having a hard time. It feels like I’m gonna lose control or something… I guess I’m wondering if any of you feel like this when you’re due for your cycle bc periods are so unpredictable and confusing and sometimes scary I’m exhausted

I've been fixating on this memory for so long. its gotten to the point where i have thought of different scenarios and its so overwhelming not knowing whats real and whats made up in my head. i know i shouldnt be trying to figure it out but its too hard, im not diagnosed with ocd so i keep thinking "i might not even have it, so if i figure it out i wont have to suffer anymore" but whenever i think i figure it out it i just go into a spiral and think "but what if thats wrong? what if u ____" its too much. i can't do it anymore its so hard i feel like let everyone i love down. tw?? i dont remember exactly when this memory was but i think it was about 2 years ago, im 16 currently. and i was exposed to this thing i saw this beastiality thing on tiktok where i saw this girl doing something gross with her dog. and im scared that i had the thought to do that with my dog. i do remember having the thought that my dog would try to do that since she'd try to sniff my private part a lot (when on heat. i wasn't the smartest child, i also thought that if dogs sniffed u there it meant they were on heat. that can be the case but obviously not all the time). but since i was always uncomfortable and would cry when she'd be on heat and/or try to sniff or hump me it seemed irrational for me to think that. but the mere thought of me considering that makes me sick, and i dont have clear memory of it, i feel as if i have different versions of it in my head?? the first time i thought of the memory was maybe a day after i was grossed out about this tiktok i saw about this person proudly in a sexual and romantic relationship with an animal. (3 months ago) it made me sick, and then i remembered something that i did which was a little after i saw that beastiality thing, maybe a few days or so. where i checked to see if my dog would go near my private part and sniff since i didnt know if she'd try to go near it or not and i wanted to make sure to be careful around her coz of what i saw. after i checked, i did it abt 3 times. I'd see her, think "what if shes on heat?" and then check to see if she'd try to sniff me so i could know. i obsessed over that for quite a while, i still do sometimes. "what if i made my dog uncomfortable?" "was that weird?" "does what i did make me a gross person?". but i don't really hate myself for that anymore, as i was curious and didn't want to be uncomfortable. afterwards i forgot all abt the beastiality thing and i wasnt so over the edge on my dog being on heat, i did still cry when she'd try to sniff my private though lmao. but now im just obsessing over what my thoughts could've been when being exposed to that beastiality thing. and i know I've always been uncomfortable with my dog going near my private parts so I'd tell my brain "why would i want her to do that when I'd cry from her just trying to sniff?" but then I'd then think "you've always been a horny child, you'd do anything for pleasure" and it just makes me overthink everything. i don't have worries that I'd do anything to an animal, ik i wouldnt. but im worrying that my past self may or may not have had thoughts of wanting to from after what i was exposed to. the thought makes me want to throw up, and i don't know how to fix this. i just need tips if anyone has any?? it'd be greatly appreciated, i just wanna feel okay again

My TOCD went away almost completely with some EMDR but now my SO OCD is back and I spend all my time wondering if I'm actually sexually attracted to my Fiance (I was, I remember being attracted, but my OCD has me convinced I am not). My heart is breaking. It's amazing how no matter which theme you are dealing with in the moment, you feel it is the worst theme. I would have traded my TOCD for ANYTHING while I struggled with it and now I'd do anything for relief from my SO OCD.

When you feel like you can’t live anymore because of your terrible intrusive thoughts, What do you do? How do you overcome this? I don’t want to do anything to myself but I want this all to end.