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I just keep getting intrusive feelings constantly when I see actors and boxers… as well as the constant intrusive thoughts… the intrusive thoughts and feelings are automatic… please help me…

I feel like I am going crazy. I can't calm myself down. I have barely slept since Thursday, I can't really eat because I am feeling so sick. I know I got through it before but right now I don't feel I can get better if I don't immediately break up with my partner. I know I know you shouldn't do big decisions when in such a bad state, but I am really really desperate.. I am afraid of going to the hospital for my mental health right now because I am afraid they will tell me that I need to break up if it's causing me so much stress..

Yesterday morning was such a great day I wasn’t having as many intrusive thoughts and for once I felt normal I legit almost wanted to cry and thanked god because for once it all fault clear and as the day progressed I was feeling awful and uncertain. Now I’m stressed that I don’t feel anything because of my intrusive thoughts but my body is still reacting (groinal response) I’m stressed out that I’ve probably convinced myself I’m an actual p***. I’m 100% convinced I’ll do something bad if left alone with a kid and I’m stressing out. How do I know I’m not a p*** in denial??? I know I don’t want to do these things but it feels like I do. Why don’t I feel anything anymore? Has the anxiety become so overwhelming that my emotions have completely shut down? I feel like a person who has no emotions which isn’t like me. This doesn’t feel real.

man, i’m scared. a theme of mine is fear i’m becoming schizophrenic. it mostly comes in noticing the way people say things and assuming it’s a charged attack. I used to be able to blame it on trauma of past events that made me feel like less, but now i’m questioning if i’m actually becoming schizophrenic. Because it’s getting to where i’m doing mad research and other compulsions but i keep seeing more and more things that i resonate with about schizophrenia and then like how the age I am now (22) is right around when it can present itself. I HATE THIS. this stuff is so hard. i’m almost positive it’s all just OCD but like…. ya know. is it? especially when every social situation i’m in now i feel like i’m being sized up? even my family and friends. but is that just cause i’m hyper aware rn because of giving in to all the OC’s recently? or is it the onset of schizophrenia? sorry for the rant. I just so badly want to be heard.

Not in a literal sense but more of the fact about whether or not my feelings are genuine. My theme right now is having covert narcissism and i feel like whenever I’m sad it’s fake or for personal gain. It’s also hard for me to deal with treatment because all I’m thinking about is whether or not the problem is covert narcissism and if my life would even be better without OCD help since i already have this issue. When i have a bad thought, labeling it as OCD isn’t good enough anymore because now it’s possibly NPD. I can’t get out of this cycle and nothing is enjoyable due to the way i now view myself which is a helpless case that will always have low-self esteem and a lack of empathy. I also want to mention that with this type of NPD I’m scared of the people who have it are general miserable and are aware of their insecure self. This to me makes everything 100x worse because i can’t even have the gratification of realizing i have issues because the people with covert NPD already do.

What i sent to him " I feel guilty for answer I'm sorry babe I just wanted to answer his question I'm sorry don't be mad at meI thought he was going to flirt with me so I answered him so I could make babe jealous but now I feel guilty and my ocd is making me feel like I chested because I did that I'm sorry I answered him I only answered because I thought he would flirt and I wanted babe jealous because your hor when jealous I'm so sorry I feel so guilty nowI swear that was the only reason I'm so sorry I feel so fucking guilty I wasn't going to flirt back with him if he did I'm so fucking sorry I swear babe I just wanted to get you jealous I feel so guilty my ocd is making me feel like I cheated I swear that's the only reason I replied I wasn't going to flirt back I'm so fucking sorry I feel so guilty i my ocd is making me feel like I cheated I'm sorry babe" I feel so guilty bro what is yhis ehy did I do this I keep hurting him wtf after I sent that I ended up throwing up I'm back to where I started throwing up over my ocd thoughts I feel so guilty bro someone help I was doing just fine I feel so fucking guilty someone help me what is this I'm scatedbevrything was fine till I reply to a dm from a guy I only thought the guy was going to flirt so I answered so I can make babe jealous I wasn't going to flirt back I swear I'm scared he's going to break up eith me I'm so scared

I’m asking here because I don’t want to over indulge my research compulsion right now. I am not pregnant but the topic of having children has been huge for me and my partner this year. I’m recently OCD diagnosed and it just occurred to me that I could see myself having extremely difficult Postpartum Depression. I thought I’d simply ask this community to get a general idea and then try and leave it at that for now.

Hey guys. Hope everyone is doing alright on here ❤️ I’ve got another tip for you. “Do the opposite of what your OCD says” We all know how painful it can be when OCD latches on to something we care about or love. It’s devastating. In some cases, it may make us completely doubt what we were before, who we thought we were - a complete identity crisis. And that identity crisis - brings us further away from our values. I had a particularly bad case of sexual orientation OCD. I had always been straight my whole life, and I became convinced I was actually gay and in denial of it. It sucked - especially since I had always wanted a boyfriend. My people out there with HOCD - you’ll get this. Anyways, I decided that I was going to pretend as if my OCD spirals about my sexuality had never happened.. and so I signed up for a dating app and started dating MEN. Even though I legitimately was so confused about it. And I met a great guy and we went on some dates. Mind you, I had so many doubts through this process - but I decided to keep going. And you know what happened after I went on a date with him? My HOCD had never been quieter. And so I invite you to do what I did - Call OCD’s bluff. Say, “You know what?? Let me see what you got, OCD. Because I am strong enough to handle this. I can do this.” So the next time it’s telling you to hide, to avoid - think about what the opposite of that would be and do it as best you can.* *just a disclaimer- make sure you’re keeping in mind the severity of your particular case and not jumping into an exposure that would be too much. I had to work up to this for a couple of months. But it’s the principle that stands - you can still call OCD’s bluff on a smaller scale too. Sending love as always ❤️ You guys got this.

Hey guys, I'm posting this be I haven't seen much about it online and I hope I can either find helpful perspectives or someone who relates to my story. As per my last two boyfriends I've had debilitating rocd that certain actions I do are cheating. It can be anything. ANYTHING. It's like l'll be in the middle of doing something and my mind will tell me l'm moving my body in a sexual way or if I say this word it's flirting (even if the word isn't sexual at all like "almost"). Or I can be talking to someone and my mind will intrusively say something sexual about them and l'Il have an involuntary groinal response and if I stay in the conversation (whilst trying my BEST to ignore it) I'Il feel anxious afterwards like I cheated. Or my mind will say I can't watch this video on yt because I find the creator attractive and if I watch it I'm giving them another "view" therefore I cheated or did something wrong. It's like my mind over analyzes EVERYTHING. It's gotten so bad to where my ocd controlled my breathing; I'll be breathing and my mind will intrusively think of "sending" that breath of air to some imaginary person in a adulterous way and therefore I cheated or did something bad. Long story short, this is COMPLETELY debilitating. I want to have a healthy relationship without having panic attacks everyday, over analyzing my past actions, scared that I just cheated on my partner. I hate it. I am aware of how severe and irrational my rocd is which is why I joined NOCD. Please, anyone with any advice, relatability, anything help. Thank you.

my rocd is going insane. it always finds a new thing to question and try to figure out. i started reading the book “overthinking about you” which is about relationships when having ocd and anxiety. the first chapter was about breaking up and one sentence said that “if you’re romantic feelings have left, then it’s time to break up” or something along those lines. it heavily triggered me last night and i went to bed knowing it would be all that’s on my mind today and it has been. im now wondering if i even have romantic feelings with my girlfriend or i ever did. how does one even figure that out when they’ve been in their relationship for over a year and do NOT want to break up. i know i love her, i know our relationship is what i’ve always wanted and she meets all my needs and wants but why the constant questioning. why can’t i be secure in my love and feelings for her

Does any one else really struggle with contamination ocd? For me I struggle with laundry and feeling like it’s not clean enough, and taking a shower. My showers go on for close to an hour because I feel like I didn’t wash enough or it needs to be a certain amount of times. I also struggle when it comes to the bathroom and compulsively wiping. The hand washing and the anxiety just take up so much of the day and it really drains me. I have been struggling with ocd for years and have been working with a therapist with it but it still feels so consuming. I started taking medication, but everything still feels so overwhelming, and dreadful. I was wondering if anyone could relate, because I’ve been feeling really alone with the severe contamination ocd.

Has my one dealt with OCD around driving, especially on the highway? If so, what has helped you? Thanks!

so long story short i’ve been taken out of school due to anxiety and ocd, i also used to get bullied. i used to be such a weirdo in school and that’s obviously why i got bullied but i can’t stop thinking about it. and other people say that they struggle with school aswell and that it drains them but they haven’t been taken out of school makes me feel like there’s something wrong with me as if i should of just dealt with it. i just want to feel like a normal person who’s been to school and has just dealt with it. i feel so bad about myself and i hate myself for it because i was such a weird kid. my biggest fear is being seen as weird or strange and i don’t know what to do about it.

Has one ever tried Prozac & it made it worse? And yes I’m going through meds with my doctor. But Prozac created another obsession for me and it’s HORRIBLE. I couldn’t sleep lastnight. It gives me horrible nightmares even when I just start closing my eyes to drift off to sleep. I’m super anxious in the morning. It’s messing with my OCD BAD.

I’ve been struggling with ocd episodes since yesterday and I’m not sure how to cope. I tried everything I could possibly think of but nothing worked. It’s slowly triggering my suicidal thoughts and even though I know I won’t do anything stupid, the pain and suicidal thoughts are getting unbearable. I can’t afford professional help and I can’t talk to my loved ones about any of this because they’ll never understand

It feels like my life is over, it feels like I now like the feeling of smothering someone because when I imagined it to ‘test’ myself on an intrusive thought it feels like now I like the feeling of smothering someone and that it would feel good to squash someone with a pillow till they stop breathing. I feel really tired I have a migraine last night I felt like I was about to have a heart attack I kept imagining the smothering thought over and over because my brain wouldn’t let me fall asleep until it felt like ‘I didn’t like the feeling of imagining doing that’ so I kept imagining it and in the end I jsut had to go to sleep regardless but then I kept feeling like I was getting this feeling in my heart like something bad would happen like anxiety coming all of a sudden and it would make my heart feel weird and then it would go and come again …is that palpitations? It kept coming like a whoosh of idk anxiety in chest but would feel like my heart was affected and something bad would happen the o started getting acid coming up my throat. I feel terrible. Sometimes I imagine the through and it feels like I get anxiety and shudders and wouldn’t want to do that. But yesterday I was sat and home with my mum and all of a sudden it felt like an urge or that I wanted to do that smothering thought about my mum and it was coming to me really strongly that i liked the feeling of imagining doing that, squashing her face with a pillow till she stops breathing (I’m cringing while writing this that sound so horrible) I’m sorry this sounds disgusting but it feels so real I don’t believe this can be fake??? It felt so real that it would feel ‘good’ to do thag and I don’t know what to do I feel exhausted I feel so incredibly down and angry and sad and everything I keep getting really angry and shouting, like I’m taking it out on other people and arguing because I don’t know what to do or why I’m going through this, before I sue to be able to jsut forget about it but now I feel like I can’t because what’s the point of forgetting when it still feels like I like the feeling of doing that?? How can I forget it? The sick feeling of liking how it feels to do that is still there and now if I forget about it when I remember it or stet ruminating I take that as ‘me wanting to do it’ because I’m not trying hard enough to forget about it and keep going back to it, if I really hated it I would be doing everything to forget about it but here I am constantly thinking about it and believing I’m bad and like it so it must be true and I don’t trust myself and I feel so awful i thought things were getting better but there not what am I suppose to do ? How am I suppose to get rid of that feeling? I feel like that’s the only way I can live normally is if that feeling went and felt like I didn’t like the feeling of doing that, I try to ignore it but I keep getting caught up in that feeling because of feels real, and the fact that it feels like I like the feeling of doing that or that there’s and element of it that could feel good is awful and now I’m thinking I’m a evil person who gets a good feeling out of stopping someone from breathing and it’s awful. When I’m not anxious it feels like I like the feeling of doing that but when I am anxious or feeling down about this problem it feels like I don’t like it and get shudders over it why?

I am so filled with grief. How can I be a good mother with harm ocd? I am a person of simple pleasures. I want for nothing except my family. I’d happily live in a tent and pray to my God. And now ocd has robbed me of those joys because of harm and religious ocd. I am running on empty.

Is healing possible without a support system? I have contamination ocd. My husband mocks me, threatens to contaminate me, calls me crazy and tells me I am acting like a criminal. I have moments of suicide ideation and he tells me to either do it already or stop talking about it. Feeling really hopeless. I stand in the kitchen and cry in agony because I'm truly suffering and he just watches basketball. Do you need support in order to heal? I do have a therapist helping me with ERP.

Is it normal that when I look around I feel paranoid and I’m hyper aware of my surroundings like the world isn’t clear and it’s quite blurry and looks pixely, like I can’t concentrate. I don’t want schizophrenia Is this just the ocd and has someone ever overcome this?

Back in October, I told one of my friends about my intrusive and scary thoughts relating to POCD. A few days later, she cut me off after sending me a text message, which basically accused me of being an actual pedophile or someone who wants to hurt children. This was a very stressful day to say the least. Anyways- fast forward to today- she reaches out to me for the first time since then, basically confronting me once again about all of this. She also posted comments relating to my POCD thoughts on my social media profile. I just feel anxious that I can’t be trusted anymore and that she is going to tell everyone that I’m terrible or that everyone is going to think I’m actually terrible. I have already had enough worries about being a bad person, it is even more difficult when your once best friend is accusing you of being the most horrendous thing that many people can ever imagine. I’m scared to be around other people, for that they may have heard something about me, or will. I feel paranoid. I feel afraid for my future. Ever since October, I have felt that this would haunt me for the rest of my life.