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im relapsing into overthinking, falling into the rabbit hole. I'm going to turn off my brain now and dismiss every concern. I'm not going to address anything. I will act as if this triggering episode never happened, and with that the rabbit hole that I fell into. I'm going to drown the thoughts.

a few months ago i saw my situationship having a sexual conversation with their friend and it’s been really bothering me ever since. i constantly think that when i’m not in the room that they’re talking like that with them or he’s using little loop holes in our agreement to get by doing it and it comes up often when i see them just texting normally. i can’t move past this incident and it always comes back when i’m finally getting comfortable again with our relationship and feeling better. i can’t figure out if this is something that still bothers me or if im just using it to self sabotage my relationship with him.

I suddenly remembered that I didn't have pocd my whole life. I had simmetry and order obsessions, contamination obsessions when I was just a kid, including perfectionism obsessions when playing the violin (that reappeared in highschool when making the perfect school notes). Then it evolved into pure ocd/(emotional contamination from bad figures)when I was in middle school when I started having intrusive images and unwanted associations that made me feel impure and dirty, stuck in my head and feeling violated. Moral scrupolosity when I was in highschool like the fear of being racist or not feeling enough disgust/intrusive thoughts like "this is not that bad" when reading news abt crimes, afraid of being a psychopath, of being a bad person, (linked in part to the growing cancel culture and exposure to twitter), excessive moral scrupolosity about anything, self saboraging intrusive thoughts etc. Then pocd for the last 2 years, after an immense triggering episode in summer, the date being september 7th 2021; going through the many aspects of this specific theme: from the fear of being falsely accused and not being believed, to being triggered by anything related to that theme, to intrusive thoughts and images, to compulsive note-taking (addressing every little thing like ocd episodes and intrusive thoughts), staying up the entire night to write down on my notes app every single thought concerning ocd, especially confessing the intrusive thoughts/episodes, to doubting over my whole identity, to false attraction, to staring, to compulsive self-harming and depression; to starting to get slowly better with some major episodes here and there, hopefully fewer and fewer. I forgot abt all my obsessive tendencies since I was just a little kid; so it's probably true that it is all "just" ocd, I hope. Pocd is just one of the many themes I had since I was little, it doesn't define me, it doesn't have to feel like my whole reality anymore nor it is linked to my identity. It's just a theme. I can have a normal life. I'm not ocd.

I really need some understanding about embracing uncertainities I am not able to underatand it completely I am not able to persue that...can anyone help!?

The past few months have been hard. I went through a tough time a couple years ago and finally started getting help for my mental health and since than I finally felt in a good place but my main issue was OCD and I didn’t get the proper treatment I needed for it, but the past few months my ocd really took over and started to effect my relationship with my girlfriend who I was dating over a year at that point. She meant so much to me and I was struggling so much with ocd and really decided to focus on Ocd specific therapy and found NOCD because it really was effecting my daily life and my relationship. The past 2 months I’ve been in transition of med changes and different therapists and adding a breakup right in the middle of it to someone who meant so much to me, I feel terrible because I got too much in my own head and let my OCD directly interfere and it got overwhelming for her which I understand. Now I’m trying to just focus on myself and stay present but it has not been easy, especially as you can all relate for someone with OCD. I am starting a big internship and my last semester of school tommrow and I just feel so much uncertainty and not the excitement I should be feeling. Sorry for the rant

im feeling so depressed today all ive been doing is lying in bed and i feel so bad. my mom scolds me telling me to get up and its not normal but i have no motivation to do anything. Theres no point to do anything if im so old and just getting older. I cant enjoy anything and im just so scared. All ive been doing is scrolling social media looking at other ages and their experiences and feeling bad for them too. I dont even want it to get better i just want it to end or for me to be young again. im just so scared

I’m scared that I will forget how to talk and understand things. I think it is called Aphasia. I’m so scared, I can’t focus. Does anyone else have this? I’m having a panic attack now.

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about people being worried that they’re a P. I struggled with this a lot, this was my first run around with OCD. When I talked to my therapist about this, she told me something that helped me a lot. “If it bothers you this much when those thoughts come to your mind, it tells you everything you need to know.” If it scares you to your core when these thoughts come, you are not a monster. Your OCD will try to tell you different, but stop arguing with it. Acknowledge the thought by saying “I’m noticing an intrusive thought.” You are not validating the intrusive thought, you are acknowledging that it is there. When you argue with it, it will continue to swirl your brain. The bottom line is, we have a disorder. It’s sole purpose is to try and make us believe we are something that we’re not. In my experience, acknowledging the thought is there, and just having the knowledge that it’s my OCD and not me, I’ve had huge progress. I don’t get hooked on my thoughts nearly as much. If we argue with the intrusive thoughts it will have you hooked longer and cause us more suffering. Also, by acknowledging the intrusive thoughts, you are not suppressing it and ignoring it. You are existing with it. All of this is apart of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.) If you’d like to learn more about it I recommend doing some research and seeing what it can do for you. Remember, you are NOT the person your OCD wants you to believe you are. You are not your OCD, think of it as an annoying roommate that moved into your apartment.

I’m a new adjunct professor at a US university. It hasn’t been a week already and one student already complained to the head of my department that my teaching style is terrible. I thus received a long email from the head saying that I better improve my teaching style or else I’m out… So what on earth happened? I was just merely following a department syllabus to teach. I didn’t change anything to it, but apparently, the student thinks the order of topics is wrong and that she speaks on behalf of all students in saying that I’m confusing them all. She’s also disrespected me on multiple occasions, speaking over me while I’m talking, hovering over her phone, and whispering to other students. So here I am, thinking that I do suck and that I need to quit before I’m fired or my contract isn’t renewed. I’m just an adjunct and I don’t have the rights that full time faculty have. It’s sad because I do genuinely enjoy teaching and I just want everyone to have fun with it. But, this student doesn’t even give me the opportunity to teach. She then tells other people in the class to just skip my lecture and go to tutoring. How could I deal with the OCD induced from this? OCD wants me to just quit already and go home. That I’m a worthless person and I shouldn’t be teaching.

Does anyone else’s OCD take things and run with them? For example, my boyfriend got annoyed with me recently and responded kind of rudely to a question I asked him. I told him that wasn’t fair and he agreed and apologized immediately. But now I keep ruminating on it that maybe this is just him revealing his true self now that we’ve been together for a while. Maybe the real him is aggressive and he’s going to snap at me in the future and I’m going to be stuck in a relationship that is unhealthy! Also I’m fearing everyone reading this won’t believe me that my relationship is good and they’ll be judging me saying it’s not OCD. Struggling right now.

Hey guys, I just upped my fluvoxamine to 100 mg. Does anyone have experience with Luvox that they wouldn’t mind sharing.

I need someone to give me insight into my condition.I'm experiencing a strong desire to take advantage of Amazon's courtesy policy, which allows for a full refund while retaining the product. Although I recognize this is unethical, the urge arises from a financial necessity to save money, making it difficult for me to either pay for the item or return it. Please support me. Thanks

I’m a young adult, second year in college and I rented my first apartment this year. I’m moving in exactly 1 week, and god this whole process is beyond stressful. I’m excited to live separate of my parents and have my own place, but can’t stop stressing about the “what ifs”. What if my neighbors suck, what if my landlord sucks, what if me and my roommate don’t get along, what if I can’t function on my own, what if I mess up my rent, what if I develop debt, all the what ifs of adulting are weighing me down. I should be excited right now, I should be hopeful for the future but ocd once again ruins everything for me. I wish I could appreciate this new start instead of worrying so much about it. Anyone else go through something like this?

I’m 25 years old and have been struggling with OCD since I was 16. It started after mainly after I got into college. I would check things, have mental compulsions, and get severely stressed. I had a very traumatizing childhood but the OCD didn’t start until I got on my own in college. I have always been a good student but would do things such as retyping, rewriting, as well as questioning any work I’ve done. I also engage in compulsions such as cleaning things until they feel right, having things in a specific order, having rituals with checking, and intense fear if I don’t engage in compulsions past trauma will occur or something bad will happen. I’ve felt like I’m crazy and abnormal and I’m tired of feeling this way. I’m looking to hopefully engage with a great community as well as have a good therapy experience.

Felt genuinely genuinely turned on and it felt so natural :((( like I saw a child and had instant feelings of attraction 💔 I also felt turned on by a tv show where there was spanking…… I’m hurting a lot. It just feels so natural and real

I cant seem to go out and drink alcohol without thinking the worst possible thing has happened which is cheating on my girlfriend, i love my girlfriend so fucking much and i couldn’t picture life without her and doing anything wrong to her like cheat is against my morals. But i have had a situation before about a month ago where i thought i cheated on my girlfriend on a night out when i had a drink i wasn’t drunk and remembered everything but still thought i might have cheated on her and after obsessing over it i had visions and intrusive thoughts of me doing such a thing in the location i was in and started believing the visions to the point i had a mental breakdowns when all evidence pointed to me doing such a thing. I have recently got over that situation but last week i got really drunk black out drunk nearly and my memory isn’t the best but i had an argument with my girlfriend and was in a pissed off mood and now I’m having the same visions and thoughts just in the club that i was in and there was no proof that i did any of this i spoke to multiple people that were there and said i was fine and my girlfriend was separate in the club with her friends as-well as her brother was in the club with his friends and all said that i haven’t done anything and never said anything, like even black out drunk i would be shocked to the core that id remember something and be crying and tell someone that id done such a thing, but as the same as last time im making up visions in my head of me kissing someone in the club and I don’t know if they are real or not its really getting to me because i actually can’t remember much from that night but i know that doing such a thing would ruin my life and i especially wouldn’t do it while my girlfriend and her brother are in the club. It just hurts to have these thoughts and memories everytime i have a patchy memory or drink alcohol i always feel like i do the worst possible thing to ruin my life, and its torment and really gets me down, does anyone else get false memories or have a feeling of doing something guilty everytime they drink and can’t remember that goes against their morals? And if anyone has any tips against and dealing with false memories it wound be greatly helpful👍.

I struggle with pocd amongst many other ocd themes and even the thought of having children triggers it so badly. I try and avoid being around kids because they trigger it obviously but it makes me so sad because I was always so good with kids until I started struggling with this theme. I want children because I think it adds something very special to your life but I know having kids would drive my ocd insane. It’s like I can image how great I would be as a mum and then there is this ocd barrier between me and that. Maybe a lot of therapy could help but I’ve had ocd my whole life I think it’s just apart of my brain I don’t know if it can be fixed

Trigger warning: my severe existential ocd thoughts about ,,Solipsism" After having a stressful phase two and a half years ago I read about the meaning of life. In a forum somebody wrote ,,what is the meaning of life when I don't even I know if other people are real". Ever since then I am afraid that many eternal sadistic gods or only one evil god chose to only create me as a sentient/real being, making everyone else an unconscious robot. I am deeply scared that one day those higher beings will reveal themselves to me that I am indeed the only sentient being. I am also afraid that I will exist for all eternity by myself (because those higher beings/gods want me to suffer due to their evil nature). They perfidiously give me love now (through my parents, sister etc.) so that one day they will take away everything (they will tell me everything beautiful I have experienced was an illusion.) Only I and these gods exist (no biblical god additionaly). Furthermore, I would like to say that I don't believe in it 100%, but I have a great fear of it because it could theoretically be true I have been dealing with depression for two and a half years and as a result, I have quit work and social activities. Is considered a psychosis or ocd? What kind of therapy is best for me? Best reagards, Betty

I guess this isn't exactly OCD but I'd still like to know if anyone else out there has this. A few years ago I had a really bad heart flutter out of nowhere that kinda changed my life. I've always been a little bit of a hypochondriac but never to the degree that I am now about my heart. It kept fluttering for a few seconds and it scared the life out of me. Since then I obsess over my heartbeat and heart health. I went to the doctor a bit after it happened and they told me after a series of tests that my heart was completely fine. A couple years after that I got some pretty nasty heart flutters again only this time my arms started tingling and I felt blackness around my eyes almost like I was about to go out. Ever since those my life has been ruined honestly. I don't drink caffeine anymore, I try not to eat much salt, etc. To make things worse though I have a lingering fear that my hearts gonna stop on me at any time. I don't go out with family, I don't go out with my girlfriend, I stay inside all day because it's the only place where I'm comfortable. How do I conquer this? To give more details I'm always stressed out 24/7. My OCD about other things has always made me stress out to the max. So maybe that's what's wrong with my heart? Idk. Thank you for reading and I hope someone has some solutions for me. I want my life back.

Hey,i'm 19 years old and i have been dealing with ocd since 2019.Before that,i had struggled with it at my childhood times too,but i overcame it.Everything was perfect but many things have changed since 2019.Now,i really don't know what i can do.I always doubt about everything.I always have some distressful thoughts about sexual things.I overthink too much.For example i think that i'm gonna go crazy and i also overthink that if that happens, what other people say about me.Yeah,i know we shouldn't care these thoughts.I should just observe and watch them.But i can't help myself.Please help me..