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Starting a new job, and have to look for a new place to live. Feel like my anxiety is out of control. Afraid im going to lose control or sleep walk which I don’t do. Scared. Involves hard ocd I hate this.

Dating with OCD was hard, but having broken up with OCD is even worse. I broke up with my ex after he ditched me at a party and accused me of cheating. (I never cheated, I wouldn’t flirt with another guy or cheat whatsoever). He was a consistent liar which I also didn’t like. We were on good terms for a while until two months after we broke up. He stopped talking to me and started pretending I don’t exist. I can’t avoid him because I have to see him everyday, unfortunately. He went out of his way to tell me he’s “seeing” someone. I struggle to let go with things and he was my best friend for two-ish years before we dated for a year. To watch him stop caring about me so quickly has made me miserable. I still care about him but it’s clear he doesn’t care about me. I keep crying and checking things over and over again. It feels uncontrollable. I don’t know how to make this stop. Or how to feel better. I feel so alone and I don’t know how to get over it.

One of my most persistent symptoms of OCD is being convinced that I have some kind of severe or terminal illness. I've had so many appointments (that have picked up a few things but nothing that's been a death sentence). Every ache, symptom, I'm absolutely convinced something is wrong. Then I'll get it checked out, and it's normal. Or I'll feel a sensation like earlier I felt a sharp pain in my stomach when I pressed the upper part of it, CONVINCED its stomach cancer. And then I burped and I'm perfectly fine. I get so intensely wrapped in worry, and then later on I see I completely made everything up. It's so exhausting.

I really hate being forced to socialize with people, specifically family members who genuinely do nothing but gaslight you with their narcissistic behavior. My OCD comes with anxiety.. I never feel like I’m enough, I always have this need to prove I don’t need help because anytime I came across vulnerable, I was treated like I was a problem but I feel like I’m forced to baby feed my own MOTHER who refuses to get help with her OWN OCD. I just can’t rn. I don’t know if I’m venting or having ruminating thoughts about having to mask how I feel when I’m CONSTANTLY feeling like my feelings don’t matter to a person that thinks her feelings are the ONLY ones that are relevant. Someone please read this so I can get a better understanding of how to deal with being overstimulated by being FORCED to socialize in a FAKE environment.

I feel like giving up. I don’t want to but it’s so hard and the only person that can make it better is me. But I’ve given up so many things that are important to me because of my OCD. I’ve isolated myself so much and given up on my dreams because of all this fear. Sometimes I feel like I need to protect everyone else from me and my doubts and insecurities. I feel like I’m hurting everyone or have the potential to let everyone down. I hate this.

I've always had my intrusive thoughts follow me into my dreams but recently the WORST intrusive thoughts literally play out in my dreams and I don't know what to do with myself. I can't tell anyone what the dreams were about... I can't even write it down its so bad. It's just stuck in my head forever and giving me more reasons to hate myself.

the obsession got so bad that i just cant tell if i am still ocd or just accepting my fate and becoming what i fear most. i cant tell whats going on anymore. im numb, i dont feel like this is a dire situation for my morals anymore, im just so apathetic now. i dont even know what im feeling, if i want these things or not, i dont know

My ocd always makes me think the worst and tells me that the only explanation for things is that I did something horrible. I had an incident years ago that has made my life miserable. I guess it’s a real event and possibly false memory as well. When my son was little he would crawl into bed with me sometimes. One morning I got up and he was still asleep. I put my daughter on the school bus and went back upstairs to my room and he was awake sitting up wrapped in the blanket. I said good morning and told him to come downstairs with me and get breakfast like I always did but when he got out of bed he didn’t have his underwear on. I yelled at him demanding to know why he took his underwear off. He was 2 or 3 and he pointed at me and yelled “You!”. My ocd immediately kicked in and made me think the worst that I must have done something horrible to him in my sleep. Why would he say that? 😪. I don’t want to live thinking I could have done something so horrible. It has made my life so hard to live. Now all these years later since my memory has faded my ocd brings it back up and tells me maybe I was drinking and did something to him and just don’t remember. People without ocd probably wouldn’t think much about these kinds of situations and would just shrug them off as weird things kids do and say or that happen in life and parenthood but my ocd makes me believe I did something horrible and makes me hate myself and living. 😞

Anyone here have times where anxiety symptoms affect ability to talk and thoughts. Like you mispeak a lot and have difficulty concentrating? Feels like you mind is deteriorating on the spot? Also I've noticed I have been repeatedly touching my face and pulling my hair more. My left cheek also feels like it is numb but nothing is wrong medically with me

Has anyone who started ERP therapy felt that your ocd or anxiety has gotten worse (at first) before it gets better?

I’m crying as I’m typing this and drinking because my ocd has convinced me I raped my friend 5 times. She doesn’t believe me. It’s because she was asleep for 4 out of the 5 times and it’s killing me. It’s strangling me that I might’ve done these heinous acts. I feel sick to my stomach. I’m scared I’m so scared because I DONT WANT TO RAPE ANYONE. And my brain is telling me I did it and I believe my brain I believe it I believe it happened and I’m scared I’m so scared please please please help me I’m so scared

Ive been struggling with keeping myself from not snowballing bad thoughts and memories since a night ago and rn i was having such a good time with my family :( i was playing games with my sibling and watching game play of a game we like i was talking with my other sibling i was having such a good time but then my brain reminded me “hey you cant have fun you’ve done so many bad things you shouldn’t be having a good time” and i felt so sad-i still feel sad-i feel gross and ugly and disgusting-why cant i just be happy? To the ppl that some how worked through this kinda thing how did you do it? How do you cope? how do you remind yourself to be happy?

I cry everyday thinking of things. Please help and share if this is truly what OCD does. I keep thinking in my past I was pregnant. I remember being paranoid but i do not remember taking a pregnancy test. Ocd keeps putting things in my head such as “you did a pregnancy test” or “you had a miscarriage” I tell my mom this and she is my biggest supporter but I feel like I was because i’m starting to believe it and give up.

3 years ago I was in the same vacation spot I’m in right now while writing this post. I was so happy this time 3 years ago, it was a year before my OCD took a turn for the absolute worst and since then I’ve been through a TON of pain and suffering. I came back to this hotel today and wanted to cry looking at this place just remembering who I used to be last time I was here. Never would’ve thought that 3 years later I’d be going through this pain on a daily basis and this would be my future. I would do anything to go back to how I was before this disease took over my life :(

I’ve been dealing with maladaptive daydreaming since I was 5-6 years old. These days I spend 70-80% of the time i spend awake in my head, those ~30% being the snippets I can pay attention in class. I have a deep and elaborate story that I tap into to escape my life. I can think about this world for hours without getting bored or feeling bad because there is no consequence for thinking in spirals, I can think and think and think and I wont feel depressed and I won’t end up overthinking small details of my life because everything in my head is of my design and I have control over everything. Nothing is unpredictable and I can deal with holes in my story accordingly. The problem is that I’m wasting my life away from society, and I’m missing important moments in favor of staying in my head. I’ve been beginning to think I wouldn’t have a problem never talking to anyone again which I know Isn’t true. The thing is that I don’t want to leave. Everything in my head is safe and better than my own life could ever be. When I’m not there If I think too much it’s always to my detriment and I end up hurt. Has anyone dealt with getting over this kind of thing?

Anyone take Zoloft for ocd. How that go

how did y’all resist confessing things and reduce feeling that nasty deep pitted guilt and shame?

I m no supposed to complaint but I m so sick of this health ocd omg I overcome one obsession and the next one coming in fast and I m getting caught arguing with the thoughts then I have to stop new obsession is what if I get stomach cancer because I get a lot acid reflux due to the anxiety and a lot stabbing pain in my chest

I don’t think I can get into the army .. I’m reading over my hospital documents from when I was admitted and it’s no good. And then they wrote down that I was attracted to gay porn and was scared im bisexual when I don’t think I am attracted to gay porn bc I never looked at it before this stuff happened so I feel embarrassed and upset. I feel just doubtful for my future. I don’t know what to do.

Is there any other way to treat ocd other then ERP or im not sure what its called ? Most answers i find that there isn’t but i keep hoping you know And thank u🙏🏼