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I was checking my emotions and feelings so often I no longer recognize my own emotions

I have been anxious about this one specific thing for a few days now. I keep telling my parents about it over and over again. I am going on a big trip tomorrow with my friend and big trips or events trigger my OCD into thinking the trip has to be perfect. Should I tell my Mom what keeps bothering me before I leave for my trip even though I’ve already told her several times about it the past few days I’ve been anxious about it and even though she keeps getting mad at me for repeating it?

I am jsut so tired i want to go to sleep but my brain wont let me i feel weird and anxious and sick physically i dont know why i just feel so wrong rigjt now i just want to sleep

I have pretty bad ocd focused on my relationship. I’ve been doing the work but I had a pretty bad day on Saturday. I’m always checking how I’m feeling and I didn’t feel like singing in the car with my fiancé. Something I usually do with my fiancé. Then the thought came in my head like what if you would feel like it if you were with someone else. Then after those thoughts came in, I felt like singing. Is this ocd playing a trick on my feelings? This happened before and I usually just keep my mouth shut or I do compulsions until I feel better. I felt like I did compulsions but then I think I ended up singing. So I felt like I did something bad. Advice?

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I struggle with nail picking, and have been dealing with it for about 20 years. There won’t usually be a cause for it- I’ll just randomly start the habit and won’t even realize that I’m doing it until it’s picked off. I think what triggers the behavior is when I feel the nail is uneven, or sharp, or “pickable”. This habit just recently started to also make its way to my lips. I pick the dead skin off my lips and again, won’t realize I’m doing it until they start to bleed, causing more scabs and dead skin for me to pick off. Does anyone have any helpful tips that could break these habits for me?

I feel like dying right now

tw dark intrusive thoughts. if you saw my last post, (ok if you didn't) i talked about my contamination ocd tied to ptsd trauma of dogs. I don't know if what im about to talk about is a compulsion, but its related. And my mom tells me, that she thinks I have compulsions related to needing to talk to people about things. so i really can't stand dogs. looking at them makes me sick, triggers memories. saying the word "dog" makes me start thinking about them in a loop that i really struggle to break/can't purposely break myself. i have a lot of pain and anger revolving around dogs 😢 it feels like people have always tried to force me to like dogs. me saying "i don't like dogs." was never enough, no one would respect it, always trying to fix me and make me like dogs. (which i know it stems from trauma and so yes could/should be resolved, but i want to do it on my terms. i want me saying "i dont like dogs." to be enough and to be respected for my opinion.) again, im angry. it used to just be a fear, but now it is dark hatred. i think of my trauma; i think of people trying to force me to like and interact with dogs; i think of asking my family to please get rid of the dog for my mental and physical sake, that it was me or the dog, and they chose the dog; of when i cried my heart out to random strangers about that last thing, and they said i was selfish and they'd chose a dog over me too. im angry and hurt and don't feel like i can be healed or fixed. and ky ocd and intrusive thoughts make it worse. i used to have nightmares about dogs eating and murdering me, as i grew up i learned how to take control of the dreams and I'd kill the dogs before they could get to me. that bled into the real world mixed woth my hatred, and i cant tell if its really intrudtive thoughts or not for sure, but i think a lot about how much i want to murder dogs. whenever i see one, my first thought is "i want to kill it." a dog passed me and in a daydream im pulling out a knife and stabbing it before it gets me. when i meet up with my family all i can think about is that dog, and how much i want to push it into the road snd watch it bleed. i cannot escape dogs, they are everywhere. i became a recluse so i would limit my time seeing them in the world, only going out on rare occasions. but dogs are still everywhere on the internet. blocking tags and words doesn't work. All it takes is one TikTok ad, Amazon not loaded, and it shows me a picture of a dog and i get filled with so much pain and thoughts about how i wish i could kill every dog on this earth. and again again, im angry that people wont just accept me. i say "i dont like dogs" or "im afraid of dogs." and they tell me im a werido. and it makes me so mad and fills me with a want to tell them my real thoughts. how i constantly dream of killing dogs. they think im weird, well wait till they hear the rest. prople talking about their dogs, sharing pictures. it fills me with a want to just confess. i so deeply feel the want to tell people how much i want to kill dogs. i can't tell if i really want to kil them or not anymore. i wouldn't, but i think i do want it maybe. not to kill them, but for them to all die. i feel like i have a compulsion about telling people about my hatred of dogs. I can't stand to see them happily tallking about dogs, acting like "oh everyone loves dogs, there isn't a soul that would hate them or fear them." i want to feel seen. even if it leaves people thinking im a monster or a weirdo. i just hate people assuming automatically, that everyone and anyone loves dogs. what i really want is just a place where im free from the dogs. that i can have a happy life without all this fear, hatred, snd distress. people like me, who understand not liking dogs. so yeah this mostly turned into just a vent, i dont really remember what advice i was looking for. maybe if you think my need to tell people i hate and want to murder dogs is a compulsion, and or is you have any ideas of what i can do when i feel like this. thanks

I'm a 16 Y/O male who always had anxiety and panic attacks. Recently my anxiety went up terribly with a fear of having a brain tumor or having an aneurysm. One night this terrible thought came into my head about killing my family and how simple it would be and it scared me to death. This feeling went through my body and I kept thinking "what's stopping me" | don't think I want it but what if I do? What if one day I get so angry and snap? I feel like l'd rather take my own life before someone else's but what if that won't be the case later on? I've tried meds before but eventually just never took them. I'm not sure if I should take them again or if they'll make me even more insane. I feel like my brain won't be able to control its self someday. I don't want to feel like this anymore but I really can't stop it. I live in such a small town with not much "therapy" that's face to face. Most of it is online. I want to be okay. Can someone please PLEASE help me.

ocd has always made me think i’m pregnant. but it has been blown up like never before today. The last time i was sexually active was the last week of March. I got my period a few weeks later in April. I was supposed to get my period on the 29th but i am now 8 days late. i’m freaking out. the last time i was sexually active was in March

Question I don’t like girls right now but when I kiss I get turned on my mind used to say I’m gay and it was just there but now the thought only comes when I think about it I’ve never gotten erections to guys or thought about guys like that but now I stare at men and my mind goes he’s hot is my orientation changing?

My dads recently been diagnosed with brain cancer and has had surgery to remove it, the absolute most stressful and worst time of my life. I had a pretty good grasp on my OCD but it has COMPLETELY let loose. Is this normal for OCD to flair up and get really bad when something extremely stressful and nerve racking comes up? My intrusive thoughts are hammering right now it’s eating me alive in already such a difficult time.

Is it OCD or something else with wanting to hurt someone but not in a gruesome way but just like I really want to trip this person kind of thing

for me, my thoughts are of constantly feeling like i’m acc following the devil, or a counterfeit version of Jesus that’s not actually him. & that fear of that evil is what i’m praying to and worshipping. & also a fear that i would desire that, bc it’s been a twisted temptation. then it makes me question if that’s what i really want, when i know deep down i want to only follow Jesus. i just haven’t discovered how to move on & leave these thoughts alone.

For some reasons i felt a swelling in my groin area, and then i thought that it would be terrible to have an intrusive image happen or worse, having that traumatic memory repeat in my head, and as i thought that i already knew that it was going to happen, i knew that my brain had already made up its mind that it was going to replay it, i tried to stop it but it happened immediately, i didn't want it to happen so it happened. Like a self-sabotaging machine. I didn't want to go there and it happened more easily. If I just let it go and didn't think about not wanting to happen it probably wouldn't have. It's because I engaged with the fear of not wanting something like that happen that it precisely happened. But what are the scientific reasons or the overall explaination for why the more we try to fight something FROM happening, it ultimately happens, and in additions easily? It feels like I'm digging my own grave everytime, there is a point while I'm trying to fight back with all my might where I simply give up and let the intrusive image/memory happen. It's like I ultimately sabotage myself. Maybe it's because the "battle" has to end in some way and the winner is always ocd, the intrusive thought, otherwise I'd go fighting endlessly. Maybe it's because I get tired of fighting Why is that? I'm trying to shift the attention from the immense distress that this episode caused me to the explanation behind the mechanism to understand and transform this traumatic experience from a triggering experience to a learning one. For my sake. Because I can't keep living like this. Everyday. I've had a traumatic memory repeat more than once. It's hard to live like this.

Does anyone’s intrusive thoughts feel like urges? Like it’s telling you that you want to do it but you really don’t and then after you get that urge you feel like you did the action? Idk if that makes sense

Has rumination ever helped you uncover small parts of the memory your obsessed with? For me it seems like this is happening and I’m getting excited at the idea of remembering almost everything and not having to deal with doubt and false memories surrounding it.

I keep ruminating over this one thought and imagining it on purpose to test myself and I get this really bad image the thought is really bad about ripping someone’s tongue out i don’t know why the hell I started thinking about that and it’s about someone I care about and an image pops in my head today of blood around their mouth and their face looking like their in pain and I got this weird feeling I don’t know how to explain it but it makes me feel like I ‘liked’ seeing that image and I don’t know if it’s adrenaline or what the hell it is because this has happened before where I get this weird thing where it feels like I enjoy or like something in my harm thoughts and I don’t know what it is the only thing I know is I obviously am concerned because I know I don’t want to ‘like’ that but at the same time I don’t believe I don’t like it because of this weird feeling and I keep thinking what if it’s some thing where I’m secretly enjoying horrible thoughts and I’m trying to deny it or cover that feeling that’s why I feel so confused? And if It was anxiety why do I not feel negatively or at least I think I don’t feel anything negative or when that feeling comes it doesn’t feel as thought it’s a bad feeling like as if it’s good or something ? I heard someone that apparently the feeling of excitement and the feeling of adrenaline can feel the same so maybe I’m getting Adrenaline from the thought because it’s alarming me but and I’m confusing it for feeling happy or excitement/enjoying? But if I was having adrenaline or feeling anxious wouldn’t I be feeling bad and it would be an extreme feeling?? Idk but I’ve almost become desensitised to these thoughts and it’s just made things worse at least when I use to feel anxious I knew I didn’t like them now it feels like I can imagine bad thoughts on purpose in detail and am not bothered by it and I literally go out of my way to think of them and sometimes I’m worried I’m not doing it to test myself and It feels like I’m jsut imagining something horrible but idk if that’s the ‘obsession’ part of ocd coming in but I have had no professional help for this and I’ve had ocd for like 2 years now I don’t know I’m worried as well that someone can ‘become bad’ because someone on this app said they think it’s possible you can ‘become your fears’ and then I started thinking what it I’ve taken a liking or started liking these bad things because I’ve thought of them so much and keep trying to test myself by imaging them? I literally feel like I don’t feel anything negative and like I don’t feel worried or bad or guilty about thinking these things like as if I don’t know what im feeling anymore I don’t know how to deal with this

My paranoia is about others in my life being bad people and doing bad things and having bad thoughts, is this OCD? When I try relate to people they just say they have these thoughts about themselves, whereas mine are always about others in my life? Thank you would love to learn more about what my problem is

hi i think this isn’t ocd related but it happens sooo much to me, like i set myself up to the idea that i’m going to talk to my boyfriend later in the day right, let’s say 6pm. then at 6 i tell him hey can we facetime? and he’s like oh noo, i have a thing with some classmates so i can’t. WHEN I TELL YOU i immediately go down, i get anxious, sad, angry at myself for getting my hopes up, and i end up taking it out on him. does this happen to anyone? i always feel so alone when this happens (like right now lol) thanks in advance