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I was out having a fun night with some coworkers. I am extremely anti social in regards of having any social life outside of work. I been working very hard to overcome my social anxiety and panic attacks. During the evening (like towards the later part). I got extremely anxious. For some reason I felt compelled to share my anxiety with my coworkers. Told them I am feeling not so good. I tried not to make it seem like a big deal. I just feel better to not hide being anxious, which makes me more anxious. I didn’t like their reaction. I made them sad and worried. And I am anxious now that well I think they will never see me the same way again. And it always happens this way. I start to break out of my shell and I get anxious. I live with panic attacks. But it inevitably turns others off or just makes me feel more insecure. I got anxious last night because of magical thinking that when I am having fun and a good time a part of me gets self destructive and I start to worry how I am going to get anxious and ruin it. And then I do. How do I stop this. It only that thought didn’t come into my head i wouldn’t have gotten anxious and embarrassed myself. Does anyone else struggle with getting anxious when things are good in this self destructive and self fulfilling prophecy?

Do yall sometimes replay a sexual intrusive thought, or make one up willingly to check and see if you get aroused or get any groinal responses? Is that a checking/testing compulsion or is it real?

is it possible to be a stellar parent as a person with ocd? i want to raise a family someday but am afraid that ocd disables me too much.

THIS IS FOR EVERYONE! I can’t believe I just downloaded this app and already I’m so very angry! Almost every post I read I find that many of you suffering don’t realize of all the help that is out there for us! Please go to the International OCD foundation website, and find a therapist in your area. These therapists not only understand this horrible disease, but have also defeated themselves. Please get their help as soon as possible. Please I beg you, I’ve been in your place and the truth is you are stronger than your OCD. Please get help!

I'm a big jumbled mess. The hocd has backed down quite a bit to the point where I was starting to have moments of forgetting and my attraction to guys came back. Here's the issue. I'm a Christian and my boyfriend and I are in an unequally yoked relationship. I feel like to any normal person this wouldn't matter but my OCD moved on to this, picking at it viciously. Of course it makes me sad that we don't have the same view about the existence of God, but it's never bothered me THIS much. Also the fact that we have premarital sex is starting to bother me as well when it never did before. It's killing me. I feel like I can't talk to God anymore. I've been obsessing over it all day. What do I do? I don't want to break up with him. He is my other half. I love him so much. I know this is a really sticky subject. Please no anti religious comments.

READ PLEASE GUYS ITS HELPFUL I HOPE I KNOW ITS LONG BUT TIPS AND HELP!!! Hi guys...woah new update!!! Looks cool I haven’t been on here in two weeks cause my ocd has not been bad! So I wanted to give everyone insight cause I finally saw an ocd therapist and I got finally diagnosed with ocd after a year and half of struggling alone! One thing I want to share about my therapy sessions is that it felt so great to be validated. All of my doctors and therapist before labeled me as anxious. Now after my first appointment the therapist didn’t know what to diagnose me with. She hasn’t dealt with my type of ocd but with the religious one! The “what if I’m sinning” or “go to hell” but This lady sits down and talks to me and we have back and fourths! When I told her my story she was surprised. She told me she was BI and I wasn’t triggered at all because I knew she was helping me I asked her if she was comfortable talking to me about this since it sounds borderline homophobic and she said she doesn’t mind cause I’m not homophobic I’m dealing with ocd and hugged me. She’s amazing! One thing she was telling me that’s a common misconception with ocd and why I’ve been improperly diagnosed is that people think that with ocd you need to have physical compulsions and if you don’t fit the list of requirements than it’s not ocd. OBSESSIVE compulsive disorder! It’s in the name. Doctors think that sometimes if you don’t have physical compulsive behaviors it’s not ocd. She debunked tht. She said that my compulsion based on our conversation is needing reassurance and not even knowing it. And I started to catch myself!!!! I would always when I’m talking say to her “omg am I denial?” Do I know I’m in denial” “what if I’m lying” and she simply responds with “that’s ocd” nothing else and I’m calm again. We are on a game plan to defeat this! STEP ONE GET A THERAPIST THAT MAKES YOU FEEL VALID! I’ve been to 4 and I finally found the one!!!!! I was so nervous to go in because I thought she was gonna tell me I’m gay or I’m in denial but she was so compassionate! This is what we discussed her Step one since I’ve seen her twice so far is identifying the irrational thoughts. So I have sexual Orentation ocd my thoughts that race are “what if I’m gay” “am I a lesbian” “am I in denial” she told me the moment I get these thoughts I label them as OCD and keep a tally! DELAY THE THOUGHTS! Say “that’s ocd again messing with me” any thought that starts with “what if” or “am I” most of the time it’s OCD! She also told me to have my doctor increase the dosage of my prozac! People with ocd need more of higher dosage because most medication for treatment of ocd is made for depression and anxiety as well they are shared so when combating depression you do a low dosage but something like ocd needs a higher dosage. I currently am on 40mg of Prozac but next time I go into my doctor I will ask to be upped! The medication really helps at the right dosage! I love all of you and you’re valid! This is ocd and we will beat it!!! Let me know if you guys have questions or reach out to me via insta :-)

This is an arabic song that i love Your little one has gotten old, mom He is no longer innocent, Mom How many times he truced and sluckened How many times he dissembled and conceded How many times he cajoled The rust of years envelops me The dust of the journey blinded me Cigarette fumes with heartbreak It leaks out of my chest Really, I have encountered the world I really fought the world It defeated me, I did not understand this And I went to sing my melodies The world crushed me But I have not revealed this But I have not revealed this To conclude this song No time would be enough Storms of nights are surrounding me And enclosing Your little one has grown old, mom He is no longer little, Mom He has left your cradle in order to know But I really did not know I bought the fur of the lambs I tried on the monks' cowl I wore the armor of the knights But I swear, Mom I have fooled only my mirror Even in the devil's dress I did not realize the meaning of my life And for my life this is my tragedy And I went to sing my own melodies The world crushed me I have not revealed this To conclude this song No time would be enough Storms of nights are surrounding me And enclosing Your little one is gonna die, Mom The youth dreams wore him out Sores of the past agonised him He passed the city of frasturations Wreath of shame on my head I am alive Really, alive To conclude this song No time would be enough Storms of the nights are surrounding me And narrowing my arteries https://lyricstranslate.com

i am so lost idk what to do

I went on a subreddit (egg_irl) for trans people in denial. I’m scared I keep going back to that subreddit because I relate to the posts. I’m doing better now but I still get anxious. I’m telling you DO NOT go onto that subreddit if you have the trans ocd theme. One of the posts legit said “people in denial always get anxious when they see posts like this because they won’t accept the fact they’re trans.” And memes along those lines. Please don’t go on it. I don’t even know if I went there for exposure or compulsions. I’m not feeling anxious now but it really scared me.

I’ve been struggling quite a bit lately, I’ve got POCD and I don’t so much have intrusive thoughts all the time but when it comes to get dressed, using the toilet etc is when it happens where I have to make sure I’m decontaminated of any germs from young people so it’s not inappropriate or anything. This has become difficult with my boyfriend as he has a new baby nephew that has lived with him for about two weeks and has no moves out. I’ve never met the baby and I’ve not been to their house for a while but I’ve now got it in my head that my boyfriend’s clothes have been in the washing machine where the babies clothes have been. I was stressing today because I desperately needed a shower but my boyfriend was here and I didn’t want to get contaminated or caught up doing rituals whilst he was here as they’re time consuming and get me upset and stressed and I don’t want him to know. I decided in the end it may be best to get ready with him here because then I have him as a distraction from thoughts where as when he’s not here I’m on my own to think and do ritual after ritual. I showered and was getting dressed and I use a sock to put my bottom half on as a ritual to avoid any germs from my landladies grandchildren who have been in my place before I lived here from my feet from the floor getting onto/into my underwear. It took several different knickers and attempts to get dressed as I felt I hadn’t got the germs that may have passed from my boyfriend off me well enough and felt they were on my clothes. I then managed to get one on and knocked my socked foot on the bin but was stressing I was taking too long so put it on anyway and managed with that but realised my sock had a hole in it, exposing my foot. I’m pretty sure it didn’t touch the crotch part of my knicker which is what I worry about but ocd is doing its thing where it’s making me think it has and that I’m saying that to get out of blame etc. I tried to ignore it and was in my room for ages because I could feel myself getting worked up and my boyfriend came in and I had an open bottle of anti bac spray and hand sanitiser on the side which I’d been using to try and decontaminate which I could see him looking at and I got teary and said I was struggling. He doesn’t know the full extent of my ocd just that I have a thing about germs (he thinks in a broad sense) and I said that I don’t know why they’re open I just don’t feel clean enough and got teary. He was his usual amazing self where he distracted me with his humour and I love him so much for that. He then had to go home and I got so anxious because I find I cope better with him here, he’s a distraction and company. I’m now here with part of my mind saying to get reshowered and redressed to protect myself and the other half like don’t because it’s ocd and another part just too lazy to do it. Can’t give in but also can’t get rid of the niggle in my brain

I've been married for a year. My husband has completely changed. Lost his job. No motivation. Etc. I would rather be miserable with him than without him. But today I'm just frustrated and lost. I've thought about what it would be like to crash my car. Idk I don't want to die. I just want him to get his shit together and idk how to get him to listen because he won't.

Just came back from a night session with my therapist. This is the third time I seen her and I mentioned about erp but doesn’t seem like she have a clue about it. Feel like I was more educated about it than her. And I kept telling her that it’s my thoughts that fuel my anxiety. It seem like she was surprised that I have intrusive thoughts like it’s an uncommon thing. She even mentioned I show try “thought stopping” which I know it’s not good for ocd. All she was telling me was I should try medication....feel so disappointed. ??

I wish we could blacklist certain forms of ocd lol some of these really don’t make this app as great as I hoped it would be

I have this friend and I thought I can trudt her and Im having a hard time rn and I told her that I wanna kill myself and she was like ‘’Im tired of you,stop looking for attention’’ and I feel so bad rn Idk what to do..

i think i might be developing sexual orientation ocd because i identify as a lesbian but when i was a kid i only ever crushed on guys. im starting to wonder if i just had hocd the entire time and believed the thoughts so hard that i tricked myself into thinking im gay. but i really don't wanna be straight ?

Re: HOCD/bisexuality So I'm sure a lot of us here are familiar with the old "no one is 100% straight or gay," "sexuality is a spectrum," etc. etc. etc. Obviously those things don't offer sticking reassurance to those of us with a feelings of intense doubt, urgency & guilt telling us we are liars, need to immediately live in accordance with our true selves, and so on. I'm just curious whether anyone here is actually somewhat comfortable with the idea of bisexuality, like I am sometimes. What mostly triggers me are thoughts that I would like being with the same sex MORE, that I'm MOSTLY gay, that I shouldn't have a boyfriend because it's dishonest to who I am and going to lead to pain and wasted time, that I SHOULD go have sex with a woman because otherwise how will I ever know who I really am? It's basically a desire to have a complete understanding of my orientation and live in a way that perfectly represents that. But obviously this doesn't completely make sense because human behavior is complex and people don't solely get involved with one another to test their sexual responses, lol. They do it because they just follow their motivation and if they make a mistake, they deal with it and redirect. Honestly not sure if this post is just me having a compulsion to vent (I've compulsively journaled in the past, sometimes going until I end on some note of reassurance). But I'm hitting send ?‍♀️

Hi everyone, i was looking for some advice. so i’ve been dealing with HOCD for about 3.5 months now and it has been utter hell. before this all started i can remember my crushes in elementary school and my entire life (i am 23) have always been boys. i dated boys and always dreamt of my wedding day with a boy and what it would be like to have a boyfriend my entire life up until these thoughts started. ive had an episode of HOCD in the past but it went away within a month and i went completely back to normal until this relapse 3.5 months ago. i’m on medication, ive been going to weekly therapy, and although there has been a lot of improvement i still feel so sad and defeated because it has not gone away again. i can’t tell what i get turned on anymore whether that be guys or girls when before this all started a naked model could have walked by me and i would have hardly noticed but now it’s all i can think about. i wake up multiple times in the night with these thoughts and it’s just like am i just gay and in denial? i know it all sounds so crazy but i’m just so tired of this all. i’m writing this just to see if anyone else can relate or has any advice on what i should do to finally get rid of this monster OCD. i just want to go back to how i was before and never to think about or have any desire to be with a woman. at the beginning of when this all started the thought of it would make me sob uncontrollably, have panic attacks, and not leave my house to see my family and friends. now i don’t get that way and i can leave the house it’s just really hard for me bc i’ll always be on edge to see if i feel attraction for any females around me.

This is just too much...and it just sucks because no matter what I do... in reality ocd doesn’t care about what it’s doing to me... it’s gonna keep doing this. My brother is sick with something that causes diarrhea...he was sick with it 2 weeks ago, got better last week, and we all got the stomach flu this week which caused his sickness to come back...he’s playful and doing normal 1 year old things but ocd keeps saying he is going to die. I don’t completely understand how a 1 year old would just magically die from watery shit, but just because this worry makes no sense, it doesn’t mean I’m still not scared.And it showed me a scenario of his funeral and it’s so fucked up.I think the worst punishment God has ever given me was ocd... ocd hurts me more than anyone else can... it’s so fucked up... I used to ask God for help but I guess mental health wasn’t that saving worthy so I just stopped praying about my mental health BC I’d be “wasting my time, he doesn’t answer you.” I just have so mu ch in. My life that isn’t going right and I’m started to get low key sad and miserable about my life at this point. I need help lately but I’m really depending on some sort of relief... just thought control and to get rid of bad people in my life and to get some of my grades up and...to be happy

Does anyone have any tips on how to feel more comfortable telling your therapist things and how to not feel too nervous to tell him/her everything about your ocd?

Anyone here a Christian and dealing with ROCD? I’m in a really great relationship with my boyfriend who is a Christian like myself. We both have our own solid relationship with God. However, every time I pray specifically about my relationship (and have for 4 years) I feel like God gives me affirmations or feelings soon after that conclude with my boyfriend just not being the person God has for me and I know God loves me and wants the best for me no matter what. Every time I pray about this, the ROCD comes in, like, “God has more for you”, “God has someone better for you”, “Am I disobeying and disappointing God if I stay in this relationship?” “Am I missing out on someone more fulfilling that God may have for me?” You get the point. After that part of the process, I beat myself up in guilt both for my boyfriend and thinking that I’m not listening to what God wants for me and I’m just holding onto something that’s good but I could have better. Then I just stop praying about that question and feel like I avoid God. And lastly, inevitably, I feel numb around my boyfriend because I’m exhausted from the whole process and I live in a feeling of settlement even though I do love him. My boyfriend believes that God has put me in his life and that God has grown him so much in part for me and because of our relationship. He is amazing, and I agree slightly, but that just leads me to more questions. Why don’t I feel that was too or why don’t I feel love for him the way I should If God out us together? Sorry if this triggers anyone. I have just been dealing with this for 4 years and have never actually typed it out this way. Any comments, advice or anything is welcome