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Really really struggling with an ongoing genital herpes obsession. I have had no serious sign that I have it and I've been tested multiple times for every other STD but herpes requires either a blood test or the swabbing of symptomatic sores and a lot of doctors recommend against it since it is so common, harmless, and just causes mental distress to know. 5 years ago I messed around with another girl (just kissing and maybe hand contact) and she later told me she had genital herpes but she was on medication for it. It's hard to function thinking I have it and may have passed it on even though I have no reason to think I do. I feel like getting blood tested while having no symptoms would be a bad idea for my recovery but I'm not sure.

My partner has ROCD and we’ve struggled a lot to keep our relationship healthy because of it. We broke up temporarily because it was so hard for me to deal with him being so distant when he was stuck in thought loops and when he would share all the doubts he thought about me it would make me extremely insecure. We are back together now and trying to create healthy boundaries. His ROCD makes me feel like I’m the only one rooting for us and holding us together. I am beginning to take the time to research more about OCD to better understand what he is going through and figure out the best way to support him. I just get so overwhelmed that he will never be happy with me. Any advice?

Experiences with Zoloft?

I really liked driving when I first started but now I'm genuinely terrified when I drive. It just kind of sucks knowing that something I was really interested in is tainted by obsession.

Is there a particular word for the theme of being scared of everything paranormal and fear of being posessed, other than maybe religious ocd, which it doesn’t apply in my case. I feel like there’s nobody on this app besides me who had this obsession. And I want to do research on how to recover when I have this specific theme but I have difficulty finding information because it looks like nobody with ocd has this obsession.

I’ve never been a man so how am I supposed to know if I’m happier as a man? I’ve never dated a girl so how do I know if I’m gay? I’ve never tried these things so how do I know if I like them or not??? Help???

Guys no no no I just searched something up on the trans subreddit and I saw a meme saying “it’s probably just ocd” and I’m panicking again. I’m not even sure it’s ocd. I’ve questioned my gender before and I’ve been a tomboy since I was like 11. I even once TOLD SOMEONE I wanted to be a boy. I’m freaking out because this HAS to be denial at this point. I knew I shouldn’t have looked on the subreddit. I’m so DUMB. I hate this I’m freaking out my stomach has turned over. I don’t know what this is anymore. I’m getting over it but it also feels like I’m “accepting” that I’m trans. I don’t know what to do because I wanna be a girl!! I don’t wanna come out and transition and everything. If I look back at my early days of my tocd I feel like it’s word for word symptoms of OCD but I also feel like when I found out it was ocd my symptoms became more like ocd. I dont wanna accept I’m trans! I was doing quite well until I went on the subreddit! I’m so scared because I think it’s not ocd at this point. I HAVE to stop going on that stupid website. The only time I had “dysphoria” is disliking my boobs, but I remember in the early stages of puberty I was so excited to wear a bra. I’m so confused help please. I sometimes feel like I’m forcing myself to do compulsions because I just want to think it’s ocd. I’m so stupid WHY DID I GO ON REDDITT

I really don’t know what my “normal” state is anymore ... at this point I feel like I’m just going through the Motions

I’m getting really scared that this is just real now, I don’t have anxiety anymore. Like mom just the fact that my mind is constantly thinking and having false attractions and false feelings. Idk what to think?!

How’s everyone’s day going ? Anyone in need of support or anything ? ❤️

I’m just curious, but how many of you guys have been officially diagnosed with ocd? Not to discredit y’all or make you feel bad. I’m just wondering since a lot of people on this app, I know, are here because they think they might have it, but aren’t sure. I’ve personally been to a psychotherapist and we started talking about my thoughts, but she hasn’t diagnosed it as anything yet. She’s still kinda waiting, but I think I have ocd. Is anyone in that boat too?

Lol im spamming but im anxious and just have to say whats on my mind and like.. if u pit me on an island that looks like paradise and is the most beautiful place on earth i deadass wouldnt enjoy it. I jusr cant with hocd and cant look at anything the same way as i did before hocd. I get too much pain from living my dream but its being ruined by hocd so im not expierencing it as the true me under all they anxiety layers.

That fucking lump in my eye needs to be cut out now I’m gonna actually scream WHAT ELSE could POSSIBLY GO WRONG

I want to get this off my chest... I'm not sure which OCD type I have. It started with fears of being gay but now I don't have as much gay thoughts (but still enormous amounts of anxiety, and no feelings for girls) but I'm doubting about recovery. I have been in treatment for two years but every time I fully decide to accept the OCD, then OCD finds a new way to doubt about this recovery tip. After OCD has latched a doubting thought about the recovery tip, it doesn't work any more and the more I try to use the tool (e.g. Notice the thoughts and return to present moment, meditation, mindfulness) the stronger the OCD gets. I try to remain positive but OCD pulls me into negativity. I feel like every thought I have is illogical and even the sentences I wrote here in the post feel like not real. I get so many questions in my head (that I know are OCD questions) but the more I try to resist answering them, the stronger they get. Basically like I want to recover but the more I want to come out of OCD the stronger it gets. I'm so confused and don't know what to do... I tried to confront the anxiety and I started liking the feeling but then OCD told me you hate the anxiety and it overtook me .. so so illogical and I'm really sick of it. 6 months of this back and forth between OCD and recovery and it's tiring me... Being so inadequate all the time and exhausted.. it seems like it's impossible to overcome the OCD when you just have no energy and you have the feeling as if you can't distinguish yourself from the thoughts. What to do when you are so overtaken by OCD and every decision you make, is actually OCD telling things in my head? Like my deciding part of my brain would be broken...

I am at a point in my life where I sincerely have all the proof that I will never be able to fall in love with a man in my life, just because of hocd

Anyone on SSRI Anti Depressants Hi all, Tried sertraline for my OCD as prescribed by my doctor. Passed out and ended up being taken to hospital. Home now and still experiencing some side effects. Anyone experienced this before and what meds were you switched to. Any advice? Thanks, Callum

I recently changed my nieces diaper and gave her a bath and I didn’t think much of it. I checked her lower area to make sure she didn’t have a rash and to clean her of course. In my mind I wasn’t thinking of anything bad and I was being a good aunt making sure she was clean and changing her so she was comfortable and ready to go play. Later that day I started to have intrusive thoughts. I started to think I am a terrible person for changing her since I am not her mother and more and more intrusive thoughts started to come. I was so scared to look at my own niece. How can I become a mother in the future if I had these thoughts. I know it’s my ocd and I know I am not these thoughts but it hurts and it scares me. I want to some day have kids but I wonder if it’s possible with POCD.

I only fairly recently was diagnosed with ocd but before then assumed I had it (I have only been diagnosed with dysthymia). I’ve been dealing with ocd for over 10 years undiagnosed and it’s really been a struggle at some points to keep my head above water. when I mentioned the possibility of having ocd the first time I went to a psychiatrist. He told me that I didn’t have it and not to worry. This only made me feel worse. Recently being diagnosed as having ocd has lifted a weight off my shoulders and I really want to work hard on getting it under control. I just wanted to know if anyone experienced something similar and how you dealt with it and if there’s any advice you could give me.

Does anybody feel like cancel culture is preventing them from healing ?? I feel like it’s the only thing in my way at this point. I feel like nobody allows anyone to make mistakes or heal anymore .

Anyone else with harm thoughts struggle with filling out “thoughts of harming others” questions on intake forms? I just filled one out for my new therapist (OCD specialist) and even though I know she’s a specialist I answered no and explained that I have obsessions about harm but don’t actually want to do these things :/ because I’m always afraid that answering yes to those means that I’m dangerous