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What kid of mental and physical compulsions do you guys do ?

Would excessive intrusive thoughts of harm be considered harm ocd, even if you don’t do anything?

Im honestly exhausted. Ive had 4 panic attacks in the last 48hrs and all I wanna do is sleep. My thoughts have worsened and they say I "want" to hurt my son when I truly don't. My son is with his father in another state right now and is due back in Sept. Im honestly so freaked out. I have horrible images and I just want them to go away. I picture myself carrying out horrible acts. My ocd finishes my sentences and brkngs attention back to my thoughts when im thinking something positive. I hate this so much.

TW: suicidal OCD discussion This is my main theme, alongside existential OCD and a few other minor ones. It comes at you from a variety of angles but one I have is when I heard the news and see that some celebrity or notable person has committee suicide, it strikes a fear in me and I have to read why they did it because I don’t understand, as well as making comparisons on if we are similar or not to make sure I won’t ever do that. Which leads to a similar topic that I don’t know the answer to and have to learn to live with uncertainty: it scares me beyond belief how it could just happen at anytime anywhere if the person wanted to. It could be related to how you never know if you’ll get into a car accident or be at a place where a shooting happens, but you don’t know if that’s gonna happen you just hope and pray it doesn’t. But I can’t even begin to fathom the reasonings and accessibility of suicide. It’s like it’s a constant threat to your life no matter where you go, it’s terrifying!! I think that’s one of the huge things on why I hate everything about the topic of suicide and have this form of OCD, it could just happen like that. I can’t even look at words such as “committed” or “attempted” without my brain being like ALERT! Disclaimer as well that this is just suicidal OCD, I love life and want to live, but this theme threatens you otherwise like any other theme.

What are your dreams/goals in life?

REMINDER TO NOT GOOGLE. THIS IS FOR GIRLS WHO HAVE ALREADY LOOKED THIS UP. Have you read up on comphet? When my HOCD first blew up, and I didn't know it was HOCD, I freaked out and read a list of comphet symptoms. That list *seriously* messed me up on my HOCD journey. (again, do not google this.) For those girls who have read what I've read--can I just complain for a sec?? that list is totally horrible! it feels like you just need to be a *little* neurodivergent with daddy issues/trauma associated with men (like me) and you can relate to nearly the whole damn list! NOWHERE on there is there a disclaimer about hocd! it's dangerous for people like me who are now fucked up forever because they didn't bother to be a little more clear.

I'm so sorry... But Is it possible to think that you may have done something wrong even if you don't remember? (child abuse is what scares me right now)

Question - I’m sure alcohol triggers a lot of anxieties for people especially that day after feeling. What are things you do to help with the ruminating thoughts the day after socially/ drinking more than usual?

I'm convinced there's no beating HOCD. I just want to give up. I have no fight left in me anymore.

I’ve realised something recently about OCD I think it may help someone if they struggle with urges and impulses with ocd, this might not apply to everyone but that’s ok it’s just a personal thing that if anyone had experienced it or worried about it, it may help them, as I have come across others that have struggled with this type of urge before (anxiety driven). I’ll just give an example of one kind of urge and use two scenarios if they make sense, if it doesn’t apply to you that doesn’t mean it’s real for you and you actually are the thing you fear, this is just an example of one disturbing urge a lot of us get. If I get an urge, in the way that if I get an urge to do something bad (even though this is just created by fear, logically I know that but I still fear that it means something about me etc) For example, if I am worried I may strangle my dog when petting them for example (I know it sounds horrible but it’s the reality of ocd) I will then fear my hand is going to move towards their neck to strangle them and I can feel my hand has become hyper bodily aware and I can feel an urge in my hand like I might do that thing (again this is anxiety driven) then I will actually continue to pet that part of my dog anyway and I will literally feel the slightest movement in my hand which is no where near strangling my dog, literally just brushing past a part near the neck but then I will worry that I meant it and wanted to strangle my dog and believe I had acted on it. However, this is the thing I have noticed, the DOUBT part of ocd in that moment is almost doubting your logic, I found that the only reason I will actually go near the neck is not because I’m trying to strangle my dog, but more about the fact that I know that if I put my hand near the neck, LOGICALLY I know this isn’t doing any harm, but your brain is misfiring that you did go to do that thing intentionally? Or like when you are driving at night you may worry you will hit someone, and actually move your car the tiniest, slightest bit, with the fear saying ‘Someone could be there’ but your logic knows there isn’t, hence why you would have literally moved your hand the tiniest bit on the steering wheel as a way of trying to prove or disprove a point, if you genuinely believed someone was there, you would stop because your logic knows there is actually someone there. I know this sounds confusing, but it makes sense, we are literally doubting our logic, we are doubting that we don’t actually know the truth about what our brain is falsely sending us, even though we do. OCD is in the fear part of your brain, it isn’t logical at all, so it doesn’t understand logic, but that doesn’t mean you don’t understand it, even if you fear it’s real. I know this sounds deep, I’m sorry if it was long, I just wanted to some how get this out there and hopefully give someone a realisation and help them if they are struggling??

How could thousands of different thoughts in different non related types be ocd

How can I stop checking things? I’ve been up all night making sure I haven’t accidentally sent any messages or posted any pictures to social media sites and I’m still getting thoughts that I have or what if I have and it’s really hard to not check. Any tips on how to stop this cycle?

HELP So I’ve started imagining situations as a form of a compulsion, when I masterbaiting over porn( women only) I have to imagine what it would be like with a man to check if I like it more and each time I do it the less disgusted I feel and the more aroused, what if this just means I’m fucking gay, it’s like every time I master-bait I have to check and it’s like I’m getting addicted and my hocd is telling me I’m using it as a excuse to wank over the gay thoughts, but I always cum over the women in the porn, how can I beat this shit, Like I’ve started having dreams about girls again but my hocd has taken away my satisfaction, so I’ve been seeing if the gay thoughts bring me satisfaction but they really don’t, I don’t get this I feel so sick after and so unhappy, I just know gay ain’t for me but I don’t know how long I can fight these thoughts I feel like these compulsions have turned me gay, like the constant imagining, Also when I try to imagine a man having sex with me like as erp it’s always a girl, like my brain knows I want to be with a girl but this shit won’t go

Back in November i did LSD and ever since then i just noticed that i have a lot of bad thoughts and have been doing actions repeatedly for no reason over and over the way i want them to be even though i know it's already fine the way it is but i still need to continue to check it idk I tried asking my dad to go see someone about it but he said " doctors need to worry about actual sicknesses " and it just made me feel like trash and that it's all in my head.

Quick rant It’s crazy in middle school and high school I was known as that Fboy who would cheat on his girlfriends and get with so many girls, and now have hocd. It started out so stupidly too. Me and my girlfriend made a fake tinder with her pictures and started “bullying” guys calling them simps and whatnot. I had fun w that, and when she went home, I kept doing it. After a few hours of doing it, in my head I was like “is it gay that I like this?” While I think this is what started it, I could be wrong, i have trouble remembering things now. I know that I’d avoid making eye contact with guys, otherwise I’d think that they thought I was gay. If there was an attractive guy I’d get anxious and tried not to look at his face. And then after smoking weed, I drove my friend home, and I was feeling really anxious, and when I looked at him, I got the thought “do I wanna kiss him? Should I?” And then I got anxious I thought “why would I think that” but the next day I completely forgot. That happened when I was high like 3 times, and once when I was on lsd. This was all in the span of one year. What makes me reluctant to say this was hocd, was that at the time I didn’t obsess too much about the thoughts. I was too busy obsessing about my weight I guess. I had become obsessed at that with not eating and going to the gym and I became depressed because even though everyone told me I was skinny, I thought I was fat. Then in January of this year, I got the flu for a week. After a week, I got better and BAM. I got the thought “i think I’m gay, should I tell my parents” and I got an anxiety attack. I never consciously made that decision, nor did I put any thought into it, so I was confused as to why I thought that. After that I became depressed and anxious. I quit my job because we got a new worker who was gay and I just kept comparing myself to see if I was similar to him, and then I remembered the friend I had the gay thoughts about works there. Then I dropped out of the semester because it was too hard to concentrate. Fast forward to now, I’m a hell of a lot better, I’d say 75% better. I still get things that bother me, and make me overthink like seeing attractive men in movies, or seeing anything related to my friend. I’m thinking about doing one of those calls with one of the therapists on this app to see if they could help with that 25% I need, to feel 100% like I used to.

How are you guys.. first post here.. been dealing with this terrible condition for a couple years now.. I went to therapy a while back and half assed it (excuse my french) and it got me by enough to live an OK life. Eventually a year or so went by and some vacation triggered it all about 4 weeks ago and I have been a mess since. Not sure what i’m even going through to be honest. Just constantly feeling irritable and constantly having thoughts and i’m at the point where i’m sitting there emotionless but i’m freaking out inside. I am scared I am losing my sense of rationality, the other night I had a bad headache which sent me into a spiral of a panic attack and I thought I was going to lose my mind and harm everyone.. I had to take a pill to calm me down and leave the house because my feelings were so intense in that moment I couldnt tell if I wanted to harm or not. Best way to put it is i constantly feel stuck and doomed and even when I try accpentance i cant shut my damn mind up. I could go on for hours about my ocd, my brain is way to good for its ownself.... constantly a step ahead to ruin my life.. as i type things like this it says to shut up and not get help bc i want this and i will harm.. or when i go to my appointments i get urges to tell the guy to shutup and i get thoughts of leaving.. everything my true core wants.. i think the opposite and it drives me nuts even tho i show no emotion about it , cant think about it all right now as i think of more of my issues i will make another post.. thanks.. also i am such a nice person but i get thoughts all the time that make me feel like im ACTUALLY bad or an asshole

What are some common/uncommon misconceptions about OCD and OCD recovery that you wished more people knew about?

Anyone wake up with intense anxiety? I can’t sleep at night. The minute I wake up I’m consumed with anxiety to the point I’m crying. It’s been like this for two weeks and I’m emotionally and physically exhausted.

I looked up psychopath symptoms and it definitely didn't help. I feel disconnected from myself, others and even reality a little. Then i have horrible harm thoughts. Maybe I am crazy and deserve to be locked up.

Hi guys, I would like to share something and ask your opinion about it if that's fine. So, I was at work yesterday (I work in a grocery store) and I saw a child walking by. As always, I felt a lot of anxiety, but not just that, I also felt a very strong groinal response. Now, that's not the (great) problem because I'm aware that POCD comes with this type of symptom. The thing that worries me is that I've not been dealing with groinal responses for a long time, and when I had it yesterday, it felt very different than it used to feel when I first started having POCD thoughts. It felt absolutely real and it was very similar to arousal. In addition, in that moment, I don't think I felt enough disgust towards my groinal response, I don't think I realised that my body was responding to seeing a child, and not an adult. I don't know. I'm confused as it feels like it was more than just a groinal response. What do you think about this? Should I worry about it or let it go? (I sincerely apologise if this was disturbing!) Thank you for reading this!