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If someone is losing their mind, do they realize it? Or someone who a psychopath know they are?my head feels so foggy and I'm emotionally numb I'm scared I'm these horrible thoughts. I can't take this

I feel guilty for 2 reasons today. My cat, Okie, was biting (not hard) my wrist. I scruffed him so he would let go. Did this a couple of times and I was annoyed. I feel bad for scruffing him. Then I was talking to my son and he was asking 20 questions so my attention span was wavering and I started getting thoughts cause I was a little annoyed. Im now afraid of being annoyed, upset, or angry. It makes me think that maybe I do like these thoughts which then makes me feel worse. Any advice?

Has anyone posted in forums like reddit or even here and find that their OCD gets even more triggered because they overthink someone’s words used in their comment or just the different variety of responses?

sorry for all the posts on here but I just feel like venting, i just had my first run in with a rude person on here about homophobia and transphobia and honestly I’ve gotten so used to everyone being so friendly that I’ve kind of forgotten about people having views like that aswell. I think it’s really upsetting that no matter how nice someone can be that they can do a complete 180% when topics like those come up :(

Okay so my exposure for my relationship went well but now I feel sad and empty. It feels like I never really liked my bf and honestly I can't even remember how it felt to like him. Also my brain is giving me these scenarios where I'm cold and harsh with him, not caring about my relationship with him etc. My hocd is also attacking saying that me being like this means I'm going to be gay in the future. I literally have no interests in girls :(. I never wanted them but now it's convincing me i like my bestie. It's not very strong but persists. I'm so scared that my relationship wit him will end and I'll turn L :(

I'm obsessed with the idea of going to hell after death because I might have sold my soul to the devil. I've seen a therapist and in order to put myself in an ERP situation I have actually said out loud I was selling my soul for a glass of water (the point being of putting myself in an uncertainty provoking situation, instead of saying I was selling it for a billion dollars for example, which would provide reassurance as long as I'd not get the money). And so, for the last two months, I've been haunted by the fear of going to hell after death because of this silly phrase I've pronounced. It feels awful and I am scared I'll never escape this fear ???

so i need advice! i’m worried about my losing my boyfriend he’s been so supportive and loving of me. the theme of misgendering him. he’s trans this thought has come back and i know i never would but it feels like it’s trying to get deeper than before. i see him for him a boy. of course. i’ve never had problems with this before and i know it’s not of me but it’s scaring me ): i don’t want to fall into this or become intolerant the thought makes me want to throw up. i don’t know what to do ): what would you do in this situation ): ride out the feeling or distance yourself. i know i don’t want to lose him ): i’m just so scared right now

Sometimes I think I'm over my mom's homophobia, then other times she'll say something like "gay sex is unnatural" and it just gets stuck in my head. My mind latches onto that one word, and it keep going. I'm unnatural, my sexuality is a mental illness etc. Why does she say these things when she knows I'm a lesbian? She preaches she loves me, and that she doesn't want me to be sad but then she turns around and says this...

My thoughts give me so much pain. I don’t believe there’s anything else I can do. I don’t know how to do ERP for the remaining thoughts. That’s probably as good as it gets. My thoughts changed a few days ago but still in the same theme. I just wish I could go back to my old self. But just knowing I even questioned myself regarding those things is enough to know my life is ruined forever

If you get off Lexapro can it make you bisexual? I know that was a weird question but when I was on it I knew i was straight and wanted to be with guys not girls at all. But now it feels like I'm slipping back into the cycle again. The feelings, thoughts, and sensations feel so real.

I wish big boobs didn’t turn me on!! It’s not even the groinal. It’s REAL and it always has been. I genuinely get turned on by big boobs. But aside from boobs, I don’t want anything to do with women. This could be TMI, but I don’t care for vaginas or anything. It’s literally just boobs. But only big ones. I’m scared this means I am bi. I can’t be straight if I’m turned on by a woman’s body like this!! I know I want to be with a man and I want to be sexualised by a man.

I’ve never wanted to cry more:( I can’t keep doing this I wanna just give up any girl I see I’m worried I’m attracted to. I literally want to curl up in a ball and cry cause I’m so scared I’m attracted to girls and I feel like I am. I don’t want that. What else can I do? Please, help me:(

I tried talking to my parents about what I'm dealing with but it went horribly. I don't know what to do at this point they simply don't get it they think it's easy to just stop thinking about everything but I can't I feel worse. I even showed them my research but they said all this was happening because I read to many books or something I'm devastated that things went so badly I really don't know what to do or who to talk to because NO ONE GETS IT my family just can't understand at this point I don't know what to do I'm seriously lost. What would u guys do if u where like me:\????

sometimes i feel like i’m so deep in denial and other times i’m like what am i even thinking i know i want to be with a guy. i feel like i’m lying to myself and it’s so annoying and saddening. i see cute couples on insta and i just want sometimes like that but at the same time i just know it’s never gonna happen to me. i can never be happy with a girl though.

I’ve gotten bad again. I feel so alone and I’m so depressed. No one in my family cares no one gives a fuck And when I cry they just tell me to shut up or they tell me to stop being dramatic or cut it out. I hate myself, like I hate everything about myself my mind, my body. I keep thinking things would be better if I wasn’t here, everyone would be better, I wouldn’t just be a pain In the ass. I feel worthless. Nothing I do ever ends up meaning shit. No one notices or cares.

I am sharing this because I need an outlet. I have harm ocd, and a little bit of religious ocd. That’s the summery. To really explain that, I have harm ocd, where I worry about hurting others, through violent thoughts and impulses/urges, pedo ocd, where I worry about being attracted to children and or doing something sexually inappropriate to them, and the religious part of my ocd focuses on wether or not God is real, wether I really exist, wether my life is a simulation or something, whether I’m destined to do something horrible in said simulation , yada yada yada. I’ve been diagnosed with ocd for about 2 and a half years now, and these years have been hell. There were still a lot of good parts of those two and half years, but it often gets out weighed by all of the stress that comes with this disorder. Sometimes I feel so dogged with stress, panic and uncertainty that I feel like Giving up. I Understand that everyone’s ocd is unique and with this comes challenges, but I am just so bent out of shape trying to function. I am on medicine (150 mg of sertraline). My ocd often mixes together creating a huge clusterfuck of anxiety doubt and dread. I have gotten a little better, and am still learning to live/cope with my situation. I know everyone on here struggles. I’m not here to convince you that I am in a more difficult place than you, I am just simply having a really rough time. I just want the basic things that people desire. I want a decent paying job, love, A strong and healthy faith(I’m catholic) and I just want to be a good person. My ocd originally stems from a mistake I made as a kid. I was about 14 when I made said mistake, and 16 when I realized that I should not have done what I did. Now don’t get me wrong, I didn’t kill anyone, I didn’t rape anyone, I would never do something so horrible.(funny as here I am posting , searching for reassurance lol) But what I did was wrong enough for me to eventually realize that I had fucked up. It haunts me everyday and I am ashamed. As I am catholic, I confessed what I had done to a priest. Hell I literally went to two separate priests for closure. They both told me to forgive myself and move on. I even told my mother, who told me the same thing. I’m just trying to give some background and understanding of my situation to anyone still reading. My ocd stems from me not wanting to even remotely do even something close to what I did when I was younger. This is spiraled into worrying about hurting others through violence, worrying about being a pedophile, worrying about hurting others sexually like touching someone inappropriately, rape, hell I even freak out if I get a groinal response near other people. I just feel that I am so fucked up in my head it’s overwhelming. I’m 18 now and just recently graduated high school, amidst this shit fest of a pandemic(covid), which has also played into my ocd. Sorry for such a long post, but I needed to vent. I am quite knowledgeable about this disorder now, but I am still met with tons of daily challenges and stress, as I’m sure all of you are as well.If anyone needs to talk maybe about thier problems I would love to listen. God bless and all of you STAY STRONG ?.

*Sexual theme* kind of awkward topic, but im going to see if anyone else can relate, maybe talk about it or if I could hear someone else's experiences. I know this is a really strange question but I am trying to work things out in my head and this emotion I am feeling and if anyone else gets what I mean because it is not the same as a shame feeling, its different. I feel a little vulnerable about this but here it goes. Its kinda linked to other problems I have and im trying to recognise these emotions so I can try to address them before the feeling gets overwhelming, but I'm going to try and keep things simple. I cant work out whether its my ptsd or my ocd that is the route cause to these emotions. I think they both don't help one another, however i was wondering if anyone has any advice or similar experiences they could share with me. When something sexual happens, or whenever I get sexual thoughts, images or memories, i get this feeling of disgust, its not like shame, its different, where like you just feel wrong in so many ways and like uncomfortable. Does anyone else get what im trying to say or anything similar? Like I sometimes describe it as scratchy feeling, like I need to swallow alot, like uncomfortable disgusting wrong feeling and it can fully overwhelm me and i cant shake it off like sick to my stomach and when I'm feeling this way, any interaction with someone makes me feel even wronger because I feel like errrr wrong, makes me want to like curl up inside. Whenever I try to explain it, people just can't seem to grasp what I'm trying to describe. I know that probably sounds like gibberish, sorry it was so long.

My sister abused me when I was 6 years old. When she was confronted with a simple question of " do you recall..." She blows up. When I all I wanted was a simple conversation. She calls me delusional, master of manipulation, board on line sociopath, tells me I need to Google a mental health illness called pathological liar and a demon who she doesn't want her kids to be around. She said I'm no longer welcomed in her home or in her space. Thank god my mom and my older sister support. My brother who didn't who didn't know about the abuse but knew something was going on use to protect me take me places and tell me how one day I'll be big enough to beat her up and she'll never pick on me again. Is mutual in this situation, but told me and my mom that we need to stop "picking on her because she just has a baby and she's postpartum". I get being mutual but that just hurt me so bad. Because when I little I saw him as a protector when noone else did. I know I shouldn't but I feel betrayed. Does postpartum give her a pass? The crazy thing is after the abuse I idolized my sister I wanted to be her sooo bad and have her approval on everthing. I still did up to this point. Now I work towards not wanting it. But its so hard. I just don't understand what going on with me right now. Sorry for the long read and hopefully it makes sense but I'm just extremely hurt rn. God be with me

Will you please share what your ERP homework is this week? Feel free to go into as much or as little detail as you like.

does anyone have anything to say about this: growing up i would always talk to myself. always. mainly because i was an only child and my parents didn’t try to entertain me. so i resulted in entertaining myself consistently. over time i’ve developed a branch of psychosis, called maladaptive daydreaming. i’ve had this for over 3 years now. back when i first found out what it was, there were many things people would say it was connected to; OCD, ADHD, depression, and schizophrenia. back then i didn’t think i had any of that, nor did i care. i just knew i had MDD, and i was okay with that. now, it feels like i have all of it and more. i hate self diagnosing, at least for myself, but i really hope i do not develop schizophrenia.. or.. i hope i do not have it already.