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My poem for school... "When the OCD Monster Had Had Enough" It's about the moment my OCD hit it's worst and I knew I needed serious help 3:00 am The monster had had enough It was strong it was hungry and it thought it was tough Burdening misery had barged through my door The bang, bang, bang at my door was too hard to ignore And woke me with the sound of, “Come, come look, at the things to explore.” It was burying itself inside of me preparing to roar “Look, look, look!” it said. “Only a few minutes!” Grabbing the phone beside my bed, covered with fright, too shocked with fear to hear the crickets of the night At this point my body was done, so I just searched up the word “heaven” Without depth and without context, I just searched up “heaven” My emotions felt weak like an uncontrollable train slowly crashing and falling into a creek My my! 40 minutes?! The bang, bang, bang at my door was too hard to ignore I remembered my mom said no more researching after 20 minutes! I sat like a rock on my bed, constantly looking at the clock Blinking my eyes constantly, too tired to walk I waited and waited with no time to sleep, so I could tell my mom sorry for the monster’s critique The OCD monster was furious now, I waited and waited to hear the sound OCD had taken over each space in between my bones OCD had ferociously attacked my heart, my soul, my body’s home I listened and texted my mom, “I must say sorry for the things I’ve done wrong!” It was maybe 6 o’clock now Creak, creak, creak With my eyes darkened and my body weak I realized my mom had woken from her sleep I stepped outside at 7 am now The August morning was busy with children going to school, the air feeling cool My mom holding the dog leash, staring at me with a complexed tone, “Why are you up so early? Are you okay?” But the monster told me to be quiet so all that I could say, “I am just so sorry for the things I’ve done wrong! I researched for more than 20 minutes! Oh you must be so upset!” “Hannah, that was yesterday. I said you could research for 20 minutes yesterday. Not today.”

I often find it triggering to look at old photos of myself because instantly I think of how I look gay, how I was just struggling with my sexuality even then and “knew I was”, etc. This is mainly due to the fact I have never been super girly (don’t do my nails or wear makeup) or cared how I looked until later when I got my first boyfriend. Would it be a good exposure practice? To look at these photos? I had urges to delete them because I hated how I looked.. but decided that wouldn’t be a good idea.

Hey everybody. I'm struggling with my somatic ocd. I realize that when I don't have intrusive thoughts, this obssession of controling my breath dominates me. It's so exhausting. I'm always afraid of something bad happens because of this obessssion, but I can't stop it. Anyone can help me?

so i had a really bad panic attack ocd spiral this past august it was like three that month that eventually led me down the path of ocd diagnosis and doing ERPs with a therapist through this app I started doing 7s on my hierarchy and then moved up to my 8s and 9s ... once i got to my 9 which was recording myself saying maybe im a p*** and was able to finally do that a few times i was feeling really confident it took me months to get there but i finally got to my 9 however my amount of sessions with my therapist on here ended in terms of face to face sessions and once i didnt have to report back to her on how many i did in a week i just let it all slide and didnt do any for almost a whole month now i started doing my 9s again but im finding my anxiety at night and the morning are getting really bad again like it had been in august which had got a lot better when i was being consistant with my ERPs...i also am turning 29 this weekend and have some existential themes as well i havent worked on and they are spiking right now its not even as much that my pocd theme is worse but just in general i guess once you stop practicing sitting with your anxiety after triggering yourself on purpose when triggers happen on their own it is so much harder to sit with them than before because youre out of practice but i guess what worried me is it doesnt make sense because my intrusive thoughts have been of pocd more frequently since i went a month not doing erps but mostly at night my fears of death and dying alone and something being wrong with me and im broken and will i ever have a relationship will i ever have love and hocd stuff are the loudest or most overwhelming not my pocd but i guess i have worked on that theme the most and also my friend is setting me up on a date and thats a lot of change im turning 29 and i avoid dating and romance like the plague and like my hocd and existential stuff with dating and my birthday coming up im just used to staying in my comfort zone and having the same routine and being alone and its overwhelming anyway i just wanted to vent but i actually agreed to a date and im turning 29 and so i guess for eocd and hocd thats gonna trigger a lot plus i slipped up on my pocd erps so yeah i hate change and i hate getting older and i hate dating so many things could go wrong im wondering if i should get on zoloft just because i really am having a hard time imagining me on these dates without something to help me not freak out

I’m losing my fuckin mind smfh. It is so gross to have sexual thoughts of my mother smfh. I never had thoughts for her until she started purposely doing it to me smfh. I don’t get why she just doesn’t stop like do you not want time to be able to talk to you like normal? Do you want me to become even more crazier I really don’t know how to go about this smfh. I would be fine if she didn’t do it in purpose I wouldn’t feel anything or think I’m going to have sexual thoughts for her in purpose like leave me tf alone I just want to talk to my mom like normal and not be forced to have thoughts for her all cuz of her insecurities of whether or not I have soocd or am I actually gay like I swear I get no support at my house at all smfh.

it’s perfectly healthy to think about experimenting it’s perfectly healthy to think about experimenting it’s perfectly healthy to think about experimenting this doesn’t mean i’m bisexual

My mind is making me think I have a crush on this boy and I don't. I dont know how to sit with this anxiety. I keep.looking at pictures of him and because I thought he looked kind of nice in a couple pictures my OCD says I like him and I want to message him. No one seems to understand. This is making me cry and I feel like it must be real but I can't tell. I just want to cry. Can anyone please help me. My mind is confusing me to the point where I am thinking it is real

Why won't the thoughts and the anxiety ever fucking stop?! It seems to be worse when I'm tired. It's just NON-STOP with, "I'm gay, I'm gay, I'm gay" even when I'm trying to keep myself busy. It never. Fucking. Stops. I feel like I'm gonna break down and have a panic attack at some point. What exacerbates it even more is this dread feeling I get about sex now. Whenever I look at women I'm reminded of it, or when I try to talk to women. Because my libido is basically zero right now, it's feeding the OCD even more. And the worst thing is that I can't tell if it's just a low libido, or if I actually don't find women arousing anymore. I really can't fucking tell sometimes. I WANT to be able to have fun with women again but my brain is fucking it all up.

Hi everyone I’m new here ! I have a child that i suspect has bad thought ocd. Does anyone have children with this?

Can SO-OCD make you feel that you're so trapped, to the point that you think you're just in denial at this point because you don't feel that much anxiety? That's what I feel right now, and I just wanna cry because everything makes me so skeptical about my sexuality. It feels like I have this special ear that makes me hear any key words related to homosexuality. Everyone I see, I automatically think they're somewhat a closeted gay. What's happening to me? I don't feel like myself...

So one thing I noticed is that the more I engage into compulsions (ruminating, checking, mental reviewing, seeking reassurance, googling stuff ...) the more real the thoughts, feelings and urges feel. Which then leads to more compulsions and keeps me trapped. I‘m just curious to know why is it like that? Does anyone know science behind this? And I noticed that things that used to reassure me stop working at some point which leads to me seeking for more reassurance.

So recently I started taking zoloft, around a week or two ago... and it's done WONDERS for me,, then around a day ago i forgot to take it at my normal time which is around noon and instead took it at 4pm... then the next morning i woke up with my thoughts racing, theyre worse in the morning but throughout the day they die down, this morning i woke up with a racing heartbeat and major anxiety... then i started having diarrhea and major nausea, is this all cause i took my medicine late?? could i possibly be getting my period?? like i'm so confused. I don't want to go into another anxious / depressive episode... i've finally felt good for the first time in like a month because of Zoloft...

i’m so scared i might of possibly went too far w erp

Been crying a lot.. Last night and a few minutes ago. Don't know what to do. Real event is hard. I want to live in the present and not be bothered by the past. The person I'm no longer associated with. The mistakes I would no longer make but constantly worry about. I just want to be free and obsess no longer. I don't want to fear that I'm a criminal or a bad person anymore..

Has ocd ever made any of you feel delusional at one point?

okay so correct me if i’m wrong but i think i’ve been really confused for a while: so sexual attraction is finding a specific person sexually attractive and wanting to have sex with them arousal: is finding a specific fantasy or porn hot and getting aroused by this. or whatever “turns you on” i get aroused by lesbian fantasies sometimes but i get real confused because in the moment i imagine myself in that position and sometimes it feels like i actually want that? but how could i want that i don’t experience sexual attraction to girls. maybe that’s just because i’m in a relationship with a man but if we broke up i don’t think i would find another girl in real life sexually attractive.

I need some more alcohol 😞

Anyone else get super attached to someone ( person you’re in the “talking” stage with ) than they act a little off or distant and you fall into a empty feeling

Yeah I’m convinced my ocd is going to make my suffer for the rest of my life. I shouldn’t plan any goals or think something good will ever happen to me. Being positive is a waste of time and I know that now.

My father was emotionally abusive to my siblings and I as children, I can't say he's changed much. He came home yesterday just pissed off at the world, I guess, decided it was appropriate to make violent comments about our dogs to me and then go in the house and scream at my mother and sister. After my mom told him off, he acted like he was,,,apologetic but you could tell he still felt he was in the right. I have been fatigued and apathetic ever since that incident. I have so much to do. I can't move out right now because I'm just barely functional, don't even have a job. This childish behavior is normal for him. There are three of us and one of him, yet the household revolves around his fragile feelings. If we stand up to him then he stomps off to lick his wounds and feel sorry for himself, acts like a fucking child. I have been afraid of him my entire life, and it seems like the older he gets the worse he becomes. I can't leave my dogs with him, I can't leave my sister with him. My mom is like,,,,desensitized to him, almost. Last year she told him that she was considering divorcing him, and all he did was mock her and treat her like a child. He's such a piece of shit.