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I just started taking new medication and I have intrusive thoughts about overdosing on the medication. How do you guys handle these thoughts if you get them as well?

TW POCD Babysitting those kids that aren’t mine again. This time for an entire week. Mine is here too but I’m used to him. at home he has his own room and that helps me at night when the thoughts come because he’s in his room and I’m in mine and I can forget about it. He’s eight. In this house, the little one is six and the older one is fourteen. The little one knows how to dress himself but he can’t take a bath on his own because he doesn’t know how to wash his hair. I was almost tempted to have him wear some swim shorts in the tub but that would’ve been ridiculous. I closed my eyes and focused on washing his hair. He doesn’t like to sleep alone. This is a problem because I don’t want to sleep in the bed with him. I don’t even like to sleep in the same bed as my own kid. I know I won’t sleep because I’ll be busy with compulsions. The first night I slept with my back to the kid and my hands on a fist, while my kid slept in pull out bed. The second night I made them sleep in the bed together while I took the pull out bed. We are on night number three and the little ones fell asleep on different beds. I opted for the pull out bed my own kid fell asleep on. I have three more nights to go after this. The older one will not stop making “that’s what she said” jokes and I’m the only she in the house. This is mentally exhausting.

OCD is ruining my life. I thought I had my recovery down & have done so well for almost 7 months. Then this week I had an intrusive thought I couldn’t get rid of - my brain convincing me that I’m in love with somebody else when I am absolutely not. I adore my boyfriend and I’m currently away traveling with him. He struggles to understand my thoughts and struggles with his reaction to it and overthinks my thoughts that I didn’t even want to have. :( please if anyone has any advice, I’m desperate as I can’t lose the love of my life over OCD.

Hard day and using avoidance. I struggle with harm OCD and feel like I go backwards when I avoid situations as I have today.

Our 13 yo daughter has OCD. Has this app been helpful to you?

How do you do exposures when doing them creates more compulsions and more anxiety?

Need some advice here as I feel like such a sick twisted person..I feel like I may have sexual intrusive thoughts ocd but sometimes I think it’s just me and my twisted brain- intrusive thoughts about my family members has turned into pedophilia ocd and what makes it worse is that I work with children. Lately I’ve been seeing sexual intrusive images of me sexually abusing young children normally male, and I am obviously distressed by them and I would never act on that but it makes me feel like I would actually do that cause of the feeling I would get and it’s all so confusing and scary cause I would never do that to a child. Please someone help that has maybe been through a similar experience?

Does anyone else see a spike in their OCD and anxiety when stressed out or worried? When work picks up and I have more responsibility, I notice a heightened sense of anxiety and OCD themes pick up. HOCD has always been a battle this year, but it’s been much less as magnified when I’m not stressed. How do others not allow their work to cause so much stress? How do you deal with trying to be perfect or fear you’re a failure?

I’m struggling from so many things at the moment and it’s really fucking scary and isolating. I’m currently dealing with forms of Contamination ocd, Hocd, Just Right ocd Health concern ocd Sexual intrusive thoughts Depersonalisation/derealisation and of course anxiety and depression because of it all. It has I can’t lie made me feel suicidal and I’ve noticed myself not being scared or disturbed by suicide because I’ve thought about it so much. It’s almost become an option in the back of my mind. I currently want to live my life as I know (I’m 19) I have so much more to experience but I feel I can only do that if all this ocd goes away.

Can anyone help me. I am having trouble with my parents understanding how my OCD and other mental health issues effect my school life. They don't understand how harmful my OCD is for me. I feel like I have no one. I am so sad and exhausted. I feel like I can't live this aspect of my life anymore. It is killing me.

Struggling really bad today, worried about my headaches and concerns it’s a brain tumor. My grandmother who is 83 recently found out she has a brain tumor and is getting it removed, now ever since I have been getting a headache behind my eye and feels like dull pressure I been worried it’s a tumor my dr said it’s just a tension headache or migraine or muscleskeletor headache she doesn’t seem to worry after speaking to her over the phone but I’m still so worried!!!

One thing I’ve noticed is when I’m with friends, or talking, or am busy with a task, my ocd (for the most part) settles down. It’s when I’m alone and bored and have really nothing to do is when it gets bad. Anyone else?

dropped out of school because of ocd, quit my job because of ocd. anyone almost 18 or 18+ who just dont know wtf to do with their lives bc of their ocd being so disabling?

Does anyone else that suffers with schizophrenia ocd ever fear that they see things? I was on the computer and thought I saw an image of the devil pop up on the side of my laptop and started freaking out that I saw an image. I know that the image wasn’t real but I’m still freaking out because it’s making me think the schizophrenia is real

Anyone on here who has dealt with/ or currently dealing with sexual intrusive thoughts about family members have any advice on reminding yourself that these thoughts aren’t real? They just seem really vivid to me and I’m worried that I’ll act on them somehow

I hate that my ocd makes me think I’m going to burn in hell one day

Hello, I’ve struggled with POCD in the past and I’ve been going to therapy for it, and I feel that I have fought it off for now. Although, just about 30 minutes ago I was watching a movie that had a scene of a guy killing his father. I have been angry with my mother the past few days and after seeing that movie I started to have terrible intrusive thoughts of myself strangling my mom. My anxiety has passed but at this moment I’m feeling very hopeless. I feel like a psycho.

Does anyone struggle with their ocd when it comes to weight and exercise? I feel like I’m getting too obsessed with it and getting in the mindset of having a negative body image

are any of you in a relationship and if so how does your OCD effect it? My partner has been my sole support since the beginning of my struggles but recently she’s losing hope in the process of getting better. I don’t want to lose my soul mate because of my OCD

It’s been about two months now and I’m really struggling with HOCD. It’s making me feel like I don’t love my boyfriend and my attraction to men has been a lie. But I KNOW I love my boyfriend and that I’m attracted to him. HOCD is so powerful that I feel like it’s making me not feel anything anymore for him, is that possible? It makes me so upset because before this I was so happy and so in love with him. It’s like I know deep inside I love him but everything feels extremely numb. But when we’re together the thoughts are low and I’m happy but once I’m alone I’m a mess and all the thoughts are back.