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hello guys. i don't have anyone to talk to about all of this and i feel like taking some things off my chest. if anyone can give me some advice i will gladly take it, if not, that is ok as well. by sharing this i hope i can help some people feel less alone on this tough and lonely journey. my experience started about 2 months ago. one day, out of nowhere, all the stress and anxiety i accumulated throughout the years made me burst and i've never been the same since that day. it was hard dealing each day with intense mood swings, low energy, and crying literally every hour, but i pushed through, learning it's only a phase, being patient with my recovery and hoping better days would come. when i thought i was finally moving on, i was struck by something way scarier that i never imagined could happen to me, and it felt like i collapsed even worse than the first time. it terrified me so much that i started doing a lot of research on my own and i found out what OCD is. it explained everything i had felt for the past few weeks, when i thought there was just something wrong with me. before seeing a specialist, every day felt like a nightmare, dealing with intrusive thoughts and taboo themes that made me feel inhumane. after being diagnosed, i felt so much relief, it almost felt like that session "fixed" me. but now, after having a few good days in such a long time, i can't help but grieve who i was before and regret that i'm at war with my own mind every single second of every day. maybe because i've been battling all of this for a while i feel so tired and numb and i'm worried i don't care enough anymore, even if i want to, i cannot, i feel stuck. all of the intense emotions i had felt for the past few days, the guilt, the shame and the panic feel so muted or even nonexistent sometimes. all i feel is regret and sadness, regret that i can't live normally, regret that all of this is ruining the relationship i have with my loved ones and regret that i can't allow myself to be happy sometimes because i feel like i don't deserve to live a good life since i have these thoughts. i feel sorry for the people and situations my OCD has latched onto and i keep thinking about the past, when everything was so much better, but i took it all for granted and i miss those moments so much. i'm grieving the version of me that existed before all of this happened and i can't help but cry knowing that i can never be that person again. accepting change and letting go is such a difficult thing to do. i can't embrace healing and recovery since i feel like i have to take accountability for all of these disturbing thoughts even if they aren't my own. sometimes i feel like I am the one latching onto them because i have to keep myself in check and remind myself everytime that i am not normal and that i am different, in a way that i don't want and i never asked for. as much as i despise saying this, it feels like these thoughts have become a part of me, they are so glued to me that they are almost an extension of who i am. but i don't want to identify like this. and even if i feel lost i'm going to keep living each day hoping it will get better because even if OCD has taken everything from me, hope never left, even if sometimes it feels like that has abandoned me as well. if you have reached the end, thank you so much for reading all of it. i don't know who will see this, since it's only going to become a post floating among thousands of other messages, but if i helped anyone feel better or if anyone found the courage to keep fighting because of this post, i'm glad i could share all of this. thank you so much for the attention. better things will come, even if right now the future seems so clouded, the sun is waiting on the other side, and it's already shining through each storm and cloudy day.
Iām posting this because Iām really struggling, and Iām hoping someone here might relate or have insight from their own experience. I have OCD, and one of the hardest ways it shows up for me is around attraction, relationships, and decision-making. I constantly question whether Iām attracted āenough,ā whether what Iām feeling is real, and whether the absence of constant intensity means something is wrong. I monitor my body, my thoughts, my reactionsāalmost like Iām waiting for a signal that will finally tell me, yes, this is right or no, this is wrong. What makes this especially confusing is that Iāve noticed a pattern in my past. When relationships were uncertain, emotionally inconsistent, or unpredictable, attraction felt intense and obsessive. I thought that meant it was real or special. But now Iām starting to see that the intensity may have been driven by anxiety and uncertainty rather than healthy connection. Right now, Iām dating someone who is kind, consistent, and emotionally available. We share all the same values and he has 0 red flags. Weāve been dating for several months. He treats me well and shows up. And yet, instead of feeling calm, my nervous system feels unsettled. Some days I feel connected and drawn to him. Other days I feel numb, anxious, or terrified that I wonāt feel attracted when I see him. The more I check or try to force clarity, the worse it gets. Thereās another layer thatās really hard for me to admit, but I think itās important. He is shorter than me and overweight, and I notice that this triggers a lot of fear around how Iāll be perceived. I find myself worrying about shame, judgment, or people looking at us and what that might say about me. That spirals into perfectionismāthis idea that my relationship has to ālook rightā or meet some external standard in order for me to feel safe. My OCD turns appearance and othersā opinions into high-stakes criteria. Then it convinces me that these fears must mean something important about compatibility. I also notice that I keep asking him questions about health and lifestyleāwhether he wants to be healthy, what that looks like for him, how he approaches it. Part of me knows that health is a genuine value of mine. But another part of me worries that this has become reassurance-seeking or a way to regulate my anxiety. When he talks about working on his health, I feel calmer. When I worry he wonāt, my anxiety spikes. That makes me question whether Iām using his self-improvement as a way to feel safe rather than truly accepting him as he is. Another confusing piece is that I felt more attraction when we were talking on the phone or texting for a long stretch without seeing each other. Now that things are more real and embodied, my anxiety has exploded. My brain keeps asking: What if Iām not attracted? What if Iām settling? What if my body is rejecting him? These thoughts feel urgent and convincing, even though they also feel rooted in fear. I grew up feeling like love had to be earned, and my one therapist has suggested that this might be playing out nowāthat my nervous system doesnāt quite trust calm, available love yet. That when thereās nothing to chase or prove, my system panics and tries to find a reason to pull away. Intellectually, that makes sense. Emotionally, itās incredibly hard to sit with. I donāt feel like I have any answers. Iām trying to figure out whatās OCD, whatās anxiety, whatās perfectionism, and whatās genuine information. Iām trying not to turn every fluctuation in attraction or every intrusive thought into a verdict about my future. But itās exhausting, and sometimes scary. Iām so scared of forcing a relationship or committing to the wrong person. Iād really love to hear from anyone whoās experienced something similarāespecially OCD around attraction, appearance, or fear of external judgment. How did you navigate dating or commitment without letting OCD run the show? Were there specific exposures, mindset shifts, or boundaries (with yourself or your partner) that helped? And how did you sit with the discomfort long enough to see what was truly there, rather than reacting from fear? Itās tough because when Iām in this mode, itās full nervous system break down and 0 genuine thoughts or feelings
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Persistent intrusive thoughts that my child could have been switched at the hospital. I don't know where it started, this thought suddenly came into my head, in detail: how they come to my house, tell me this, take my child away and give me another one. My heart starts racing. I sometimes can't even look at my daughter without crying, and she becomes a strong trigger. She's my copy, looks very much like me, and all the tags from the birth had my name on them, everything is correct, but I get very stressed, obsess, and worry. I've been suffering from OCD for a long time. This thought is one of the worst in my life. Right now, I don't have the means to go to a good psychotherapist, and I don't know how to cope. Before, I visited different ones; it would get better for a while, but then the thoughts could come back. I don't want to take antidepressants because I am 20 weeks pregnant. How can I calm and convince my brain?
Hey everyone. Iām gonna get a bit personal on here. I hope you all can help me. Or give some helpful advice to me? So to give context. Me and my partner at the moment. Moved into my Nans house. We also live with my uncle. As he lives with my nan. We moved in here because otherwise. Homelessness was the other option. My nan offered us her spare room and we are forever grateful. Now. Iām aware of my faults. I. No matter how much I want too. Canāt get myself to do things I need to do, The guilt eats at me. But my body just wants to stay frozen and still. rotting in my room I suppose. I have a dog. And I have been trying to get into a routine of walking him daily. I have been failing as of late. But I am trying. My OCD is bad again. I need to see a doctor about my meds itās been a lot. Now you are caught up. The dilemma. Me and my partner went for a walk today. Didnāt take my dog cause we were going on a date to a food place in the neighbourhood which didnāt allow dogs. Only found out last minute. I was gonna take him. Then found out. And i was gonna make it up to him tomorrow. Because of that. Now also. I was warned by some family that my uncle can be a bit much. Gets drunk and berates you I suppose. So far he hadnāt except for one night complaining about the dishes. But it wasnāt to bad we simply just cleaned them up, however tonight that changed. Though itās still not as bad as the stories we heard. But that scares me for what is to come. When I get home. My uncle. Who smelt distinctively of alcohol, came in to my room. Just as I had got home to lecture me on not taking my dog for a walk. To which I said I understand. And I will take him tomorrow. You know. He wasnāt wrong but he was certainly direct. And kept repeating himself. It made me uncomfortable I suppose. There is only so many times I can say I will work on it. Then I close the door and just try to relax after that. And he knocks and comes in yet again to complain once more. To sum up his very long rant about me and my partner. He is mad? that we ordered groceries to the house one or two time instead of asking him to drive us. (We have no car atm) But we arenāt exactly trying to burden everyone with our presence. You know? My partner also hates asking for help. And that we stay in our room most of the time and donāt socialise. (Most of the time him or my nan are doing their own things and I donāt want to just intrude. But I normally talk to them when Iām out and about in the house) but then. He started calling us weird. Over and over again in his long rant of saying the same thing multiple times. And me and my partner are just sitting on my bed. Saying āsorry we werenāt trying to be. We will make a better effort. We didnāt realiseā ya know. And he kept going. Like not listening to our apologies and continuing to berate us. Just using the same āweirdā insult. Meanwhile Iām trying to hold back my tears. While I necessarily donāt disagree with anything he said. I feel there was a better way for him to bring up his concerns then to ambush us like that.. I also donāt think the insulting was necessary. Or repeating everything. I got it the first time. I already feel like I donāt belong here. My nan owns a nice house in a nice town and neighbourhood. they all live on the coast. Ya know. And growing up I was living in rundown houses and moving from place to place. I feel out of place here and i donāt feel like I fit in. And I guess I was right. Because apparently Iām weird. To rectify this I offered to hang out with him tomorrow morning. But I canāt shake off his insult. I canāt stand up for myself. I need this roof over my head. And I fear any defiance from me will land my ass on the street. Iām not saying Iām perfect. I could try harder. Be better. Iām really struggling mentally. But I canāt be. I need to lock in and I canāt. My nan is leaving for a month or so soon. It will just be us and him in this house. And Iām scared on how this will go..
Starting to reach a point where I'm not really feeling anything or emotions towards my partner... at points, even disinterest.. been about a month into therapy here and its only been a small decline of emotions... thoughts dont feel as debilitating as they were before. Low key this post might be a little reassurance seeking... but kinda dont know what to do.. having trouble distinguishing whats true emotions vs ROCD induced emotions or feelings.. š®āšØ
I recently realized that rumination is a big part of my OCD. Iām still trying to understand how to manage it, and even with therapy I feel unsure about what actually helps. Iām kind of stuck between knowing whatās happening and not knowing how to change it yet. Iām currently on Zoloft, and I recently increased to 75 mg. With everything going on in my life right now, I donāt know if itās helping or not, considering I have a lot of stressors at the moment. My therapist keeps bringing up that switching medication is an option, which Iām open to if thatās what it takes to feel betterābut I also feel like I just increased the dose and havenāt really given it a fair chance yet, especially since itās being tested by so many life stressors right now. I also feel like the way therapy is going for me isnāt really helping. It doesnāt feel focused on OCD and seems more like general talk therapy. I told her at the beginning that I need to work on specific things and that talk therapy doesnāt really help me. I donāt know what to do. I feel lost in my healing journey at the moment. I feel very suffocated, like all the stressors in my life are piling on top of me. Therapy isnāt really working, and I constantly find myself wondering if itās my medication. Now that Iām writing everything out, I realize that I take CBD oil (with no THC) in the morning, and then I take my Zoloft at 6 PM. My anxiety tends to increase at night.
One of my biggest triggers is my things being touched, and change. And I feel incredibly disrespected. My parents know I have ocd theyāve known for years what my triggers are, we worked with a pediatrition since I was like 13 to help my parents and I understand my ocd and my triggers. I was over my dadās house which I was annoyed because my grandmother came over and cleaned my room (it literally wasnāt even messy btw) everything was placed exactly where I donāt want it, to the point it was just so agitating and just a waste of energy for her as I place everything back to how it was, I was already so irritated by all of this and when I tell yall I donāt like change I mean it takes me months to adapt to big changes like this simple change I was still mad two days later, my mom calls me the day before Iām supposed to go back to her house and tells me THAG while I was gone she decided to re do my bedroom, paint job and all, yes, my mother, without telling me re did my ENTIRE BEDROOM. When I came home it wasnāt done, so I had to sleep in my brothers room, awesome I donāt have my own space! I go back to my dads, my room was rearranged there and cleaned to exactly how I donāt ficking want it, Iām irritated once more, I express to my father how much anxiety THAG gives me and how it puts me in horrible spirals of uncontrolled anger and anxiety to which he says THAG if I myself keep it clean to his standard my stuff wonāt be moved and THAG if Iām under his roof itās his rules, I go back to my moms again, she shows me my room is done, thereās things in my room rearranged to how I DO NOT WANT ITx thereās things she decorated it with THAG I DO NOT WANT. I tell her this, and THAG I might redecorate some things when she asks me what I think (mind you guys Iāve been extreamly polite and havenāt crashed the fuck out) she then begins to tell me THAG Iām ungrateful for her work and THAG Iām spoilt. Mind yall this is my room, my space. Imagine if she wasnāt home and I rearranged all of her shit, regardless of whoās paying for the house and shit thatās fucked up. Iām not even complaining aboht how the room looks either because it is really nice, I just donāt understand why motheruckers need to touch my stuff and be up in my space without letting me know. Especially when you know this is the type of shit that really really triggers me, these people listened to me explain countless times how I hate change. They know I hage that shit. So why catch me off guard? Sorry this is crazy long yap.
I fell in love with this girl and long story short we tried and didnāt work out but my heart is still so attached to her. When I donāt hear from her, I get so worried that somethingās happened to me and my mind goes to worst case scenario. I feel responsible if something goes wrong and Iām freaking out
would love to hear some positive success stories as im feeling completely discouraged. my amygdala (fear center) is just completely on overdrive mainly tied to a thought that once I get ROCD about someone (friend and romantic) I have to completely cut them out to be calm ever again. mainly because every time ive had the rocd it never calmed down. I now have it with a few friends I really care about. The ocd and anxiety make it feel like its impossible to practice the exposure therapy because the anxiety never actually comes down on its own. no matter how long I sit with the feeling of anxiety it doesn't come down. its pretty much on 95-100 percent of the day. Does anybody else have this problem with an ocd thought where its always there so every second feels like its just one big exposure.
Hi everyone ā Iām hoping for OCD-aware insight rather than reassurance. If someone can respond with a similar experience, Iād appreciate any insight. I have diagnosed OCD (relationship/perfectionism themes), and Iām dating someone I genuinely care about. Emotionally, he has so much of what I value: heās thoughtful, patient, ambitious, intelligent, funny, and makes me feel seen and understood. Iām attracted to him ā especially in private. When we were long-distance and mostly talking on the phone, I felt very safe, very connected, and very attracted. Things shifted when something objectively small came up: he mentioned gaining a couple of pounds and shared some eating habits that donāt align with my very health-focused lifestyle. Almost immediately, my nervous system flipped into threat mode. Since then, my OCD has latched onto his body, food choices, and āfollow-through,ā and my attraction drops sharply in public ā not in private. What Iām realizing is that a huge part of this is fear of judgment and perception. Iām worried about how weād be seen as a couple, and what other people might think. When I imagine us in public, I start viewing him from an āoutside observerā perspective, scanning for flaws and feeling embarrassed ā even though, internally, Iām attracted to him and care about him. In private, the attraction is there; in public, my nervous system shuts down. I also notice that I attach a lot of meaning to health and self-care. For me, it represents discipline, responsibility, and care ā and emotionally, my brain translates self-care effort into āthis mattersā or āI matter.ā I know thatās my wiring, not necessarily reality. In a past relationship, I over-functioned around health and felt disappointed and resentful when the other person didnāt follow through, which seems to be feeding this trigger now. Because of that fear, I catch myself trying to control in a āniceā way ā encouraging workouts, suggesting nutrition resources, praising effort, coaching rather than demanding. It looks supportive on the outside, but internally it feels like anxiety management and an attempt to prevent future disappointment or judgment. Patterns I am noticing: ⢠The anxiety shows up as urgency, mental checking, future-tripping, and hyperfocus. ⢠Attraction fluctuates with anxiety level, not with how I actually feel about him. ⢠Fear of public judgment seems stronger than fear of incompatibility itself. ⢠My urge to āhelpā or āfixā increases when anxiety spikes. AND if he expresses a desire to workout, my anxiety decreases
To anyone on here, whatās your longest lasting theme, when you finally got through it how did you feel? Also hope everyoneās having a great day
Really struggling with the SOOCD this week! I know I shouldnāt use reassurance or rumination but today none of my reassurance methods are even working. It just feels like Iāve been lying to myself and using OCD as an excuses to not be a lesbian šI really want to be with a man but any time I get close to dating I just feel sick like itās not what I really want when itās all Iāve ever wanted š then I just think I only want to have sex with a man because I want the cuddles and intimacy and to have more kids but my brain js telling me cause I find same sex intimacy arousing that really I should be with a woman but I canāt imagine being with a woman romantically š Iām so lost Iām at the rock bottom where I just feel like I need to admit to myself Iām a lesbian because none of the normal glimmers of light that remind me Iāve been attracted to men before are coming through šššš help!!
does anyone else get anxiety in the morning for no apparent reason? i wake up and feel so anxious to the point that i'm trembling, i feel cold but my palms are sweating, and my heart rate is so fast. i wasn't having many thoughts regarding OCD when i first woke up, but then i felt like i had to think them and caused myself more anxiety?? has anyone else had this experience?
Does anyone else have the subtype of false memory? Where their minds will try to convince them theyāve done something they didnāt. It feels so real and I canāt get this one false memory intrusive thought out of my head and Iāve been feeling the guilt of it as if it actually happened and Iām so spun up in it Iām like I donāt even know it I did this thing or not. Help :(
Iām the kind of person who hates to be inbetween. I want to be here or there. Iām very lazy with ocd and sometimes very okay with agreeing with the negative thoughts because at this point I donāt mind agreeing if it guarantees I stop spending my whole day questioning. Iāll rather agree my fears are real and deal with the pain that comes with it. Yesterday I panicked a whole lot and had to give in to the fear. I felt calm after, I convinced myself it was my truth and decided to stick with the identity especially because itās a weird and specific theme that might not really be understood and will be judged by others if I was to explain it. I gave in and it felt really painful like really painful then I felt calm then it felt like the pain washed away. At this point I was confused. Wanted to continue to remind myself of the identity I chose at it started to feel like I was forcing it. So I thought āMaybe my fears are not what I think it isā started to relax into that realisation but weird feelings I didnāt understand came up, I didnāt care to analyze because I was exhausted. It was 3am in the morning and I just wanted sleep with the little calm I felt. I woke up this morning incredibly anxious. Iām back being uncertain. Ocd wonāt let me pick a side. I donāt know what is true for me and my future and now I think Iām just forced to sit with uncertainty. I have to deal with it and not try to agree nor disagree. My memory are back to feeling incredibly negative and Iām really confused on why I have to sit with not knowing what is real or not even if negative feelings come up.
i was diagnosed this morning and i canāt stop questioning the diagnosis. iām currently struggling with tocd and up until recently the thoughts have started to come with false emotions. i get butterflies a lot when iām anxious and sometimes i get scared that the butterflies are actually me being drawn to the thought. so i just want to summaries my whole experience with this disorder. so, when i was only 4 years old i had a very strong urge to touch all of the corners in the room. nothing would feel right if i didnāt. when i was 10 i had to do everything 6 times, had to say ānight, nightā as my last words, and had to get to the door before the garage closed or i thought iād die. when i was 11, i started experiencing what i think was existential ocd. nothing felt real. i constantly asked my mum for reassurance that iām real. i remember avoiding going out because i felt so dissociated. i was so scared of developing derealisation and depersonalisation and frequently checked in mirrors to see if i recognised myself, and i would also type out the word āderealisationā on a keyboard on my ipad to see if the word came up. if it didnāt come up, i felt okay. but i literally couldnāt watch movies like the matrix because i was terrified. now fast forward to when i was 12, i feared i was becoming a psychopath. i genuinely worried that i would grow up to be a murderer. i would have frequent intrusive images that would cause distress. i also had pocd around this age. for pocd in particular, i saved many tiktok videos to reassure myself that i wasnt becoming a pedofile. now iām almost 14. yeah, iām young. but my current theme tocd is really not questioning. iām going to summarise my experience with it a little bit here. i use envy men a lot. like i always thought they got more attention, more power and people swooned over them more than women. i was introduced to a popular fandom at the start of 2025 which i literally loved. the main ship were two straight men. i shipped them. i admired the dynamic. their ship got the most attention in the show. i of course blamed that on gender. i got very jealous of the attention and wanted to be in a relationship like that. like i would try and act like one of the characters (i didnāt try to look like him i just wanted to be like him because he seemed cool) and imagined myself being with a boy (me as a girl though) and basically āwearing the pantsā in the relationship because the more dominant man in a mlm or even the most dominant person in a straight ship always seem like the coolest. i still imagined myself as a woman like i didnāt want to be in a gay relationship, i wanted to be in a straight relationship. but in july last year i saw a video that resonated with me. it said āi want to be in a mlm relationship as a womanā and the top comment was āthis is how i found out i was trans btwā and that dont scare me. but then i got curious. i didnāt feel like a boy and i still donāt now. so i went onto chatgpt⦠yeah i know. not the best. but i told it about what i was going through and it said all these different labels which i didnt understand. demigirl however, resonated with me. at least i thought it did. i few weeks later it kinda just wore off. but i started to get involved with political matters and yada yada i was an alt girl. i was very accepting of the lgbtqia community. i wanted a future in human rights or politics. i think i kind of tried to push labels onto myself as the alt community is very diverse. so i just left that aesthetic because again, it wore off. but in november i had a dream of me wearing a suit and tie. it freaked me tf out. like i was asking chatgpt why i had that dream. this is where my tocd started. (i have a history with ocd). i basically got really scared and started compulsively checking my memories, my feelings and i had so many uncomfortable intrusive thoughts of me as a boy. god itās scary. this ocd subtype ruined my holiday, my christmas and more. i start school tomorrow and iām nervous as. all of the things i wrote here are extremely hazy as ocd kind of gives me false memories. so, yeah. i donāt feel like a guy. never have. i literally had pinterest boards of feminine clothing i wanted to wear when i was a mum/older. all i ever wanted was to be a beautiful, feminine woman. i forgot to mention that the other night i did my makeup and felt so happy. i was happy with what i looked like and for a moment, i felt absolute certainty in my gender. but then the doubt came back in š so, thatās it! thanks for reading. what are your thoughts? do i sound like i have ocd or was my psychologist wrong?
I am seventeen, turning eighteen in a month, and things in my family have been rough for the last couple years. I have a few subtype of ocd and most likely autism, though my family doesn't want an evaluation. I'm not the best at phrasing things or noticing my tone, and a lot of the time get asked why I look sad, even if I'm not. Emotions aren't easy for me to express, and I struggle with noticing things out of place around the house, and certain compulsions are inconvenient, mainly when I cook or wash my hands a lot. Anyways, things started getting worse a couple years ago. I started keeping up with politics and ended up despising both of the major political parties where I live. I respect everyone's right to an opinion, but I am the only one not aligned with the party they support, so I normally get told to stop talking to avoid a fight, even if I'm asking questions to genuinely understand. Like I said, I struggle wording things less bluntly, but I've tried to explain my intentions. We got into a fight after I mentioned an assignment to my father and he turned it into a race and politics issue. Now, my faith has always been important to me, and that is a large part of why I disagree with the people they support. I mentioned something about how avoiding generalizations and viewing everyone the same, as children made in God's image, and was told that I don't have enough experience for what I say. I am a sophomore in college and live at home, but I don't think that means I can't say everyone deserves the same respect. He started talking about how my "ethics and morals" (to which I corrected my faith) would get me killed because I was stupid. I said that defending my faith even with my life was quite literally one of the things Jesus talked about and would not go directly against His teachings and got seriously yelled at for and told that it didn't matter in the real world and then, as I tried to leave, that if God was so important to me to respect my father and mother. I said that I do, but not more than God. So that also got me yelled at for, and I finished the housework and attempted to workout and then journalled for a few hours. When my mother got home, I tried to explain that I do respect them both but wouldn't go against God, the same way I argued when my father defended Nazi ideas and Nazis. So she said that he didn't mean it and that it was months ago, so why was it a big deal? I said because it was a moral issue. She asked why we couldn't agree to disagree, and I said that didn't apply to genocide. Then I said it was against the religion that they had raised me in, and that it made me feel unsafe. She started yelling and said if I felt so unsafe she could call someone and put me in foster care, but that they wouldn't tolerate my ocd. I said I just wanted to know it wasn't true, so my father came and it still took a few minutes to convince him to say he didn't believe it, and that I hurt him by saying he was a bad person. Also, he mentioned again that I b could just move out when I turned eighteen. He said I should get a dorm in the fall. So now they are both saying what I said was hurtful and my mother asked me earlier to apologize, which I didn't, but I don't understand how what I said was more hurtful. I called other family members just so I wouldn't spiral and have been on this app for a while. Does anyone have any advice? I genuinely don't know what to do.
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