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About 2 months ago, I sliced my arm so deep in an attempt to make this all go away.. as there was blood spurting like everywhere my life flashed before my eyes and I could hear my parents laughing in the room beside me. I started screaming for help as my eyes flooded with tears. How could their little girl do that to herself?? I was able to get to the ER and have my arm stitched up.. making my attempt a fail. But I’m so scared. I don’t want to do something like that again. I’ve never seen my parents cry except for then. The fear in their eyes haunts me up to this day. But that’s the only thing that relieves my pain. Can someone help or relate to this ???

How’s everyone doing today? What’s something you’re looking forward to this coming week? Or something challenging you’ll be facing?

wrote a very triggering post. this wasnt supposed to happen. im starting to believe that i'm a ****phile that suppress its feelings. "Our brains are wired to respond to certain stimuli, like attractiveness, quickly and automatically. This can happen even if we don't consciously want to feel that way. In your case, the combination of the trigger and your brain's automatic reaction might have contributed to the discomfort you felt." but it's wrong. it wasnt supposed to happen. it shouldn't be allowed in my brain to perceive the look of attractiveness in the legs and body of someone that looked so young... i didnt have desire for it though. i was disturbed and distressed when it happened and as i felt and noticed this perception and reaction. it's crazy to think that none of this would have happened if i didnt trigger myself in 2021 at 16 years old.

I feel like every person I see who has recovered from OCD doesn't have my theme. I feel like I woke up in a nightmare I can't escape and it'll never end. Do people actually get better from this?

does anyone know if ocd and chronic stomach issues have a strong correlation? 😭 I havent been diagnosed with any stomach issues but I have also never checked. Plus ive had ocd and like persistent and painful stomach aches since i was like 5 and still do get them. I think i may have ibs.

Hello last year I had gone thru a very rough time In my life where I needed to be put on Zoloft 50mg around march 2024. I was diagnosed with anxiety, depression and OCD. Ive been suffering from OCD since I was like 11 and depression since I was 19, but I never sought help until last year Im 27 because I knew I needed it to help me get thru life. I was on 3 months on Zoloft and I went to a trip to Miami which honestly helped me so much, I honestly attribute that trip to Miami in healing me more than the Zoloft it self. I met my current girlfriend there. After coming back I felt like a new person. I still kept taking the Zoloft 50mg until late April (2025) this year when I decided to tapper down to 25mg by my self without a doc recommendation, I didn’t feel anything during the month of may this year until like may 30th when I woke up in a panic and I felt like I was back at square 1 before I started Zoloft. Mind you ive been thru some life changes, I recently graduated RN school and my gf moved in with me. Ever since the end of may I’ve been very anxious, my OCD is on high gear and my depression too. I went back up to 50mg I’m seeing a new doc, my questions is has anyone gone thru a similar situation? If so what helped you and how long did it take you to stabilize ?

I saw a Tik tok video randomly of a woman petting her cat at the base of its tail and it making a funny noise. I read the comments and random ppl were saying she was turning her cat on…which is not true. Anyway, one day I saw my sweet cat and decided to sit on the floor and just pet her and love on her. As I was petting her, the intrusive thought of that video came in and I still petted her near the base of her tail literally for like 2 seconds and now my ocd has been questioning intentions and I’m having the hardest time of my life. 😭😭😭 I just need someone to relate to. 😭 Any advice?

Something I don’t really understand and it grinds my gears 🤣. I am a 110% certain on something that will never happen in my life time but my ocd won’t accept it? Like my heart feels yeah that’s never happening ever I a million years…. But my ocd is like nope I’m against your values and morals! It’s draining 😴

After my psychiatrist appointments, I can't stop obsessing over whether or not I explained things correctly, or if I exaggerated without noticing? We spoke about the possibility of ADHD today, and after I got home, I kept wondering if I had exaggerated my experiences of struggling to focus, finishing tasks, feeling paralyzed when I want to get things done, etc... This is how I felt when I got diagnosed with anxiety and OCD, though. It's just sort of stressing me out 🫠 Has anyone dealt with similar?

So I had a “breakup” with a friend, and she knows all my events and I will say that these events are bad enough that people would judge me for them. I obsess over the possibility of her revealing it to everyone, even tho I have no reason in believing that she would. We don’t have mutual friends. We don’t even live in the same country, yet I feel exposed because there is a possibility of my past mistakes being revealed to people. I’m wondering if anyone can relate and if anyone knows how to deal with this specific obsession

Before, I was scared to die, but now that’s my only wish. I’m not suicidal, and I could never do that to myself. But I wish God would just take my life already. I wish I had never been born. I hope God gives this life to someone more deserving, not me. I can’t live like this — waking up every day with blasphemous thoughts about God. I don’t want to hurt or disrespect Him anymore with these thoughts. I don’t even know if it’s OCD anymore. It feels like it’s just me. Maybe it was all me from the start. That’s why I don’t want to live this life anymore.

Hi everyone I could really use some help on this topic. It’s hard to admit and talk about but after being on here I see that I’m not the only one! Still I would love some support and advice with how to deal with those unwanted sexual thoughts. For me it’s so uncomfortable and honestly gross when sexual thoughts get out of hand with normal people and also do extremely out of hand that even loved ones get involved. Like when I watch tv and all of a sudden I have these gross thoughts that I know if I accept they will go away but how can you accept something so gross? Would love some help!

So I’ve been off sertraline 50 mg for a couple months now after being on it for 3 years. I got off cuz I was getting bad side effects from it like gaining hella weight and low libido. My anxiety has been so bad so I’m considering trying Prozac since apparently the side effects are less. What’s your experience with it/does it help your anxiety from your intrusive thoughts? I mainly have just somatic ocd

Anyone who's been under general anesthetic or put under for surgery did the anesthesia cause nausea or getting sick to your stomach? I am having wisdom tooth extractions soon and I want to know if any part of the surgery I can avoid to avoid nausea

I don’t know if any of you have gone through this but after a very very traumatic medical journey (quick rundown: I was 13 and all the sudden I was going blind turns out I had a brain tumor my freshman year had just started and I had made the reputation of the sick kid who fell down the stairs cause she went blind… the surgery was supposed to be an easy one 3-4 day recover at max and worst case I blown a leak and they had to go back up and patch it again no big deal well that happens to me 4 times all of my surgeons said they had never seen this happen before. I was given lumbar drains and was in excruciating pain all the time once they took out the lumbar drains they stitched me up and told me I could go home buttttt when I got home I developed bacterial meningitis which they said was a 1% chance of me getting I went into a coma and was airlifted back to the hospital and given emergency surgery they called me the 1% in the hospital cause every worse case that has ever or could ever happen happened to me… i had to go through radiation and could not be in the sun for a hole year 3-4 days turned out to be almost 3 1/2 months in the hospital and a year out of the sun for radiation I forgot how to read write and walk right I now have 4 chronic illnesses came back to school sophomore year and had to re learn EVERYTHING than I dislocated and fractured my patella so through all of high school I was known as the sick kid…) and all of the sudden I was scared of everything I used to be this fun adventurous kid and now I’m scared to do anything I just graduated a couple weeks ago but sometimes I think that if I even think of something bad happening that it will happen… like every time I say I have a bad feeling something bad ALWAYS happens not to sound like poor me but I’m genuinely scared to do anything now I always go to worse case anybody in my fam gets sick it’s oh they prob have cancer or a tumor or something like that and it’s very scary to have my brain think like that just wanted to know if any of you guys could relate…?

I have recently had a fall out with my partner about my paranoia .. she is struggling with her mental health as well as looking after her autistic daughter.. what can I do to make her want to stay

Please don't delete this post. Please. I feel so dead, even though I’m still alived. I don’t know if I’m depressed already because of my severe OCD. I’m struggling with Religious OCD, and after a recent severe episode, the days that followed felt even worse—more depressive, more lifeless. I feel like I don’t care about life anymore. I badly wanna die. I'm not suicidal person and I'm still scared to die. I have low appetite. I keep breaking down. I’ve started harming myself repeatedly—even though I only began doing that two days ago. I can’t see the purpose of my life anymore. I feel like I intentionally committed blasphemy, especially against the Holy Spirit. I feel evil, like I’m being punished by God—and that’s one of the biggest reasons I want to die. I keep having blasphemous thoughts, like I’m disrespecting or cursing God, especially the Holy Spirit, and it’s tearing me apart. Last night, I was thinking about committing blasphemy on purpose. I don’t know why that thought even came up. I think it’s my OCD—because blasphemy, especially against the Holy Spirit, is my biggest fear. While that thought was in my head, it was like I intentionally cursed at the Holy Spirit, then I took it back, then cursed again, then took it back again—and then cursed again. I don’t know what was going through my mind when I tried saying those things. I feel so scared. Did I really mean it? Was it my OCD? I feel like I’m going to hell. I’m so scared. After that episode, I almost harm myself again. I felt like I was evil for even thinking or saying those things. I even had a thought like, “I might as well go to the devil because I’m evil,” but I didn’t want that. I would NEVER want that. I was just overwhelmed and terrified. Because of how distressed I was, a phrase slipped from my mouth—“Why is there a Holy Spirit?”—and I panicked even more. I swear, I don’t hate the Holy Spirit. I don’t know why I said that. Some of my memories from that night are blurry. I can’t remember everything fully, just that I was in so much fear. I also had this painful thought about how even people who commit huge sins, like murder, can still be forgiven—but blasphemy supposedly can’t. And because of that fear, another thought came: “I wish I committed other sins instead, not blasphemy.” But to be clear, I don’t want to commit other sins. I don’t want to be a murderer or anything like that—I was just scared. So scared that I even thought, “I wish blasphemy wasn’t a sin,” just because I’m terrified of the punishment. I know that’s a wrong thing to wish. I know it is a sin, and I’m not against that. I just feel so condemned, so punished. I really feel sorry for that. Now I feel even worse. I feel like my heart is confused about the Holy Spirit. OCD keeps telling me I’m angry, that I hate Him, that He’s the lowest or least important of the Trinity. But I don’t believe that. As I learned about Trinity, I always saw God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as equal, holy, and powerful. But my brain keeps saying horrible things. I keep shaking my head, trying to fight it, but I feel like I’m going insane. This morning, I woke up with the urge to curse at the Holy Spirit intentionally. Right before I could say it, I’d pull my hair or force myself to change the words. I was in so much distress that another phrase slipped out of my mouth about God—but now I can’t even remember exactly what I said. I just know it was wrong, and I panicked. Now I feel like I deserve to be punished. I don’t care what happens to me anymore—but I’m still scared. I keep crying and begging God, Jesus, especially the Holy Spirit, to forgive me. I don’t want my life anymore. I don’t want to go to hell. I don’t know if this is all OCD or if it’s really me. I don’t know where to go, who to talk to. I can’t afford a therapist. My family doesn’t know what I’m going through. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I have severe OCD. I feel depressed. I feel evil. I don’t know how to live my life anymore knowing that God might be punishing me, and that if I die, I might go to hell. Please don’t hate me. I don’t even understand everything that’s happening in my mind anymore. I don’t know what’s OCD and what’s truly me.

I have tried a few different kinds of antidepressants over the years, but it's always been hard to find one that works well for OCD and doesn't have horrible side effects. Does anybody have any recommendations of one that worked really well for depression and OCD??

Does anyone know any tips on how to accept the uncertainty of being unable to sleep? I get to so scared that if I don’t sleep, something bad will happen to me. Or I’ll end up in like the hospital or I’ll go crazy. It’s really scary and it bothers me so much. If anyone has advice I’d love to hear it!!

Its weird but its true. I try to notice emotions and not feed it but when I try the not feeding it part I feed it more. And i get angry cause it feels like its automatic cause I try to stop it but it gets worse. I say to myself stop feeding it then that gets triggered and now im in a cycle trying to tell myself not to feed the emotion. It was the same today with anger. I told myself to leave it alone and then more anger came and i told myself not to feed it and then more came, and it took my focus. I understand that its normal that it gets stronger but for me it goes to the depressive way where the thoughts are so dark that it takes away my focus... It gets me more triggered. What can I do about this. Also noticing every emotion like these responses too feels exhausting cause they come and go and noticing it just makes them stay... Also I heard it helps to ask yourself kindly why do you feel this emotions, I always get lost in more pain and shame if i ask myself that