I have some scenarios that where full of anxiety and intrusive thoughts that scared me felt like I did something wrong but that I asked around my family members they said I didn’t anything wrong but I just feel so guilty and horrible.
The guilty feeling is very typical in OCD. You don’t want to have those intrusive thoughts because they go against your values. But in OCD those thoughts go after what we care about. Feeling the anxiety can be scary. Try and see all this as OCD symptoms and not you as a person. When you seek relief and reassurance you actually give more power to OCD. Retraining your brain to not take those intrusive thoughts seriously takes time. They are after all just scary thoughts.
Everytime I would do something like this I would ask a question to my mom, dad, or brother and once asked feel ashamed and guilty for doing it. I felt more shame because I was ashamwd to "lost" the battle with OCD and also guilt due to thr nature of the thought. Dont ask your famiky. Try to stay around them and do anything excepy ask. Thats what I try now and its hard. Sometimes I cant even be around my fam, but practing ng this in the moment will make life easier going forward
I tell people my situation, they say it's nothing big or it's fine, I was a teenager. I still feel awful, magically thinking that the persons going to change their mind and expose me to the world that I'm an awful person even though they said I had no affect on them whatsoever. I feel guilty to admit I've shared it with numerous people, whether a little older or the same age, never younger because I feel uncomfortable talking to younger people. Still, everyone says I did nothing wrong and there's nothing to worry about, but I'm more concerned about the fact I feel like I truly did something horrible, I feel like what if someone's enabling my actions, even though they say they're being honest. I feel awful, and I know I have to sit with discomfort and all that bad stuff, but truly I feel disgusting. I've isolated myself for weeks, and I just don't want to hurt the other person, it's made me question my own intentions too. Does anyone else feel this way? I just feel like my mistakes are worse than anyone else on this app or in the world.
I am still spiralling more than a week later about a situation with my cousin’s son. He is nearly two and I had my foot off the couch when he walked by. Im scared his private part touched my foot but he was clothed. No I feel like I traumatized him and ruined his life and mine. I feel like I can’t live not knowing whether I hurt him or not. How do you deal with the terrible guilty and anxiety? It definitely comes in waves for me but today I have felt horrible.
Does anyone know how to deal with guilt for something you did as a kid that you feel is disgusting and worry that it could have hurt someone you loved.
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