- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
question
Not reassurance seeking but is it possible to feel so overwhelmed by your thoughts that you feel like you are going insane š«
Not reassurance seeking but is it possible to feel so overwhelmed by your thoughts that you feel like you are going insane š«
I feel the same way, having harm thoughts around the ones that I love and are the closest to me. Feels like you are going insane. This is OCD and you need to fight the compulsions, mine are mostly rumination and over analyzing. Donāt do any compulsions, physical or mental.
Feeling this right now, itās almost like you feel like you need to do something but you donāt know what youāre supposed to be doing, like something is wrong, but you donāt know what, so you donāt know how to fix it
@Anonymous Exactly - I have felt like I need to āthink something all the way throughā and if I donāt, wellā¦ something bad will happen. Hate it - but true itās obsessions and the best think we can do in the moment is refocus
Yes... feeling like I need to commit myself. I feel like I'm insane right now. I know what you are feeling
Yes! Sometimes so much noise and sounds and images and strings of conversation and radio static and just like so much going on in my head I want to scream ābe quiet!!ā Itās the worse and made me feel like Iām going to lose it.
Oh my gosh yes š it is a terrible feeling and you are not alone
@sunshineandrainbows I feel like I need to go to the psych ward or something
@Anonymous I can tell you right now that it does get better! You arenāt alone in those feelings and yes itās scary but you are most definitely not alone
Yup
@Santo123# I feel like Iām actually going crazy and Iāll lose control
@Anonymous OCD feels as real as it can get. I struggle with harm OCD and have this same fear of losing control. Disregard all thoughts, feelings, sensations over and over again and slowly itāll get better
Iām going through this as well. Itās almost as if youāre not inside your body.
Yes going through it rn
How are you now?
@Lilly2442! A lot better
@Savhatesocd Any advice that helped because I feel the same way you did šš» I have a fear of losing control
Thatās kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just canāt make my mind up about something and Iām using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
Does your ocd ever start to tell you that youāre having a psychotic break? I have such a hard time telling what are ocd thoughts and what are real thoughts as it is. But now my newest ocd thought is that Iām losing my mind. Please tell me Iām not alone in this!!
I have a lot of thoughts about the universe, and theyāre overwhelmingālike being caught in a rip current, except itās all inside my head. Most of the time, theyāre about how small we are, how there really isnāt a āweā because our bodies arenāt truly oursāweāre just bacteria, cells, and microbes. The thoughts spiral, deeper and deeper, smaller and smaller, coiling until suddenly, Iām pulled under, drowning in a whirlpool. Iāve never felt like this before, and Iām convinced Iāve been faking it somehow. For the past few weeks, my OCD has been worse than itās ever been in my 20 years of life. Or maybe Iām just more aware of it now. Has anyone else had their OCD suddenly get really bad? Does it ever endāif it even can? Iāve convinced myself that my intrusive thoughts arenāt actually intrusive, that my OCD is a choice, and that everything I do is intentional. As for compulsions, I donāt have the typical āIf I donāt do ____ then ____ will happenā kind of thoughts. Instead, my brain simply commands, āDo ____,ā and I always give in. Itās so loud in my head, and I canāt shake the feeling that Iām an imposter. Like I donāt belong hereālike my presence on this app is an intrusion, invalidating everyone elseās struggles just by downloading it and daring to post. If anyone feels that way, if you think Iām intruding, Iām sorry. I only came here because I have no one to share my diagnosis with. Pouring my thoughts out, hoping someone might understand, feels less suffocating than journaling. Journaling is like letting a wound festerāeach word burying the thoughts deeper, leaving them to decay in silence, for nobody to ever read but myself.
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