And how are you dealing with it? Let’s have a discussion. I have health OCD and the worst part for me is that I will likely have to deal with health issues at some point in my life. So when I have intrusive thoughts about my health, it feels like they will come true at some point…even if they aren’t true now. Trying to reframe this but it’s been hard! Always welcome to suggestions.
The groinals. Liking the thoughts and feels pleasurable. False attractions ( if its even false ). Depression. Feeling like dying day by day.
@star1232 The depression is really awful, I can relate to that. I’m sorry you feel like dying day by day. I’ve been there too. Thanks for your comment. 💖
Hi. I relate a lot to you with health OCD, mainly because of trauma I've been exposed to and things I did regrettably under the control of an addiction. It really is hard. I think something that can help is focusing on what we can do for ourselves now health wise. We don't have the answers for what health conditions we'll end up with in the future, but the best we can do is take care of yourselves for now! I hope this helps. I hope you've been feeling overall better too.
@BigGyro09 That’s a great outlook and a way to keep us in the present moment. Thank you so much for sharing! I’m doing ok, this week went better than I expected. OCD is always in the back of my mind though. How have you been?
@emilytravelswild I'm glad you had a good week! I'm doing okay. Had some setbacks that I hope I can bounce back from. I'm glad that my advice helped in any way.
I have a lot of themes but my main one lately has been relationship ocd. The worst part are the sometimes graphic intrusive thoughts about my boyfriend cheating and him being attracted to his mom. I know these things aren’t true and I hate thinking of them cause they’re gross but they won’t stop coming into my head lately. Oh and the worst part about ocd in general is depression 100%. This is a good question thank you for proposing a discussion. We aren’t alone 💝💝
@m3&myocd🐢 The depression is really awful. I feel like when the OCD isn’t raging, the depression is. I’m really sorry you are having such a hard time with intrusive thoughts about your boyfriend. I really appreciate your comment, it does help to know we aren’t alone! 💖
@emilytravelswild Thank you! ❤️
I have POCD and Tourette’s. I don’t look at children but I do look at young women as a tic. I’ve just been thinking about how I’ve spent years trying to overcome it and whatever I’m doing it doesn’t work. Then I think they are aware of me and that just eats me alive. I feel like a real creep and I’m a nice guy.
@NotSoNewb82 Thanks so much for commenting. What all have you tried if you don’t mind me asking? And have you found something that has helped you?
@emilytravelswild It isn’t as bad as it was but with Tourette’s you are supposed to let the tics happen and they will happen less or go away. This is the only tic I can’t do that with. Staring tics are common. I take care of myself generally and that helps my mental health immensely.
@emilytravelswild I like that I have a little anonymity and understanding here because I can’t really discuss it with other people. It is one of the reasons I know I will be single forever. I’m a walking red flag.
@NotSoNewb82 A lot later but how did you overcome this?
@urcool51 I learned to live with it better. I still have bad days but if I can’t stop stuff then being okay with it stops it from being a problem. That works for most tics and carries over to the staring tics. Staring tics are hard to overcome because the advice is to let tics happen.
It's changing day by day but mostly my obsessions are about forbidden sexual contents, betraying my friend or valentine, from now on having doubts about myself such as "am I pedo? did I felt discomfortable or not when gronial responses had occur?" etc. If they are about my family it is so hard to overcome or live my life. If they are about my friends or relationships sometimes as a compulsion I talk to them, I even broke up because of my obsessions. OCD ruined my friendships and relationships with other people. Also I am always anxious because of OCD. When I relieved from an obsession then I feel like "what is next?" therefore I always feel anxious and fear.
@healingfromocd I’m so sorry you’ve had such a rough time with your thoughts. I totally understand how it changes day by day. I really appreciate your comment. Hope you’re having a good Sunday!
Having religious OCD, I think the worst part is just never staying confident in one thing. Like I can't decide if I have faith or not, I can't decide if I'm being deceived into thinking one way or another or not, and I sometimes just feel like I'm hopeless since I keep doing things that may be considered sinful but I don't really feel like it is, but I worry that means I'm dooming myself. I've just been trying to stick to my beliefs the best possible and remember that I don't need to be perfect and never will be. It's just such a constant and existential anxiety that it makes me question and worry all the time
The worst part about my themes are I have some that conflict and trigger each other. I also have my ocd line up with my core values and it's very hard to separate the 2. Actually being able rationalise, make peace, understanding how ocd works and doing erp is how I cope.
Does anyone that is diagnosed have experience having different themes come up in a day? It’s like I ignored one thought and then my mind comes up with another one until it figures out one that is scary enough for me to ruminate. Does it ever make sense? Like today my intrusive thought was an image of me in the space or falling into space which made me also think - this is non sense! Am I going crazy for having such an unrealistic intrusive thought? And then my psychosis OCD comes to play 🫠 it’s EXHAUSTING but I’ve been answering with “maybe or maybe not” and “I don’t care” which is something I saw someone saying that helps and I’ve been using it. I haven’t started ERP yet but hopefully soon. Just this year this came up and I still catch myself feeling so sad and remembering how I was before this. 😭
I’ve been dealing with a terribly overwhelming bout of OCD for a few months now, possibly the worst I’ve ever had in my 12 years of having it; which is what led me here. I’ve always had doubts in my long term relationship, but none that have been quite this vicious, making me question my sense of safety with this sweet man who has ALWAYS made me feel safe and comfortable. It picks on every aspect of our relationship, and any moment it can to make me question if he’s actually secretly a bad person. This thing has a chokehold on me and it is so scary and debilitating, especially with it targeting something I care so deeply about. And now weeks into therapy, I almost feel that unpacking it is making me feel worse and my OCD is finding all sorts of new things to pick on. Any comforting words would be appreciated… I’m trying really hard to work through this.
Hello everyone. My name is Cathy and I have severe intrusive thoughts that seem to come out of no where. However only one thought at a time. I fixate on that scary thought for days and days and my anxiety builds up and up. I try to then attack the suggested catastrophic thought such I may have this disease or going to die from that disease or rot in hell etc. scary thoughts always. I try and do a ton of research on line to counter attack the thought trying to prove it wrong and this helps me but if I can’t find something that proves I won’t get the disease or have it already or prove other things too depending on what the thought is, it doesn’t help at all and can make it worse. Is anyone out there experiencing what I have. I don’t have ocd cleaning or washing or checking but have intrusive scary thoughts.
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