Cancel culture

Oh yeah I definitely relate. I think I am gonna get cancelled all the time for so many things and it really stresses me out!! Especially with the moral/ real event/ responsibility OCD themes this sort of thing becomes very sticky and can be very hard to disregard. But also, it has been around for a while, and the very fact you're worried about it- shows that you are not your OCD fears and you are actually the opposite. Remember that those worries are ego-dystonic, because they are the opposite of who you actually are. :)

Yes for me it mainly manifests as ROCD fear I’m going to have to leave my partner if they did something wrong a long time ago or before we met or if they made a small mistake during the relationship it makes me uncertain if I can ever trust them again like black and white thinking

Yeah definitely. I heard someone say we're exposed to too many opinions today, and at no other point in history would we have had access to this many people's opinions on random subjects, and I totally agree. No one is immune to mistakes, despite what people online lead you to believe. I honestly think a lot of people who do this just aren't doing a lot of self-reflection, and nowhere near the amount as someone who suffers with real event/moral/responsibility ocd. People are often not aware, or just don't live with their own wrongdoings as a constant weight and reminder, so they feel a lot more justified in talking online about moral purity because they simply aren't aware or don't remember that terrible thing they might've done or said at 14. Also a lot of people engaging in cancel culture are still very young, they can't grasp the fact that people can change from who they were as children, teenagers or very young adults because they're still in these age groups themselves. Makes me sad when I've seen literal children be chased off the internet and condemned, bullied and ostracized.

Oh yeah … I can listen to the news for 5 minutes and convince my self I’m raciest or evil or a sexist or some type of “est” It’s even worse with social media. And social media is designed to target like minded people. So your feed can be full of people all rioting over one side of the opinion with no opposition just cause you clicked a random video. Now it makes you think well the mob says it’s a right so clearly this is the way, And gives zero context because the context might disagree with their agenda. I asked my therapist once if I am doing a safety behavior If I cut out social media and news and he said we both are then cause he cut it out a while ago. And he doesn’t have ocd lol.

I had this when I was in college, it was miserable. This hasn’t been my worst theme but it was just terrible. I wont tell you the compulsions I engaged in (don’t want to give any ideas🥲) but this did take up a lot of my time!