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Living just with the intrusive thoughts that makes you uncomfortable and anxious Does OCD have to be severe to have it?

Can someone give me advice on how to deal with a bad ocd day please. Last night I had a bit of a bad episode with ocd looking for reassurance on here and googling and the googling didn’t help which I should of know at the start..and I’m just dealing with the aftermath of anxiety.

3 years ago shortly after I had my son I started getting postpartum OCD never had anxiety at all or OCD while I was pregnant with my first and like a year ago I had little to almost no OCD but here and there well now I’m 26 weeks pregnant with my 2nd and it’s coming back sooo badly I feel like I’m going straight crazy My obsession has been me thinking I have schizophrenia!! Like I’m tricking my mind to believe I’m getting the symptoms but I know that they arnt true and I’m really not experiencing them but I’m sooo terrified of getting it that my brain is literally trying to trick me into the symptoms of it but I don’t actually see or hear stuff I’m just that afraid of it actually happening like idk what to do to stop these terrible thoughts but this pregnancy has me all kinda of screwed up 😭 can anyone please relate!? Or am I actually just going crazy?

Does anyone’s themes bounce around? Yesterday I was suffering heavy from contamination intrusive thoughts, today I am having thoughts that “what if I hit someone on my way home and didn’t realize” when reality is nobody was around on the road and I know I’d know if I hit someone. I have had high stress in life recently which I think is triggering this flare up. I just wanna be okay and I know I need to see a therapist but financially as a student that Isn’t in the cards right now. Anybody have advice for how to handle your mind consult dining new things to fixate on? In the last two years relationship and SO themes have been the ones I’ve struggled with, but these constant intrusive thoughts are all over the place and it’s less easy to cope now. Any advice appreciated! Thank You!

I’m having constant intrusive thoughts and it’s driving me crazy. I will go through these periods where everything I do I get an intrusive thought and it’s just my brain is so loud. Anyone else?! How do you stop the constant intrusive thoughts when you can’t really do an exposure for every single one?!

I keep finding myself almost automatically checking or trying to disprove my intrusive thoughts before I even get chance to agree or ignore them. Does anyone have an advice on this?

I have contamination ocd and It’s affecting the sensual part of my life. Im afraid I’ll catch something every time. The person I’m interested seems clean but I still have my crazy doubts. I also don’t want to engage because I’m anxious and i don’t want to feel used and im now feeling ashamed if I act. It’s a lot of emotions

Ugh some days I’m 100% sure I did it….others im 80% then It’s 50% then it’s 20%…then it’s back to 100% the urge to confess is so huge I can’t just sit with it….I kinda told my mom somewhat….and she didn’t wanna hear because she knows about confessing with ocd and that people shouldn’t give in to it or give reassurance but I really think I did this awful thing….my brain is convinced I need to type of consequence….as if having ocd isn’t a bad thing already 😒

If so could you let me know how it’s worked for you? I might be prescribed that by my psychiatrist soon and I’m a little anxious about taking it, but if it helps with the intrusive thoughts then I’m all for it.

I’ve been posting on here the last few days about how I haven’t been able to sleep. My fight or flight took over and now I get anxious about going to sleep. I’m on vacation so I’m away from my doctor and therapist. I called my doctor to get something sent in to help me while I’m away. Bc I’m running on 3 days of 0 to little sleep. She called in Xanax and I’m terrified of Xanax but it’s 0.5 a night. I am very scared of benzos but I’m so exhausted and I want to sleep so badly. And I’m too scared to not do anything about it. But ocd doesn’t do well with medication and it’s already telling me that the Xanax won’t work and if it does work I’ll get addicted. It’s a double edged sword but it must be done bc insomnia is scarier to me at the moment and I’m tired of feeling panicked

I need help!!!!!!! My daughter continues to come to me at all hours of the talking about her obsessions. It is destroying our family😢. Please help!

Hey guys. I’ve been dealing with Harm OCD for around 3 and 1/2 months now, and it’s been extremely difficult to experience. I’ve had OCD my whole life and some of my family members do as well, one of my cousins actually has the same main subtype as me, but he was diagnosed almost a year ago when I didn’t have it myself. I’ve been going to an OCD & Anxiety Treatment Center the past week and I’m really struggling with the exposures we do there, as well as the ones we do at home. I constantly feel like I’m judging myself and I genuinely feel worthless, like I’m a horrible person to have unwanted intrusive thoughts like these. I feel like it’s so difficult to stay mindful and to not judge any of the thoughts that surface. Those with Harm OCD, have any of you here gone from debilitating OCD to living fulfilling lives? If so, what was the process like for you, if you’d like to share? Thanks and I hope you’re all doing well, or are continuing to improve.

I feel like when I’m afraid of something with my OCD I see it EVERYWHERE. Does anyone else have this happen? Like once it was fear of going blind and I saw the word blind everywhere and the next day a blind man crossing the street. It’s happened with other fears but I get so scared they’re signs. When it happens so many times I can’t help it.

Im currently working but I wish I could take some time to focus on my mental health and not have financial worries

So I am 32 weeks pregnant, and am thinking about checking myself into the physch ward, as my intrusive thoughts and false memories have gotten uncontrollable. I checked myself into the physch ward I believe when I was 22 weeks, and thought the medications were helping but I'm in another spiral now. I have a 7 year old daughter at home who deserves so much more from as well as my husband, but I feel as my husband has gotten so tired of trying to help me through this that our marriage is now failing. Any advice to keep me in good spirits would be great, because I am scared of being alone but I am now scared of my own mind.

I'm hating my life and the fact that I'm always unconfortable in my parents' house. I hate the fact that I am not normal like anybody else. I just want to live in peace.

Whatever it is that we are unwilling to tolerate uncertainty about, that's likely what OCD will latch onto. Remember that the content of OCD thoughts say nothing about your character other than what it is that you love most. ⁠What are some things that OCD has latched onto in your experience?⁠

I haven’t google disease’s in a while… but today my oh my I’ve spend the last few hours googling & googling. It just sucks being so paranoid all the time. I wish I was normal. I miss who I use to be. I never use to worry & I just lived my life. Now I pay attention to every little detail & have to replay every single thing in my head… Even if I have a ok day with low anxiety my brain feels like it’s forgetting something & will scan my whole day to find something to be paranoid about. I’m sooo tired of this.

Can an OCD thought like "this time something must have happened" arise while totally drunk? I remember having that thought while drunk and since then I am totally in panic mode

Nsfw. But it’s bothering me a lot. I believe I had/have an addiction to p word. I tried to stop watching it because my thoughts about hocd would be worse when watching it. So I stopped for like a week and I had the urge to use it on a good day and I didn’t because I was scared of the hocd thoughts I’d get. Someone said that’s avoidance and a compulsion. So next time I had the urge I watched it. Now I think I’m back into the addiction. But like I feared. When watching it the thoughts are so prominent. And I doubt the attraction afterwards and over analyse what I did. Im scared I focused on the female not the male. Im really scared now. Not sure what to do. I tried the ‘maybe, maybe not’ and the uncertainty but it’s made me feel worse and more thoughts are coming I’m really scared…