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My knees hurt really badly and I went on Google which made me panic even more. I've been going to the gym every day for more than a week and the pain got worse. I tried to not weight lift and instead walk and bike more. But now im panicked because of the pain. It feels like it might be bad

Feeling like I am mourning a bit for all the years of OCD, and for all the days that have been so difficult to get through the day, where I get stopped and have to put in a lot of effort mentally before I can go back to my daily tasks. Ended up in tears tonight. I barely ever cry. In some ways, I feel like death. I am not suicidal. I don’t mean that. But it’s a good description for how I feel. I don’t know what to do with myself. And I don’t know what to do to go forward. No one understands me. I know you all do. But almost everyone does not, and my immediate family does not. They do not know how hard things have been. I am tired of all the effort it takes to get through the day. I am so tired from all my daily effort that I don’t have energy to express myself and how I feel inside. And it seems like no one in this world really cares anyway. I say this not as a pity party, but because it’s true. People don’t care about each other anymore. I don’t know what to do with myself tonight. I am going to go downstairs and eat some food. Then, after I have been sad for a while, I am going to get back into life…This is the decision that I have made. I am tired of never letting anyone know how I feel inside. I am tired of people not understanding. I am tired of all my confusion and my perfectionism. I am tired of my constant fear. I am tired of all the effort it takes to do anything in life because mentally I am trying to keep myself safe. I don’t know what to do with the “tiredness.” It’s there every day. I don’t know how to move beyond my issues. I have constant confusion, overthinking, and fear.

lately i’ve been having pretty bad ocd days but today was definitely one of my worst days. i just feel like such an awful person and the ocd is really eating at me. i try really hard, or i feel like i do sometimes. i try to talk to my mom and she says she understands but she doesn’t- and i hate it. i can’t even get dressed in certain clothing or watch a show i like anymore without ocd interfering. my mind is all over the place and i feel so helpless. i just wish it’d stop.

this is something ive been struggling with for a long time but didnt realize it was also another part of my ocd until yesterday. i tried googling to see if theres a name for it. the only thing that comes up is Moral Scrupulosity but thats not really what i struggle with. anyway, social media is making my ocd go absolutely haywire and its a similar feeling to how i felt in 2020-2022. going online makes me feel like im this horrible person while i see others posting things like “if you dont do ____ then ur ugly/a horrible person/etc”. do you guys have any methods on how to deal with this? one of my solutions im gonna do soon is completely log off on certain social media sites to help ease the mental anguish.

for context i am a big people pleaser and am still in contact/friends with my ex. last weekend i was telling him about my sexual experiences with another guy i’ve been talking to. moral of the story i told my ex after and hour he never made me finish. now this wasn’t a big deal to me nor was it a bad experience but i gave my ex details and am scared i was making fun of the guy im talking to by telling him this. i also told him this because i knew it would make him feel better about himself/people pleasing. i guess im just worried i was making fun of him because i said he didn’t make me finish after an hour and scared i added lmao to the end of that. i don’t remember if i did but it just makes me feel guilty. i never said the experience was bad.

I'm a complete loser and lost case .... I have had the same ocd thought that has taken my dream job away and made my life so small and still don't have success in getting a job because of my ocd it's been seven years .... I am now getting TMS everyday but I'm a broken woman angry and in pain

i am really really struggling. recently people haven't been answering me on here and i feel insane. i am at 150 mg of sertraline and i technically feel better but it's freaking me out. im scared because my obsessions are lessened so does that mean i don't care anymore?!? im really scared of going insane, cheating, being a bad person. the obsessions of these ideas are causing me to actually get upset outwardly which makes it seem even more real. i also have been thinking i may have bpd and that's consuming and im scared and idk why. please help me please

And mental health in general? So I have suffered really badly with ocd for 4 years and I'm beginning to think that I am overcomplicating beating it. I haven't worked since 2020 and since then my ocd and mental health have just got worse and worse to the point that I literally do nothing more than watch tv every day of my life. I have had loads of counselling and some erp and didn't feel like any of it helped. I'm starting to think that I have done too much overthinking and talking about what I think my problems are when really all that is doing is creating me problems and what I actually need to do is just go back to work and exercise now. Please any feedback or opinions is much appreciated because I am starting to feel like I can't bare feeling this way anymore

So before I got severe OCD and had to be saddle with benzos and Seroquel I use to have a date night with a hubby at home having a few drinks and YouTube 80s music but the last few months I refuse to drink and it even panics me because if I'm going to have a few drinks I have to hold my Klonopin and Seroquel for that one day. I want to go ahead and do that but I'm afraid of having an anxiety attack while enjoying a few drinks because I will have to sit with anxiety without taking as needed anxiety meds. What do I do? I just want to have a fun date night again with a few drinks and music

Is anyone else on here who is a Christian, struggling with the back and forth of letting the thoughts pass, but also feeling the constant NEED to fight them because were supposed to “take our thoughts captive” and I don’t want to feel like I’m accepting the thoughts and feelings as truth. Sometimes what people advise to do in the church can seem Contradictory to the practices of ERP I feel like it’s a vicious cycle and trap for my mind of how to actually healthily cope with all of this crap. Like I know there’s a healthy balance and combination and validity in the fact that just not fighting it so hard doesn’t mean your accepting it as truth. Like I can think logically about it but then still feel stuck like it’s impossible and I don’t know which way is the right way.

Does anybody else’s intrusive thoughts come in the form of “delusional thoughts”? I’ve been in a terrible episode of hypochondria or ocd for the past 6 months where I have FULLY convinced myself I am developing schizophrenia, it started with becoming really easily overstimulated and not being able to concentrate and now it has spiraled out of control to where I am constantly getting intrusive thoughts center around demonic stuff, which i have never ever believed before, I have always been a skeptic. But now i get these thoughts all the time like “what if this song has hidden demonic meanings?” “What if your wife is a demon” “what if nobody is real and your just in hell” “what if this political figure is being controlled by the devil”, the typical kind of delusional thoughts you would expect from a schizophrenic. Keep in mind I am a literal atheist and all about facts, science and evidence, I am a skeptic. Not only does the fact that I’m even having these thoughts in the first place scare the life out of me, but I have to constantly battle with these thoughts in my head if I believe them or not. I feel like I have to constantly hold myself back from fully going off the deep end, I feel like I have to constantly disprove these thoughts and stop myself from believing them, but they feel so real and it’s scaring me so much. One part of me is like “why can’t we just stop worrying about this, this is delusional” and another part of me is like “what if I actually do need to worry about if these things are true or not, they FEEL true” and I’m just like “wtffff I shouldn’t have to worry about if things like this are true at all in the first Place!” I feel like I have fully lost my mind, and in no time I’m going to lose this little bit of insight I have. I hate these thoughts so much, I don’t want to think about them, but now that they are here, I feel like I can’t forget them. My dpdr is already making everything feel so off and weird and unreal and I feel like it’s only giving these thoughts more credibility and realness. I feel like this could also be partly a terrible form of existential ocd that’s being thrown into the mix with all these “what if thoughts”. Ugh I just want to be normal again ): but I don’t even know what normal feels like anymore because I’m constantly on the lookout for symptoms that I can’t even be normal anymore. Btw: yes I am seeing 2 therapists and a psychiatrist and all of them do not believe I am developing schizophrenia.

This so called “effective” treatment of ocd is not at all working my stress levels are getting higher my blood pressure is going out of control I’m overwhelmed and exhausted my brain doesn’t stop thinking and thinking and thinking the stress is killing me erp is failing horribly because I’m not able to sit with the discomfort I don’t know how you people do it because it’s not working I’m trying to go back to doing compulsions because erp simply does not work

Does anyone else have to ACTIVELY fight OCD? It’s a battle all the time in order for me to function. Letting the thoughts “just exist” is a ton of work. My mental energy is absolutely gone by the middle of the day. Am I just doing this wrong??

I’m wearing makeup today because women my age always infantilize me and it’s really annoying so I feel like they will take me more seriously and treat me like a peer if I’m wearing makeup (also it makes me feel good) but I feel like I’m getting excited thinking about random dudes thinking I look good even though I’m in a relationship and I don’t feel the need to look good/dress up for my bf usually… I don’t want to tell him bc I feel like that’s the type of thing he wouldn’t want me to overshare and he doesn’t relate but also I feel like it’s shady that I don’t want to confess…?

I was ruminating, even though I shouldn’t be. I remembered another time when I had the weird feeling I can’t explain. It was two years back when I was playing a game on my phone and a weird ad came up for another game. The ad basically had a girl who farted and felt embarrassed. It was a cartoon. I got a similar feeling. I started panicking that I had a fetish for farting or something. I remembered that there was a video I watched on porn in the past where a girl queefed during sex and I was turned on because it was probably embarrassing. Anyways, when I saw that ad It reminded me of this porn video. Since I got the similar weird/adrenaline feeling when seeing videos of kids uncomfortable, I am afraid that it really is sexual.

I have had what I think is Harm OCD since the age of 10. My mom didn’t understand when I told her “I feel like I might kill someone” which ultimately led to me suffering in silence until the age of 20 where I was just diagnosed with GAD. Since being on Zoloft for over 10 years I did relatively well. I would have small flair ups, but was able to pull myself out of it. Now, since having my second child, I have completely relapse and I struggle almost daily. I was weaned off of Zoloft and put on Lexapro. Which seemed to work and now I’m back to square one. TL;DR My thought is that I would choke my children. It sometimes almost feels like and urge (my hands feel weird). This is the last think I ever want to do and it causes me distress to the point of panic. TW: Sucide. Sometimes I think it’s better if I’m just not here because I wouldn’t be a danger to my children. I often think about movies like shutter island and think I am like that mother. Or real some real like mother that drown her children that I saw on the news when I was a kid. It has also turned into Psychosis OCD at times where I am so afraid I am developing psychosis and that I would hurt my kids from that. Which comes with its whole own set of “rules” and fears. I’m just trying to find some confirmation that this is actually ocd or if I have something else. I’m just struggling. Thanks for reading.

Does anyone else think of the worst case scenario with everything? The smallest thing, like someone is late, you think maybe they've crashed their car. Or for example my friend told me today that she's having abdominal pains and is going for an ultra sound, and I'm immediately thinking what if it's cancer. I do this with myself and most people around me, it's worse some times than others.

I have major health ocd. I had an mri scheduled but I couldn't go through with it as soon as they put me in the machine. I also have to get the mri with iv contrast dye. They rescheduled me for a bigger mri machine and dr have me a prescription for 1mg xanax. Does anyone have tips for mris? I really just want to get this over with

In my past relationship that lasted for years, I so many obsessive thoughts and intrusive thoughts that I listened to like “you don’t really love him. You’re just pretending”. I told him when I would have these thoughts and I could tell that this was not helping our relationship when I would tell him, but the compulsions felt better when I did it. We eventually broke up, and even though he swore it was not because of my ocd, I can’t help but think that I scared him. Flash forward two years and I’ve met this other man. I am worried that my intrusive thoughts about relationship worries will get the best of me and I will end things before they even get good. I think I am more prepared for this time but I’m still worried. I wish I could just stay in the moment and not catastrophic everything.

I went to a used car dealer to look at a car (I’ve never bought a used car so this was a first). The place was a little shady. I almost didn’t go in but I told myself to not let fear stop me so I went in. They had the car pulled out for me already and asked me if I wanted to drive it. I said sure! And they said they had to take a picture of my driver’s license in order for me to drive it. I allowed it and then went for the test drive. Now I’m worried that because the place was so shady looking, that they are going to steal my identity and then commit crimes under my name and my whole life will be over. Please help! It’s hard to say if this is my OCD or not.