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morning all! it’s been awhile since i’ve been on the app but i wanted to share 2 poems i wrote for my creative writing class about ocd: the first is the illness and the second is the results of treatment. i thought this might be relatable/inspiring to a lot of you on here and i’m really proud of them, so i would really appreciate if you could take the time to read it and give feedback! thanks guys, i love you all :) poem #1 good morning. remember what you did last night? didn’t think so. go get some breakfast. don’t drink the milk, what if there’s something wrong with it? i said don’t drink the milk, you never know. good. eat quickly, your life is on the line. go back to your room and get changed. why can’t you just relax? don’t straighten your hair today. it would be far too tempting to burn yourself. what if you suddenly want to burn yourself? better lock it up and out of sight. just in case. drive to school. go twenty-three miles over. what if someone is following you? or what if the buildings on either side of the road explode? you want to be far away from the blast. someone is following you. what if someone is following you? sit down at your desk. someone clicks their pen. take it from them and break it. no? hurt them. think about it. you know you want to. you know you want to. you know you want to. no you don’t.   you’re so defiant. what if you do? maybe you do. ~~ poem #2 good morning. you slept well last night for the first time in a while. you had a dream about a pretty girl and a picnic. go get some breakfast. you can swallow, no lump in your throat. take your time, savor it. you can go back to your room and get changed now. your footsteps fall swiftly, easily onto the floor. your straightener sits on the counter in the bathroom. what if you suddenly want to burn yourself? you don’t respond anymore. my grip softens. you drive to school. you go five miles over. you admire the magnificent streaks of sunrise in the sky and reflect on a time when it nearly wasn’t enough to make you stay. is it enough for you now? it’s more than enough. you sit down at your desk. someone clicks their pen. the rustling of papers. you smile at the person next to you and they smile back. crinkled eyes, a spark of joy, a sigh of relief, you made it.   you made it. what if you hadn’t? but you did.

please help!!! :( Okay so like i'm in a relationship and i really love my partner so since i used to have another ocd theme i started to immediately think that i have rocd, which i'm positive that i don't since i only have small doubts, the thing i worry about the most is either i have rocd or not , so i worry if i have to " stop doing compulsions " but i get confused if they even are compulsions..? so like yeah :(I really just want to be happy with my partner :(1 love them so much :( Normally it's normally just thoughts like " what if they don't like me because im weird" but i just avoid doing any compulsions but they don't really bother me so im confused

I cant believe this is happening to me

I’m so nervous... I have a psychiatrist appointment in a few days so I can start on meds. I’m fucking terrified. My hypochondria is through the roof but I really could use something to take the edge off my anxiety so I can focus on doing things. I haven’t even been vaccinated because of my hypochondria and because of my mothers constant fear mongering shit. Anything to do with modern medicine solutions she gets me to feel anxious about it and tries to say they do more harm than good and it fucks with my head since I’m already telling myself that shut 24/7 and to have someone else say it to you too and enforce the ideas... it makes me so fucking angry and upset. I want to take meds. I want to get vaccinated. Those are two things that are extremely difficult for me to do and I wish that they weren’t because they’re so simple.

I remember getting butterflies in my chest/stomach area when I was 15 to a gay scene from an anime that was playing in the anime club at my high school. I remember being anxious and nervous the first time I saw it and I avoided the series and I never talked about the incident. I never questioned my sexuality after that either, as I had a crush on a girl at the time. This event happened before my HOCD kicked into high gear. My HOCD is telling me that since I got butterflies to that gay kissing scene, it means that I’m gay or bisexual in denial and I’m currently scared for my sexuality and my identity because of this.

i just want these horrible disgusting thoughts to stop, i cant even be happy anymore! i cant even live my life! they’re so debilitating and horrific that they stop me from loving myself or being myself because i feel too guilty and upset with my own self to love myself. i never asked for this, i never would ever ever think of these things but somehow my mind TURNS SO DARK and i feel so uncomfortable being in my own body. death sometimes seems easier than this...i am not suicidal but my ocd tells me i am everyday, it’s like whatever thought i say to myself to reassure like “no i am a good person! i don’t want this thought!” my ocd will stab me in the back and say “ur not a good person! ur lying! ur actually evil! good people don’t think this way! u should die!” and i get so scared...like i am a lie, everything i say or do is a lie...everyone around me is being “fooled” by me...but i feel like i am just trying to get through life, i have no evil intent, i couldn’t even hurt a fly LITERALLY i like cant even hurt flies because i feel a sense of guilt...i am so upset with myself and the way i let my ocd take over my life like this. i go on a trip in 3 days with my best friends and i want to let go and have fun and forget about my intrusive thoughts and not feel evil or disgusted...i am so broken I AM SO BROKEN! how does one come back from such a dark place and such evil intrusive thoughts, i feel traumatized by my own intrusive thoughts.

Im really starting to doubt starting medication. Like ssri’s all i hear is it makes u fat, lazy and when you stop taking them you are a mess. Im terrified because i dont want to regret taking them but i know i need them :(

Whenever I’m alone with a kid I get so uncomfortable. Like rn I had to take my niece somewhere and my mind was telling me you’re gonna touch her and I get so uncomfortable because I started getting groinal response. Now when I got home my mind started telling me I did something to her. Does anyone else go through this

Everytime I think of beastiality and I give into my ocd I end up researching it and checking my arousal on videos etc I always feel really aroused. It's always dogs licking woman down below or sniffing there crotch and I dont want to be aroused by these things. Does this sound like I just enjoy these things or ocd ?

Was talking to a guy for a few months and I have health stuff that's happened on top of my ocd. (Seizures etc) and health stuff has made my ocd flare up. Lots of time im bed, lots of time to think. He came over, made moves on me, then I started questioning everything. (He wasn't clear about what we even were) Relationship ocd overload. Well he didn't wanna deal with any of it so he up and left pretty fast. Im devestated. He won't see me or really talk to me. And I feel really alone. Has anyone dealt with people leaving bc of your ocd?

Any OCD questions about Obsession Themes? Just gonna have a new topic each day I guess ☺️

The scariest part of HOCD is not feeling that much attracted to the opposite sex suddenly. It makes you feel lost as in identity and your personality traits are not so rigid anymore. It's an awful feeling to have

i feel like my so-ocd is different from what i read on here? or maybe it’s not? idk. but when i obsessively think about the orientation i don’t want to to be, sometimes i get excited and happy about being that orientation and then i get anxious like “omg i felt happy about it!!!” huh? and i don’t understand why i can feel emotional happiness and peace like that

I feel like I'm flirting with every girl I talk to now.I'm gonna kill myself :(

I cannot sleep due to my OCD. I haven’t gotten adequate sleep in days. What do you guys do when you can’t sleep? Help! I need sleep to help recovery.

Why do intrusive thoughts or OCD occur? For instance, I have a girlfriend I have been with for almost two years and I made mistakes that hurt her and it was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through. I’m a good person I believe, but for some reason since I have told her I now overthink sometimes about my sexuality, liking other people, and even thinking mean things to her, even basic feelings for her. I also tell her all of these things because i never want to keep anything from her and have secrets because then i feel guilty. It’s just a never ending cycle of thinking something, telling her, then having the cycle repeat. I just believe everything I think is true and I can’t distinguish my thoughts from reality and what I truly believe. I’ve never had any of these problems before. I know I want to spend the rest of my life with her because she is the best woman I have ever met and she is so supportive, loving and makes me happy. It doesn’t get any better than her. I also know i want to be this amazing person for her that’s why i fight this so much. I just want to know the psychological reasoning behind these things because I’ve never had any of these issues ever in my life ever.

I need a friend with pocd (and maybe with false memories too) to talk to... I'm so sorry for the weird request, I just need a friend. I'm 24, f. Idk what to do anymore

The urge to confess should I ? Should I not? I feel like when I confess I feel at peace ugh. Tips ??

I suffer from PCOD thoughts at the moment. I’ve been ruminating and obsessing about them for days on end. I believe I’ve suffered from Ocd thoughts since I was a kid, back then it was religious type thoughts like , going to hell for being blasphemous, then my thoughts morphed Into HOCD which I thought at one point was the worse of all thoughts to obsess and fear. I’ve always been the type to hold on to negativity and thoughts. Like when I suffered from Insomnia a few months back, I was convincing myself I had some kind of terminal disease that would cause me to lose sleep forever and eventually die, my eye floaters have gotten worse the past month and I started obsessing over those thinking I was going blind. Now with these PCOD thoughts I feel like these are the motherload of negative obsessional thoughts. I’m at the point of feeling like Hanging in by a thread when is this thread gonna snap. My thoughts were recently triggered by my pregnancy. Found out I was pregnant 2 weeks ago. I feel like them theme has always made me uncomfortable and the thoughts were there before but somehow I was able to manage them because they don’t bother me or I didn’t make a big deal out of them . Now it’s like I just don’t see an escape from this hell i’m living in. I guess my question is, because I’ve been on various types of medications all my life , what medication has helped you guys out with your OCD thoughts? I suffer from inward compulsions too not the “typical” ocd compulsions. It’s hard for me to say what’s worked for me since I’ve stopped and started so much medicine. Because I’m also pregnant at the moment no psychiatrist wants to prescribe anything. Sorry for the long post guys.

i would really appreciate if carl cornett oils respond to this? someone with ocd just told me that i am heterophobic and biphobic. (my ocd is making me this way). and when i told them i’m not trying to be insensitive to bisexual peop because i think bisexuality is valid and beautiful, i just have ocd too like them and it makes me act this way— and also i don’t care about other people being bi it’s only me i care about being bi (or heterosexual) just like how i think all bodies are beautiful but because of my body dysmorphia i think my body is disgusting. and then they said i have a victim mentality and using my mental health as excuses and i’m being abusive to them. i don’t know what to think anymore