I woke up yesterday morning and was thinking about playing a game on my phone later that evening. I then saw a word that means bad luck and started worrying about the app. I tried to push it out my head but then later that day I started seeing one certain number a lot on car number plates. I tried telling myself it was just the frequency illusion and moved on to other things but then kept seeing it on my phone too. I woke up today and thought ok I’m not seeing it now. Then thought what if it was a sign to delete the app off my phone. I told myself no you could pick any number and see it loads ..read more

Hey everyone, I'm really struggling with obsessive slowness and could use some advice. I am obsessively slow about certain things. I can sit at my desk staring at my laptop screen all day, with some task in the background that I'm obsessing about. Often something trivial. But if I can't get the 'just right' feeling, I can't do it. I've tried all sorts of stuff (mantras and so on) to stop this, and I've had some therapy (though the therapist wasn't that great). This has helped, but I want to know if anyone has found any mental 'trick' or anything to help, because I think ERP will only take me ..read more

Hi! I'm a 19 year old that hasn't been actually diagnosed by a psychiatrist but the two different psychologists I saw for 4 years were pretty sure that I have health ocd. I actually have been diagnosed with contamination one. As medication I was given paroxetine and it had been working pretty good. With all this context in mind, for these past five days I've been experiencing really bad left arm pain. It started out as pressure and tingling on my back and arm and it has evolved to really bad sort of electrick shock like pain combined with pressure, as if my arm is being squeezed. I have gotte ..read more

tw for mentions of suicide i don’t know why but my intrusive thoughts keep manifesting themselves in my dreams and i fucking hate it. i had to create an entire throwaway account just to rant about this because it’s so humiliating. i have struggled with incestuous intrusive thoughts for as long as i can remember and it genuinely makes me want to end my life. it’s so hard to talk about because i sound like a goddamn freak. i have no idea why they’ve always been around, but i wish they wouldn’t. it’s ruining me. anyways, it’s getting to a point where they’re showing up in my dreams (this is only ..read more

Idk if this is just a personal thing but I find when I’m deep in an OCD spiral that my brain is so loud and quite literally screaming at me. One side is logical and I’m trying to reason with myself but then the other side is screaming at me that my intrusive thoughts are real and that I have to deal with it right now otherwise something bad is going to happen or the intrusive thought will come true. Do any of y’all experience this? Because when this happens I’m hysterical, panicking and literally so confused and scared it’s like I’m going insane during these spirals. submitted by /u/Decent-L ..read more

Does anyone else act as though someone is silently watching and critiquing their actions? This applies to IRL actions but for me this also comes down to my online activity. When doing anything online I often act as though someone is or will eventually look through every message, post, search or action I've ever made and will be judging me for it. Whether it be a hacker, some government agency, or what have you. It causes me immense anxiety and often I worry about being embarrassed or exposed for something I may have said, posted, searched etc. At times I obsess over possibly having accidental ..read more

I joined a discord server my friend invited me to. I assumed he would invite me to an 18 plus thing since we're both in our twenties and I made a sexual joke and said I was "gooning" and secondary before I made the joke I was like wait what if this isn't 18 plus but I made it anyway cuz I just assumed he would but it wasn't 18 plus and I only made the joke cuz I like to troll and say weird stuff and I wasn't gonna stay in the server. I felt bad immediately after and I left, I am just used to being in servers that have that kind of humor and I forget I'm not 14 anymore when I was 14 I used to ..read more

i managed to get an appointment two weeks ago with a new psychiatrist (i had one before so im not new to meds, he was the one also diagnosing me with OCD and validating my feelings and experiences for the first time). he kept interrupting me so idk if it was miscommunication or what but he ended up prescribing me alonzapine (at night) and zoloft (after lunch), plus xanax one 0.5 mg pill in the morning. after finding out that the first was an antipsychotic and reading about the horror stories of people taking it, I freaked out and I still haven't started taking anything. plus in my country it ..read more

I need reassurance or for someone to let me know if this is a reasonable concern. I know I shouldn’t be seeking reassurance but I need someone to talk me through this situation. On March 27th at work in the morning I sat down to eat my breakfast before my clients arrived. I ran my spoon under the water to and wiped the residue water off with a paper towel. After eating I noticed the paper towel had something red on it that resembled blood. I started freaking out but tried to remain calm. On April 16, I had a laparoscopic cystectomy where I had two very large cystic masses removed off of my ov ..read more

Or at least where the main character has ocd. Theres shows where it depicts depression, but nothing that depicts OCD. I think it’d genuinely be good character development if the main character has ocd then later on in the series slowly gets better at defeating it submitted by /u/3sperr [visit reddit] [comments ..read more