OCD Help Chat

Anonymous61900

Hi all, i always have this urge sensation to take a deep breathe every minute or second, if i dont or resist, i will fee very uncomfortable. Anyone have this similar symptoms? Is this OCD?

Anonymous278

Anyone with false memory ocd recover? How did you get the courage to stop checking when the content of the thoughts is so horrible?

Anonymous61502

I suffer too

Ali Greymond

Anonymous61900

Hi all, i always have this urge sensation to take a deep breathe every minute or second, if i dont or resist, i will fee very uncomfortable. Anyone have this similar symptoms? Is this OCD?

Hi, yes this is sensorimotor OCD. You need to constantly divert attention. Don't control it, instead go to another thought and let it take care of itself.

Ali Greymond

Anonymous278

Anyone with false memory ocd recover? How did you get the courage to stop checking when the content of the thoughts is so horrible?

Hi, I had false memory OCD and I recovered. I got the courage because after awhile you start to see that the thoughts are all the same. It's just about having enough and taking a chance.

Ali Greymond

Anonymous61873

Hi Ali, how do we deal with comparing ourselves and our symptoms to those of others that don’t have OCD? I find I’m constantly saying “if this happened to them and this was their situation it’ll likely be mine. What if it’s a sign it’ll be me next?” Been feeling triggered by that lately and I don’t know how to move past it.

you have to use acceptance tools here. The fact is that this is your situation. Every person has a health issue. Me and you have this one. You need to accept it and stop comparing. You can overcome this fully. It's just about refusing to ruminate. A least you can recover from OCD unlike other health issues.

Ali Greymond

Anonymous61821

my head keeps making me feel guilty and when I "remember a memory'" I get so shameful and want to throw up

you need to distance yourself from these thoughts, don't hyper focus on them. As you distance yourself they will start to feel less real. You are too zoomed in to them.

Anonymous61932

I get immense anxiety if I find someone attractive. I start to get intrusive images about this person and I start to think this means I have feelings for them and I am betraying my partner. I even dont know these people I have never spoken to them but I get intrsive images. How to cope with this? I love my partner and I dont want to leave

Ali Greymond

Anonymous61865

Also, how can the theme of the thought or nature of it change so suddenly and make you get anxious about the new one and completely not care about the old one? How does that work

this is how OCD works. Whatever you are putting your attention on grows.

Ali Greymond

Anonymous61864

My fear is that if I don't try to stop or cancel the thoughts they'll slip by me and manifest where I'm frantically and desperately saying 'cancel', imagining the colour violet transmuting the thoughts and trying to replace it with a positive thought instead. This has been exhausting and tormenting for me and I feel twisted up inside. Could you advise on how to deal with this? Thank you.

I find it helpful to say a funny phrase. Say "I'm not a magician and because I'm not a magician I'm going to refuse." It will be uncomfortable but you can do this.

Ali Greymond

Anonymous61865

When checking for certain feelings in rocd, does it make you feel the opposite of the feeling you’re trying to achieve? Or not feel the feeling at all? This has been the most difficult for me

Try to not check for feelings, that's a compulsion and OCD will always make it feel not exactly right, so you need to recheck. Choose not to go down that road.

Ali Greymond

Anonymous61932

allow your feelings to come in as they come in. You are allowed to have feelings and your partner can have these feelings too. It's normal, you need to choose to disregard.

Anonymous61932

Ali Greymond

allow your feelings to come in as they come in. You are allowed to have feelings and your partner can have these feelings too. It's normal, you need to choose to disregard.

Thank you for responding. I know this is normal and I letting these feelings be has been helpful before. However lately I got a new trigger. If I get these triggers so often does it mean I dont love my partner enough?

Anonymous278

Ali Greymond

Hi, I had false memory OCD and I recovered. I got the courage because after awhile you start to see that the thoughts are all the same. It's just about having enough and taking a chance.

Thanks Ali! When you take that risk and step back do you eventually realize it’s all ocd and start thinking logically again?

Anonymous60092

With ERP, if im not having the thought should I bring the thought back to practice response prevention? Or should I just allow the thought to come whenever it comes?

Julie

Ali Greymond

Try to not check for feelings, that's a compulsion and OCD will always make it feel not exactly right, so you need to recheck. Choose not to go down that road.

Thank you Ali! I really appreciate this

Anonymous60092

Also, how do I know im disregarding the thoughts or avoiding them?

Anonymous61964

Ali Greymond

Thank you so much for answering!

Anonymous61965

Ali Greymond

Thank you so much Ali. This kind of thinking has driven me insane lately, even opening up another OCD theme. Your words mean so much, what tools should I use best in these kind of scenarios?

Anonymous61864

Thanks for responding. A spiritual author said we need to be responsible for our thoughts because they create and as our consciousness grows our thoughts manifest more rapidly. This really freaked me out and I feel so unstable/unable to control my thoughts and by trying not to think of all these bad scenarios I end up stuck with them in my head.

Anonymous62018

Ok, so I have a question regarding ocd over long-ago incidents. When I was a younger kid (10 or so years ago) I was one of those kids who stole things. A few years ago before I had ocd I was restoring things and cleaning up the mess. After basically pro

Anonymous62018

...procrastinating, I have in the past couple months been trying to finish them up and get these incidents behind me. However, in the interim of a few years I've developed ocd, including false memory ocd. Since I've started trying to get these past incidents behind me, the incidents popping into my head that I feel like I need to mentally try and remember what happened have just ballooned, ...

Anonymous62018

...and it is very mentally taxing to try to remember things from this long ago and I've spent lots of time on these memories trying to remember. I'm pretty suspicious false memory ocd is playing a part in here, but the problem is that I know that I did steal some things in the past, and so how do I separate the real from the ocd?

Joe

Currently the ocd has switched tactics- I am now not reacting to the thoughts as normal and now im freaking out as to why- Like having ocd about NOT having OCD. Its just using any tactic now- OCD just keeps switching its attacks

Anonymous8225

I used to hate my HOCD thoughts and then all of the sudden they kind of left and stopped bothering me. Then the other day I started getting thoughts again telling me what if you’re bi or what if you love one of your friends romantically and it felt as if I Like it? Like i used to hate these thoughts and I want to like boys. Please help am I gay in denial?

Anonymous62018

Anonymous61815

Can HOCD bring on feelings of false attraction? Like when I'm doing testing compulsions I have to look at images of girls to see if I'm attracted, and it feels like I actually might be but I don't know if it's just the constant fear in the back of my mind

As someone who has had and recovered from hocd, trust me on this. The fact that you're "testing compulsions" like you say is a dead giveaway that this is ocd and needs to be disregarded. Straight people worry that they're gay, and gay people worry that they're straight. That's how this nasty anxiety disorder works. So yes, disregard those scary feelings.

Anonymous62032

i have really bad ocd thoughts the day after drinking. I never drink to the point of black out, but I will get tipsy/drunk if I go out with my friends. The day after I always am worried I had s*x with someone and I forgot about it. I am trying to start disregarding these thoughts, since I have suffered with this same theme for years. But recently it has been hard for me to disregard them (1/2)

Anonymous62032

(2/2) since I then think I am avoiding figuring it out and just accepting that I could have been raped or had s*x. Does anyone have this issue when they started to disregard false memories? Any advice? It’s been very bad lately. Thanks.

Joe

Anonymous8225

No- its OCD. This is a part of the trick where it gets to the point where your wondering why your not chasing-- but it eventually gets you to compulse or ruminate- Its all OCD

Anonymous61815

How do I accept that the thoughts are OCD rather than accept that the thought is true? I feel like my HOCD thoughts have convinced me that I like girls and now I believe it and feel a lot of fear and anxiety making them feel even more true

Joe

you just need to sit with it and move on.. you need to realise that there there whether you like it or not-- You need to accept to presense not that it means anythinbg- OCD makes it feel that way- and thats what you need to do to push through- How long has it been saying the same s**t and nothing EVER happens- and it NEVER WILL! its ALL OCD. Sit with it and do not give it attention.!!!

Anonymous62032

I really can’t stop ruminating. How do I know the thoughts are really OCD and not real? I don’t want to stop “solving” a thought if it actually is real.

Anonymous61502

False memories are hell.... Guys what should I do?

Anonymous61502

Horrible things

Anonymous62080

Hi, I am a girl of 22 years old. In my home, my dad mom and me use same bathroom. My dad always forget to flush the toilet and I have to use the same closet. I get suicidal thoughts and anxiety and stressed when finding p**p on the closet and i have to flush it and use. Can I use the same closet after flushing ? And do i have to wash my private parts and legs with soap many times ? Am i neat ?

Anonymous62104

I had contamination OCD for the last ten years.i almost recovered. But my theme has shifted to POCD. I am terrified. Can someone help

Anonymous61691

My partner is doing recovery work for ROCD. But I find it difficult to know when Im enabling and when Im not. We recently had a talk or two about beauty standards, and when I realized I might be reassuring him I asked him. He told me that in fact this was part of the ERP. So Im a bit confused, its so difficult to know what's what.

Anonymous62122

Hi guys, since March 12th I've been experiencing a strange feeling. For the past 4 years I have always had an obsession with a black dot covering my mental images Since March 12th, I have had a panic attack and I have had a feeling that this black dot has got stuck somewhere in my mind. even if I think and do something else, this black dot is stuck in my brain and I can't think of anything else. I

Anonymous61502

I am not ok

Anonymous61502

Ι have panic attack

Anonymous61502

Can someone help me

Anonymous62194

Intrusive thoughts on god

Anonymous60092

Anonymous61815

You have to make a choice to see it as OCD

Anonymous62299

i have horrible ocd, sometimes i can’t tell the difference. i have real event ocd, so it’s hard to say that i’m not my thoughts because it happened. it’s not illegal, but morally questionable. i continue to hurt myself, and my self esteem has gotten so low since my first obsessive thoughts hit two months ago.

Anonymous62299

not hurt myself physically, but mentally^^

Anonymous62305

Hey Ali, I am worried about my thoughts so far. I'm worried if I had done something wrong in the past and can't remember. I can't remember doing anything like that. Is it possible for people to do wrong things and not remember? I am super scared of this, I searched all over but I couldn't get an answer. It was triggered by a youtube video that I looked at where somebody did this thing and I asked

Anonymous62305

myself. "Have I done this in the past and just forgotton it?" I really don't recal doing that.

Anonymous62339

I am thinking to much about that if i go to outside from home , may be washroom (stool) is happened by me, i am worry about it

Anonymous61459

Hi Ali, I've Rocd. The thought is stuck in my brain that "Did I chose the right partner?" What should I do

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