Intrusive thoughts and Severe anxiety in relationship
TRIGGER WARNING ( ABUSE , GROOMING DEPRESSION ANXIETY
Hello! I hope I can get some support and messages here because i somewhat want reassurance and need to communicate these thoughts aloud.. rather than place them in my notes app.
Well! In my life I am a survivor? Of child neglect/ abuse and SA (s*xual a*use) I went from home to home between my Diane and my grandmother and I had received love there but then my mom had got custody of me and she was very neglectful of me and my emotions even after I told her abt my abuse. I yearned for her love. I wanted my dear mother. Well years later I was severely depressed and sought out love relationship’s— I loved very hard. In the end for all my relationship I was too clingy and was too much for them. One of my relationships ended because I was too much and the others ended because they treated me horribly such as taking advantage of me. One of my relationships did so much damage to me, I was taking advantage of and lost majority of my friends because of him. He was a bad person, he kept me around just to have other girlfriends but still gave me hope. I know half of this was my fault because I kept sticking my hand into the lions den, wanting for my love to be reciprocated. Years later I was online groomed and taken advantage of her again, I told myself I wasn’t going to be in another relationship. Months later I met my now boyfriend. I gave him lots of love and there were obstacles at first and we took a break. When I realized my now boyfriend is who I want to be I decided to take it upon myself to change for the better, because I didn’t want my relationship to be like the others I wanted to be better for myself and him. I wanted to put into effort to be healthy. I have been on and off of birth control because of medical issues and I had gotten my period when all this stress started. I kept stressing over the fact if I actually loved my boyfriend. I was obsessing over this thought and I kept checking with my friend for reassurance hoping I didn’t do anything wrong and I cried day and night about these thoughts because they just persisted like no other. I was going insane. I kept searching it up and worrying because I never had this thought before and it suddenly occurred. I wrote down reasons why I like him and love him ( that I can’t really explain because I feel as if it’s more ) and it all was so confusing because my thoughts didn’t correlate with what I felt?! I started to see this one dude I was attracted to before I got with my boyfriend and I started to become anxious of him. I started to have bad anxiety wondering if I didn’t love my boyfriend because I was attracted to him and I started to compare them and obsess over this! I started to check if I had any romantic or sexual feelings for him and I felt nothIng. Nothing at all. I started to check with every boy I saw. I started to develop intrusive thoughts and think about these dudes even though I didn’t want to and they didn’t entice me. I felt nothing. When I thought of these other dudes I had a headache, brain fog and etc but when I just thought about my boyfriend my head was clear I was calm and just happy. My boyfriend makes me happy, safe and secure I want him to feel the same way and I feel like *** to even have these thoughts about these other men. These thoughts just persist and come out of nowhere like a car is ramming into me. They won’t stop coming and I keep obsessing over if I like these men or not, I check if I have a damn groinal response everytime. I cried because it was like I can’t be happy and I really want this to work with my boyfriend I do. And I feel as if I get into another relationship ( which I do not want to do! ) it’ll be the same result! It scares me. I sometimes finding myself pushing my boyfriend away because of these thoughts and fear of abandonment but I find myself hanging on because I’m like wtf am I doing? In my head this all is trivial and so stupid. When I am with him I rarely feel like this. But sometimes when we engage in sexual activities I sometimes have an Intrusive thought— these thoughts make me physically sick.
I do not wish to be with these men, I do not wish to be touched by these men, they don’t excite me like my boyfriend do. They don’t make me feel the way he does. I want to make him feel good like he is on top of the world. I don’t want to make my boyfriend sad and he told me it was worrying I think this way and it made me sad. When my boyfriend feels sad I feel his sadness, it makes me cry. I hate seeing him sad I want him to be happy. I want to hug him when he doesn’t feel well and kiss him. Hold him and make sure he knows I love him.
I also cannot be diagnosed for any mental illnesses but I am looking to others and they’re saying it could be a type of ocd.
thank you for reading this rant haha <3
im starting to get tired and overthink more. I get tired of living in my brain everyday. I’m so tired. Thinking about these people just give me anxiety and everytime I see this person I get nervous thinking if I see them it means something. I feel guilty for even having these thoughts and I hate that I am like this. I’m tired of crying alone and asking the world why I can’t be happy why is my brain like this I’m so tired. My first healthy relationship and I feel like I’m ruining it.
There’s a myth that when you’re in a committed relationship, you’re not supposed to be attracted to anyone else. I believed this myth for a long time, and when I started to realize my partner saw other people attractive, it hurt. But it happens with everyone! We’re human. It doesn’t mean you don’t love your boyfriend.
There is so much more to relationships than physical attraction, and it seems like you really love him FOR him. Hold onto that! If he makes you happy, and you love him, take stock in that. That is what’s important, not these thoughts.
You are probably experiencing more of these thoughts because you are so worried about them. The more you stress over something, the more it manifests itself into something bigger. It could also be because you’re missing something in your relationship. If you feel as though there’s not enough intimacy, that can be a conversation.
It is also difficult because of your last relationships. Those were not healthy, and I’m sure there’s still a feeling of uncertainty or fear. It’s easier said than done, but take stock in what you have with him.
Im not really sure if this will help you at all, but I hope it does.