OCD, anxiety and doubts..
Hi lovely people.. i appreciate you all so much and thank you for listening to me. My main issue is i make up these negative stories and then worry about them.. for example i doubt what i am doing and i think i may have done the wrong thing and that plays over in my mind and tells me something bad is going to happen, like the end is coming.. i have had a fear for things that i think may be dirty or contaminated for years now but in the last 2 weeks after covid it has become overwhelming. So if there is an object that i attached fear to, the doubt will come in if i am around it and tell me that i just touched it or something.. anyone else deals with this?
@PoppyTops
Hey PoppyTops,
Firstly, I love that username! It’s so catchy!
Anyway, thank you so much for appreciating us, but we appreciate you even more for sharing your story, so my name is FrenchMarbles. It’s really nice to meet you today and thank you for coming to the anxiety forum.
Reading up your story I felt your pain, it’s really hard because it can start off with something really minor that might be true, and then it snowballs into a huge issue that might not even be a thing. But the brain unfortunately is a little silly and thinks it’s in absolute danger.
With regards to feeling contaminated, I think most of us can finally understand that feeling with the coronavirus spreading through the world, it gives people a small idea of what it’s like for people with OCD, even though it will never come close.
I don’t have OCD, but I do have anxiety and I can sort of relate to this. I want to thank you for sharing your story with us today.
FrenchMarbles
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@PoppyTops I am sorry you are dealing with this!
I also have contamination OCD and it is very tough to deal with, but currently doing ERP and other therapies to help. Doubt is a huge part of OCD as I am sure you already know. I am looking into I-CBT that targets that doubt more than ERP which I hope will help. I have some post related to it in the Support Plus Community.
If you are interested in learning more, we have a subcommunity for OCD in the Support Plus Community. You can join the community at this link here. We also have an OCD tag list for updates on the community you can join here as well. We have OCD Support Sessions Wednesdays 8pm ET.
