overthinking

[greenpigeon]

Hi everyone

I’ve struggled with contamination ocd for the past 5 years, and I’ve always had an attitude that I ‘don’t care’ about what people think of my diagnosis.

I’ve always cared about what my family and friends think, but never what strangers that I’m never going to see again think. But recently I’ve been meeting people that I wouldn’t class as friends but they’re not quite strangers. They’ve learnt about my problems and I’m really struggling with the constant battle In my head of trying to figure out what they really think. Some of these people have spoken to me about it and said things like, ‘it happens to some people’ or ‘it’s just a little quirk’ but are they just cover ups for them thinking I’m a total freak?

I think the reason it’s getting to me is because I’ve lost people in the past due to ocd, and I hate the idea of these people not wanting to get to know me more because of it.

Any tips on how to stop overthinking about how much better and free my life would be without ocd?

Thank you :))

[Natureloverpeace]

OCD sucks and it can be disabling but it is very treatable. We really don’t know how our lives would have turned out if we didn’t have OCD. We have OCD , we can’t change that but we can get freedom from it. Treatment from a qualified OCD specialist can help us to live life better than we did before OCD struck. We can learn how to be in the driver’s seat again instead of OCD being our puppet master. Kicking OCD’s butt to the curb helps us to be confident, resilient and to learn distress tolerance. It can help us to learn the difference between our voice and the voice of OCD so that we can trust and believe in ourselves.

[WildernessMAn]

Hello GreenPigeonThanks for reaching out and sharing. It sounds like you are growing from the Inside out. Thats huge. You go girl.