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Polar30

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  1. Thanks for your reply. I get what you're trying to say. I read a lot of stories of other people who suffered from the same thing and almost always thought to myself: "Meh, it's not that bad. Why can't he/she just get over it?" For example I read the story about some other guy on here who kissed a 12 year old girl. I understand why he'd feel embarrassed about it, but he didn't do it on purpose so I don't see why he'd have to worry so much about it. The thing is that I know that what I did was objectively "bad". This makes me wonder if - instead of it "just being OCD" - my consciense might be bothering me because what I did was really awful. Like I said, I've never been obsessing over any other mistakes before and can't possibly think of anything else that would make me feel the same way. And this is really bothering me. I know you're probably going to say that this all is typical for real event OCD, and that I should just get over it since the past is the past and I wouldn't do it again, but I don't know. I just can't get it off my mind.
  2. Hello, I was wondering if there are any people on here who have experience with 'Real event OCD'? The last few weeks I've been worrying about something that I did years ago. All of a sudden it just popped back into my mind and I've been obsessing over it ever since. There are moments when I simply can't stop ruminating, even though that's obviously not helping. I'd prefer not to go into too much detail right now, but I realize that what I did was simply pathetic and I would never do it again. There are moments when I feel guilty/ashamed and think to myself: "How on earth could you do something like that? You're pathetic." There are also brief moments when I feel a bit better about myself, but those usually don't last very long. I've been reading some articles about real event OCD and have been looking up experiences of other people. Most of what I read makes sense and sounds familiar. However, I've read that reassurance doesn't help, because it usually only lasts for a brief moment before you start obsessing about something else. I'm not sure if that'd would also be the case for me, because this is the first 'real thing' that I've been obsessing about and I can't think of anything else I've ever done that would trigger this. And honestly, this worries me that I've actually done something bad. I was wondering if there are any people on here who have experience with this type of OCD and are or have been going through the same thing? If so, I would love to chat!
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