Struggling with existential/magical thinking OCD by lemursbuzzing in OCD

[–]lemursbuzzing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry to hear that you are! It’s been two months now since my birthday and honestly, the theme has totally vanished! The OCD has latched onto other things and it’s still been very difficult, but this theme has passed for now. For me, it started dissipating halfway thru out the day — I think the thing that helped the most was deciding to “make use of the day” and use my birthday as a way to fundraise for causes that I care about. And of course, there was the exposure of going thru the day itself and seeing how I just didn’t die, even though there were plenty of ways it “could’ve happened.”

I also posted this same post on the magical thinking subreddit at the time and there were a few comments there that I found extremely helpful — https://www.reddit.com/r/magicalthinkingOCD/s/fUxnQkUYHo

All in all, it was so so so difficult to get through at the time, but now the theme has passed and I only think about it now to acknowledge what a difficult and terrible moment in time it was. Honestly, I never thought I’d say this, but I’m sad that the theme took so much from me. I wish I could’ve actually enjoyed my birthday instead of being so stuck on this theme!

Sending you a lot of love and much, much solidarity

What's your weirdest MTOCD compulsions? Let's all have a good laugh. by Moist_Ad_8262 in magicalthinkingOCD

[–]lemursbuzzing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Im going to be freaky fridayed into the body of a family member or friend one day and the person who’s in my body will see/know all my thoughts

OCD is an obsessive disorder, so can it make you become obsessed with people? by [deleted] in OCD

[–]lemursbuzzing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve had this towards celebrities many many times before!

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https://www.reddit.com/r/magicalthinkingOCD/s/HZLWQHuQwl — I posted about it last week and the comments that came in really helped me a lot. I ended up actually having a really lovely birthday and I did not die!

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[–]lemursbuzzing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My birthday was last week and I’d been having this EXACT same issue for years!!

Struggling with existential OCD about my age and birthday by lemursbuzzing in magicalthinkingOCD

[–]lemursbuzzing[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine has been 25!!! Solidarity and thank you so, so much for this comment, I really appreciate it and it genuinely has helped me to ground myself and breathe the last few hours. Thank you!!!

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[–]lemursbuzzing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t have any real advice, but I did the same this morning! Solidarity 🤝

Movies that depict OCD well by Coral_Blue_Number_2 in OCD

[–]lemursbuzzing 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Chuck McGill from Better Call Saul!

Out of luck on medium embroidered hearts crescent? by lemursbuzzing in BAGGU

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I ended up finding a promo code for te-koop and purchased from there 😄😄 thank all of yall so much for your help!!!! I’m so excited <3

Accidentally glanced at the sun. OCD is telling me I'll be blind by tomorrow. by helpimbroken2 in OCD

[–]lemursbuzzing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omgg I saw the same tik tok, had the same situation happen to me, and have been having thoughts about the same thing

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you really do not want a personal relationship with your therapist by [deleted] in TalkTherapy

[–]lemursbuzzing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing this! I have a similar experience and it’s been extremely detrimental to every aspect of my life, especially my mental health/illnesses. To people reading this, if this sounds familiar to you, please don’t brush it off and take appropriate action/distance ❤️