Real Event OCD | 10 Treatment Tips

How do you experience Real Event OCD? 👍🏻

My real event OCD comes with a lot of shame, almost like my brain is looking for reasons to make me feel bad. It also overlaps with other themes. Sometimes it feels so real that it's difficult to believe it's OCD..

the really frustrating thing about confession compulsions is that no matter how many people tell me that what happened isn't a big deal, the ocd tells me they're biased or I'm not telling them enough or they must just be wrong there's no way to satisfy it, but it still feels like it's eating me alive

As somebody who suffered for years I found my salvation in a simple response of “I don’t know” I was bombarded by multiple memories and thousands upon thousands of relentless questions until they just went away. I offered nothing more than “I don’t know” No matter how impossible it felt to move on, no matter how terrifying it was, no matter the guilt, no matter the shame, no matter how desperate it felt. The thoughts went away. I honestly hope my experience can help someone to move on with their life. But ultimately “I don’t know” 😄

My brain always goes "yeh but THIS TIME it's real, THIS time you NEED to be thinking about it"

Reviewing the Tips: 1. Use your obsessions to understand yourself 2. Make a list of what gets neglected in your life because of compulsions 3. "If I let these thoughts and emotions determine what I do in the next few minutes or an hour, will it get me closer to the person I want to be or will it move me even futher away" 4. Put a visible reminder somewhere that it's OCD is the issue. Not the past event 5. Practice self-compassion 6. Do not try to get rid of your thoughts and emotions 7. Ban rumination 8. Be willing to live with the fact that your scary thoughts may be right 9. Seek treatment 10. Make sure that your therapist specializes in OCD and practice ERP

I feel like searching for these videos is a compulsion 😂

It's like my ocd is trying to prove by bringing up these memories and thought is that I am a bad person

Remember you are not an exception. You are trying your best like most other humans on this earth. It's not like you're uniquely evil. Other people don't talk about these things because they can be shameful and they don't have an obligation to bring it up or dwell on it. Please seek ERP therapy and get your life back on track. That is what I am doing. I know it feels so threatening, but you can do it.

As much as I know I have OCD, the things I have done in the past aren't small. I believe I deserve to be punished for them, even if it's just beating myself up mentally about it. I don't want to be oblivious to what I've done and blame it on OCD.

I have done things in my past that are bad. My OCD uses this to reassure I'm a bad person. The guilt of the past and the fear of intrusive thoughts can be overwhelming at times where I cant breathe or be comfortable. I cant help ruminating as I need to KNOW I'm not a bad person. This video helps and the comments do as well. Does anyone else feel this way, extreme guilt and fear of uncertainty? Thanks for the videos, you're calm demeanor and understanding give me hope

My brain recycles different experiences on a weekly basis. It tells me that I’m horrible and that I’m going to end up being a felon or serial killer because I’ve done some stupid things as a teenager. I have a week without any symptoms then it crashes over me like large wave and then I go back to 24/7 rumination about the experiences. This is getting rough

I envision "the mists of time." We want to erase it. But we can't change the past. So instead, we can leave it in the past. Allow your brain to forget it even happened. Envision the mists of time, and allow them to have that moment, instead of you. It's not who you are. It was just a stumble. Stand up now, in the present moment.

I really suffer with this one. I suddenly remember things I did or thought or felt months or years ago and feel just crushed by it until I'm disconnected from reality and I just can't believe I could have not only done the thing but not realized how bad it was until now.

“ Train your brain 🧠 to move forward” 👏👏

One thing I noticed is that Real Event Ocd makes me feel extremely awful and terrible about these events but when I actually look at the events, it aint really something that serious. Its like my ocd has put an extreme tide of anxiety and guilt that's not really compatible with the real events themselves

While watching this my mind kept screaming: “why are you watching this? You don’t have ocd. What you did was bad and now it’s your time to pay, stop looking for a way around it.” It’s hard not to listen when the voice is so loud…

This has been a really tough thing for me for the past three weeks. I am currently obsessing over some pretty bad stuff i did as 12 year old without noticing it by then. It also overlapses with my moral scrupulosity OCD and my POCD, especially this one. It makes me feel like I'm worthless and a bad person and like i don't deserve a good and fulfilling future. It stands in the way of healing myself and connecting with people and simply living in the present. Thoughts like "I am a horrible monster and everyone around me is normal and can enjoy a deserved happy life and I don't" are daily basis. I also suffer from extreme disconnection from reality, my friends, my family and mostly myself. I look in the mirror and don't know who i am anymore and i feel no empathy for my reflection. It causes s*icidual thoughts even tho i actually love life and don't want to d*e. What i did doesn't align with my values at all and the most terrible thing is that i am incapable of forgiving myself or showing myself compassion. I just want to be normal and i want to do school and love myself but i feel so undeserving of love

Every time I think about anything, my brain connects it back. I can't sleep, I can't even sit blanky without thinking about it. Thanks for this. It's helping a bit.

This made me realize I value kids and being nice to others. I have POCD and when I get scared of the thoughts, I want to protect them from the threat, I'm the type of guy if he sees a child in danger of a pedo, I want to save the child, protect it. I fear being like a pedo due to my sexual abuse when I was 13 by a classmate, he was older than I and had took advantage of me by calling it a game. – and being nice to others, I can't stand to hurt someone's feelings, when I hurt someone, I start OCDing about it. This video helped a lot!!