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sarahsnapdragon
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PathStep 47 Compassion hearts44 Forum posts23 Forum upvotes25 Current upvotes25 Age GroupAdult Last activeMarch, 2025 Member sinceJuly 17, 2021
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new ocd help
OCD & Related Behaviors / by sarahsnapdragon
Last post
 February 27th, 2025
...See more Hello, I have been noticing myself beginning to have obsessive behaviors related to contamination and intrusive thoughts that are worsening because I am really anxious and in nursing school. Im hindsight I have had repetitive routines and behaviors my whole life but I am coming to terms with the fact that I may be diagnosed with OCD soon by a medical professional I am seeing. I want to know if anyone has any tips to manage because although realistically I have been this way my whole life, it is becoming hard to function. Thank you for listening.
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healthcare worker contamination ocd help
Anxiety Support / by sarahsnapdragon
Last post
 September 20th, 2024
...See more im a student nurse and i think i may have ocd. all my life i have had repetitive behaviors and things, but it has been progressively worsening. the subject/focus is different at different times in my life. for a long time the obsessive focus was on school/relationships but this semester i have been jumping out of bed at 2-3 am to open my laptop and check assignments i KNOW i turned in, driving the same route 3-4x over (even when i am late) to make sure i did not hit something in the road. i have previously just been perfectly fine with working with mrsa patients as i have been in healthcare for years but over the past day i have taken upwards of 4 showers, my skin on my hands is raw from washing and i have washed my comforters twice. my life feels like it is falling apart because i will tell myself i am fine but in my head i get images of the worst case scenario. i just want to see if anyone has any relatable experiences to me because i feel so alone.
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he couldnt remember my birthday
Relationship Stress / by sarahsnapdragon
Last post
 January 22nd, 2024
...See more we went out to dinner last night and he got my birthday wrong. idk why it just made me sad. weve been together six months and it just sometimes feels like im the only one who is truly in love
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why does he act like i'm stupid?
Relationship Stress / by sarahsnapdragon
Last post
 January 14th, 2024
...See more i've been with my boyfriend 6 months. he is very attentive and loving and ive never been in a happier relationship that ive wanted to be in more hence why i have been stressing over everything that goes slightly wrong. ive noticed that when his school restarts each semester, while he remains attentive and wants to see me all the time still, he is so irritable. there are times that he will sit and over analyze/pick apart everything i say and give his opinion on where i went wrong and WILL NOT let it go. it makes me feel like a little girl. a lot of this i feel like is my age. he is 5 years older than me. he is in med school. i just feel so stupid when he talks to me sometimes and i think he is just an analytical person but it hurts. every time he does it to me my confidence breaks a little more. when i bring this up to him, he is extremely apologetic. but he just keeps doing it. im getting to a breaking point because i hate feeling like this. please help on how i can work thru this with him because i love him.
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I'm obsessed with his ex.
Relationship Stress / by sarahsnapdragon
Last post
 December 19th, 2023
...See more my boyfriend dated a girl for 5 years before me. a year after she broke up with him, we met at our last job and started dating. we have been together 6 months. he had a lot of time to heal and wouldnt date me if he still had feelings for her, but im so anxious about it all the time. he still does activities he used to do with his ex, like volunteer work and volleyball (without her of course, she lives far away now.) he talks about her occasionally and I cant help but wonder if he is still in love with her. he tells me all the time he loves me and im meeting his extended family on christmas. he posted me on his *** and takes me to every event he goes to, and i've met all his friends. there is just something in my head that says i will never compare. i am worried that if she came back tomorrow, he would drop me since i can never compete with the history they had together. can anyone relate, and give advice on how to cope? i do not want to ruin this but i feel so self destructive and insecure.
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he doesnt love me
Relationship Stress / by sarahsnapdragon
Last post
 November 16th, 2023
...See more i recently told my boyfriend i love him and he didnt feel the same way. we have been together 4 months. i told him i wsnted someone that felt the same way. i tried to breakup with him. he refused and came back and told me his reservations about falling in love with me, due to my severe anxiety and trust issues. he said he wanted to work on this and have a game plan for when these things happen. we talked about it and made up last night. but im so sad still. im trying to change my behavior but i am afraid because of my past and trust issues he will never love me. advice of any kind please?
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same name struggle
Relationship Stress / by sarahsnapdragon
Last post
 November 9th, 2023
...See more my boyfriends ex has the same name as me. we are nothing alike. not in looks. personality. career. interests or anything. we just have the same name. im struggling as of late. i keep seeing how men will only ever love one person and im so scared that i am a replacement. to make things worse, she was his first everything and they were together for years. he doesnt talk about her often but i compare myself to her. he treated him badly. i am only his second girlfriend. i am just worried that i am only here as a place holder and he will never teuly love me.
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am i a bad person?
Relationship Stress / by sarahsnapdragon
Last post
 November 2nd, 2023
...See more i am in a relationship. recently we had some trouble and my ex texted me and i responded. i agreed to meet him for coffee since he was an addict and recently had gotten clean. he thought this meant that i would start to date him.... i never told him i had a boyfriend. i didnt want to hurt him so i let him think i was interested for about 2 weeks. he told all his friends we were getting back together. i never outright told him i wanted him to be my boyfriend but i do think i lead him on. i just was so pressured and i thought i was going to break up with my current boyfriend so it would be okay.... but i decided to give my boyfriend another chance and i ended things with my ex. so abruptly. he told his whole workplace that we were going on an elaborate date. i feel sick. someone please just talk me down i never even told my friends about this
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