OCD, anxiety and doubts..
Hi lovely people.. i appreciate you all so much and thank you for listening to me. My main issue is i make up these negative stories and then worry about them.. for example i doubt what i am doing and i think i may have done the wrong thing and that plays over in my mind and tells me something bad is going to happen, like the end is coming.. i have had a fear for things that i think may be dirty or contaminated for years now but in the last 2 weeks after covid it has become overwhelming. So if there is an object that i attached fear to, the doubt will come in if i am around it and tell me that i just touched it or something.. anyone else deals with this?
@PoppyTops I am sorry you are dealing with this!
I also have contamination OCD and it is very tough to deal with, but currently doing ERP and other therapies to help. Doubt is a huge part of OCD as I am sure you already know. I am looking into I-CBT that targets that doubt more than ERP which I hope will help. I have some post related to it in the Support Plus Community.
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