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Do people with OCD get this kind of thinking?

Postby ugaas » Sat Jun 15, 2019 7:38 am

I’ve been googling this a lot to see if anyone can relate and ocd articles keep coming up but nothing exactly related to what I’m going through. I suffer from guilty thoughts, all day all night about just about anything in my life. I do something and get hindsight guilt because my mind is constantly going through everything I did superanalyzing it to let me know what I did wrong. And I’m completely aware that the things I feel bad about aren’t normal things to feel bad about but I can’t talk my self out of it. I’ll feel about about accomplishing a goal I’ve had. Well first I feel good and the guilt sets in. My mind just never stops and it drives me crazy. Sometimes to overcome the guilt I have of doing something I have to do something else, sometimes I have to do that same thing. Like if I have guilt over using the internet too much, I’ll go on the internet some more to overcome that guilt. I know it’s dumb but it’s the way my mind functions
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Re: Do people with OCD get this kind of thinking?

Postby Asu » Sun Jun 16, 2019 1:12 am

Hello ugaas,

while not completely sure, I think I sort of understand what you are saying or at least I sometimes have guilty thoughts. In my case, I think there are two main types:
1. Some generalised sense of guilt which comes with every day things like "wasting time" on "unimportant" things like games or media but also things like not calling relatives as often as i should or in the really broad perspective to, e.g., buy some cheap product likes clothes from some asian country although I didn't really need them.
2. "Future guilt" because I might be held responsible for small disasters that I didn't cause but could have averted. My mind tends to spiral into worst case scenarios so I often have a hard time letting small and potentially unsignificant things go if I feel like they may cause a problem later.

Anyway, nice detour but back to your post. I guess your guilt is closer to the first category I described for me and one thing that helped me a little is to ask myself 1. Why I do it and 2. Why it makes me feel guilty.

I don't know if it is similar for you, but personally, I have some problems in separating between things that are important for me and things that are important for the general good. These two categories don't need to overlap but in my mind they often get mixed so although spending an entire evening watching a series or playing a game can be important to me (and that is totally okay!) it is a waste of time in the bigger sense and may lead to guilt. I think it's important to accept that sometimes you just need to do things for yourself even if they won't make the world a better place or don't fit the standard of how a "great weekend" is supposed to be like. Don't feel guilty about taking care of yourself.

I'm sorry if I totally missed the point of your type of guilt but perhaps you still got something out of the descriptions of how I perceive mine. (And let me know if the text makes no sense, it's already quite late here....)
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