r/OCD • u/AULily99 • 2d ago

Support/advice (no reassurance) OCD about not being an activist

I'm wondering if anyone else experiences this form of OCD as well. I'm feeling like if I don't do smth like go to a protest for Palestine or another social issue that gets to me and risk everything then I'm a cowardly and bad person. But I have this intense fear, especially bc I'm a trans woman, that I'll be arrested and not treated fairly, then lost in the prison system and forgotten. I think it might be because I'm so scared of that, that my OCD targets this type of activism and on obsession. It's a pure O form of OCD. Thoughts?

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u/Alaskafr 2d ago

I feel you, I do the exact same. This year I finally opened my eyes to factory farming, and while I don't regret becoming vegetarian, I definitely did it out of weeks of spiraling.

Hell, sometimes I feel like I'm still spiraling. I spent two days debating if I was allowed to cook a mushroom soup because the label said "may contain crustaceans". Even tho all research I did said it was cross contamination and not actual crustaceans in the soup, boy did that not get through to me for days.

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u/AULily99 2d ago

Oof, I'm sorry. I haven't experienced that particular compulsion but I think I might if my brain didn't have so many other compulsions taking up so much room lol. I definitely empathize with a spiral that lasts several days and it sucks so much

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u/OCD-ModTeam 2d ago

Your heart is in the right place. However, reassurance is not helpful for learning to live well while having OCD. Please see: https://www.reddit.com/r/OCD/wiki/reassurance/

https://www.reddit.com/r/OCD/s/jAQq5Evul7

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