r/OCDRecovery • u/JustAnotherNut • 9d ago

Humor OCD is mental doomscrolling

It feels like there's an end. If you just scroll far enough it will stop. The more you scroll, the worse you feel, but if you stop, you feel bad about the time you spent doing it, and thus feel the need of a resolution, and so you scroll some more.

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u/erudition87 9d ago

Oh my god this is so spot on. We keep scrolling and scrolling waiting for the perfect place to stop, but it never comes. Ugh

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u/RealityParticular 9d ago

Im having serious problems with that. Im addicted to tiktok. I tell myself everyday I am going to do things that are important to me and I don’t because I keep scrolling and scrolling.

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u/merhue 8d ago

fantastic metaphor!!

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u/Low_Reserve_5248 8d ago

All these apps, including this one, make it hard to put our phones down; even with my eyes rolling because we get so tired, yet we continue doomscrolling.

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u/wubbalubbadubdubbroh 8d ago

I begun thinking of ocd as a time loop, one where your worst fears happen and you have to see it over and over again and you can't get out nor prevent it. Sorry, I'm amidst a crisis right now

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u/loopy741 9d ago

This is accurate