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Relationship OCD making me suicidal

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Hello everyone. I really need help. I'm 24 and have had OCD since childhood but managed to always control it up until now. This is the worst OCD phase I've ever had- started in 2013 and was triggered after I experienced domestic violence from my dad at home and at the same time found out my bf watches inappropriate content and still looks at one of his ex's pics on facebook (he promised me he didnt do any of that). I've tried medication and hypnotherapy but it didn't work. I feel like suicide is the only way out :(

You won't believe this but my OCD is over my bf having kissed another girl before me. That is all. No sex because he is still a virgin. He is my first but im not his first and that kills me. I have images and thoughts about them kissing and him enjoying it. I feel distressed to know that he will always have those memories of kissing her whilst I don't have any experience with anyone else but him. I'm obsessed with asking details about what he did with her..it obviously drove him mad and as soon as I realised I apologised and stopped even though his reassurances helped me. We don't bring up his past anymore and I just keep it inside me.

Also, eveything is a trigger...I can't go past places where I know they kissed, I hate dates and months that remind me of his past etc. I'm obsessed all the time. When a thought enters my head I can't control it and it starts to get worse to the point where I develop paranoia as well, I try seeking any type of reassurance I can to make it go away. That helps but only temporarily. I feel like the only way it will ever go away is if I stop caring about it but that seems impossible. I feel disgusted to know he has been so intimate with someone else especially since I haven't got a past. I love him a lot and I know my OCD is based on irrational fear of his past but it feels so real to me and is making my life hell. I just want to die.
 

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Please calm yourself, i understand you. Relationship OCD can be a living nightmare, but you've to think that those ideas and thoughts are just part of the OCD and they are NOT real. Don't give those thoughts more power. Talk to God about these problems and seek help with a good psychologist. You are not alone in this, a lot of people have similar thoughts. Be brave!
blessings :)
 
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You and I sound very much alike. I have struggled a lot thinking about my husband's ex-girlfriends...thinking about them more than they probably even cross his mind! I have never seen pictures of them, yet I would attach imaginations of them in my mind and perhaps imagine them to an exaggerated level...that they're not as great as my brain wanted to make them out to me. Like you, I would stress over the thought of him being intimate and attracted to another girl when I had no past either. It is horrible and distressing to feel that way. I know what you're going through. It was only about a year ago I was feeling some of the worst of it.

This may seem like really cliché advice, but remember that girl is not so important of wasting your life over. If your boyfriend apologizes about still looking at her, we'll remember he chose you and not her. If he chooses to cheat on you, then know you are too valuable to waste your life on him.

God knows the plans He has for you...it's hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11.

Trust me...I totally relate to you, I'm not just throwing out stuff to give you advice without knowing firsthand.

If you ever need to talk, message me!
 
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