obsessive thoughts

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anyone else obsess over stupid stuff and worry for no reason?

Yes, i have ocd diagnosed. Keeping busy makes it better somehow.

Every minute of every day. Currently obsessing about the sleeves of my undershirt riding up.

Always been a problem for me,I likely have OCD with intrusive thoughts since about age 15.

My job is often too boring lately. Obsessive thoughts make it hard to concentrate on what I have to get done. I really have to find something more interesting, hopefully within present employment. I am trying to do that. I didn't realize this is OCD until reading WP.

i have recently talked with my therapist about my obsessive thoughts and he says it is common with ASD. keeping busy helps but i find it hard to make myself busy

I am working solely because of ocd and fear of going crazy.

Yes, we (those of us with Asperger's) all do.

You are not alone. There are ways to quit obsessing so much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ellis

I do some thou it's a lot better since I got on anxiety & OCD medication

Me.

Some of the stuff is not stupid or unreasonable, but obsessively worrying/ruminating about it is.

I’m late to the party but this is a problem that I have all the time. I used to have OCD symptoms when it came to religion because my family would use a lot of fear mongering since I was a child. It would get to the point where I would excessively try to replace my thoughts when they weren’t pure because “God knows what you’re thinking,” then I would pray excessively over the same thing for fear of being impure, and there also was a point where I thought I was going to become a devil worshiper even though I wasn’t. I don’t think I have OCD though because with autism you can get “OCD” with certain things.

Nowadays I don’t necessarily have OCD-like thoughts, at least not to my awareness but I do constantly overthink about overthinking things. It’s a nightmare that feels like it can never stop.

Thanks for sharing. You have actually made me realize something. I don't know if religious obsessions a la OCD necessarily have to be pro-religion, but for a while I was obsessed with debunking religious dogma and promoting atheism and secularism humanism. My primary motivation for doing this seemed to have been like a sort of moral high-horsing and trying to /balance/ the impurity I observed in many religious groups. E.g., the more extreme gay-hating fundamentalists like the Westboro Baptist Church, as well as the less extreme Christian sects that don't necessarily /hate/ gays but still believe homosexuality is a sin.

This preoccupation got so excessive at times that I hurt people I care about and it jeopardized my relationship with them. I wasted so much time thinking and posting about it. It lasted for about four years or so. I guess I eventually realized that /most/ religious people aren't fundamentalists or extremists who want to impose their own theocracy on the world. It still very much irks me when I see someone saying things like "We need to put God back into public schools" or "We're a Christian nation, therefore everyone should yield to Christian values", but I know that in most cases trying to argue with them is futile.

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Hell yeah..

I should clarify that the /theoretical intention/ behind these kinds of "compulsions" isn't ego-dystonic, because they're consistent with my values (I'm a naturalist / secular humanist). But they were "ocd-like" in that they did have a compulsive quality, and they got to a point where I was spending way too much time on them to the exclusion of more enjoyable and productive activities. In retrospect, I would rather not have done them. They seem to have been motivated by a fear of being "stupid" and "immoral".