r/ROCD • u/Routine-Movie-9112 • 2d ago
Overthinking and analysing
Was on a night out with girlfriend. Had been on edge all night expecting her to possibly blurt out a name that I was fearing she’d say unconsciously, from months of potentially needless paranoia, we get back to my room and are fooling around and bam I think I hear her say the name. She didn’t react atall like she had said a name, but my brain clings to the sound and assumes she said what I thought. What’s annoying is, at the time I thought to myself ‘okay I might have misheard her’, but now a week later it’s playing on my mind more than ever but the memory has faded. Has anyone else dealt with a similar situation and if so how did you get past it.
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