r/popculturechat • u/Playful_Wonder_5205 • Oct 15 '25

Selena Gomez šŸ’– Selena Gomez Says She Has Difficulty 'Enjoying Things' for Fear Joy Will 'Go Away': 'I Got Married and Then I Was Sobbing'

https://people.com/selena-gomez-hard-enjoying-things-i-got-married-then-i-was-sobbing-11830434
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Iā€™m like this and recently found out I have OCD, Iā€™ve also personally had the worst things and best things in my life happen side by side twice now so I understand what sheā€™s saying entirely.

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u/dddonnanoble Oct 15 '25

Waaaait I did not realize this could be an OCD compulsion. I got diagnosed with OCD earlier this year. Iā€™ve just assumed that me thinking like this was caused more by my strict religious upbringing. But my psychiatrist said that my upbringing likely contributed to me developing OCD so then againā€¦

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

The last year of my life has been one ā€œoh shit, this thing Iā€™ve been doing my entire life is actually mental illnessā€ realisation after another. I think many of us who are diagnosed with OCD in their late 20s/30s go through the same process!

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u/dddonnanoble Oct 15 '25

Yeah definitely! I havenā€™t even done any actual treatment for OCD (Iā€™m in therapy but my therapist isnā€™t trained in treating OCD) but just the ability to identity that Iā€™m experiencing an obsession and then doing compulsions is so helpful. I was diagnosed at age 36!