- Username
- tasha123
- Date posted
- 5y ago
1. My brain can and will generate “intrusive thoughts” at anytime. 2. I promise to accept them as OCD related thoughts and to realize that they are false alarms. 3. I promise not to allow these false alarms to trigger me to respond by turning these thoughts into feelings of self-doubt and fear. 4. I promise to be kind to myself by not allowing uncontrolled thoughts to run rampant causing me anguish, fatigue and pain. 5. I will not be critical of who I am and will not compare myself to others. I understand that life is precious and that I have a lot to offer everyday
Just accept the anxiety and go about your day like you said, ocd warps a lot and attack’s you from every angle...like you started getting used to the anxiety so now your anxiety is attacking you from the angle of “well if it doesn’t make you as anxious then you must LIKE the thoughts”... I think it’s called a backdoor spike...your brain is trying to make you feel guilty for feeling better Don’t avoid your brother, you got this ?
Embrace the thoughts. You stumbled upon a random exposure by reading what you read and being triggered. The more you fight the thoughts fearing them and wanting them to go away the more strength your OCD is gaining and the more you will be living in these thoughts. I can personally relate to this process. Lately I have intrusive thoughts that can become debilitating where I fear if I was harmed. The more I respond to the thoughts fearfully, the more real it feels. I suddenly feel like I'm living in the thought and it becomes my whole existence.
You need to be around that person. By avoiding them you are giving the thought more power over your actions!
i have thoughts about incest, specifically from trauma, and i love my boyfriend and we are intimate. 99 percent of the time when i have intrusive thoughts during sex im able to move past them, but yesterday, my mother ended up texting me during it (TMI i know lol), which stressed me out, which caused more intrusive thoughts PLUS groinal responses, then she decided to go into the kitchen that’s RIGHT outside my room, causing more thoughts and feelings, while this was happening me and my bf were intimate in the moment and it felt as if the thoughts and feelings helped me finish, i was trying so hard NOT to think about them that i sortve thought about them on purpose???? it’s weird to explain… i told my bf about it since he knows about my ocd and he suggested we could take a break if it ever got that bad again, but it’s making me question myself and my morals i guess like now i feel like i really enjoy those thoughts and im just making excuses for myself. i feel so horrible and this is so haunting to me my ocd therapist doesn’t even know how to do erp for this according to her and i just feel so stuck
I know this is terrible. And I shouldn’t be having thoughts like this but I read someone else who had these thoughts and my brain remembered a time I had an intrusive thought about my brother and it made me think what if I’m attracted to my brother. Now when I’m around him I get worried I’m going to have some sort of physical feeling or attraction to the point I basically freak myself out and have intrusive thoughts that I do or am while talking to him. And now I’m just avoiding even being home. Ik it’s awful and I never felt anything like this before and I know I don’t have any but I keep thinking about the feeling aspect. And whether those feelings/thoughts were true.
So I have an uncle who comes over sometimes and I started having thoughts of being attracted to him or something, this has happened before and it became a small obsession until I finally said I don’t care (I did) but it’s back again with my uncle and it feels so real and confusing, I feel so weird around my uncle now idk how to explain but I hate it so much I want to cry
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