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- 3y
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- 3y
It’s kinda like how anxiety and excitement physically FEEL similar, but you know they aren’t the same thing. you may feel anxious when you’re about to take a test, but excited when you’re about to go on a roller coaster— the physical feeling is similar but one is more negative and one is more positive. the fact that the feeling is uncomfortable/scares you proves you don’t want it!! remember that “bad people” don’t think their actions or feelings/thoughts are bad! you recognize that your feelings are uncomfortable and that proves it’s not a true reflection of who you are!!! even things like (TW) P*dophiles and M*rderers don’t think their thoughts are bad! they have no sympathetic connection to it! the fact that you DO feel uncomfortable or scared PROVES you don’t ACTUALLY like it or agree with it!!!
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- 25w
So recently my mind is trying to make me feel like I accept the thoughts, like I'm ok with for example loving X person. After I get a thought like that and I realize it I get anxious and, like right now, I cry for 1 hour+ on the bathroom floor. I feel exhausted and I want to know if I'm the only one having this.
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- 19w
When I say I feel like I like a thought, I don’t mean the OCD is telling me like a thought or that I concluded that from a physical sensation. I mean, I genuinely feel like something in my brain lights up and it feels like I like it mentally. Whenever I hear people talk about liking thoughts (excitement, arousal), I always see things about groinals or heart flutters. Physical things. I don’t think I really ever see people talk about the mental sensation if this is even a thing. I just wanna know if anyone relates to this or has found an explanation for this because seeing it from an analytical point of view seems to help me sometimes. This is so, *so* especially hard for pocd themed thoughts :( Anyone relate?
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- 13w
I know the solution is to always say “yeah that could be true, but I am choosing to live my life anyway.” However, I feel like my biggest issue is my brain always assuming that it is immediately true when I do that. Like if I say “maybe I’m attracted to teenagers, it’s possible,” then my brain INSTANTLY starts rationalizing that thought and defending it and being like “oh okay so you think this now and it makes sense because xyz, and now that’s who you are and your real desire is now and always will be teenagers.” I feel really alone in this area of feeling like my brain “accepting the thoughts” means my brain immediately accepts them as true. I obviously don’t want to think they’re true but I feel so stuck now.
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