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I listened to a Ted talk recently about erp and every time we give into our compulsions or ocd we are “ feeding the monster” ( OCD) and the idea is to starve the monster. ( not doing compulsions) sometimes that analogy helps me.
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It makes things feel like sometimes off or wrong too which sucks
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I think I have some of that and yes it sucks butt
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Somethings*
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Yes like I know to not keep opening back up my phone bc My brain will just think of the next thought. And it’s just you can not win with ocd unless you stay strong and accept those uncomfortable feelings.
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Yeah sometimes I open up my phone and my brain will just produce this uncomfortable feeling like something isn’t just right or like the way I opened up my phone didn’t feel right or something
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@lroinll5 YES exactly. Do you just ignore it or do you keep opening up your phone
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@Calove No unfortunately I’ve been giving in and keep re opening my phone till it feels just right or like something isn’t wrong or whatever but I need to force myself to stop doing it and just open my phone up once and that’s it
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@Calove And it sucks because I’ll open my phone and if I don’t do a compulsion sometimes it feels like the phone screens light or something has my eyes locked on it or something or idek how to describe it really but it’s annoying as heck
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@lroinll5 Totally get that. Some of the thoughts are so hard to explain. it’s like you can’t even wrap your mind around it but you know it feels wrong
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Yes this happens to me!!!
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I wanted to ask if it is possible to purposely think of an intrusive thought and then shifting your mind instantly to something else? Is it still an intrusive thought if you have been thinking of it 'purposely' for a second? I dont know how else to explain it, but it felt like I was purposely thinking of it. Anyone else had similar experience what happened during intimate moments like masturbation I feel so ashamed cuz the thoughts are so bad they're either about family members children and stuff like that it feels like I think it I just want to know if I'm not alone I feel like a monster because it feels like I thought these things or like I did think these things and I don't know what to do I feel so ashamed and grossed I need help I just want to know if anyone had a similar experience to shed light on because I don't know I feel so isolated
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for me, it's like there's two folders of my thoughts, 'main thoughts' and 'sub thoughts' and it's like a background voice of my background voice, you know? like so quiet and irrelevant but it's still here and i can try to ignore it but not fully and it feels like it's just really nasty, like it's warring with me, never shuts up and just keeps nagging me with those thoughts
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does anyone else constantly suffer from intrusive thoughts? it makes my head ache & i can barely think straight.
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