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OCD will do everything in its power to make you think that your thoughts are true and that you are the exception. Stay strong.
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can confirm :')
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Yeah. But I just feel so horrible to even have the theme I'm having :( so not just because of how it makes me feel but because I have it in the first place
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Hate = resistance = compulsion... therfore making them stronger. Don't love them, but try and reduce your resistance. Have some self compassion, you can't stop them. Do ERP on your worst case scenario and work to accept how horrible and awful it could be. Watch for other compulsions that will need to be dealt with slowly reduce them. Work on accepting that your worst case scenario could be true, accept its painful and it hurts really bad that it could be true, Ultimately freedom will be found when you no longer fear the outcome of your obsession, this comes from acceptance
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You are right, thank you :) I'll try.
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Also, acceptance does NOT mean you like or agree with the intrusive. Its simply acknowledging the thought is there. "This is an OCD thought" Then ignore it. Don't fight, argue, or reason with it. Don't try to convince yourself it's not true. Your anxiety will go crazy at first. The key is not doing any compulsions. Then your anxiety will peak and start to decline. It takes practice and time. Just because the thought FEELS real doesn't mean it is. Intrusive thoughts don't mean anything unless WE attach meaning to them. Everyone has intrusive thoughts
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I would love to have some insight in this in general I deal with thoughts but for me it is the feelings that make ocd this difficult The feeling of disgust for my partner, the feeling of wanting the content of the thoughts , the feeling that this is the real me , the feeling that i am lying to myself and my partner, the loss of attraction,... Because when i write it like that ,that that these are feelings, it seems very much that i am just in drnial and i am bi but i cant love men anymore, or that i am not attracted to my bf and so on
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I posted about this the other day and a therapist responded that if it has the usual ocd tells, then it’s most likely ocd. I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. They say even if it’s new for you chances are others have had the same or similar ocd experience. So, this is new for me and just like when I get an intrusive thought i’ve recently been getting what I call intrusive emotions. I will feel something like sad or jealous in a situation when in reality I don’t feel that way at all. For example, my ocd targets certain family members and if one of them is watching tv and thinks a woman is pretty i’ll suddenly feel sad or jealous when I don’t actually care or feel that way because that’s my family member and I don’t think about or feel for them in any inappropriate way. Also, sometimes when I have a harm intrusive thought my ocd will say that I want something horrible to happen to my family member and I will feel like I actually want it but that’s not what I want or how I feel at all. Is there anyone who has had this or something similar happen?
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That's what OCD feels like. Especially the constant questioning and doubt and the more you do it, the more you doubt yourself and it ends up leaving you open for other 'attacks'. I left the house today with my mom to run errands and things were fine, like my intrusive thoughts weren't bothering me that much in the beginning though they're constant in the background. Then when we stopped to get a drink from this store before leaving, I got more anxious because there were lots of kids around (it's afternoon here and i guess school was coming out). Kids were walking around in school uniform and I just told myself to keep looking away because i knew that my intrusive thoughts were going to flare up. Obviously that just made it worse and I just wanted to run away and crawl into a hole or something. Then a few minutes passed and then my brain said what if you were leering at the kids or looking at them inappropriately. And then my brain kept telling me that I wanted to or must have filmed one of them even though it's not something I want to do and know deep down that I didn't do it and don't want to. Ever. I just felt so disgusted with myself, I had to stop myself from crying on the way home. I hate this disease and I hate that its made its home in my head.
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