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- 3y
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- 3y
Yeah, definitely sounds like a compulsion.
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- 3y
I think it's a kind of compulsion or at least avoidance : you try to suppress your thoughts by forcing yourself into thinking something else (did it worked for you ? I never found this technique very effective). It never occurred to me this way, but in actions I try to do the complete opposite of what my intrusive thought is telling me. It's kind of a compulsion too I'm afraid.
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- 3y
It wasn't a very effective technique, it worked only partially, because the intrusive image was a lot stronger than the compulsion so it kinda got overshadowed, I also think that each time I did that the triggers gained more meaning and power, (I don't know if technique is the correct term, because I didn't apply it in a logical sense, it was more like a need, I was obliged to do it because if not I couldn't move on with my normal routines). But I moved on with time by not ingaging with the images, by not giving them power over me. Maybe it was because I was forced by the situation I was in (but idk remember very well). The thing about such obsessions was that these "impure" images would stick with me and get printed in my mind and in my memory (like an immunological memory); it wasn't just a visual thing, but a disgusting feeling in and of itself; I could feel the image's essence in the upper side of my body, as if my soul could "taste" the feeling. I don't think that what I did was doing the opposite thing but rather a mental act to ease myself, I was simply "replacing" (a fitting term) "impure" things with "pure" things, so just an half and temporary solution.
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- 3y
@Nameless000 I forgot to mention one thing, I don't have these compulsions anymore but I still get triggered sometimes, not as intensily as I did in the past, but I never reached the point where I just don't get triggered at all, I never had the courage to do that step.
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- 3y
I'm really sorry for sending these longs replies, but I also had a question: what do you mean by doing the complete opposite of your intrusive thoughts? Do you mean like tricking ocd by trying to be unfazed at what is supposed to trigger you? Or is it a different kind of thing?
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- 3y
@Nameless000 ugh yes it's horrible but when I have an intrusive image I'm just like š ok then and carry on. It feels SO UNCOMFY but I've even gotten to the point of being able to sing my intrusive thoughts outlook repeatedly LOL never thought I'd do that
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- 3y
@Nameless000 It's more doing the opposite of my compulsions : going to the street my thought tells me to avoid, telling my my friend I have been to the hospital for mental health when my thought tells me do say "everything is fine"
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- 3y
Yep thought replacement is a compulsion . I struggle with the same thing, except not with the same mental images you mentioned haha
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- 3y
Yes, a compulsion. A lot of people do that.
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- 19w
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- 19w
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- 16w
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