Do the urges ever go away I feel like any second I'm going to cave into these intrusive urges trying to convince me I have to do these things. Does anyone have any advice or can share from there experience. 🥺
Urges are the worst because it feels like I should be doing what my urge is telling me to do but I just focus on something else or get moving , stretching for some reason helps
Hope you’re doing alright. I know it’s tough, I’ve been there plenty of times. Still have many challenges ahead of me I’m sure. Remember ocd is kind of built around guilt, the more you cling onto the thoughts the more guilty you feel and the more the thought lingers in your head. Remember it’s ocd, not you. The subtype about ocd could be anything, but mostly it latches onto your bigger fears which is why it makes life so tough. My advice, remember this is ocd not you, from there you can learn to isolate you from the ocd. And then work on building confidence in yourself, that way when the ocd does come back you can just laugh at it instead of being swept away
Yes, the urges do go away go with what you want okay? If you don’t wanna do something you don’t need to do it. Do you feel pressured? Are your thoughts telling you to do it or is someone telling you to and what are they convincing you about like what’s the situation here? And I have some advice! :D try to distract yourself and do something you like or love to do spend time with the people you trust and have some family time and start some conversations to distract you these urges start to ease when you tell yourself you don’t need to do these things or even talk to me about it! :D I have more to say but I will wait for your response just know YOU DON’T NEED TO FEEL PRESSURED ITS YOUR HEAD TELLING YOU AND CONVINCING YOU OF THESE THINGS ITS OKAY! <3
@MyalinH I feel ashamed to even say what the urges are to... 🥺 but let's just say my subtype is harm ocd towards myself or others 🥺
@nattieee aw it’s okay if your uncomfortable talking about it you truly don’t need to. so I am guessing these things you think of trigger you to do things to yourself or others and if that’s the case just know those thoughts aren’t good or healthy and it’s not good to think this way tho it’s okay to think the way your thinking at the moment don’t harm yourself or others even tho you have that trigger to try to avoid the things that trigger you luv:(
or you can even talk to the ones you trust about it :D
so I’ve been seeking therapy for my OCD for a few years. The theme that I’ve been dealing with most recently is the fear of becoming a pedophile, which then has led to intrusive images of me doing things to kids.Which now is just causing me so much distress and 24/7 constant thought cycle. I am starting to not be able to tell the difference between thoughts that are wanted/ unwanted- the line has become some blurry and these things are starting to feel like someothing i want to do. My brain keeps telling me to just test these thoughts and the “maybe”or”i don’t know” isn’t working. This has become such a barrier because the second layer is that I’m afraid that if I just let the thoughts be there it’ll make me be OK with doing those things and the fear is what’s keeping me from actually doing something inappropriate. It’s also transitioned into intrusive thoughts and images of me doing something very disgusting to my dog and that when I’m cuddling with him I get the thoughts to just do it or try it to see if i am actually a p*do. it’s almost like the compulsion would be to do the inappropriate thing, even though I know it’s wrong just to see how it would make me feel. I feel like i can’t control these urges even though i’ve never acted on it. At any point i could just do it. I’ve never had these thoughts before up until about a year and a half ago when my friend‘s boyfriend got arrested for soliciting a minor then all these thoughts came to life.Has anyone experienced something like this and have any advice?
Okay so I have been struggling with pocd. And I have been getting better but now my ocd is telling me that I'm proving it right by slowly started to get better. For example, after so long of trying my hardest to avoid anything protaining to children I realized that I have to in order to get better. So I've been letting myself go out more and yk see children. The intrusive thoughts are still there though. Which is feeding into it trying to convince me that it's real. It feels like it does that anytime I'm a step closer to getting better. Does anyone have any advice on how to help it? I struggle with mental checks and responding. I know that I should let it pass but it's so difficult. The intrusive thoughts have been getting worse too. They pop up over the smallest things. It's all just jumping to insane conclusions and I'm so sick of it. I just want to be better.
Are intrusive memories a thing? Because I have memories pop up throughout the day, usually regrets or mistakes from when I was younger, but it's almost uncontrollable? It sort of feels like I'm testing myself to see if the memories still make me anxious or something. I can't tell if I'm willingly thinking of them or if they just invite themselves in. They're just always at the front of my thoughts unless I'm really engaged with something else or out and about with other people... I'm trying to treat them like I do with intrusive thoughts, but occasionally, it's like I can't resist NOT ruminating on these past events. I try not to, but then that only makes them more persistent. I'm just curious if anyone's dealt with this or possibly has advice? I'm guessing I'll just have to sit with it. I don't think I've asked about this before, but I might be wrong lol. I forget easily 😭 I'll probably speak with my psychiatrist about this, too, but our next appointment isn't until August. She's not an OCD specialist or haver, so I thought I'd ask here, just in case anyone can help! 🤍
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