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
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with intrusive thoughts&images. At first i had intrusive thoughts around my partner, now it’s centred around me & I can’t be around window ledges or medication due to a story I read online(it’s too triggering for me) . Sometimes I feel like I can’t leave my bed due to the thoughts being so overwhelming I just break down and want to sleep. I aren’t taking any medication or therapy yet. I worry that if I don’t give my thoughts a reaction that my thoughts are true and not OCD. I’ve had these thoughts 24/7 for 2 months.
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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