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- DMC_91
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Honestly the best way to get over it is to look at the picture and feel the discust. Not easy and it might get worse for a while. But eventually you wont care about it anymore and it will bore your brains anxiety alarms. Same goes for violent thoughts. Watching horror movies and feeling the anxiety and discust is one very good exposure. Its not easy and might make it worse for a while but eventually itll get better. You can take it slow though.
By the way I have some form of trypophobia I cant stand those sorts of patterns and I just googled it and remembered why. I wont get plauged by instrusive thoughts though its not an ocd type problem for me.
@phisch - Yes trypophobia is horrible! It’s my version of Intrusive thoughts. I don’t have violent thoughts or struggle with that kind. It’s just these gross images I can’t shake!
I don’t this same exact issue, but this happens to me with things like horror movies. There are some scenes or images that my brain just forces on me sometimes. Thankfully I’m on an upswing in that regard, but it can feel endless. I think the more you talk about it, especially in a therapy setting, the more you can get to the root of why your brain is stuck on it. I don’t know for sure, but that has helped for me.
I’m struggling from this right now after seeing an image I did not want to see😩
TW POCD Does anyone else have intrusive thoughts about watching CP? There was a Black Mirror episode about it, and ever since I watched a year ago it’s been non stop. I’m currently doing ERP with a specialist and I’m hoping it will help in the long run. Tonight, I got the feeling that my mind was telling me “go, do it!!” It felt so real. Anyone else hear a tiny voice like that? Provides for some serious doubts about who I am. Anyway, hope everyone is doing well, this stuff is a struggle to say the least
Ive had intrusive thoughts for 2 months now..And I just remember about serial killers and now I imagine myself doing those things to my family and I feel uncomfortable looking at them. And now im questioning if I like my thoughts or not and it’s just causing me more worry I’m even googling my symptoms but nothing is show up. I also get sexual intrusive thoughts about the serial killers and it’s horrible and scary someone please help me.
Can someone pls help me, my current intrusive thought is rlly severe. I saw a very disturbing & gruesome video recently, & I don't think it's real, it's a hoax by clearly a bad person, but now the image of it won't stop popping back into my mind. It is triggered by almost everything, & it is rlly annoying, like a song stuck in my head, except it's something gory & sick, so it's worse! For those curious, I will NOT be attaching the link because it's too traumatizing, trust me, I am doing u a favor, & curiosity is what killed the cat for me, figuratively speaking. It's like that thing with OCD where if u try not to think of a pink elephant or a brown bear, that is exactly what you're going to picture or think of almost instantaneously. But ontop of feeling absolutely repulsed, disgusted, & full of anxiety, I am also feeling guilty & ashamed for even having such thoughts around Christmas time especially, when things are suppose to be innocent. I regret watching it so much, & feel f'd up for the times I "rewatched" it, but only in an attempt to find some sort of evidence that it was fake, because I so desperately want it to be fake. But the amount of ppl in comments who say it's a prosthetic are less than the amount of ppl who argue that it is real, so I'm outnumbered, & now doubting my judgement, even though I did find some near-obvious signs of it being staged. Pls provide whatever advice u know, because it has already gone on way too long, & I can't have it constantly resurfacing from my memory just to torment me. Distractions (if & when they work), are so temporary.
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