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This is exactly how my ocd started. I had one intrusive thought one day in college while trying to go to sleep. I thought âwhat If I lost control and hurt all my roommatesâ. I couldnât stop obsessing about why it happened. I laid in bed literally sweating all night going nuts. I have never been the same since. It took ONE thought. Itâs crazy how common this is.
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@anonymous1146 Yep it takes ONE thought to traumatize your own Brain into thinking you are a terrible person. In therapy I learned the entire population has intrusive thoughts but people like us just latch on to them and want to know âwhyâ. That helped a little! We arenât bad people, we just have a harder time releasing them!
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Me too. I was so happy for once and then bam, Iâm hit with this.
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@anonymous1146 Have you looked into getting a therapist? They truly are lovely to have, if you or your parent or guardian cannot afford one maybe a school counselor or a close friend. I know itâs hard, but do NOT say you hate yourself you hate the thoughts and how they make you feel not yourself. Youâre NOT your thoughts, thoughts arenât logic. My therapist always tells me when I get an obsessive thought or image to say âmaybe⌠maybe notâ or â this is an OCD based thought and or image and Iâm not gonna give it any powerâ. Ocd does go for what you value and love most and your morals. Although like I said your thoughts they donât define you. You got this. I believe in you just keep going!! â¤ď¸â¤ď¸
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@anonymous1146 Iâm sorry to hear that, I hope you can soon, find someone to talk with and develop a close connection with. You will be okay.
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I deal pretty heavily with this. The last couple days, Iâve had what I think are urges. Something pops into my head intrusively and then what stems from that is me WANTING to just indulge in it even though itâs gross. I get worried bc I used to struggle w thoughts about my dad for a long time until eventually I just purposely thought of him while self pleasuring and got off to it. While thatâs something I did, it is NOT me. It all stemmed from my mental health declining a couple years back, I was never this way before. So I get worried that it almost happened or might happen with my pocd cuz I could never live with myself if it did.
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man these few weeks have been so hard. iâm in the process of getting diagnosed with ocd, im almost positive i have it because everything on here relates to me on an insane level. but im just so scared dude. these thoughts of me harming someone are so scary and im so scared im gonna eventually act on them and i know i never want to but its still so scary. like sometimes when i talk to my mom about it i think in the back of my head âyou know you want toâ when i dont, and it makes me think or gets me scared that i do. these thoughts literally just happened out of nowhere and it messes me up so bad my literal perspective on life in general is just messed up. like i view life as its more common to be a bad person and its rare/hard to be good. can someone please just pray for me or just wish me better days. i dont even like looking at myself anymore and im scared i give off creepy vibes to myself or others now, this sucks so much
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i havenât been diagnosed with ocd but I have anxiety about harming other people/family members and itâs like urges and im scared I actually want to do it? I donât think Iâve ever been violent as a kid (im 21 now) and the intrusive thoughts donât go away so im just stuck all day everyday for the past few weeks just thinking and being scared about it and im having all these weird emotions like being irritated and angry I donât want to hurt people I donât think idk why my mind is making me think I do Iâve had intrusive thoughts before that I could brush away sure it took like a day or two but this one is different it doesnât go away and leaves me with the worst fear imaginable and nothing I look up that should be giving me relief is giving me relief + I feel like im not in control of my body and that im just gonna lose it and act on these thoughts itâs just all on a loop and im not sure how im supposed to live the rest of my life when im in constant fear of my self
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