- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y
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sometimes my intrusive thoughts don’t make me anxious, but give me a feeling of discomfort. anyone else?
sometimes my intrusive thoughts don’t make me anxious, but give me a feeling of discomfort. anyone else?
Yes, though that’s a sign of improvement 😊
Yes!
Anxious. Discomfort. Shame. Embarrassment. Disgust. All of it.
@Road2Recovery this but also sometimes i'm just numb to them
@j0vt same!
@snowflakes When i'm numb to it it makes me feel so guilty. But that's just another one of OCD's tricks!
Anyone else just have days where they feel more calm and don’t have as many intrusive thoughts? But then later at night time it just comes back so you only had relief even for a little bit 😞😞 I feel like even when I’m not having my OCD send me intrusive thoughts, I always have a feeling in my stomach that something is wrong/off or a sense of doom. I always just feel on edge and anxious as if my mind is always preparing itself for the next horrifying intrusive thought to torment me with ugh 🫠
for me, it's like there's two folders of my thoughts, 'main thoughts' and 'sub thoughts' and it's like a background voice of my background voice, you know? like so quiet and irrelevant but it's still here and i can try to ignore it but not fully and it feels like it's just really nasty, like it's warring with me, never shuts up and just keeps nagging me with those thoughts
Is anyone else sort of desensitized by their intrusive thoughts? I still get slight discomfort, and I don't like them, but I think I've been becoming numb to them in a way? It might just be a mental drain. I've been having an anxiety spike due to them for a month now.
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