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- 2y
Scary thoughts and feelings
Anybody else get scary thoughts and u feel like if u have a scary thought and you are doing something, you won’t be able to successfully do it so you keep trying over and over again.
Anybody else get scary thoughts and u feel like if u have a scary thought and you are doing something, you won’t be able to successfully do it so you keep trying over and over again.
That certainly sounds like an obsession and compulsion. The feeling OCD gives you is always really scary. Unfortunately, the more the compulsion is performed, the more often you feel anxious not doing it. The only way to start getting better is by being aware of these thoughts as strictly coming from OCD, and the urge to perform a compulsion in the same way. Eventually the realization that the thoughts aren’t real and the compulsion isn’t necessary will sink in. That’s a really simplified version of the process, but maybe bringing some awareness to it can be your first step! I would recommend working with a therapist if possible. If that’s not possible for you, you can always post here if you need some support! 😁
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? 😅
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
does anyone else get really vivid intrusive thoughts of the person who you are talking to (or close to physically) just randomly striking you violently? i keep getting them when i’m just talking to my dad one on one in the car & i get a flash of intrusive thoughts of him grabbing my hair & shoving my face in the dashboard. it gets me so anxious :’)
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