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- 2y ago
Curious
My ocds pretty bad tonight. Curious if we train our brains to think this way or if I would normally have these thoughts and i just trained my brain to be afraid of them.
My ocds pretty bad tonight. Curious if we train our brains to think this way or if I would normally have these thoughts and i just trained my brain to be afraid of them.
You chose to obsess over these thoughts to seek certainty but can’t. So it keeps messing with you.
Well I believe the brain gives out thoughts either we reject or accept.. when we get a bad or goodthought we speak out loud
I think its a bit of both. I think a non ocd brain can dismiss many of the thoughts as background noise. Our brains get stuck on the thoughts, possibly due to lower serotonin, and have a harder time dismissing the thoughts and tend to have a flight or fight response to them. The more we react to and bite on the thoughts , the more likely we are to train our brains to give false value to them, and keep reacting.
I don’t remember having these thoughts before I had ocd I have a memory of when I was younger and just could do things normally without having these thoughts that’s why I think my ocd has sort of warped my brain into being scared all the time and I have made a habit of having these thoughts. I believe there is no way I used to have these thoughts when I didn’t have ocd. But maybe I’m wrong because I am so reactive to them now they have a whole different meaning
I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
Lately my OCD has been very horrible, it’s been more convincing than ever to the point where I’m genuinely convinced that I like this stuff, when I get a thought, I’ll hear my intrusive thoughts go “oooh, I like that, I’d do that.” and I just don’t freak out nor feel bad, I just feel like I like it even more, and feel like I would do/act on it and like it, and the feeling is strong and it lingers forever? It genuinely feels like I do, and I’m just lying now, i can’t tell if I make these thoughts worse or anything All I remember mostly just being like confused sometimes when these thoughts happen, but since I’m getting strong emotions that I like it, my brain says that means I did and I’m worried about that being true because I don’t understand nor know It’s like I am resisting to like this stuff now, it’s even tougher now than it was before
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