Hey guys i know I’ve posted a bit now. But Can your body go into fight or flight without the thoughts coming first? Is that normal? Or is this an indication of another health problem like thyroid issues?
Personally, I often get the onset feelings of impending doom and dread before the thoughts come in. I just feel wrong and it comes, its very rarely the other way around.
@Anonymous If you don’t mind sharing, how do you deal with these feelings? They are actually scaring me quite a bit lately and it’s just making me panic more I’ve been taking medicine but I would also love to just help myself calm down
I can get them before thoughts sometimes as well, which is frustrating - it's like generalized anxiety, I suppose.
Part of my OCD theme is somatic so when I feel a sensation or emotion a lot of times it’s a precursor to the intrusive thoughts. Or I compulsively start monitoring my feelings, which inevitably leads to intrusive thoughts because I’m worried about that feeling of impending doom.
@Phillip91 Omg that’s what I do too! I have suicidal ocd and when I feel really depressed sometimes I get triggered Beyond belief
@JBird88 Yes! When I was very depressed earlier this year it triggered suicidal OCD because I was so afraid I’d wanna do something, even tho more than anything I didn’t. When the depression got better this theme disappeared. I wanna stop monitoring my thoughts, feelings, and emotions and just experience them for what they are again. I’ve been slowly working on practicing mindfulness to get back to that. It’s def a challenge but we’ll get there!
@Phillip91 Yes we will!! I believe in us!!
Today and other days, I got the feelings before the thoughts
Personally, for me the feelings are accompanied by my brain telling me to do some sort of compulsive action. When I try and resist it or refuse, that is when the feeling intensifies and then the thoughts start appearing.
Recently ive been getting very scared to even be angry bc of the horrible thoughts I have and it feels even more real when I'm angry or even annoyed. Rn I was not even super annoyed at my neice but I felt a twinge of annoyance since she went up to my face and was yelling at me while I was resting on the bed and I got this image of doing something bad to her and I felt my hand twitch very little. I got nervous and felt relieved when her dad told her to stop screaming for no reason. I've been hyperfocusing on my bodily reactions (mainly my hands or how I'm feeling like did I just enjoy that? Was I considering???) And I've noticed the small twitches whenever I'm mad or annoyed and it's scaring me so bad! Like do I want to act out? Am I holding back??? I used to not even twitch at all when mad and I felt 100% sure I'll never act out but now it feels like I don't know bc what do these twitches mean?, I do know I don't want to ever act out but it's so scary. Recently whenever I feel angry once the argument is over I cry really bad after I'm alone and I pray so i never want or act out. And when the annoyance passes I also feel so guilty and want to stay away. Im scared these are real urges and i research for many many hours to make sure they arent urges or impulses and i also tend to ask chatgpt or here if the anxiety gets so bad 😕
Recently ive been getting very scared to even be angry (i try to avoid even being angry if i can!) bc of the horrible thoughts I have and it feels even more real when I'm angry or even annoyed. I've been hyperfocusing on my bodily reactions (mainly my hands or how I'm feeling like did I just enjoy that? Was I considering? Did it just move? Why is it tingly? Why did it twitch?) And I've noticed the small twitches whenever I'm mad or annoyed and it's scaring me so bad! Like do I want to act out? Am I holding back? Is this an indication i was about to do something or will in the future? I used to not even twitch at all when mad and I felt 100% sure I'll never act out but now it feels like I don't even know anymore bc of these twitches. Im so afraid! What I do know is I don't want to ever act out (idea is distressing not appealing) but it's so scary like why did i twitch or was i about to act out? Im scared these are real urges and i research for many many hours to make sure they arent real urges or impulses and i also tend to ask ai or here if the anxiety gets so bad. Like how do I know of this is actually a serious concern and I should be very worried???
When I say I feel like I like a thought, I don’t mean the OCD is telling me like a thought or that I concluded that from a physical sensation. I mean, I genuinely feel like something in my brain lights up and it feels like I like it mentally. Whenever I hear people talk about liking thoughts (excitement, arousal), I always see things about groinals or heart flutters. Physical things. I don’t think I really ever see people talk about the mental sensation if this is even a thing. I just wanna know if anyone relates to this or has found an explanation for this because seeing it from an analytical point of view seems to help me sometimes. This is so, *so* especially hard for pocd themed thoughts :( Anyone relate?
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