I had a question for anyone willing to answer, what if your getting better at treating your ocd and once u get a disturbing thought you don’t feel guilty. That causes me to think that I’m a bad person because I don’t feel guilt. Then people will try to claim that if u do feel guilty about your intrusive thoughts that ur a good person I don’t get it .
I feel this is pretty common in the beginning of recovery. Getting treatment and finally starting to concur your anxiety, your OCD will start to want to trick you into thinking you haven’t gotten any better. This is a good example of an exposure you can use, because your OCD at this time wants you to continue to still do compulsions and find answers.
I feel the same exact way, the first two weeks I felt terrible when I had the thoughts and now I don’t get much guilt from them which makes me think I like them and it makes me think I’m a bad person
What to do when we feel guilty about our ocd checking and compulsive behaviors?
I’m currently struggling with guilt from checking OCD. By this I mean, I feel guilty and shameful by my OCD checking because I feel as that was immoral and wrong and I really don’t know what to do. How can I fight this?
Does anyone have any advice for how to know the difference between ocd and real feelings/thoughts? Sometimes an intrusive thought will come in and I immediately know it’s ridiculous and I can just leave it alone and it won’t bother me but other times I really really don’t know. It’s when ocd hijacks and twists my real feelings and thoughts and tries to manipulate me into believing they’re something they’re not or something that doesn’t align with my true morals or intentions. But since it’s twisting and mixing with real feelings I get so confused and scared. Everything gets jumbled and I feel like I can’t trust myself or my own mind. Yet other times and other topics I can laugh off and push away just fine. Make it make sense. And then I start to think well maybe I don’t have ocd at all and I’m just in denial because I don’t want to accept that these scary/concerning things are true about myself. Or maybe that’s just the ocd talking.
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