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- 2y ago
Thoughts and feelings
Thoughts came with great anxiety and panic at first but now it feels like I want it. Feel like im lying to myself, don't understand how this can happen overnight, so depressing.
Thoughts came with great anxiety and panic at first but now it feels like I want it. Feel like im lying to myself, don't understand how this can happen overnight, so depressing.
I totally feel this.. It also feel like I want it..
I don't know where your at in your OCD journey- but I will say that as a therapist I hear this a lot. Sometimes when people are getting better through ERP or medication they will say this, because the anxiety has lessened so much that it feels more real. Remember OCD is all about doubt- doubting yourself in this case- you said it feels like....feelings can be misleading- OCD inserts doubt into feelings- try and sit in the maybes. Maybe you want whatever it is, maybe you don't but you can cross that bridge when and if you ever get there. Hope this helps.
Thankyou for your reply, I had my second session with nocd therapist yesterday, mainly assessing but will be putting things into place in the upcoming weeks, I haven't done ERP yet. I have a girlfriend and a baby, so I think it's just alot of pressure on me, I thought everything was great until this started and now I don't know if I can carry on in the relationship.
my therapist suggested that some of my less bad rocd intrusive thoughts are actually mine, and not intrusive. She ended up taking it back when she saw the alarm on my face and saw how panicked I got. I feel really freaking anxious. We were only talking about it because I mentioned a lot of doubt surrounding those less bad ones, but it only filled me with more doubt. I don’t want those thoughts to be mine. I really don’t. I feel scared and so discouraged after this session. I feel scared about the worst thoughts, what if those aren’t intrusive. I feel so much doubt.
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? 😅
These past few days I was fine. Minimal intrusive thoughts ,no anxiety etc(to add I'm on medication so maybe it's starting to work although it barely is 2 weeks) and today I got a sudden wave of anxiety and it started latching on some thoughts like" what if I'm in denial and I wanna break up with my bf? And what if erp doesn't work for me because I actually wanna break up with my bf?" But they didn't really stay long usually those thoughts would make me spiral for days or so, now they lasted for some hours. And now I'm trying to trigger myself into being anxious again because if I don't it means I don't have ocd and if I don't have ocd it means I don't love my bf and if I don't love my bf it means I have to break up. Idk if it makes sense but the lack of anxiety makes me wonder if I actually have ocd or not.
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