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Anyone else have trouble accepting thoughts bc if I accept them this must mean I am a bad person and like them
Anyone else have trouble accepting thoughts bc if I accept them this must mean I am a bad person and like them
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@anonymoys Yes we sure can anything can be better if we try
Yes all the time. Especially when they also say that it's fine to live in uncertainty. Why would I want to be uncertain of whether or not i'm a psychotic murderer or a pedo?
@MushroomStew Exactly!!!!
Accepting uncertainty around our thoughts is hard, scary, and uncomfortable. But with therapy and ERP, it really helps. You aren’t going to be perfect at it the first time you try. It takes practice, and it takes a while for us to reroute our neural pathways. We all start somewhere, so be kind and patient with yourself. Are you in therapy for OCD?
@Amber R Yes I am
I have made multiple mistakes in my past that lead me to believe im a bad person. thinking about them often sends me into a panic attack. i cant help but feel i need to be punished. i hate this feeling, what should i do?
I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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? 😅
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