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I think those themes just stick because they are the most universally upsetting but you can have OCD about anything.
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OCD is a monster that feeds of anxiety - it’ll try ANYTHING to get you to feel anxious. Thats why themes change so much between person to person! It has to be something which is unimaginably bad for the sufferer. For example, some people suffer religious OCD. They may worry that they are sinners or think blasphemous thoughts. I’m not religious, and it’s not important to me so my OCD will never become that. People suffer from trans OCD, where they fear that they want to change genders. Until recently that wasn’t even possible, and so wouldn’t have been a theme for people until recently. It shows how OCD changes depending on what’s important to the person.
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I kind agree, I have lots of obssession, not Just PocD. I think ocd can makes You going into obssessions, intrusive thoughts, ruminating, feeling depressed, guilty and etc
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yes, i would also say that ocd uses what is most distressing to the particular person. basically it is the system which ought to show you how your most important 'thing' could be in danger - which makes you take action to prevent this; in ocd it does so in a often brutal and repetitive way.
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Once you get into the habit your brain will creat more complex uncertainties and random themes this only is proof and you have to remind yourself the context of the thoughts is not what matter or is relevant. You brain has created an unhealthy habit that you’ve been feeding and reinforcing for quite some time that why themes don’t matter it’s all OCD it’s all a mis firing kind like a malfunction of the brain typically healthy brains don’t function like this. Not saying our brain isn’t healthy it’s just not functioning... how it should. Which is why it’s called OCD. This actual realization makes you realize that no matter how intense or scary or “real” feeling a theme is that... it’s all OCD. Stop feeding it with compulsions and face your fears.
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You want to weaken those neurons by constant exposure to your fears.
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Sooner or later with healthy new habits being reinforced you can starve the monster that’s OCD. ( which it’s not really a monster it’s just a misfiring in the brain! That you have turned into a monster!)
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Yes true
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Everything u guys are saying is 100% true.....thanks u
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maybe a therapist can respond or anyone who relates and experiences this also?? im trying to make sense . ever since ocd started, specifically harm ocd and pocd, sexual themes ocd in general, my brain makes everything sexual or gross. or just makes inappropriate connections with quite literally anything. or any person I see I wonder if they are a p, or if they are “like me”, because im fully convinced at times that im some weird or bad person, and then when i see actual criminals etc i cant help but compare myself to them it’s so weird?????? or sometimes I feel like i cant judge a p because im no different than them?? idk its so weird. rn writing this ik im not a p like what im just struggling with really bad ocd and trauma I hope :( It’s just my brain distorts everything and then it makes me feel worse, like “ur an actual p or pervert because see??? ur brain is sexualizing everything?” hopefully this makes sense
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So basically I didn’t know till my hocd started. But looking back at my life I had ocd since I was a kid. Like 6-7 years old. First time happening I remember that when I was doing stuff many times I had to say something like a little poem in my head to stop it. Then I had this thing were if I felt my left foot touch the floor 5 times I had to do the touch the floor with my right foot too. Then I had something I guess contamination??? Basically after washing my hands I had a sensation on my hand like I could still “feel” the germs and I had to wash them again. Then I started having thoughts of my family members getting hurt. I had intrusive thoughts about me hurting my dog. Then I had this obsession that a guy who used to be in my school is looking for me to beat me up. And how it’s this obsession about my sexuality even tho I never doubted or questioned it before. Is that possible??? Like can you be born with it? I’m pretty sure both my parents have it too. At least at some level. Take my father for example he had an obsession that he was going to die the moment he turned 30.
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for the past few years i have been struggling with a certain theme of ocd as well as most of the other themes. but this one i have not figured out a good way to do my own form of erp or non-engaging responses. basically i will be daydreaming or thinking and have a very random thought. i wouldn’t call these thoughts intrusive thoughts because it’s not necessarily fear of the thoughts coming true, its just fear that my thoughts are too unique. my ocd will latch on to random or weird thoughts and may also add in that i was doing something weird while doing the thought. let’s say for example i thought of something random while i was rubbing my feet. then my ocd would be like “why are u having such a unique thought while doing something weird? nobody has ever thought about that specific thought while rubbing their feet before” (just an example). but basically it’s like my ocd bullies me for having thoughts that are too random and things i’ve never heard people talk about before if that makes sense. i am just trying to see if anyone relates even a little and how i can accept that everyone has unique thoughts.
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