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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
I think those themes just stick because they are the most universally upsetting but you can have OCD about anything.
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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
You want to weaken those neurons by constant exposure to your fears.
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- 5y ago
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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- 5y ago
Yes true
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- 5y ago
Everything u guys are saying is 100% true.....thanks u
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- 24w ago
I've gotten diagnosed with OCD and I'm in therapy. But I'm worried that I don't have OCD/that I got misdiagnosed. And recently I'm worried that I've just gotten myself into a habit of thinking of dirty minded or just plain old terrible things after I see/hear certain things because I feel like I need to prove I have OCD or else I'm faking(sometimes this goes away). Or that I'm just mimicking symptoms of ocd to cope with real problems I may have and that im just really deep into denial. I don't know...I'm just so tired. I mean, what if I really am what I think I am and this is my brains only way of coping? I don't even really feel anything towards most of the thoughts anymore either I just know they go against my values and I don't want them. I don't know if that's because I'm so mentally exhausted, I just don't care, or that the thoughts are true and I'm comfortable with them.
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- 18w ago
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
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- 13w ago
Don't panic, you're still the same girl, your OC gives you a lot of intrusive thoughts that aren't you and that disgust you and scare you and that you don't want and that you don't think are true, and your OC gives you the false feelings.Also, don't forget that whatever comes to mind, whatever intrusive thoughts you have and whatever you feel, is all yours.
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