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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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so i was on instagram and it came up with other signs of ocd then someone commented this doesn’t mean you have ocd now im stressed that its not ocd background - i had so-ocd for a few years then got treatment for it but am now on the waiting list for further treatment for other stuff but i dont have another theme which makes me feel like its not ocd my day to day life consists of touching the door handle every time you go past it or someone will die, and inability to send emails without re reading loads of times and getting other people to check because im scared i wrote something bad but the what if it’s not ocd thought is triggering me now and i don’t know what do
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how OCD changes the way we see ourselves, but I recently realized that I am not my thoughts. Just because a thought pops up doesn’t mean it’s true or that it defines me. I’ve started learning how to see OCD for what it is—just a disorder trying to trick me—and I’ve become stronger in dealing with it. Has anyone else here had a similar realization? How do you handle these thoughts when they show up?
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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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