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Holy cow you guys, this isn't my thread, but you helped me realize I've had intrusive thoughts with changing themes since childhood. Like when I was around 10 my thing was that I would swear and insult god while I was praying at night and I just wanted it to stop. But that's the tamest theme I can remember. ? I can't believe my parents never helped me even when I was visibly distressed on a daily basis. Thank you everyone for being so honest and open on these forums.
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^^^ smallbird is right! basically anything can be an obsession, and a lot of times people experience obsessions across categories (like for example, i get obsessions about pocd, harm ocd, real event ocd sometimes, relationship ocd, “just right” ocd, and more that don’t even fit nicely into categories)
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That’s not weird at all! You’re in an OCD forum, after all — TONS of us have had this. The thing about the OCD brain is that it makes you think about the exact thing you would never want to think about. Why? Well, they say that those with OCD actually score higher on conscientiousness in personality tests. This makes sense: we’re more aware and attuned to what is appropriate or good and want to do really well at that. The very fact that we’re so aware of this is what makes our brains go “so what if I made you think THIS.” This has nothing to do with who you are as a person or your character or goodness. You were born with a brain that’s especially good at testing itself, creating problems, and analyzing them to death. Welcome to OCD. You are NOT alone.
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Thank you guys❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Well my theme is very uncommon. I suffer from real event OCD and nobody talks about that theme so I can feel lonely :( You should know that pretty much anything can become obsession, so it doesn't matter if your thoughts aren't very specific. If they give you anxiety and feeling of urgency that's OCD.
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Tell us more about some of your thoughts. I’m sure more people will relate than you think. A lot of people don’t speak up until they see someone else say it first.
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For example while I’m talking to someone a word from him will make me think in an sexual way and imagine my mother or father or my grandmother in this situation..and if i see my grandmother she’s 100 years old i think of her in a sexually way and!!! Even my bestfriends he’s gone. I think of him this way!! And if i see anything that remembers me of him i think this way
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And not just thinking i imagine things
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All things
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yes! ive had intrusive thoughts about my parents, my sibling, babies, toddlers i see at my work, my pets, my friends, my coworkers, my therapist, you name it. ive even had ocd dreams about it! it’s a special subcategory of forbidden thoughts ocd that has to do with taboo sexual situations. since these thoughts are so distressing, ocd obv loves them and tries to convince you you like them. what you’ve got going on here is definitely just ocd trying to upset you, but remember—thoughts and feelings aren’t necessarily true, and don’t necessarily reflect what we want
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that’s the ocd! i get the same things—like i get an intrusive thought about my dad, and then since ive gotten it a time before it means i must like it/be responsible for it, even though I know im not and know i don’t like it. it’s all ocd working overtime to make you feel guilty for what is, at its heart, not an all too uncommon thought
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you’re not crazy, you’re not responsible, and your concern shows you don’t like it. ocd’s telling you a lot of lies
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???
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Do you get different types of intrusive thoughts?
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I have real event ocd. Sometimes it’s a specific thing from the past but really it could be anything I think of from the past.
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OH YEAH I GET THAT TOO! i do agree that it isn’t talked about nearly as much, but i get intrusive thoughts about incest and my friends very very frequently and it can be triggered just by a particular word or a particular situation. you’re absolutely not alone in this, a lot of folks have that set of obsessions!!! you’re not crazy!
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But even in a baby or my dead bestfriend?
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Or my dad and mom?
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An animal
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But i feel that I’m responsible and I’m the one how brings it and remember that I think this way before so i do it again
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I feel like there’s no way out of this. everyday i’m anxious and depressed from these thoughts. i feel like i have to constantly question if it’s OCD or not. the panic attacks are insane and i freak out. and a compulsion i have is looking eveything up on the internet when im stressing to know that it’s just my OCD and im not in danger. but looking things up add on to my thoughts and i start thinking “what if” actual suidcal people think. do others with this theme whenever they do something like if im taking a picture it’ll be like “yeah you look happy people will wonder what happened when your gone” LIKE i DO NOT want to end my life. or even as simple as cleaning my room, “yup keep it clean so when your family goes through your stuff” then i panic and can’t even do anything. those thoughts distress me so bad. i’ll sit there and think how good my life is or when im having a good day my thoughts will be like “NOPEEE what if your just saying that to convince yourself” it never shuts up and genuinely makes me think i have SI or something. i hope this reaches the right people just to know im not alone. Even when i do get better in the back of my mind it’s always “people who want to are the same a day before too” im genuinely scared and im scared one day im going to just snap and do it because its “too much” do i need to go to a mental hospital! i feel insane.
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i’m so scared im going to lose control and end up locked up or something. this is so exhausting!! i worry that what i have isn’t OCD and that im genuinely insane and im gonna end up in big trouble or that the urges i have are going to actually happen. i dont want to think these things ! i feel like a horrible human being!!
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Does anyone else get fixated on one “topic” with their ocd?? like for me trains and guns are mine. like i’m scared of trains and im scared to be around guns because that’s what triggers my ocd and makes me convince me that that is the way to go. i literally worry myself into thinking im going to sh*t myself when i don’t even have a gun but my ocd convinces me. idk if im explaining it good, but its a real struggle. just need some tips & advice
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