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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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TW!!!! TW! Not talking abt SOCD in talking abt those really gross intrusive thoughts about sexual things with family ,friends, animals, random people. Mine is with family specifically my mom and I am so scared and my OCD is saying I actually want these thoughts to happen irl. I’m scared and these thoughts aren’t just the average incest thoughts there are sooo messed up it crazy, a few weeks ago I gas a thought that I was pregnant with that family member I mentioned before and I know ewwwwww wtf it’s sooo bad and I’m scared ppl will judge me for it in here or my therapist I’m so scared and it keeps adding to this thought like what it would be like if that were true and it’s sounds so crazy and gross and f****d up I feel so guilty and scared and I don’t wanna do ERP cuz I’m scared worse thoughts will come and your probably think well I can’t get worse then that but unfortunately it probably could anyways I’m sorry for ranting and pls pls reply cuz I feel rlly alone cuz I feel like no one gets THESE thoughts aghhh 😖
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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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Paranoia… I need to know because I’m feeling very alone in this. I’ve never met someone with the level of paranoia that I have. I can logically explain things to myself and somehow my paranoia convinces me of another story. I’m constantly thinking exaggerated thoughts that there are so many scary possibilities. Am I alone in this or what? If so any suggestions on how to calm these thoughts
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