I’m baffled at this disorder. Honestly just baffled that one single thought won’t go away no matter how many times I sit through the discomfort and exposures and don’t do the reassuring. I feel a lot better than I did a month ago but the thoughts are still there. Even when I don’t have the thought I think about how I don’t have the thought and start to have the thought. It’s exhausting. I miss my life before.

Username: alissaaalissaa

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 5y ago

That phase passed for me... i think its a good sign. Meaning, when i started to think about the fact that i wasn’t having the thought and it brought it on, I was nearing “recovery”. Eventually if you continue disregarding even the “hey im not having that thought” it will stop :) i still have similar thoughts at times, but wayyyyy less frequent. Youve got this. You sound like you’re on the right track try to stay positive

Username: Drepet123Drepet123

Date posted: 5y ago

Thank you for that! I also am at the phase of “bringing it on myself” or questioning things like “it’s been a bit since you thought about (insert unrealistic thought). I was worried it was starting the cycle over so it’s encouraging to hear that it’s actually towards the end.

Username: pureolifepureolife

Date posted: 5y ago

It probably keep occurring because you’re so frustrated with it. But even if it never goes away, can you imagine it becoming so meaningless that really don’t care about it anymore? I’m sure you have tons of thoughts that recur but have no effect on you. Think about how certain memories always come up with certain songs. And always will. The song plays, the memory pops up, and depending on how we’re feeling we either think about it or just go “oh yeah that” and quickly move on.

Username: pureolifepureolife

Date posted: 5y ago

Keeps*

Username: I eat boys

Date posted: 6y ago

What annoys me is knowing intrusive thoughts are apart of life. I have to do exposure in order to decrease the level of anxiety I feel from them but I hate every second of it.

Username: Maybe,MaybeNot

Date posted: 2y ago

Hi everyone, I really, really could use some support and encouragement today. I had the same thought stuck in my head for the last 3 months. Literally thought about it while I was giving birth 2 months ago. I ended up confessing it today because I didn’t know how else to explain to my partner what was going on. He struggles to understand why I obsess if there isn’t something bigger going on. It’s so hard that others don’t understand. It’s so hard that the thoughts feel so real even when we don’t have evidence for them. It’s so hard that I resisted confessing for three months and still had the same thought. It’s so hard that I confessed, and as predicted, another thought took its place. Now he goes back to work next week from his paternity leave and I will be home with a 2 month old all day every day. I’m so scared I won’t be able to handle this.

Username: Mikala F

Date posted: 2y ago

Constant intrusive thoughts

I’m having constant intrusive thoughts and it’s driving me crazy. I will go through these periods where everything I do I get an intrusive thought and it’s just my brain is so loud. Anyone else?! How do you stop the constant intrusive thoughts when you can’t really do an exposure for every single one?!

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