i feel like all my obsessive and intrusive thoughts have meaning and that since i am having these negative thoughts that something must be wrong and i must fix it. i can never put my finger on what it is exactly, its just a general overwhelming feeling of wrong and i dont know where it comes from. the concept of trusting ur gut stresses me out as i cant tell if my thoughts are intuitive or plain ocd. any advice ??
Something that I've been doing, and I haven't really been able it pinpoint it exactly myself (thinking a meshing of things), but I meditate to calm my mind, I've done every day for the past 6 or 7 days, and then I try to write down possible things to talk about with my therapist. I still get anxious at certain times of day but it's not as bad as it was at first
@A person 1 i should try meditation, thank you!!
I hate it when anyone talks about trusting their gut. Mine is usually wrong.
@ams03 mine too, my gut is just anxious feelings so it is hard to tell.
“Trust your gut” is essentially “check your feelings”, and that is absolutely terrible advice for OCD. OCD is the doubt disorder and causes immense pain and torture by making its victims think things they fear may be true or will likely come true. This advice comes from a good place, from a person who is well-meaning and genuinely trying to help, but they don’t understand OCD. “Trust your gut” may be good advice to people who don’t have OCD, but even then, not always. OCD tells us that what we fear may be or is happening; that there is no disorder but these are our true feelings and thoughts. “Trust your gut“ can often be mistranslated to “trust your OCD” which of course makes no sense. If the words of “trust your gut” is triggering, make a loop-tape on this app and listen to it until you get bored. Or just read it over and over. In both cases don’t resort to compulsions. Here we go!: Trust your gut Trust your gut Trust your gut Trust your gut Trust your gut Trust your gut Trust your gut
@Brendan =] ah this makes a lot of sense. i think one of the hardest parts of ocd for me is being able to remind myself that these are not true feelings and thoughts so it is always nice to hear it from somebody who understands, thank you!! will try not to take “trust your gut” so seriously
@mfa Actually, reminding yourself that what you’re experiencing is OCD and not real is actually not recommended. With my therapist, I discovered that this was being used as a way of self-reassurance and was actually a compulsion that was reinforcing my condition. Truly embracing uncertainty is the way to go.
@Brendan =] did not realize it was a compulsion at all, so this is good advice thank you! will have to try and embrace the uncertainty.
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
i’ve been dealing with this “thing” since i was 15. (i’m 23 now) if i have a bad memory that i have done when i was really young or just an intrusive thought i feel like i need to tell my mom or boyfriend. it’s been on and off ever since but since January hit it’s been an everyday thing about the littlest things. mostly about my relationship. an example is i was talking to someone random at my job and we were talking about taxes and when im in deep thought or just thinking i do a thing where i bite my lip (not in the sexual way) and i had a thought when it happened “was that sexual?” and i felt like i did something wrong and i went for a while thinking that until i told my boyfriend about it. or like my ex’s face has popped up in my head in the most inappropriate times and i feel the need that i have to tell him. (my ex was not a good person) i feel like im a prisoner in my head everyday, trying to justify thoughts or remind myself that its just a thought. i didnt know that this was or could be a form of ocd. it runs in my family but i’ve just never considered it being this. i always called it anxiety or depression but i always felt like it is more than that.
Does anyone have any advice for how to know the difference between ocd and real feelings/thoughts? Sometimes an intrusive thought will come in and I immediately know it’s ridiculous and I can just leave it alone and it won’t bother me but other times I really really don’t know. It’s when ocd hijacks and twists my real feelings and thoughts and tries to manipulate me into believing they’re something they’re not or something that doesn’t align with my true morals or intentions. But since it’s twisting and mixing with real feelings I get so confused and scared. Everything gets jumbled and I feel like I can’t trust myself or my own mind. Yet other times and other topics I can laugh off and push away just fine. Make it make sense. And then I start to think well maybe I don’t have ocd at all and I’m just in denial because I don’t want to accept that these scary/concerning things are true about myself. Or maybe that’s just the ocd talking.
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