I hate having these intrusive thoughts

I don’t know how to get rid of them

Kyle

Date posted: 2y

I'm sorry to hear you're experiencing this. I know how debilitating the thoughts can be. I struggled greatly with Harm OCD - and I was able to overcome those thoughts through ERP. The thoughts barely affect me now, and I'm rarely triggered! It takes work, but there is so much that's possible. Are you familiar with ERP?

hellopeople

User type: NOCD Alumni

Date posted: 2y

I would say even people without OCD have intrusive thoughts, but it’s how we respond to our thoughts that causes us such distress. Thoughts don’t equal truth or reality but ocd will convince us that just thinking something makes it true, the best thing to do with an intrusive thought is to just let it be there, but don’t give it meaning- which is difficult work to do, but through ERP I learned how!

Lisa LeeLou

User type: NOCD Alumni

Date posted: 2y

Thank you for sharing what you are going through. I’m sorry to hear you are struggling. It helps me to remind myself that thoughts are just thoughts not facts; and do not define who you are. Just thinking something does not make it true. If you try to just push these thoughts out of your head, they probably will just increase. Instead try to let yourself sit with the thoughts without engaging with them. However, of course, that is easier said than done, but with time and practice it does get easier.

worrier 24

Date posted: 2y

Same one of my biggest fear is the thoughts themselves find it hard not to ruminate about them/ avoid a lot of things including magical thinking about clothes and food etc

Danielle Carter

User type: Member advocate

Date posted: 2y

I'm so sorry that you are feeling this way! I would like for you to know that we all have been or are still where you are. We are here to support in this!

Chels0212

Date posted: 24w

Intrusive thoughts

I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅

Young adults with OCD

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 22w

I don’t know what this is. Help please?

Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?

Boss34

Date posted: 21w

Question…

When you get a stuck thought in your mind, as stupid or untrue as it may be, how do any of you block them out, or try to at least? It’s like my mind has another voice telling me making up the stupidest things?

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