So this sounds kind of dumb but does anyones OCD try to control everything that’s happening in their brain? Like what thoughts come up and ect.? I have this weird thing happening where I get triggered if I can’t take control of what’s going on in my head
Yes, and it is absolutely futile and a waste of time. The point of recovering from OCD isn’t to control your thoughts or get rid of the intrusive thoughts—that is ABSOLUTELY impossible to do. No one in the world can do such a thing. The point of recovery is realizing the thoughts don’t matter and to let them be.
Yes. It is completely ok to take time to slowly let go, because letting go of your ocd is never easy. Don’t rush things, but every time you catch yourself trying to control your thoughts just acknowledge them and move on.
Yes, it is so exhausting to constantly have intrusive thoughts pop up in my mind and have zero control over them. I get extremely overwhelmed if my mind becomes stronger than I am. I try to remember that I cannot figure out what my brain wants me to. There is no way I can predict something out of my control so there is no point in letting me brain think that I can.
This is OCD in a nutshell, as we feel we have a lack of control based on the obsessive thoughts and when the thoughts ate distressing, of course we will try and block them put, anticipate and control them. But NOONE has control of their thoughts from their brain, it's automatic. We just have control of how we respond. Try and allow what thoughts comeup. The brain is a creative thinking device
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
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?
OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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