Guys , do you sometimes get so many thoughts that your brain just gets fuzzy and you ask yourself what the heck am I thinking about ? Like the mind is just putting one thought after another and Its very unclear since I would try sometimes to see what am I thinking but I would be unable to analyze the thought since its very foggy and It makes no sense. Anybody experienced anything similiar ?
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Thank you guys this makes me feel less alone, sometimes my brain goes so fast with many different intrusive thoughts it’s hard to even recognize some of them
Yes, I can relate! With OCD comes lots of rumination causing your brain to feel fuzzy with so much overthinking. I had so many different intrusive thoughts come at once with me and made my brain feel overwhelmed. Once I started ERP I was able to tackle my instructive thoughts one by one on a hierarchy based on lowest distress to highest. It has helped so much to calm my brain and feel more calmness. Good luck with your journey, we are all in this together ❤️
That’s kinda my question. All my thoughts feel so realistic and so now I doubt if they are ocd and if I just can’t make my mind up about something and I’m using ocd as an excuse or something idc I feel like this post is word vomit.
Does your ocd ever start to tell you that you’re having a psychotic break? I have such a hard time telling what are ocd thoughts and what are real thoughts as it is. But now my newest ocd thought is that I’m losing my mind. Please tell me I’m not alone in this!!
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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