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How do you deal with ocd urges?? It feels like I don’t care anymore and that these urges will take over? It’s frustrating me
How do you deal with ocd urges?? It feels like I don’t care anymore and that these urges will take over? It’s frustrating me
I’ve been feeling that the urges will beat me for decades. Now that it has been decades I feel more confident because I know how long I’ve gone without giving in. I’m 40 years old, still undiagnosed and the idea of me having OCD has only just been raised so I’ve gone most of my life thinking all sorts of things were true. I can’t believe the answer was so simple all along. Anyway I digress, yes, the urges are very frustrating.
I have found ERP therapy very helpful for urges and thoughts.
Same
I am currently having a bad ocd trigger and doubt, and ocd is coming up with more what if’s? What do I do?
Earlier I had what felt like an urge but I’m not sure. I’ve had urges before but this felt different as the object was in front of me (not intentional btw) , I’ve been quite stressed lately and my OCD is latching on to that. I had an urge to harm and within that I had like 2/3 intrusive images that came to mind, I couldn’t rationalise with it, I felt “stuck” when I came out of it I felt scared immediately was trying to work out why I’d even think of doing that & was very upset. A while after I keep getting thoughts like “say your goodbyes it won’t be long until you act out” I cried to my boyfriend and told him everything. How do I know if this was intent vs intrusive urge?
I been dealing with OCD my entire life but recently I been finding it really difficult to find the slightest relief. I know it’s not good to do but I been trying not to think of the thoughts but of course they come back even stronger. Does anyone know what I could do in the meanwhile ? Thank you
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