i can’t stop acting on my thoughts like if i have a thought i need to do a compulsion to shake it or to feel safe anyone have any tips to completely stop it’s become a habit and i’m so stressed about it
Take it one step at a time. You need to breathe first. Then journey all those worries and fears onto paper. That helps slow your mind down. Doing a cold water dunk in the bathtub for 5 mins will shock you back to reality. It will force you to focus on something else. Then set your worry on a timer. This is hard but it does work. Set a time for you to worry, like at 11AM for 15 minutes. Tell yourself that you’ve worried enough for tonight. You will worry again tomorrow at that time. It lets your brain take a break cause your not forcing yourself to stop. But your allowing it to worry, just not at this moment.
@Brooklyn_99 thank you so much i appreciate this so much💓💓
@Keira.Flynn2204 Your so welcome. It allows you to steal some mental control back.
i haven’t been diagnosed with ocd but I have anxiety about harming other people/family members and it’s like urges and im scared I actually want to do it? I don’t think I’ve ever been violent as a kid (im 21 now) and the intrusive thoughts don’t go away so im just stuck all day everyday for the past few weeks just thinking and being scared about it and im having all these weird emotions like being irritated and angry I don’t want to hurt people I don’t think idk why my mind is making me think I do I’ve had intrusive thoughts before that I could brush away sure it took like a day or two but this one is different it doesn’t go away and leaves me with the worst fear imaginable and nothing I look up that should be giving me relief is giving me relief + I feel like im not in control of my body and that im just gonna lose it and act on these thoughts it’s just all on a loop and im not sure how im supposed to live the rest of my life when im in constant fear of my self
i don’t want to do my compulsions. I feel like if I don’t somebody will get hurt, sick or die. It’s a very scary thought to feel like if I don’t do my compulsions it will be my fault even though it isn’t & nor will it happen. I know it’s magical thinking & my thoughts are not true nor will they come true. it’s just im so tired of doing these compulsions. im so tired of feeling like I can stop something bad happening if I don’t step on this or touch this 4 times. it even got me believing that if I do something I want to do & love, something bad will happen. I just want to be able to live & feel like I use to. I hate ocd. how can I calm this down so I can be able to navigate in my own life?
I think i have ocd. Two years ago i had a few panic attack and person related obsessions that i couldnt get over. Now since i’m free of college and work i have an intrusive thought about hitting myself. It is panicking and i don’t know what to do. I have already acted twice on the thoughts but now my mind says i have to hit harder… i know it sounds weird, but does anyone have any tips etc..? :)
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