Intrusive thoughts
I am having what feels like a million different thoughts/images a day. Does any one else experience multiple thoughts a day? If I could guess, I could have maybe up to 50 different thoughts a day. So now i fear if these are even intrusive thoughts. I don’t want any part of the thoughts but having so many a day is concerning to me.
Yep I do too! And then I really question it… I go, surely people with OCD don’t have this many thoughts or like “is my thoughts the same” “I feel like my thoughts are worse” “my thoughts mirror these peoples thoughts so much, what if I am this person”. Or like genuinely don’t believe it’s OCD and they feel so real because I’m like surely these thoughts wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t real. I completely understand :( I also genuinely always think my thoughts are worse then other people. You’re not alone🥺 let me know if u want someone to talk to!
@anonymous. Thank you for your response! I am glad to know that is is not just me. I can be discouraging when you keep having the thoughts and question them if they really are even intrusive. Hope things get better for you!
yup I’m having multiple horrible intrusive images a day and the same image can last up to 2 weeks.. so sorry ur going through this too :(
@ocd.is.a.bitch111 I hate when it repeats. I have had the same thought that every every time I try and not give into the images or urges or thoughts this particular thought comes back like HA. It’s so so so hard!
@ocd.is.a.bitch111 Sorry to hear this! I hope that today and the upcoming days get better for you!
Yes. Since we are responding to the thoughts with anxiety and compulsions when our OCD is not under control with ERP and proper tools, our brain is red flagging these thoughts as IMPORTANT. It sees that they are important to you because they cause u anxiety, so it sends you more thoughts. Your brain thinks its helping you solve the threat. In OCD, our brains just have some malware. I find it helpful remembering my brain loves me and wants to help me, but just can’t find the right way. It helps with self compassion.. with proper treatment (ERP) your brain learns that these thoughts are unimportant because we are no longer responding to then with importance, so it will send us less thoughts over time, decreasing our symptoms. Some thoughts will still come, but we will have learned the proper way of handling them and have become desensitized to a lot of them. Best of luck on your journey
@alissaa Thank you!!
I'm on medication so I have less. But, yes it's normal. I was told by my therapist.
@dani333 Thank you!
I’m having constant intrusive thoughts and it’s driving me crazy. I will go through these periods where everything I do I get an intrusive thought and it’s just my brain is so loud. Anyone else?! How do you stop the constant intrusive thoughts when you can’t really do an exposure for every single one?!
Does anybody else experience delusional intrusive thoughts? I have a very big fear of developing schizophrenia or becoming delusional. And it seems that a lot of my intrusive thoughts are delusional intrusive thoughts that I fight.
I have had a huge increase in Intrusive Thoughts this week. It’s making things super difficult for me, I am on my period but I also think I’m having more intrusive thoughts recently because things are going well for me right now. I just keep waiting for everything to fall apart because my mind makes me believe that I don’t deserve more than one good thing at a time. My mind is in constant fight or flight mode. I cannot stop thinking about every past mistake or how someone may have thought I had bad or malicious intentions when I didn’t. I keep thinking I’m going to get in trouble for something and go to jail, I’m especially scared about work and messing up someone’s check out and getting fired or arrested. I hate feeling this way, there is just so much going on in my head and I’m terrified and stressed all the time.
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