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- Anxiousaddie
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Freud and ocd
Has anyone else read about freuds research on ocd? Its really scaring me. I don't even want to write it here in case I trigger someone.
Has anyone else read about freuds research on ocd? Its really scaring me. I don't even want to write it here in case I trigger someone.
I agree with categorizing Freud as a philosopher. Not that there's anything wrong with philosophers, but for a long time he was seen as something closer to a scientist. In reality his theories were based on studying a very small number of individuals, plus a lot of knowledge of literature and philosophy, plus a lot of sheer conjecture. He was a very learned man, but he didn't discover objective truth.
Every time Freud it's right a real terapist cries
lol
I’ve heard it vaguely, but Freud is a philosopher what he says is just opinion
Freud’s some hot bullshit and no one sane in the psychology field takes 95% of his hypotheses seriously.
Personally I believe Sigmund Freud was a genius. I have read some of his material and I tend to agree with him on many points overall. Just my personal opinion, I am no expert of any kind . Like with most things take with a “grain of salt “.
He also said that he thought ocd was secret desires if I understand correctly
I feel putting things in perspective he was very ahead of his time for the era in history he lived in : Born 1856 died 1939 .
I was reading about Albert Einstein he had spent much time with Sigmund Freud and greatly admired him and his work .
It reminds me of that episode of the sandman (tiny spoiler) when everyone starts doing what they "really want to". Totally stupid. I don’t want to cut off my hand thanks very much. I think the possible grain of truth is that ignoring the thoughts and avoiding them makes the condition worse so he was onto something there. I absolutely do not believe that this means the person wants to do the thing so the word choice of "desire" is wrong. Also worth remembering that everyone has intrusive thoughts every so often- people without ocd included. I was talking to my therapist about worries that intrusive thoughts will ruin my wedding day one day and she told me everyone has intrusive thoughts on their wedding day 🤷🏻♀️ Please do not be scared. You can trust yourself to know who you are.
POCD TRIGGER Years ago I once read someone’s post on another website who had looked up child pornography because their intrusive thoughts were getting them so much that they just figured that they were that way inclined. And they said that they pleasured themselves to this and then felt horrible and sick and guilty. I felt sorry for this person as they were clearly suffering from OCD and were not a pedophile. For some reason, this has entered my head today as I already have the fear of police scanning what I write on here and coming for me with them getting the wrong idea of me. Then I think the police would of definitely have went for that person as seeing that on their search list on their computer ID etc. Then came the fear of ‘what if I have done that and searched for that’. But that’s something you would know if you had done I’m telling myself.
Fear of psychosis. I don’t want to trigger anyone, but I’m having a particularly hard time with this “theme”. I’ve been on a high state of anxiety for days now about developing psychosis or already having it. I went to my psychologist and she claims it’s ocd. Basically what is going on is that I’m having obsessions over hearing voices. I’m compulsively researching etc and I fear I’m making it worse. I have intrusive thoughts about “hearing” a voice say something if that makes sense. Like I don’t actually hear a voice but I have a thought about a voice. It’s pretty scary and idk how to do erp with it. Also, late at night I have severely racing thoughts lately. Does this sound like OCD or something else?
I studied at school Sigmund Freud. It was very triggering and disturbing. Sure his studies aren't all true? Like dreams being actually our unconscious desires? It's terrifying to apply this with pocd. That whenever we see a trigger and feel triggered we're actually being in denial because society doesn't allow it and we actually desire those ugly stuff.
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