Ocdsucks56
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- 2y
OCD telling you when you’ll get intrusive thoughts
Hi guys Does anyone get intrusive thought like “you’re going to get intrusive thought every time you see this” and then it happens but not all the time.
jos02jos02
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y
i get this! with things i love is the worst, been avoiding listening to any music because im so scared of it becoming contaminated with intrusive thoughts :-(
Ocdsucks56Ocdsucks56
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- 2y
@jos02 Don’t avoid them, it makes it worse unfortunately. I know it’s hard ignore them but don’t react to them.
jos02jos02
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 2y
@Ocdsucks56 defo agree, its just vv difficult
hayledollarbeanhayledollarbean
- Date posted
- 2y
Yes! It reminds me of the “you just lost the game” joke where the only way to win the game is to not think about the game. In trying to avoid the intrusive thoughts that my brain told me I will have, I end up thinking about them anyway.
Mark.The.CanuckMark.The.Canuck
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- 2y
Yup! It’s when I am in a state of fear and ruminated all day while doing other compulsions. Mine show’s up as: What can you say or think that would turn this into a fear or something messed up? Then I might be able to stop it with deep breathing and stopping, but that might be resisting and not making thing’s better. If I don’t resist and just let the brain do it’s thing it’s going to spit out something Harm related or pointing out that I’m a bad person.
Mark.The.CanuckMark.The.Canuck
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- 2y
I saw this post a bit further up the blog today that said : “let yourself walk a new path”. The me if when I have OCD under control would say “change careers, get new hobbies, travel more ans stop clinging to money”. The current me that is having and OCD Flare Up see’s this and is like: Don’t think something stupid! Walk the path of a serial killer. Farrkkkhhh, why!? Ideally I’d like to stop at the “don’t think something stupid” but it went into something stupid. Now what I should have done after that is simply not react. Or react with: Maybe, Maybe Not.
Ocdsucks56Ocdsucks56
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- 2y
@Marco89 that happens to me too, sometimes I do something good for people or about me life in general, and my ocd tells me something like “why are you doing this if you’re a bad person, there’s no point of trying to have a better life” and I’m like omg why would I think this.
Mark.The.CanuckMark.The.Canuck
- Date posted
- 2y
@Ocdsucks56 Same! I’ve had the exact same thoughts on many occasions when I did something good. OCD is a pro at discrediting our good actions.
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