Does anyones OCD thoughts seem Natural like where do they come from? Also I’m trying with ERP but I’ve been suffering for a long time so sometimes the thoughts don’t cause anxiety so they sort of just zip in and out of my brain before I can catch them. Does anyone know how to tackle this with ERP?
Hi! I am having this right now. This is potentially the back door spike if you have been doing ERP! Could be emotional exhaustion/numbness if not. The goal is to stop the anxiety felt from these thoughts, it feels weird! I genuinely felt myself WANT these thoughts this morning because I felt calm and happy and felt no anxiety when the horrible thought came. This is your OCD screaming at you to take action, screaming at you to do a compulsion. It will throw everything at you in hopes you’ll cave and do a compulsion to make it happy and satisfied.
@anonymous. I seriously believe I don’t have ocd and this is all to hide from who I truly am and what I truly want
@JoeG1146 Me too :))) me too! It feels like I’m in denial/a bad person and dont want to admit it. OCD wouldn’t be a disease if it didn’t feel so so so real. I don’t know what theme u have but I have POCD and a lot weighs on it NOT being true. Which kills me because all I want is to know for certain it’s not me but OCD is desperate to get us to do a compulsion and will try it’s hardest. I know how real it feels, especially when we rely on the anxiety/disgust to comfort us!
Thoughts zipping in and then out without causing anxiety is kind of the goal. People have unpleasant and intrusive thoughts they just don't hold onto them the way we do and they don't cause them anxiety. These thoughts maybe unpleasant but it sounds like they're not bothering you? What I interpreted from your message is you feel like you should be bothered but can't hold the thought long enough to be bothered am I correct?
@Will86 Tbf mate yeah that sounds right I feel like I’m half chasing my thoughts around.
@Will86 But I still get the thoughts/feeling about being in denial or my relationship being right and I can look into them or ruminate on them which just feels natural don’t even know I’m doing it
I've been through this for 8 to 9 months and honestly, it just feels more real and natural now.
Questions about ERP. My anxiety is very low due to the amount of medicine that I’m on but I still have the constant intrusive thoughts. Do others have issues with trying work with intrusive thoughts and ERP without anxiety? What have you done to work on it?
***For anyone who has had success with ERP,***…I’m Wondering about the effectiveness of It. I know Dr McGrath has said the thoughts become wimpier over time. What I am wondering is if you are locked into thoughts 24/7 it seems all day everyday, will ERP make them occur just occasionally? My theme is ROCD.
So I’m starting therapy this week but I’ve been trying to use ERP myself, my main compulsion is rumination which I wasn’t even aware was a compulsion. I’m trying to do ERP but when I focus on observing the thought it goes, I dunno if I’m focusing too much on actually how to follow ERP or is this normal? I feel like I might be subconsciously blocking thoughts because I know how bad it is when I go down the rabbit hole, but then I also worry that the anxiety goes too quickly and that I’m finding it too easy to ignore the thought?
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