- Date posted
- 1y ago
Sad and terrified
Today I'm feeling even worse. I had new intrusive thoughts for a few days but now one of my old intrusive thoughts has returned and it is making me feel terrified and awful. I just wish I could feel better.
Today I'm feeling even worse. I had new intrusive thoughts for a few days but now one of my old intrusive thoughts has returned and it is making me feel terrified and awful. I just wish I could feel better.
I feel you ive been struggling with an intrusive thought for months I know it didnāt happen but itās tied into a real event and gives me such anxiety I canāt separate the truth from the thought
my therapist suggested that some of my less bad rocd intrusive thoughts are actually mine, and not intrusive. She ended up taking it back when she saw the alarm on my face and saw how panicked I got. I feel really freaking anxious. We were only talking about it because I mentioned a lot of doubt surrounding those less bad ones, but it only filled me with more doubt. I donāt want those thoughts to be mine. I really donāt. I feel scared and so discouraged after this session. I feel scared about the worst thoughts, what if those arenāt intrusive. I feel so much doubt.
Pocd feels real again and I canāt tell if Iām actually attracted or not. canāt believe it got this bad again. I used to be able to go āno I donāt like that, go awayā and now it feels like I do like it and want it, and itās starting to linger longer so it feels more real. Iām avoiding checking but Iām so scared that what if itās true. Is it because I have not been doing my exposures? Iām not sure, but every time a 14 year old person comes to my head, I keep hearing something go ātheyāre attractiveā and it sounds like me so I panic, and it makes me even more scared because Iām not feeling bad about it??? I saw some kid at Walmart that had long black hair and my brain kept saying shit and no matter how much I say I donāt feel that way, it wonāt shut up, i want to check 1000 times to make sure. But I know itās not worth it. Iām trying so hard
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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