NOCD

User type: Staff

Date posted: 2y

Do you have "unacceptable" thoughts? You're not alone.

There's no limit to the intrusive thoughts, images, and urges that OCD can cause. They can attack topics from your family and loved ones to your own core values and identity. These thoughts can sometimes be violent, aggressive, or sexual in nature. As a result, people with OCD who experience thoughts they feel are "unacceptable" or taboo find it hard to share their experiences with others, and so many people often end up suffering in silence. If OCD is giving you thoughts, images, or urges that you find "unacceptable," you aren’t alone, and you don’t have to suffer forever. All themes of OCD are highly treatable, and you can learn to gain self-compassion and live with confidence in your values. Read more about how you can get on the path to recovery from OCD, even if you’re experiencing disturbing thoughts.

Colorado_88

Date posted: 2y

I absolutely love this article, and I needed it, I have read it a couple times, going through this alot lately, and allowing myself to be consumed by compulsions, I am resisting that today, and it has not been easy, it seems to make the thoughts grow somehow, this is great ❤️

Anonymous

User type: Staff

Date posted: 2y

Thank you so much! I am so glad it has helped someone💛

HipHopAnonym...

Date posted: 2y

🫨😮‍💨 Thank you

Rbv91097

Date posted: 2y

Reading this has truly made me feel so much less alone in these intrusive thoughts.

Anonymous

User type: Staff

Date posted: 2y

I am so grateful to hear this💛

LadyDi

Date posted: 2y

I think I fall into this category but not in an inappropriate manner securely. In fact I've been abstinence for 12 years and I have no desire to revisit my Sex Life, however, I get depressed by feelings that aren't mine. They're very dark memories and I can see the scenario is a space that has a backdrop with a grayish, colorless place and I feel in not in control about how in feeling while there, but its not my space, why do I constantly find myself there? Trapped! Scared, now I need a Xanax to escape this . I have to tell you all that in not a depressed person per si. I've had a bad past but I fight fir my happiness to surface from within me and my two dogs help to pull it out of me and I implement it right onto them to calm me

TapDrumRoll

Date posted: 2y

@LadyDi Glad you have your babies to soothe you. I’m trying to get of the benzos. But I hear you. Best of luck!❤️

Madlexy

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

Great article! Felt great that I’m not alone.

Axlellism

Date posted: 2y

When I’m super conscious and fully aware of myself is when this negative no true at all whatsoever come popping in my head and it’s just feels that I feel uncomfortable and the more I try to fight these words in my head keep going random times. Being a positive person makes me feel uncomfortable and I’m trying not to but it still does. I hope with new medication would help me.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

Thank you

Anonymous

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y

Great article!

ElanaIsStrug...

Date posted: 2y

Ty (:

vic0

Date posted: 2y

Gosh! And I believed I was being a pervert, even though I knew I would never act on those thoughts

OCDwontownme

Date posted: 2y

I have unacceptable thoughts but knowing I'm not alone doesn't help. I'm just not sure I can deal with OCD for much longer. I go to therapy and it's not working.

Anonymous

User type: Staff

Date posted: 2y

I am so sorry that your going through this. I can only say that, for me, it took many years, and it took finding the right therapy and therapist and medication. Keep trying-keep going, one day at a time.💛

TapDrumRoll

Date posted: 2y

One day, hour & minute at a time. It will take time to work with ERP, but we’ll worth it. We all deserve happiness.

Anonymous

Date posted: 2y

What is ERP

Anonymous

User type: Staff

Date posted: 2y

@Anonymous - ERP stands for Exposure and Response Prevention. During ERP, you’ll gradually confront situations and triggers that cause you anxiety and discomfort, but instead of doing the actions that make your thoughts stop, you’ll learn to sit with the anxiety and accept the uncertainty behind the thought. Eventually, you’ll find that the anxiety is significantly minimized over time. Essentially, it’s a treatment that teaches you how to effectively respond to OCD thoughts, images, and urges. It’s the most proven way to get better and reduce your OCD symptoms quickly. Here is a helpful resource that goes in more in depth on ERP: https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/what-is-erp-and-does-it-work-for-ocd-cbt.

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