How does it feel to resist mental compulsions? Does it feel like a block in the head? Pressure in the head? force? I feel like my brain just is always doing compulsions idk. Sometimes idk what is a thought or if it is a compulsion? Or if I am pushing away a compulsion. Anyone else?
Gotta just engage with what's going on in the moment and be present. The thoughts will go away before you know it
@myan427 I try to do this but my brain gets so distracted
me too my mental compulsions is constantly doing mental review or mental checking, where i replay thoughts or images that cause me distress :/ i can link a reddit thread that i found helpful for identifying mental compulsions for pure o https://www.reddit.com/r/OCD/comments/xo6xk4/glossary_of_mental_rituals_extremely_useful/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
yess this has been my latest struggle, it feels like thought suppression so at this point i don’t even know if i’m suppressing intrusive thoughts or the compulsions
@taurising It’s so confusing lol
Going through extacly this right now, it’s making me feel like I’m crazy, it is so frustrating. I have to Anazyle and mental review everything, it is so hard to enjoy anything anymore because my brain just wants to anazlyze everything and send me into a ocd spiral.
I’ve noticed that I’m somewhat happier also ignoring my thoughts than I am instead of doing compulsions (I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired atp) but I’ve heard you’re technically supposed to do erp rather than pushing under the rug. But idk if I have a thought I just refuse to think about it again and im fine even if I want to do compulsions
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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