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I think that especially if you come from a religious environment/culture it is very easy that OCD makes you think about that. When I used to be religious I felt with these intrusive thoughts, and I was terrified of the devil and of having it in me. It's so easy to obsess over it because it's a very scary and (in religious context) very stigmatised topic. But to show you how tricky ocd can be, now that I don't believe or practice any religions those thoughts are completely gone. Not to say that you should give up your believes if you have any, but just to point out the fact that intrusive thoughts are always about things that differ the most from your real ethics and moral. Stay strong, and let's fight together
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You can say it here ❤️
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then i try and rationalise it: 1. Is it OCD? 2. Am i actually possessed? 3. Am i turning psychotic? Worst thing is, it causes anxiety which causes weird sensations in my body... and obvs that isnt good for the internal monologue ?
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1. Yes, 100% 2. No 3. No
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No no I promise. It’s those thoughts that are giving you the anxiety. Our response to the thoughts
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Are you getting some help for ocd.
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anyone who hasnt got OCD would accept this ^ but again i analyse and think ‘are you just saying this to make me feel better’ ? i appreciate the reply ?
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I think that too!! Like are they just saying this? But I’m saying this to you, because it’s not my obsession and I can see from someone who doesn’t have that anxiety to those thoughts that it’s clearly ocd. Like my ocd might not be a big thing for others but I can’t stress enough how much anxiety and sadness and unrest I feel with mine :(( I too am waiting for cbt. Really really hope I will be matched with someone who is understanding and can help me
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Probably you had this thought once, got stuck on it and then started to link it to physical sensations. So now it looks like they're connected but it's only your thoughts causing anxiety and then anxiety causing you to focus on your body. Two weeks ago I was sure I had an heart issue, I could feel all the possible pains. Went to see a doctor , and I couldn't be healthier. Our mind can get us to believe to anything, but it's got the power to do the opposite as well.
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i’m looking through this feed and hardly anyone has this thought which is making me feel like I’m psychotic
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You are not crazy or bad
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honestly its so disturbing
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okay here it goes I have this obsession about the idea of devils, demons and being possessed. i dont understand why the thought won’t go
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Oh yes I have heard of this, for sure. It’s the thoughts around this giving you so much anxiety
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i feel like that guy who makes other people feel better about their OCD cos the thought is so fucked ?
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My church tried to tell me my ocd was demonic spirits... can you imagine what this did for me and my imagination. You are not possessed or any bad things happening to you I promise
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im on a waiting list for CBT
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how about you?
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@bigheart absolutely, i do not have religious beliefs - i’m agnostic. yet this is something so irrational (in relation to my beliefs) that its making me doubt my original beliefs. so confusing and unsettling ?
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plus at night time, i feel weird sensations on my body - pins and needles, tingling hairs, movement in scalp and ears. makes you doubt your own sanity tbh cos although someone would say its anxiety, to me it feels like being possessed is a possibility ?
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It could be that your nutrition is not balanced, like you lack some minerals or vitamines, check it out with a doctor but it is just a possibility And maybe they are feelings caused by your inner emotions and feelings? I dont know, but I think that you have probably solved that by now
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I’m having a very bad evening with my intrusive thoughts. I was doing really good dealing with them but tonight one hit me hard. I’ve been having a lot of different intrusive thoughts but I’ll have one occasionally about hurting my mom or my dog who I love and they’re the only family I have in my life. They’re my world. I was helping my mom put away the dishes and I had the big kitchen knife in my hand and my intrusive thought was you could stab your mom. And then my brain said I had a twitch in my hand and that meant I wanted to do it. Let me just say that I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I actually caught a fly in a glass and put it outside instead of killing it this evening before this intrusive thought happened. I’m such a gentle and compassionate and caring person and these thoughts instantly cause me to have a panic attack. And I have no one to talk to them about. I know they’re hard for my mom to hear and I don’t want to be any more of a burden than I already am. I do desperately want to tell her and have her reassure me that I’m not crazy or a psycho. Then my thoughts wander to if your hand did flinch could you be a psychopath. Is hurting someone in you. I know it’s not but I feel like my mind is out to get me and hurt me. I’m working so hard and I thought I was doing so good but I need to know why I have these thoughts. They’re not ok. I need someone to help me make sense of why. I know we aren’t supposed to ruminate but I shouldn’t have thoughts like this about people I love and care about the most in the world.
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I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
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