Harm ocd is the worst possible thing I’ve ever experienced. It’s legit about my girlfriend and family whom I love so much. This all came about after a crime case and it latched onto it and I can’t seem to let go. Anyone have any tips on helping with harm ocd?
I totally can relate when I was at my lowest with harm ocd I prayed to go back to my health ocd. You will get through this! It is hard and you will still get days in recovery as well. Take care of yourself do something you enjoy to do I try and kinda breathe my way through something I’ve been doing since beginning recovery is when I get a scary thought I go that was strange and kinda redirect myself to what I’m doing or something in front of me or near by to focus on. Thinking of you!
@Kat25 Thank you so much! I appreciate it! Yeah it just seems like some nights my brain won’t shut off and I get anxiety about even having thoughts, though they are currently happening:( hate this struggle
If I had a dime every time I wished my harm OCD would turn to something else I’d be rich. That wouldn’t be much of a solution though. No matter the theme it’s still OCD. It has the same treatments. Also remember your thoughts are only thoughts. They are not actions.
Ugh, all the time. I have had almost every theme after 41 years of this and harm is my worst one, too. I'm getting ready to go hard with ERP for it next week. I'm going to write up a bunch of trigger words on sticky notes and put them all over my house. It worked with something else I was working on a couple of weeks ago, so I'm going to keep going with my other themes. I'm determined to take this on now. I've had enough and I *know* the exposure work helps, so I'm going to go for it.
I was having a really good day at work and then all of a sudden, I realize that my harm OCD wasn’t there and then that reminded my brain to think about all these horrible things. I’ve been having really bad intrusive thoughts about wanting to hurt people or the fear of doing these things and I caught myself ruminating on things like oh well did this movie make me feel uncomfortable so I can reassure myself that I don’t wanna do these things and it’s just that fear like that I’m gonna wanna do it and it’s not even people that I’m close to. It’s literally anyone it could be like a random stranger thing about these things cause I know that’s a compulsion. So I thought I would put a message out to see if anyone could relate or has any advice.
I am really struggling with harm ocd. ( The fear of hurting others) My ocd is very tough to combat at the minute. I feel like i’m having intrusive thoughts every minute of every single day. Except from when Im distracted. I feel guilty and foul for the thoughts. I have this strong intrusive feeling that feels impulsive, as if i’m about to act on a thought. It almost feels like I want to. But I really don’t and i’m so scared this isn’t normal. I keep thinking. “What if this isn’t OCD” “What if i did that” and it’s really worrying me as it feels relentless and as if I’m about to do it. In my head chest wrists. I feel tired of this. I don’t know much about compulsions etc but i find myself - Asking my bf if he gets intrusive thoughts like me. Asking him if he actually does and asking repeatedly. - I ask him over and over again and check if he definitely does. - I will literally try to fight the thoughts by kind of saying “ as if i’m not that type of person” Then saying everything will be okay to myself. Please can someone tell me if this is normal. Yes I may be looking for reassurance but i need to know if it is, Im scared, i’m crying. Please tell me if you’ve had this feeling of as if you’re about to do it!
Guys it feels so real and im really scared because it feels like i dont care about the thoughts and it feels like im going to do something terrible, its horrific. I am so scared i keep getting urges and images i dont know what to do because i get a whole rush of panic. I think what’s triggered it was my for you page on tiktok, on the Mendez brothers murder cases and The prada guy and im so scared but it feels like im not worried like abt the thoughts or feeling but i am scared pls reply its literally plaguing me in my head idk what to do bc it feels like im gonna do it
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