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Keep coming back
Why do these OCD thoughts keep coming back even though you don’t want them too?? How come when they come back they get the best of you most of the time??
Why do these OCD thoughts keep coming back even though you don’t want them too?? How come when they come back they get the best of you most of the time??
If instead you shifted your perspective to I don’t care one or the other if the thought is there or not it will have lesser control of a person. In fact if you go a step further imagine a out of town relative that is particularly irritating that will not leave your house for a long visit , if you have the mindset of being more indifferent, the circumstances will have less negative consequences and impacts .
Very helpful. Thank you!
I was reading up more on Frank Sinatra, glad you mentioned him a while back . Figure this he was one of the best most successful people that have lived both professionally and personally, and a very decent person. He overcame much with severe OCD especially as he got older , for example he took 12 showers a day , but Frank never gave up and left his mark forever on a large positive impact and scale throughout the world through eternity.
@777Q Yep! He was one of the greatest
I didn't know that! 😮
Yeah... and when I'm feeling better, i remember the thought and start the cycle again.
@RMO2023 Literally meeeee
@RMO2023 I’m the same way and it’s worse every SINGLE time
Because we just obsess over these horrible thoughts that can’t affect nobody else or us but just cause worry and stress and because of this it’s just fear that keeps taking over. I hate having thoughts come back but recently trying to talk to nature or help out nature has been kind of helping!
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? 😅
So maybe the title wasn't the best to to put it but when you guys start having obsessive thoughts how do you stop them before it turns into compulsions and anxiety?
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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