- Username
- Anonymous1909
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Help
When certain thoughts related to rocd doesn’t cause any anxiety what to do then? Is it the truth?
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- krystal0krystal0
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Absolutely not. We have over a million thoughts a day, not all of them do we attach meaning to. Therefore, if you have an ROCD thought and you dont react witg anxiety is actually a good thing. When we respond with anxiety, our thought process is actually irrational, whereas if you think about this intrusive thought without anxiety, theres room for rational thinking. This way, when you dissect the thought, you can be logical about whether this thought truly aligns with your values and beliefs. This thought is 100% ego-dystonic - it doesnt align with who you are, and this actually means you’re a great person.
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- Anonymous1909Anonymous1909
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@krystal0 I don’t know why when the anxiety hits me I feel some what relieved that I know it’s ocd but when anxiety doesn’t hit it’s feels like a certain fact
- Username
- krystal0krystal0
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@Preksha_02 That is very normal when you have OCD, but i can assure you that a feeling does not make a thought a fact, thoughts are simply just thoughts, its your actions that count. CBT and ERP are therapy tools that teach us to respond to our thoughts in a unbothered way, the anxiety is what tells the brain that the thought is important which you don’t want. remember this: having anxiety about not having anxiety is also OCD trying to trap you.
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- Anonymous1909Anonymous1909
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@krystal0 Thank you sm🥺
- Username
- krystal0krystal0
- Date posted
- 1y ago
@Preksha_02 you’re welcome ☺️ i hope you feel better soon! be kind to yourself. :)
- Username
- Anonymous1909Anonymous1909
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Do you have only rocd or any other sub type
- Username
- Flowers123Flowers123
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y ago
I relate to this post SO deeply! I have these allllll the time about my relationship and literally if for some reason I don’t get anxiety and the physical symptoms of anxiety in my body when I think something about the partnership that is intrusive, I’ll be like freaking out that the lack of anxiety= my true/gut/real feelings about him. It’s extremely difficult to find any grounding or clarity towards my relationship everyday when I’m plagued by trying to dissect my thoughts constantly and monitor my physiological reactions to them. 😣
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- Username
- Anonymous
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Guys!! I really need your help. I've been feeling good for the 1st time ever. No anxiety, no thoughts Like what if I don't love him. Even when i saw him my brain said he's ugly, and i said so what? Let him be ugly and I enjoed looking at him thru video call. Then he sent pics, and i expected myself to get some feeling and i didn't so i said it's fine. He looks good to me. I've experienced rocd for 2 months, no therapy, no medicine. I just prayed. Ik many of y'all aren't religious but i am somewhat. Anyway I'm scared now that this wasn't rocd. I've seen people suffer for 1 year.. and i feel better in 2 months... Now I'm wondering and a bit scared. That all those thoughts that you don't love him is true... Omg I'll have to breakup... Seee.. I didn't get any anxiety thinking or typing that.. what is this crap
- Username
- PinkLotus
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Could this be rocd? In April of 2020 I had my first run in with rocd because I obsessed over it I was in love with my boyfriend, then it switched to does he love me, then retroactive jealousy and even real event ocd. In December I got really bad sexual orientation ocd , with the core fear behind it being that I’d have to leave my partner and that our love wasn’t real. Finally after months it’s calmed down but I’ve slowly noticed myself obsessing over our relationship again since June/July. We’ve been long distance for 10 months since he joined the military which naturally brings its own doubts and fears but I believe my ocd really amplifies that. I also worry that the “spark” isn’t there and that I’ll only feel one with women even though I really don’t want to be with a woman at all. I follow this with compulsions such as checking my feelings, listening to songs I know make me think of him, reviewing past memories, reading old messages, etc. I also obsess over whether or not I’m truly attracted to him and whether or not I’ll still feel the same when he visits again next month. It’s really been getting in the way of my relationship and making me feel less enthusiastic. I don’t want these doubts and fears, the only thing I want is to be sure of the love for my partner again. The only thing that makes me think this isn’t ocd is that there’s no anxiety, well sometimes the thoughts make me cry and they cause me distress but after months of anxiety with sexual orientation ocd they just run wild in my mind. Could it be ocd even without the anxiety ?
- Username
- getwellsoon
- Date posted
- 2y ago
does dealing with rocd thoughts ever actually get better, not sure if they are even just thoughts anymore
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