- Date posted
- 6y ago
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I can relate with the fear that the thoughts will come back. You almost feel like it's wrong not to be anxious anymore, like what did I miss that the anxiety is gone. But it is good that you don't feel anxiety. Try to go with that, ride with that peace, be grateful for it, and let it stay. I think we get used to being so hyped all the time that the natural healthy state of calm feels foreign, but let that biological balance stay if it's there and you're calm, it's supposed to be that way!
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- 6y ago
I feel the same. My harm ocd has been getting worse lately I want to murder everyone but I don’t
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- 4y ago
Did you recover from this
- Date posted
- 6y ago
I would say that as much as you can just let yourself think those thoughts without trying to push them away and the more you can just let them happen and watch them go by the happier you will be. When I am always trying to not think a thought I become obsessed with the thought but when I allow it to be and separate myself from it and just see it as something that comes and goes it helps me to calm down in those moments.
- Date posted
- 6y ago
The fact that you aren’t anxious isn’t something to worry about. But I could see how that would feel scary. You’re making progress. The thoughts fall away soon after the anxiety but usually the anxiety has to give a little space first. I think You are amazing
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- 21w ago
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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- 18w ago
Hey guys, I am having the worst HARM OCD episode I have had in a while. I am having disgusting, awful intrusive thoughts about harming others. It feels so real. It feels as if I am about to get up and just do it. The worst bit about it all Is I know I feel distressed and panicked. But where the thoughts are actually happening ( in my head) doesnt feel this feeling. This is making it feel worse as it really does feel like Im just going to do it. I am crying my eyes out because I know im petrified and dont want to hurt anyone im so scared. I have this terrible intrusive feeling in my that feels like its justifying the thoughts. Please can someone talk as I am scared Im crying I dont want know what to do I want this feeling gone I am so scared. I tell myself Id kill myself before hurting anyone else, but would i ? What if I actually do want to kill Please respond Im so scared
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 13w ago
Does anyone imagine they are doing their harm thoughts during an action, making you feel like you acted on your thoughts? For example, someone gave me a hug and at the last second I imagined I was touching something I shouldn’t during the hug? I want to make it clear it’s something I have zero desire to do! But the problem is, I thought it on purpose and it makes me sick !! Obviously nothing happened but my mind is telling me that was me trying to do it. Even though it was physically impossible to do. Am I a monster or could this be OCD? I’m freaking out and don’t want to be here anymore. I feel like I’m the exception and that this isn’t OCD. I know I post about this stuff a lot but I’m struggling and don’t know what to do.
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