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- 1y
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- 1y
You don’t need to find out! Dreams are intrusive as well, and your thoughts do not define you. I’ve had similar thoughts in the past, and they’re going to feel sticky/real when you struggle with OCD. Just keep going about your day and resist trying to figure it out or ruminate. You’ve got this! I believe in you!
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- 1y
hey! i totally get how you feel, i have dreams where ill do something over text and immediately wake up panicked to see if i actually did it. it can be hard, i know, but try to distract yourself from the unwanted thoughts!! the more you cave into the obsessions the more it comes back
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y
"We all have thoughts that would shame hell." (Samuel Johnson) Just keep in mind that a thought is a thought is a thought, nothing more. It's not a reflection of who you truly are. Here's an example: an OCD study took people with OCD and people without OCD and asked them to record their thoughts over a period of time. This was a blind study, so the researchers had no idea who had the disorder and who didn't. When they reviewed the data they had no idea which subjects had OCD and which subjects were "normal." Moral: we all have zillions of thoughts. Don't beat yourself up for being human.
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- 1y
I've never heard of that study, thank you for sharing as that's something I'll remember. 😊
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- 1y
i’m SO glad im not the only one with this sort of theme!!! i get these dreams a lot too! especially when i’m about to fall asleep and thinking, my intrusive thoughts get really loud and then i can’t tell if it was me thinking or an intrusive thought. u aren’t alone!! i’m always here if u wanna talk about anything :))
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y
It's not funny but I am laughing at myself bc I so had this while while in that weird half asleep state and it ripped me right out of it. Nice to know I'm not the only one. You will get through this. I'm sorry it happened to you too.
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- 23w
I’m really struggling with something related to me ocd, and I would appreciate kind and supportive advice. If you can’t relate or don’t think anything you have to say would be helpful, I kindly ask pls refrain from commenting this is a really sensitive topic for me. Recently, I’ve noticed a pattern that feels something extremely new and distressing. The first time it happened I remember telling myself before self pleasuring that I am in control no matter what thought comes into my mind because I wanted to prove to myself that these thoughts are just from OCD and I know who I am and an intrusive that came out of no where, and i suddenly felt an intense fear that I was acting on it. In the moment I genuinely felt like I did. And afterword, I panicked and started questioning myself. This SAME FEELING has happened three times in a row each time, the intrusive thought was unwanted and random, and completely against my morals most recently it involved pocd and it feels even worse because it generally felt like I acted on it the thought in the moment while I was self pleasuring the panic doesn’t hit until afterwards when I stop :/ I start thinking that maybe I generally made a mistake and I’m now just realizing that it’s wrong because it generally feels like that :( but when I actually think about it again goes against my morals and values doesn’t make sense it feels incredibly real, and I can’t seem to shake this feeling off that I may have acted on it I’m terrified because I never wanted these thoughts in the first place. And I definitely didn’t choose them. If I had known, I would’ve had these intrusive thoughts I wouldn’t have self pleasured in the first place but it’s extremely hard to convince myself that this may be OCD because I feel like I have no other reason to believe that I didn’t act on it :/
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- 17w
This is hard to admit, but I’ve been struggling with intrusive thoughts where the central theme is racism. I don’t use racial slurs but my brain worries that I have said something that hurts or offends someone and now I find myself analyzing every social interaction.
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- 15w
Very brief mentions of pocd and nsfw jokes,id like this to be adults only . Repost bc i had to edit something Does anyone have experience with real event ocd attached to your online footprint etc? I keep checking old messages,trying to find old people i knew i used to talk to etc. To find out every problematic thing I did and if I've ever been unfollowed or blocked by anyone I used to be friends w online/atleast on good terms w. I am particularly concerned abt doing something bigoted,esp racist bc i have racism ocd,and doing something predatory bc of my pocd. I remember hanging around people who could use 'edgy' or offensive humour in my teens and i remember a lot of sex jokes and that i would join in on sex jokes sometimes . i dont remember details w the offensive humour as much,i feel like i didnt join in on it as much but i was definitely WAY passive abt things and prob let a lot of bad stuff slide i shouldnt have bc i didn't speak up it was wrong,I remember one friend in an online community would say slurs and horrible jokes when i was 16. I dont remember my response to it as much but i feel i didnt speak up abt it aside one time i found in the dms where he made a bad joke on a thing i shared for social justice. I cant stop going thru old messages and stuff or trying to find ppl from the past. I feel like if I don't check it now,that eventually it'll come to haunt me or that I'll stumble across it eventually. I worry what if someone messaged me on one of these apps I un-installed or on one of the accounts I don't have access to,confronting me abt all this stuff I did. I had an obsession w this back in 2020 and did check in depth on all my accounts,but now that it's been 4 years the obsession is back in full swing.
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