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So I had my second appt with my therapist and I’m feeling down cause I wanted to tell her about an intrusive thought that’s been bothering me but I was scared she would be like umm that’s not normal but anyways she told me to try and do like when a thought comes to stop myself spiraling and do deep breathing and refocus myself into the present and I’m trying to it’s just I’m so paranoid over this thought I know a thought is just a thought but it feels so real and it’s freaking me out and it doesn’t help cause I was so mad when it happened I’m like what is wrong with me and worried.

Scaredallday

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

Be nice to yourself. You'll learn all the tools soon. I've been having a rough 24hrs. But we are okay. Take some nice deep breaths.

Someone99

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

Hi. What can I do to help? Do you need someone to talk to about this?

Kat25

Date posted: 1y

@Someone99 I’m just feeling worried cause I’m like scared do intrusive thoughts come in what ifs and commands I just can’t stop thinking about it I’ll be fine for a bit and then it’s like remember this I just want it to stop

Someone99

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

@Kat25 I understand what you're going through, you're not alone in this. just give therapy time. I remember my first 3 weeks being difficult. It's like every time I seemed to gain control, it would attack me from a different angle and make me doubt my therapist. I'm here if you'd like someone to be here for you.

Kat25

Date posted: 1y

@Someone99 Thank you I appreciate that I’m a inpatient person lol and I just started meds for anxiety and depression so I’m more worried with that as well cause I saw it will help with ocd and I want it to

Anonymous

Date posted: 1y

After keeping them to myself for 2 years itook me almost 4 sessions to tell my therapist about the range of intrusive thoughts I was having because i was so afraid of how theyd react. It was really tough. I think it was easier because I'd really decided I couldn't keep living like I was. Even if it doesn't happen right away, it's still possible you'll get to talk about what you need to. Now at the sessions we talk about it more and more candidly. Hang in there, it will happen when you've made the decision that you're ready

Kat25

Date posted: 1y

@Anonymous Thank you it’s just there so bizarre and scary and if they are making me worried and depressed etc like I’m like what would my therapist think

Someone99

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y

@Kat25 Meds will help you manage through this whole process, for sure. Some of them take a couple weeks to reach their full effect too, so again, give it a little time, you'll be ok through this. As far as thoughts, the ones we keep inside are the ones that become the most powerful. If it's a trust issue with your therapist, maybe you can find another one? It's important to be comfortable with your therapist, they can only help us as much as we allow them to. And you may be surprised when you see how your therapist reacts to the most horrible thoughts you may have. Many times we get caught up in thinking "oh my, if someone ever finds out I have this thought..." And that escalates our OCD. Remember, it's our reaction to the thought, not the thought itself, that we need to, and can control. The thought is neutral, just a thought. :-)

FaithSheagren

Date posted: 25w

Intrusive thoughts about intrusive thoughts

Hi everyone. I’ve been doing therapy for about two months now and I would say it’s slowly helping me a lot. I explained to her the breathing techniques and “sitting in the anxiety for a bit” and I feel like those are helping. But then my therapist said “don’t sit in the thought because then you might act on it”. I don’t “sit in the thought” but rather i sit in the anxiety to comdition my brain into thinking it’s not a threat. But ever since yesterday, my therapy appointment, I’ve been really shooken up. Even though I don’t “sit in the thought” I feel like a bad person that she even had to bring it up even though I explained it wrong. I’m so upset I feel like I just took 3000 steps back from my progress and this little thing is really scaring me. Am I a bad person? I don’t want to act on any of my thoughts and it scares me so bad I hate living.

misereri

Date posted: 24w

Meeting with the local counselor -- it's worse.

As some of you might very seen from my (spam) posts about my situation I'm not diagnosed with ocd but I'm seeing a local counselor. I'm terribly scared of being secretly in love with someone else or being attracted to someone else outside my relationship, in this case S (if you want a more detailed version u can see my other posts). Long story short: The psychologist confirmed my fear and told me not to think about the thoughts until the next appointment and live in the present ( if it was that simple I would've done it already). Safe to say it sent me and still sending me into a big spiral where I had this big panick attack because I feel the world shattered and my fear is true and then I was just faking everything and not accepting it and it's making me fee so bad as I type this. I had a big panick attack while going back home and had to sit on the sidewalk because I couldnt breathe and was about to throw up. I don't know what to do and if someone has advice I'd be glad to listen.

Justsurviving

Date posted: 24w

Scared

I feel like I dont have control of what I say in my head that I feel like it's not me saying those things. I was trying to pray and I was cursing at God and the spirit and now I'm scared because I feel like it's me and not an intrusive thought. I have an appointment later and I was trying to pray about that in my head but now that I did that I feel like things will go wrong .

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