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Funny - Everyone has intrusive thoughts. The priest, the Pope and even the Buddhist monk. Everyone.
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It’s just another way ocd trying to scare you keeping you in the loop my psychologist would flare up my ocd as well
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I would get triggered but I have already gotten triggered by something similar many times to the point that this is usual stuff (unfortunately ?) but the actual best thing you can do is to NOT overthink do NOT explore the doubt. I'm still working on this but when I manage to, I notice how I usually just forget what BS thought came up. I do feel like I can remember if I linger too much but I just have to snap out of the pull to overthink and go over it over and over and try to focus on whatever video or something entertaining that I was watching.
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I've had this shit going on 5 years (can't believe I've made it this long tbh) and have learned the hard way that once you pay attention to a new thought, it will keep getting worse. I know it is so difficult but train your awareness and know when you are starting to get triggered and zeeeep move on to something that requires some focus and whenever you feel shit coming up zeeeeep focus on what is actually going on not what is in your head. I'm new on here so hit me up any time ✌
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Thank you for your answers!I know I’m supposed to ignore the thoughts, accept them and that everyone has them on a certain degree but they’re terrifying and graphic, it literally stands against everything I am as a person (or not? that’s the fear right there). I’m literally having a one on one fight with my brain lol. And welcome to our community MrSnake!
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I didn’t know this but my Pure-O began when i was around 11/12 years old with a violent thought to hurt someone I love. This thought brought me tears. I tried supressing it, “praying” it away, thinking good things, distracting myself etc. But this thought always came back to haunt me. It was on/off for about 13 years. Just this past week, I recently got an image/thought of hurting someone I love and it scares me. I use smart devices to track my sleep and exercise and both devices show that my heart rate is much beyond what it should be. I have had difficulty sleeping the past 3 nights with very little REM and deep sleep because of this thought. I’m worried this could cause me to spiral. I feel anxious all day because I’m trying to avoid thinking this thought, but it keeps coming back. I’m waiting to book a call with a NOCD to see what my options are. I hope I can get effective treatment. 🥺🫶🏻
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I deal pretty heavily with this. The last couple days, I’ve had what I think are urges. Something pops into my head intrusively and then what stems from that is me WANTING to just indulge in it even though it’s gross. I get worried bc I used to struggle w thoughts about my dad for a long time until eventually I just purposely thought of him while self pleasuring and got off to it. While that’s something I did, it is NOT me. It all stemmed from my mental health declining a couple years back, I was never this way before. So I get worried that it almost happened or might happen with my pocd cuz I could never live with myself if it did.
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so I’ve been seeking therapy for my OCD for a few years. The theme that I’ve been dealing with most recently is the fear of becoming a pedophile, which then has led to intrusive images of me doing things to kids.Which now is just causing me so much distress and 24/7 constant thought cycle. I am starting to not be able to tell the difference between thoughts that are wanted/ unwanted- the line has become some blurry and these things are starting to feel like someothing i want to do. My brain keeps telling me to just test these thoughts and the “maybe”or”i don’t know” isn’t working. This has become such a barrier because the second layer is that I’m afraid that if I just let the thoughts be there it’ll make me be OK with doing those things and the fear is what’s keeping me from actually doing something inappropriate. It’s also transitioned into intrusive thoughts and images of me doing something very disgusting to my dog and that when I’m cuddling with him I get the thoughts to just do it or try it to see if i am actually a p*do. it’s almost like the compulsion would be to do the inappropriate thing, even though I know it’s wrong just to see how it would make me feel. I feel like i can’t control these urges even though i’ve never acted on it. At any point i could just do it. I’ve never had these thoughts before up until about a year and a half ago when my friend‘s boyfriend got arrested for soliciting a minor then all these thoughts came to life.Has anyone experienced something like this and have any advice?
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