Hard time with harm ocd

I have a really hard time with harm ocd. It makes me believe that I would do in the near future surely something bad… And I don’t know what to do to make me feel better. I started to sit with uncertainty and accept the presence of my thoughts but it feels like I accept the content. I’m desperate, I think that I’ll suffer all my life with that. I know that there are ups and downs but those downs are really scary, demotivating, unhopeful.

Username: anonymoussehrhanonymoussehrh

Date posted: 47w ago

Harm Ocd can be a very hurting theme. I had it too and I still have it, and it doesn't scare me as it used to. Even though it made me go through hell and back, I realized I worry for nothing. The only thing that was affecting my Harm Ocd was my reaction. Once you get yourself to remember who you are and once you manage to not have a reaction, Harm Ocd will remain just thoughts floating into your head without a meaning. Be gentle to yourself and do not judge yourself, Ocd's job is to make us forget who we are.

Username: May110119May110119

Date posted: 47w ago

Hey, I understand where you're coming from. I have harm ocd and I had some life events and it seems that it has become 1000x worse. Sometimes I'll go weeks without it really causing too much chaos, then the one day I'm shaking with fear and have to have someone just sit next to me bc it feels so overwhelming and I need to be grounded. Treatment is a relatively new journey. Something that really helped me was to think of the thoughts as gremlins. This let me separate myself from those thoughts and helped me gain a sense of control rather than feeling controlled. I think ocd picks on the fear we all have of losing control.

Username: amc1234amc1234

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 47w ago

@May110119 It’s awful to go through. Worse themes for me are harm and fear of losing control (whether through psychosis, schiz, or some other form)

Username: @ med @ med

Date posted: 47w ago

Oh my God , I laugh and I cry at the same time , I laugh because I wish I had those thoughts before and not the sexual ones that I really suffered with them , but you'll say the opposite of me ,and I cry because I remembered my experience with OCD, I suffered a lot to the point where I had shortness breath the moment I think So in brief , please accept those thoughts , and let them live in your mind . The same you should live your own life ,then each one of you will live in peace . This is the efficient and the first step to healing. You know what OCD in fact means :refuting thoughts , I'll ask you. why you have harm ocd and not another type,because you give your attention to it ,me also I had those harm thoughts coming to my mind but I don't give a shit so they have no effect in my life I hope you get better soon

Username: Kenzie Madison

Date posted: 2y ago

Those with Harm OCD

Hey guys. I’ve been dealing with Harm OCD for around 3 and 1/2 months now, and it’s been extremely difficult to experience. I’ve had OCD my whole life and some of my family members do as well, one of my cousins actually has the same main subtype as me, but he was diagnosed almost a year ago when I didn’t have it myself. I’ve been going to an OCD & Anxiety Treatment Center the past week and I’m really struggling with the exposures we do there, as well as the ones we do at home. I constantly feel like I’m judging myself and I genuinely feel worthless, like I’m a horrible person to have unwanted intrusive thoughts like these. I feel like it’s so difficult to stay mindful and to not judge any of the thoughts that surface. Those with Harm OCD, have any of you here gone from debilitating OCD to living fulfilling lives? If so, what was the process like for you, if you’d like to share? Thanks and I hope you’re all doing well, or are continuing to improve.

Username: Catlove9

Date posted: 1y ago

Please help. I am struggling.

My Harm OCD is out of control. I’m trying so hard to keep living my life, but it’s scaring me even more. It’s starting to feel more real. It’s feeling like I’m right on the edge of acting on my thoughts and that I actually want to do it. It feels like this is never going to go away and I’m now this person who is going to harm someone. I’m at work because I’m supposed to keep living my life and not do compulsions. But not doing them is terrifying me. I feel like a complete monster and I don’t know what to do.

Harm OCD

Username: Loranqadri

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 49w ago

Harm ocd

After trauma I developed harm ocd with the worst kind of thoughts and I am in an existential crisis, its been 1.5 half years like hell for the first year, now I can read books and do sport but the thought doesn’t leave me and I can’t find the strength to just accept it because it’s awful. It’s hard for me to meet friends and act nonchalantly. When I am not reading I feel just depressed and that I don’t want to live anymore. It’s a hard daily fight what can I do more?

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