im always worried about something when im bored and for a long time i have been scared of being a psyhopath how do i tell myself im not someone help and tell my how do i tell myself im not is this ocd?
Yeah I have ocd and it sounds similar to what I struggle with- my obsession was whether I was a psychopath too a couple years ago. I suggest you seek professional treatment as the number one thing you should do- but I have some things that have helped me. I found it helpful identifying any compulsions if there are any… Examples can be searching symptoms of a psychopath a lot, thinking of past memories where you may have been a psychopath a lot? If you have compulsions finding ways to avoid doing them will ease this anxiety in the long run because your brain will stop viewing this worry as so important. Accepting that whatever worry I was worrying about could possibly be true also helped and maybe I’ll never know the answer to whatever my obsession is and that’s fine. Maybe we are both psychopaths. No amount of fear and worrying is going to change that though. You deserve peace of mind and a life without the restraints of your anxiety. I’ve improved at not doing the mental compulsion of worrying about my obsession all day by doing this thing called worry time, which my councillor taught me, basically you schedule a time in the day for worrying, it can be before tea of after- anytime, but I don’t recommend doing it before bed because you need an activity to take your mind off your worries after your worry time otherwise you will probably stay up at night worrying. In worry time you write a list of what’s worrying and then you label them hypothetical or practical. A practical worry is something you can control, like if you’re worried about an exam you can put in your calendar to revise for it. Hypothetical is something you can’t control, like if you’re a psychopath and for those worries you have to distract yourself from them. When you are listing and labelling these worries you also have to do it between 5 and 15 minutes, I found 10 works for me, I thought it would be longer, but actually 10 is quite long. Then after worry time you need to do an activity that distracts you and makes you think of something else. I found using the app Duolingo as a good distraction technique because I just forget everything around me when I’m going on it and it’s such a cute designn :D Also don’t stress if your worry does come up when it isn’t worry time, it’s completely normal and won’t mess up the results, you just need to try to redirect your attention to something else. I’m not a doctor and again- seeking professional help is the 1st thing you should do, but I know how crappy waiting lists can be in some countries and this is what helped me :)
@Lilybethxoxo Sorry I forgot to include- the purpose of worry time is that you put off any worries you have in the day for this designated time
@Lilybethxoxo thanks so much but how do i tell my mind that im not a psycopath do you have any advice idk why that thing came to my mind i think because i saw a thing on tik tok
@denidom Oh TikToks can be pretty bad with discussing things like social issues, misinformation is so easily spread and when I was on it it never felt like topics were discussed to their full complexity because of how short TikToks are. I think that you should try to redirect your attention to something else instead of trying to tell your brain you’re not a psychopath when you’re brain just isn’t believing you
@Lilybethxoxo okay thanks so much ill try ❤️
Hello , You are not a psychopath . It is just OCD telling you that you are . If you find it easier to control your symptoms when you are doing something find yourself something to do: hobby , or what you always wanted to do later , or something that could make you feel relaxed like meditation . I hope that helps .
@ Liza how do i tell myself im not?
If you was one you wouldn’t be worry about it so you are not real one don’t care they don’t worry about it
@Monii thanks so much you made me a lot better
@denidom :) your welcome
so this all started not too long ago, for literally no reason at all. but one day i got a random intrusive thought about harming others and it freaked me out bad. since then i’ve been non stop focusing on it and im genuinely scared that i am, or gonna end up like those sick people that have documentaries about them. i’ve never had these types of thoughts before and after me and my mom looked a lot of stuff up we think i have OCD cuz a lot of the stuff it was saying was accurate to me. to anyone in here, does this sound like OCD to you? i’ve always been a nice loving person and these thoughts freak me out so bad and make me feel like i’m a bad gross person. it got to the point i don’t even like looking at myself anymore. i just wanna go back to normal man. another thing to add, when i would explain this to my mom even though i was telling the full truth on how crappy this made me feel it felt like i was lying almost? but i know i wasn’t deep down. i’m just scared that what if i act on something or get in my head too much you know?
i’m having a full on panic attack, i never used to be like this, what tf is happening to me, why am i like this, i’m so convinced i’m a horrible person and i deserve to be shut out forever because of my thoughts, i’m tired of struggling with harm ocd, i’m scared that because i have mental health issues i’m gonna end up ki!!ing someone someday or end up on the news, when i was at work earlier i kept thinking “how easy would it be to ki!! someone and get away with it” someone help, i don’t feel normal, am i crazy?… 😭😭i know that with ocd you’re not supposed to have reassurance and you have to be “okay” with the situation but.. how am i supposed to be okay with feeling like i could hurt someone…
Hey, so I've never actually been diagnosed with OCD. I did a little bit of research, I always thought OCD was organizing things. But I'm not normal, I have this thing where I feel something isn't right. I obsess over it or if I brush my hand over something correctly then it's fixed. Or I have to do this thing on stairs, I'll walk up a few or down them because something isn't right. I read this thing on memories. I know something happened, but then I doubt myself to the point I don't know if it happened. And I think too logically in relationships. I'll put statistics on things and if they might not work out I distance myself, there's other odd things I do. My family always told me I was fine but then said things like I was messed up, and said to just ignore what I felt. Like I was making it up. I don't know what to do, I don't have a doctor currently, I was never diognosed. Is there a way to be sure I have it? Or a way to stop everything? I just want to stop everything, please and thank you. Sorry for the long post. If anyone can help, I would be so thankful.
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