OCD Images/Themes

Hi, does anyone have any tips or advice over how to not allow the intrusive images or themes consume to the point of freezing up in petrified fear. I feel that I ruminate over my OCD theme to the point where I’m super anxious or I’m depressed and find no point in my day to day activities because I feel that I need to think over my theme. But I go no where with it than into a freak out mode. Any help or advice is welcomed. Thank you.

Username: Anonymous5963Anonymous5963

Date posted: 50w ago

I read once on here that OCD comes at us at all angles and attacks the things we care about the most and this doesn't define you as a person this is it attacking you remember to breath allow yourself to process this and remember how strong you are

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Date posted: 50w ago

I haven't been able to achieve this yet, but I've been told to kinda just let the thought sit for a while without doing anything with it. Like, no compulsions or anything. It's significantly harder with mental compulsions though. :(

Username: Anonymous5963Anonymous5963

Date posted: 50w ago

There is this video on YouTube if your interested that talks about going through anxiety which I know seems different but if you are being in a petrified state it may help one allow your sensations to go through your body recognize and allow it to be there than basically ask yourself for more give yourself more of it all because instead of sitting there scared your commanding yourself to see that there is nothing there and all the drama your mind is putting you through isn't there and trust yourself I'll post it here if your interested I did this for several nights on end and it was scary at first because our first intail reaction is to fight these sensations but to embrace it and actually work through it helps more than I realizes I used to wake up in the middle of the night terrfied scared body was shaking uncontrollably and I would try to fight it off but my therapist showed me that video and each time I did the video worked through it and embraced it got easier and I spent less time in that state either way you are on the right path in good place to get advice and learn about it and discover what works for you therapy is great and the people here are great

Username: Kids4Christ

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y ago

Existential OCD

Any tips on this theme? Some of my thoughts with this them are bizarre. To someone who has been through it what did you do ab your thoughts

Username: sha123

Date posted: 1y ago

Help?

My OCD isn’t based around a specific theme, my anxiety is fuelled from any thought that is distressing to me (it could be faces, numbers, lyrics or disturbing) at any random time. I feel like I have to make the thought have purpose or I will be abnormal. So I will ruminate until I am comfortable with each thought and they keep piling up, which I know is the OCD cycle. My compulsions is to make the thoughts just right in my own way for the anxiety to go down. However, I am scared of my thoughts getting worse on their own if I just leave them and not realising what is an intrusive thought anymore. I cannot seem to go on with my day unless I ruminated. These thoughts happen anywhere, literally brushing my teeth, having a shower, sex, reading etc. What scares me is that the thoughts have no theme like I said, it just seems to anything intrusive that distresses me! I don’t seem to worry about an actual thing, just about having Intrusive thoughts themselves because I can’t focus on tasks, they always come and I get so anxious! I can’t live like a normal person. Please if you have anything that could help me from your knowledge, I am all ears!! ❤️

Username: maria001

Date posted: 1y ago

advice / please help - question about OCD recovery

The first time I experienced pure OCD was about 2 years ago. Although it was hard, I have been able to come out of each theme that I experience and manage them with time. I haven't had an OCD episode in MONTHS until yesterday. I was able to get out of it after a couple of hours and then had a normal day. However, this morning I woke up "checking" to see if my OCD was still there. I felt extremely stuck and I'm not sure how to get out of this one. I'm super down and anxious because I feel that I was making great progress and now I feel like I'm back to square one. I'm also not sure how to get out of this "theme" when I'm not even sure what this theme is - like my mind just keeps checking to see if I'm ok and not letting OCD get to me as I try to get through my daily tasks, which makes no sense. Has this ever happened to anyone / does anyone else feel this way?

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