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DrvmstickDrvmstick
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I’m sorry to hear you are struggling. You’re going to hate the answer, but you have to lean into the anxiety. You can’t answer intrusive thoughts, you have to let them be. When the intrusive thought pops into your head, don’t fight it. Don’t ruminate on it. Just accept that it’s there. It will feel awful but that’s ok because us folk with OCD are used to that and we can handle it
DrvmstickDrvmstick
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@bekind94 It’s ok. You’re rationalizing with it too much. The intrusive thought is just that, a thought. You can’t try to “figure out” ocd
AnonymousAnonymous
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From my own experience the OCD intrusive sexual thought or with me the image scares me. Recognizing this is OCD’s method to now have me question, ruminate is now staring at me. The fear will give me a groinal response too. I work at recognizing this is its pattern both physically and mentally. I then practice to not engage or respond. Yep, there it is. I don’t need to respond. I had a therapist tell me if you obsess hard enough and buy in your OCD will convince you that’s really what you want.
mi.tmi.t
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@bekind94 I honestly think that all intrusive thoughts are essentially questions. You can very easily turn that sentence into a "What if...?" I struggle with sexual intrusive thoughts too but the best thing to do is to let them be. They are anxiety thoughts, not true thinking thoughts.
AnonymousAnonymous
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@mi.t In my opinion this is spot on. There is no answer needed. My OCD scares me first then wants me to engage. Let it be it’s playing “the what if” and going after your morals and the true/real you.
tomctomc
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I sympathize with you. I have different obsessions but I know how upsetting obsessions can be. I wish you lots of success.
Fullmoon21Fullmoon21
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Same every question I ask myself I feel like my body is like YES!!! You would do that then I get confused, it all feels so real I don’t know what to believe anymore and it’s killing me.
Fullmoon21Fullmoon21
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@bekind94 Yeah it’s so scary like I wish I could just get the answer
Fullmoon21Fullmoon21
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@bekind94 Your very positive, I’m proud of you you’re doing something I can’t do.
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