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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
Well said. Everyone has intrusive thoughts, but a person with ocd pays attention to them. Don’t let them win.
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- OCD Conqueror
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- 5y ago
You got this , I’m sure of it ! Let us know how it goes ??
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- 5y ago
This is all apart of pure O, you are such a well-aware person especially to be willing enough to tell us!! To relate my intrusive thoughts started at the age of 13 so your not alone!! You have us & dont ever be afraid to speak your mind we’re all here for each other.
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- 5y ago
I just woke up, it warms my heart to see all these nice and reassuring comments. I'm going to try to tell my parents.
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- 5y ago
This warms my heart that you talked about this. To even have the courage to come out and say those things are amazing. I’ve struggled with intrusive thoughts ever since I had my daughter. The horrible things that run thru my head were so scary. Your a brave soul. Never give up. I still struggle every single day, but we can beat this. Thoughts do not define you. ??
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- 5y ago
Thank you. I've been dealing with this for at least only 3 months. I'm only young too. I'm 12. It started when j was at my grandparents house and I got an image of me stabbing my grandpa and hiding away from my family. This is when it made me physically sick. It's just good to know I'm not alone and this is something.
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Listen man , I know this must be extremely scary for you, but just know that these thoughts don’t define you nor make you a bad person at all. What you’re going through is called pure O OCD ( intrusive thoughts OCD ). The reason why you’re having these thoughts so much is specifically because they cause you to be distressed. Anything that doesn’t sit well with who you are is going to pop up in your head. Don’t think about a purple elephant. And what did you do just now ?? Chances are you thought of one. This is what’s going on when you have OCD. The best thing for you to do is to stop trying to control these intrusive thoughts and images and let them flow through your mind without judging them. That’s going to take the power away from the thoughts, and it’ll cause them to happen way less. If you ever need anything I’m here
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Also how can I tell my parents? This has been a secret for me and it's been tearing me up on the inside for 3 months. I feel extreme anxiety about telling them and if I do I feel like they'll put me in a mental hospital, fearing I'll go insane.. how can I tell them :(
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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I think you should sit them down and explain to them that you’re feeling very anxious and unsettled over things going on mentally. Explain to them that these thoughts cause you a lot of pain and that you don’t want them at all , and you could tell them that it’s called pure O OCD and that’s a legitimate condition. If they have trouble understanding it at first , that’s okay. As people suffering , we also have to understand that sometimes our loved ones need time to process these things. Not because what we’re going makes us bad people , but because they probably haven’t heard of it since it’s not usually talked about in the media and what not. Maybe ask them if they’ve ever dealt with anxiety or scary thoughts , who knows , maybe they have too ! You got this.
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- 5y ago
I used to have thoughts like this ALL THE TIME, to the point of having a panic attack, so you’re not any less normal than me ? Harm OCD can be a very difficult thing to talk about, so make sure you’re well prepared before telling anyone. I always use the train scenario (when you’re standing by the train tracks at the station and think “I could jump” but don’t want to). Most people relate to thoughts and feelings like that so I just tell people I have moments like that more than the average person. Everyone has intrusive thoughts so start off whoever you’re talking to with that connection, then slowly ease them into the whole “I’m afraid of murdering people” thing. Or you can start it off as a joke. The way I told my mom was by texting her, “ugh I’m so stupid I’ve just convinced myself I could be a murderer ?” and then slowly worked up from there. I’ve been able to talk to lots of people about it now, and I’ve never ended up in a mental hospital. It’s all about how you tell it. It’s a bit of a learning curve but you’ve got this! If you feel safe and comfortable with your parents, please consider telling them so they can help you seek the treatment you need!
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- 5y ago
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- 21w ago
I haven't been officially diagnosed with OCD but when I learned more about it, I never related to anything more. A little back story: when I was younger, there were a couple of youth suicides in my area and the schools felt the need to have someone come in and talk about suicide. Well the person they had come in did a horrible job teaching it and basically made it seem like the smallest negative emotion or feeling or change in behavior made you suicidal. This ended up scaring me so much that I got horrid anxiety. Fast forward to now, Everytime I feel anxiety and panic, I fear I'm going to kill myself. Everytime I feel down and depressed, I fear I'll end it all. I'm scared to be around anything sharp because the "What if" I hurt myself comes into my mind. There are always intrusive thoughts at almost every point of the day. And it's not only for me. Everytime I hear someone being negative, I fear they will be suicidal. I know in my heart that none of this is true but it's terrifying me that it's stuck around so much that it makes me scared that maybe it is true. I've had a lot of death in my family in the past year and a half and a lot of other family drama that I'd never had before that is now also bringing up existential intrusive thoughts. And I'd never questioned anything about life before but now I get the "why is life like this?" and "does anything we do matter?" and I hate it. I don't want to think like that. I just want to go through life being able to handle things normally again. It terrifies me even right now going "what if you give up?"
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- 19w ago
I’m having a very bad evening with my intrusive thoughts. I was doing really good dealing with them but tonight one hit me hard. I’ve been having a lot of different intrusive thoughts but I’ll have one occasionally about hurting my mom or my dog who I love and they’re the only family I have in my life. They’re my world. I was helping my mom put away the dishes and I had the big kitchen knife in my hand and my intrusive thought was you could stab your mom. And then my brain said I had a twitch in my hand and that meant I wanted to do it. Let me just say that I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I actually caught a fly in a glass and put it outside instead of killing it this evening before this intrusive thought happened. I’m such a gentle and compassionate and caring person and these thoughts instantly cause me to have a panic attack. And I have no one to talk to them about. I know they’re hard for my mom to hear and I don’t want to be any more of a burden than I already am. I do desperately want to tell her and have her reassure me that I’m not crazy or a psycho. Then my thoughts wander to if your hand did flinch could you be a psychopath. Is hurting someone in you. I know it’s not but I feel like my mind is out to get me and hurt me. I’m working so hard and I thought I was doing so good but I need to know why I have these thoughts. They’re not ok. I need someone to help me make sense of why. I know we aren’t supposed to ruminate but I shouldn’t have thoughts like this about people I love and care about the most in the world.
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- 18w ago
This might be asking for reassurance but I’m at a point I’m not sure if this is ocd and who better to ask than you guys. Also want to mention I have been to a psychologist who diagnosed me with ocd and I’ve tried to seek therapy through NOCD but had a bad experience so I’m just looking for an opinion I’ll take with a grain of salt. I’ve been through bouts of pocd that I got through but now it’s morphed into something that feels so different. It’s like harm ocd and pocd together and it revolves around my daughter. Before this happened I was a loving mother who valued my kid more than anything. Now this is happening and it feels so sinister. I’m getting urges to do something bad and I get these feelings like I want to do that and it’s like my brain gets foggy and my values slip away and I feel like I could do it. But then I get a moment of clarity and I’m like wait a minute I’ve never hurt anyone in my life nor have I ever thought about it and this is my child what is happening. But then I get that foggy brain again and it’s like I can’t see her as my child. I try to sit with it and it’s like I get this adrenaline rush and feel like I have to do it. But I know I don’t want to do that, but then it’s like trying to make me want to want to. I’m not sure if I’m just lacking insight and clarity because I’m overwhelmed with the groinals, urges, thoughts and feelings but I just keep obsessing over the fact that death is my only way out. I don’t understand what happened to me. It feels like this demonic oppression and I don’t know how to get through this one or if this is still something I can get through because it might not be ocd. I try to go with the thoughts and feelings and say yeah maybe, maybe not, or yeah I’m going to do that but it seems to fuel the feelings. I feel like I’m teetering between the person I was and this evil awful person who has no regard for others. I don’t want to be around my daughter and I’m just angry all the time. The fear and anxiety used to be something I relied on and I feel none of that now. I used to be able to say “well no matter what I feel or think I can control my actions” and now it feels like I cannot control my actions but I’ve never hurt anyone before. Someone please give it to me straight and tell me if you think this might not be ocd.
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