I am having surgery on Friday and I am worried while I am loopy from anaesthetic that I will expose myself or start saying my intrusive thoughts out loud. I am so scared of this and scared I’ll say stuff and not remember then everyone will know. Help
Hey! Is your primary care provider aware that you have OCD? Because it could be a good idea if you haven’t to share this information with them so they can inform your surgeon(s). Or maybe just call the office where the surgery is being done and let them know there? If you’re not entirely comfortable with talking about it with anyone, maybe try bringing someone that you trust who can maybe help talk you down from said intrusive thoughts? Hope this helps!
@angiew58 Maybe I will call his office tomorrow and let them know. It is on my file that I have anxiety and ocd and that I’m on medication.
@Anonymousone Yeah! That would be a good idea! :))
I had the same but thinking that I’ll say my thoughts while asleep and that my husband will hear me 😬
I hear how frightened you are about your upcoming surgery and the anxieties connected to your OCD intrusive thoughts, it's a tough situation to be in. 😔 No one should have to feel like their worst thoughts might be revealed without their control, especially in such a vulnerable situation. These feelings are genuinely challenging but remember, you are much more than your OCD and its intrusive thoughts. Recently, I've found some relief using an AI OCD therapy tool called "unstuck" (unstuckmyocd.com/try). I know about it from my OCD support group, and honestly, I wish I'd known about it sooner! Given your situation, it sounds like you could really benefit from this tool. You could use it to help navigate these fears about the surgery - the AI offers step-by-step, personalized guidance, much like a real OCD therapist would. You're not alone and if you have any more questions about the tool or just need someone to vent to during this tough time, I'm here for you. 🤗
Hi everyone, I decided to join this app because I believe I need more support when it comes to being open about intrusive thoughts and how scary it can be to share them. Yesterday I had a therapy appointment and I decided to open up with her about a recent panic attack I had that followed with intrusive thoughts. I rarely experience them now or can mitigate the anxiety that comes from them because I am on medication, but I thought I wouldn’t be judged and felt comfortable opening up about them to my therapist. Following after that, she began to ask mandated reporter questions and I became scared because she seemed to think I would act on the thoughts I’ve had. So despite me opening up with her about them I feel like I can no longer share because people who have never experienced them think i would act on the intrusive thoughts, when in reality I know I would never and have avoided people, places, and things because of them. Intrusive thoughts are debilitating and cause people to question who they are and go into complete panic! And I guess I’m just frustrated because though there are people who understand it’s still very weird for others and it just saddens me.
So, health concern OCD is a big subtype that I struggle with. I’m barely ever in really bad shape in my health but it doesn’t stop me from worrying about having everything under the sun. I have a pretty gnarly gum abscess near my wisdom tooth and am FINALLY pulling the trigger on getting all 4 wisdom teeth ripped out next month. I have never been under anesthesia before. And I can’t tell you how terrified I am. I have been crying and having panic attacks every single day since the decision made by me and my dentist. I’m nervous about the unknown and not being able to have control over my body when I go under, during the surgery, and when I wake up. Also terrified of something going wrong in recovery. So I come to ask! What was your wisdom tooth surgery like? Were you as worried as me? Did it all turn out okay. I need some big help.
I’ve never been under anesthesia, i’m 19 and I should be getting my wisdom teeth removed, I am supposed to call the oral surgeon, but I still haven’t called after two months of getting my referral, for a few reasons. 1. I think i will die or suffer from serious complications/ be able to feel everything but not be able to move, almost like sleep paralysis, because that type of thing has happened before, only in redheads… I am not a redhead. Just the impeding doom it feels like a possibility. 2. Who will take me/drive me home while i’m coming out of the anesthesia and possibly saying silly things. I don’t want anyone to see me in a state i’ve never been in before. I feel like i’m going to say horrible things that are either directed at the person who is caring for me, or just in general. Even sexually explicit/ morally wrong/ flat out disturbing. If my boyfriends take me what if I tell him I don’t love him ( I do). What if I say something sexual that could be offensive, like sexual acts with other people? (I’ve never done/Will never do). I can’t have my mom take me cause she would hold those things against me for however long it felt right to her. Etc. My teeth are suffering and the anxiety of the what ifs eat me alive every time I think about it. To me this feels extremely vulnerable and it makes me more uncomfortable than anything to not be in control of my words. My sister specifically is an example that makes me feel these things. She told me that our mother said to her when she was healed from getting her wisdom teeth out that my sister said something so bad that my mother said she would never repeat it. Which is very out of character for my mother. And my sister and I are almost positive what she said was a sexual connotation. Has anyone else had this experience?
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