Help! I’m having intrusive thoughts every two to three minutes. I learned about this things called manifesting and now I’m afraid my intrusive thoughts are manifesting horrible spells to make people do horrible things. Make it stop!
I also have had this obsession before too. Especially since I am Christian, I believe that manifesting in the world is something I shouldn’t be doing. I would get scared I was manifesting on accident. It is just a thought, you have to really want to be manifesting for things to happen and also everyone has free will so you can not ever make anyone do anything!
@Pshay I used to be Christian and now I’m agnostic pagan. I understand that manifesting isn’t just simply thinking things into existence. You actually have to put action into it. So like think about a job and apply. Sitting there thinking for about it doesn’t give you a job. Still I’m scared. My thought is “maybe I
I like to think about it like this - if we really had the power to make things happen with our thoughts, none of us would have OCD, because that is the first thing we would all try to get rid of if we truly had the power!
@User11123 I’ve tried to rid my power it didn’t work
@Gabrielle100% My point being, I use that as evidence that we’re not all as magical as we think we are, because there’s no way we all have these magical powers and yet didn’t use them to get rid of our OCD, lol!
@User11123 But I understand it’s a lot harder to accept than that in real life. It just helps sometimes to inject a little humor into a bad situation. I’m sorry that you’re going through this!
My thought is maybe I can influence actions. Not force, people can resist spells, but maybe manipulate. I’m scared
@Gabrielle100% Totally understand. I never have looked into manifesting really deep but knew about it via podcast and stuff. It will get better, all thoughts will go away eventually or at least from my experience they do. I know this comment don’t help with anything, but I am scared a lot of the time too so I understand how you feel. Much love. ❤️🩹
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.
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