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false feelings
can ocd give us false feelings? I had an intrusive thought and I’m scared I liked it.
can ocd give us false feelings? I had an intrusive thought and I’m scared I liked it.
Ocd can do anything that you don’t want it to. Feelings, thoughts, sensations, urges and the list goes on and on. If you think it’s ocd, it probably is. This is a quote I hear quite often connected to ocd (obvs just change the duck to ocd 🤣) “If it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck - it’s probably a duck 🦆”
"Can OCD give us false feelings?" - yes, that's a defining feature of OCD. If you haven't, watch Dr. Peterson's video. "Thoughts are just that, a thought. They are not reality. They are not action."
Does anyone have any advice for how to know the difference between ocd and real feelings/thoughts? Sometimes an intrusive thought will come in and I immediately know it’s ridiculous and I can just leave it alone and it won’t bother me but other times I really really don’t know. It’s when ocd hijacks and twists my real feelings and thoughts and tries to manipulate me into believing they’re something they’re not or something that doesn’t align with my true morals or intentions. But since it’s twisting and mixing with real feelings I get so confused and scared. Everything gets jumbled and I feel like I can’t trust myself or my own mind. Yet other times and other topics I can laugh off and push away just fine. Make it make sense. And then I start to think well maybe I don’t have ocd at all and I’m just in denial because I don’t want to accept that these scary/concerning things are true about myself. Or maybe that’s just the ocd talking.
So, yesterday while I was laying in bed, I was relaxing when suddenly I had an intrusive thought about someone, but the thing is that it brought me a sense of enjoyment or calmness for a few seconds before it went away. Once it did, it was only until hours later when I realized what had happened and I began to freak out because I'm reading everywhere that when someone experiences this type of thing, the anxiety happens shortly after the enjoyment or "false" enjoyment. Can OCD do this?
I’ve asked this before and got no response but can ocd try to make you feel a certain way that you don’t actually feel? Such as telling you you’re jealous or upset in a situation when you don’t even care or feel that way at all. Can ocd cause you to feel the emotion along with the intrusive thought even though it’s not your true feelings?
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