Intrusive thoughts as questions

TW: existential OCD, religious scrupulosity Hello, I was wondering if anyone else can relate to this experience! For me, a lot of my intrusive thoughts come to me as questions. For example, I have a lot of existential OCD, and a lot of my questions may be things like “What is the purpose of life? Is there even a purpose? Is life worth living without a purpose?” A lot of the times, I come to a conclusion that doesn’t sit well with me and triggers even more anxiety. I noticed this also comes up with religious scrupulosity, wondering if God or Hell exist and constantly churning questions in my mind. I’m curious if this is the case for anyone else. I feel like I’m constantly questioning everything around me, and it’s the questioning itself which causes me distress, because I feel like in questioning the things that I value, I somehow take away their value to me because I can’t quite get an answer that satisfies me as to why they were valuable in the first place (if that makes any sense at all 😂). Thanks!

Username: Cammy123Cammy123

Date posted: 44w ago

I knows what you mean. I have those thoughts a lot! Questioning reality & God. It bothers me so much because I love God! It was just I had a random thought of “is God real” then i started to spiral to now it’s a lot of self doubt. I get it you questioning makes you question if these are your values! I saw a post where someone said that’s a trick from OCD! If I didn’t care about these things then they wouldn’t bother me! OCD can only attack the things you love and deep value! Heck OCD makes me doubt the disorder! I hope that helps! I’m still on my journey of healing!

Username: Ryan#Ryan#

Date posted: 44w ago

I have the same. We seek certainty - We have to become okay with not knowing. It’s tough but with ERP therapy it helps.

Username: Hairam000Hairam000

Date posted: 43w ago

I would like to add that all of these questions that you’re asking yourself are inherently very human 💗 we all ask ourselves these questions to varying degrees(some of us more than others!) but someone with OCD takes it to another level-it’s a beautiful thing that you are pondering life’s biggest questions :) you have a curious intellectual mind if sounds like. Because of the ocd though, the key is to come to peace with these things and Not Need exact answers/certainty when it comes to these questions that come up. This absolutely can get better with all the therapy that everyone talks about here ♥️ and other ways as well! Your mind is very powerful and perspective is huge! Your ocd is making your mind go in a negative too dark/deep direction with questions like what is the purpose of life? But you can actually get to a really beautiful peaceful place with these type of questions ✨ This might not be something that a lot of people would say on here I don’t think because we like to focus on OCD-it sounds like you may be on a bit of a spiritual journey ✨✨ life can get pretty magical. Keep yourself open ☺️

Username: Waging War Against OCDWaging War A...

Date posted: 43w ago

Hi! There are several resources you may find helpful. Mark DeJesus (MarkDeJesus.com), Jaimie Eckert (scrupulosity.com), and Dr Ian Osborn (OCDandChristianity.com). Dr Osborn is a Christian, OCD sufferer and Christian. Also, I recently published a book called "Waging War Against OCD - A Christian Approach to Victory." You can see more details at WagingWarAgainstOCD.com

Username: katiesexistence

Date posted: 5y ago

Hi everyone, I think I’ve struggled with OCD since I was a child but it’s seriously effecting my life now. I think I have what you would call Philosophical/ Existential OCD. I can’t stop questioning my reality, the truth of reality and the universe, enlightenment, Christianity, solipsism, god, myself, my own existence. It never ends. I don’t really know what to do anymore. I think I have Pure O, but I also compulsively google my questions and search through the answers for hours until I feel calm. The peace lasts all of 5 minutes and then I’m googling another question. It’s so stupid because I know the meaning of life isn’t found on the internet but I can’t handle it all on my own in my head.

Username: notfortalk

Date posted: 5y ago

I need to know if someone else experience this because I think this may be the root of some of my ocd themes. So basically even when I don't really have a theme going on I get intrusive thoughts of different topics. For example if I'm reading an article about a person with ADHD my mind tells that maybe I have adhd and because if I had I'd be different, and it feels like I want to even though I don't do because I know how destressing it is to live with such disorders and who would ever want to develop a disorder like that. I get intrusive thoughts like about illnesses, identities and other things and my mind says that I have to have those things because they would make me different and my mind wanted me to be different in that way. And it felt like I wanted those things even tho I know how terrible they affect people and didn't really wanted to have them. Now it tells me the same thing about gender and sexuality that I have to be different in that way while I don't and it's causing me hocd right now. I guess this is my final answer but I wanted to know if somebody else experienced something like this. Like sometimes I get depressive episodes because of my anxiety and ocd but once I became obsessed with the idea of having chronic severe depression and I got so anxious but then felt relieved when I didn't but then my intrusive thoughts would pop up here and there

Username: Babylulu8

Date posted: 1y ago

Worrying about what ifs

I feel like for as long as I can remember, my intrusive thoughts are in the form of questions. This morning, I couldn’t help but think “What do I want out of my life?””Do I want to be in a relationship with this person?””Am I making the right choices?” With every decision I make, I worry about other options, I feel like I am constantly worrying about what if this happens, what if I didn’t do that. I work with my therapist who encourages that I have issues with judgement. Because of this, I think I can never be 100% confident or assuring in myself or anything I do

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