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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
In my opinion A thought that is your own will escalate. An intrusive thought will just be a thought. I would think that if you were really suicidal you wouldn't care enough to ask for help on this blog. OCD offen attacks the things we care about most. So if you are having suicidal intrusive thoughts you must care alot about life subconsciously. But if you believe you are actually having suicidal ideation then I would take yourself to the hospital. I'm no doctor or expert. Just a fellow cursed with OCD. But this is my opinion.
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- 5y ago
I think you know exactly what it is, an jntrusive thought, i think when you’re in ‘that place of ocd’ you overthink is this something i really would do or want? I also had intrusive thoughts in the past, what helps me is to kind of laugh about it and make it ‘one of those thoughts’ and go on with the day
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- 5y ago
I can relate. My OCD changes themes all day everyday. Check our this video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2k4slSCbMgk
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- 5y ago
Thank you all for your comments! I think the thing with suicidal intrusive thoughts is it makes me feel like I actually am suicidal, and this can happen whenever Im down over something small - something that wouldn’t make you actually feel suicidal, but it’s as if the intrusive thought is saying that’s the only option. /: I think because I’ve been depressed it’s harder to tell because the intrusive thoughts make it feel like I’m back in that place again
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- 5y ago
I understand! As long as you think negative about these thoughts, i think you are in the right place ;) good luck ! ?
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- 19w ago
This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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- 15w ago
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? 😅
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- 12w ago
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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