Weird Little Guys (in our brains)

this is going to be a strange post but bear with me!!!!!!!! a therapist i had once suggested looking at my ocd/intrusive thoughts as being in a car with some weird guy in the back who says all the upsetting ocd stuff. theyre back there and are annoying or offputting BUT ultimately you are driving and can just ignore the weird guy and remind yourself YOURE the one driving, basically. does anyone else personify their ocd thoughts/impulses/fears/etc? if you do, do you get along with this personified guy? or do you argue, or ignore, or shame it? i am currently in the camp of "i hate that guy and he scares me so i dont want to socialize with him" hahahaha. but i wonder, would being curious or empathetic towards the guy maybe help him chill out? i wanna know if anyone else has a personified relationship with their ocd too, and how you treat this personification. :) much love ☺️🌈✨🌷

Username: Im not good with usernamesIm not good ...

Date posted: 30w ago

i personify my ocd in a lot of ways. sometimes its an annoying conspiracy theorist, sometimes its an angry cat, and sometimes its a very tiny demon thing. one thing ive also done is like...take some of my past ocd themes (superstition ocd + religious ocd) and turned them into a persona for myself. they're a black cat with blue eyes and a demon tail and horns. i think its a bit weird that i pretty much made an ocd-sona for myself, but it helps me turn something bad that happened to me into something at least kind of cool i guess

Username: somebody left me in the dryer!somebody lef...

Date posted: 30w ago

@Im not good with usernames no no having an ocd-sona is based actually and i think this is very cool. would be an awesome way to heal or explore creatively through art/writing/etc with a little dude like that!!!

Username: ughhhhughhhh

Date posted: 30w ago

I actually really like this I will use this :)

Username: matchalover123matchalover123

Date posted: 8w ago

i personified my ocd recently and it’s been helping a lot. i named her bertha and she’s just kinda like an annoying roommate so whenever i get an upsetting ocd thought i tell bertha to go back to her room and close the door so i can’t hear what she’s talking about. i know you said ur in the mode of hating him rn and in my case i try to be nice to bertha and i ask her very nicely to stop and it usually helps being nicer bc then the thoughts calmly go away

Username: Dae6WW

Date posted: 2y ago

anybodies “OCD voice” speak to them constantly?

Like, that little voice in your head, I understand that for everybody it’s a little different, but it’s 100% separate from your normal inner monologue due to the nature of the thoughts. Does anybody else’s talk to them CONSTANTLY? Like a whole bother person in there. Commenting on every thing they do or thing they think like a symbiote from Venom or something

Username: Sassafras19

Date posted: 2y ago

Feeling Like a Creep

(Synopsis: Has your OCD ever latched on to someone and caused major changes in your life? How do you deal with feeling like a total creep?) My OCD has latched on to a guy I had a crush on through my school years. It started when I followed him on Instagram. I then broke up with my boyfriend of 7 years (which was for the best) and immediately started trying to SLEEP WITH THIS MAN. We DM’d and it went nowhere but I was EXTREMELY forward and aggressive to the point where a year later I am still very embarrassed by it. After that happened, I muted his story and posts and my obsessions faded. Then I was buying a home and since he is a carpenter I hit him up for a quote… It went nowhere as well probably because I BASICALLY SEXUALLY HARASSED HIM. Anyway, then I saw the gym he went to looked like something I might enjoy so I signed up. I fell in love with this gym and now I go every day when I was never an active person. I’ve seen him there a few times and we just say hello. Super awkward. My friend is into manifestation so she suggested I look into manifesting a “specific person” and there is all of this content online about manifesting someone into your life no matter the circumstances. All you have to do is speak it into truth. Well that doesn’t mix well with OCD so I FULLY convinced myself that he and I were meant to be and all of this insane stuff. I realized it was a problem when I was talking about him to every one of my friends and sounding like a weirdo. That’s when I started NOCD. That brings me to where I’m at now. Every time I go to the gym, I wonder if he will be there. When he pops into my head, I go to his (muted) Instagram to see what I missed. I still have lingering feelings that I am so obsessed with him because we are fated to be together. This man has been the catalyst to several big things in my life: breaking up a long term relationship, becoming a gym rat, and starting NOCD. I’m even in the beginnings of a great relationship and I still can’t stop these obsessions. I just started working on it with my therapist here but I need someone to relate to! Does anyone else have these obsessions and how do you deal with feeling like a stalker creep?

Username: kittencroissant

Date posted: 1y ago

Do you make your OCD an Enemy or a Friend?

I am conflicted if I should treat my OCD as a part like they do in IFS therapy (no bad parts) or if it's something I need to suppress and deny until it is "killed". I don't mean to make it into a personality but it can feel that way. I feel like i am always switching between both methods and when I try to take control I feel like I'm suppressing, then i deal with backlash and relapse, when I try to accept it and understand it, it starts justifying itself and bullies other parts then i stop caring to change. It's like i have inside me both a power hungry kid and a parent with no authority skills

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