Is worrying about intrusive thoughts making you anxious all day?

So-ocd not intrusive anymore

When you wake up and start actively thinking and worrying about it all, you're bringing it all into your head. Like they aren't intrusive anymore. You just think about them and worry, with me just thinking "oh my god, I'm g..." like I've convinced myself. But I don't want to have convinced myself. Worrying all this thinking is gonna be in my head all day. I feel anxious. Does anyone recognise this?

Username: EdenAureliaEdenAurelia

Date posted: 27w ago

It's still an intrusive thought, but the way I see it, it's a reflex loop that your brain has made. You wake up and immediately go "where are the thoughts? Must make sure they're gone/wrong" and then they come again. It's hard to resist the temptation to follow the reflex to ruminate, but when I try and stop myself from doing it, my TOCD and SO-OCD get better.

Username: KollinKollin

Date posted: 27w ago

@EdenAurelia So true , it’s like you’re addicted to the worry at a certain point and try to bring the worries back to you “just incase”

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 27w ago

This happened to me! Mornings were starting with doom and it feels so real but I started taking anti-depressants which has helped. Also waking up and immediately getting up to go to the gym or outside in the sun helps!

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 27w ago

The brain searches for the worry.. we are wired to expect the worst. I immediately put happy music on and start my day. I promise it gets better

Username: Brooke cookieBrooke cookie

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 27w ago

My ocd is also worse when I wake up. I do not have the sexual part of Puro CD but as someone that has Pirro CD sounds like you’re starting to panic at the end there about the fact that you’re gonna have ocd which I’m pretty sure everyone ocd has done. When you’re feeling a little better, I highly recommend you look up some thing called exposure. Response while it is not very fun and it causes anxiety and distress. It helps you slowly be able to break free from your OCD. I’ve been trying it and it’s slowly working. Stay strong.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 27w ago

You’ve litreally described how I feel

Username: Olivia McGuigan

Date posted: 4y ago

Is anybody elses ocd bad just as you wake up??? mine is and i hate it and sometimes it can ruin my whole day cause ill be thinking of that thought. Does anyome have any tips for not getting caught up and just letting the thouhht go?? 😢🤔

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Username: Messa

Date posted: 3y ago

Does anyone relate? I have really bad schizo OCD.. and before I had a lot of other themes but because the schizo theme is current and taking over the other ones have kind of been pushed to the side and all I can focus on is becoming crazy.. Well these past couple of days have been bad and as soon as I wake up I have this like really uncomfortable feeling in my chest.. no matter how much sleep I get or if I wasn’t stressed before going to bed. Then another thing I guess since I don’t have thoughts about really anything else for the day (ex. What are my tasks today, I’m excited for this today, oh I’m hungry.. etc) my thoughts are kind of all over the place about my schizo ocd and then it’s to the point I have random conversations that don’t even make sense in my head or I hear family members voices in my head saying something but it’s like I know it’s all my mind doing it but it still confuses me why random thoughts I didn’t think pop up or why I’m hearing it in their voice but this only happens when I first wake up or if I’m falling asleep. Then once it happens my brain is like.. does this mean I’m going crazy and starting to hear voices.. idk it’s literally driving me crazy..

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Username: Anon17

Date posted: 2y ago

Can anyone relate?

Woke up this morning immediately looking for the thoughts that I’ve been having even though i don’t want to think about them. I feel like i ended up bringing them upon myself and then i had a super gruesome thought and have been worrying about it all morning. Is it possible to bring thoughts upon yourself? Is it ocd or is it just me? I’m just so scared of going “crazy” that i keep looking for thoughts deciding if it’s me or not if you know what i mean. It’s such a scary feeling When you feel like you don’t know who you are 😭 i literally am just petrified of completely losing sense of who i am and doing something bad and being locked away forever. Is it possible to just turn bad? Does anybody know what i mean by that? Like you secretly have a double ego and completely turn into somebody different? Does anyone else experience this? Is it ocd? I’m so scared i feel like i can never catch a break.

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