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?
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.
@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”
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!
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
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.
You’ve litreally described how I feel
Question, anyone have a day where there’s no intrusive thoughts or irrational worries, but then you start to feel a little anxious for no apparent reason; so your mind immediately jumps to the thoughts that usually bother you?
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?? 😢🤔
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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