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- 46w ago
Baby
Yesterday my in laws said I could hold my nephew and my head said what if you throw the baby I hate OCD :( I would never harm a baby
Yesterday my in laws said I could hold my nephew and my head said what if you throw the baby I hate OCD :( I would never harm a baby
Really good comments from everyone on this thread . I had to let out a laugh about juggling babies . Humor and laughter and connection to outlandish things helps put a brake on OCD .
You know what is interesting, I feel 99% of people 99% of the time have weird passing thoughts that barely get noticed or if they do they get shrugged off easily . With that said a person with OCD , GAD gets similar thoughts but they stick around way too long , it is how the wiring in the brain works I guess. Hang in there . Football Sunday baby toss, just joking around to lighten the mood . Truth be told I am a big fan of babies also .
@777Q So true . When I was doing really well with this illness and it was under control? These thoughts would pass through but have zero significance because I easily could say “ yeah that’s not me .”
@777Q I think that’s true. Other people can just naturally let intrusive thoughts float away. We get stuck on them. One strategy I read about was to make the thoughts more outlandish, like your football baby toss. I imagined borrowing a few more babies to juggle them. Don’t let your brain latch onto these thoughts, @iloverowdy12. Find some strategies to help you. It will get better.
Remember OCD thoughts are just thoughts. They’re meaningless. Like you said, you in your heart know you’d never throw the baby. OCD just wants you to think so because it wants you to feel unhappy or uncomfortable (which reaches its goal of making one do a compulsion). Recognize it as just a thought, let the thought pass, and continue what you’re doing. It’s tough but you can do this. Give that baby loving hugs!🥰
HARM OCD VENT. I feel Terrified. I am so scared that I am going to act on a terrible harm ocd intrusive thought on someone else. The idea, the sensations the urges terrify me because it feels so scarily real. I feel like im a horrible person - a danger and i’m so guilty for having intrusive thoughts. I hate knives, I avoid looking at them in real life, in the kitchen as i’m so terrified that i will do sone thing terrible. I get excited when my boyfriend cones round as i always think he knows about my thoughts so at least he would restrain me if i were to do anything bad. I just feel so scared so guilty. I have this horrible sensation of urge running through my body- currently im on the verge of tears- i feel lost. My ocd has even latched onto pumpkin carving - scared i will do something bad. Now my OCD is just being like “ maybe your avoiding is all fake and your trying to cover your a bad person” “ what if u actually want to “. “ I want to “ “ You arnt actually trying to hard from harmful objects “ its TERRIFYING. please may someone reply - I’m terrified right now its like an intrusive FEELING is in my body. Sorry guys. I NEED reassurance at this point, I don’t know what to do.
I’m having a very bad evening with my intrusive thoughts. I was doing really good dealing with them but tonight one hit me hard. I’ve been having a lot of different intrusive thoughts but I’ll have one occasionally about hurting my mom or my dog who I love and they’re the only family I have in my life. They’re my world. I was helping my mom put away the dishes and I had the big kitchen knife in my hand and my intrusive thought was you could stab your mom. And then my brain said I had a twitch in my hand and that meant I wanted to do it. Let me just say that I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I actually caught a fly in a glass and put it outside instead of killing it this evening before this intrusive thought happened. I’m such a gentle and compassionate and caring person and these thoughts instantly cause me to have a panic attack. And I have no one to talk to them about. I know they’re hard for my mom to hear and I don’t want to be any more of a burden than I already am. I do desperately want to tell her and have her reassure me that I’m not crazy or a psycho. Then my thoughts wander to if your hand did flinch could you be a psychopath. Is hurting someone in you. I know it’s not but I feel like my mind is out to get me and hurt me. I’m working so hard and I thought I was doing so good but I need to know why I have these thoughts. They’re not ok. I need someone to help me make sense of why. I know we aren’t supposed to ruminate but I shouldn’t have thoughts like this about people I love and care about the most in the world.
Does anyone imagine they are doing their harm thoughts during an action, making you feel like you acted on your thoughts? For example, someone gave me a hug and at the last second I imagined I was touching something I shouldn’t during the hug? I want to make it clear it’s something I have zero desire to do! But the problem is, I thought it on purpose and it makes me sick !! Obviously nothing happened but my mind is telling me that was me trying to do it. Even though it was physically impossible to do. Am I a monster or could this be OCD? I’m freaking out and don’t want to be here anymore. I feel like I’m the exception and that this isn’t OCD. I know I post about this stuff a lot but I’m struggling and don’t know what to do.
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