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- 48w ago
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tell yourself this is ocd, not you. saying things such as “i notice i’m having a thought”, or “ocd is telling me…”, can help you. you are absolutely not a bad person and you did nothing wrong. you can also do some cognitive diffusion strategies such as writing your thoughts in funny letters, and holding ice cubes when ur feeling really bad, because it’ll take the attention off the images and thoughts
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- 48w ago
Try to take deep breaths and remember that those thoughts don’t have any intentions to hurt anybody or yourself. That you are too empathetic to act on those thoughts. I try to think logically like ( I’m not a bad person, it’s part of my OCD)
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- 48w ago
Just know they’re not who you actually are. What worked for me was not really even acknowledging them and slowly they started to lose value and not hammer me with crazy anxiety and make me feel as if that’s who I am as a person. It’s easier said then done but overtime becomes achievable. Also doing activities you love has helped me get past it. Sometimes OCD comes back at me hard and I struggle but remember recovery isn’t always smooth sailing there’s probably gonna be valleys and peaks but the destination is a beautiful life.
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I struggled with this really bad at the beginning it’s gotten a bit better because I’ve became familiar with it but the images were so terrible sometimes they’d even show up in dreams there’d be days I was afraid or felt uncomfortable sleeping in my own bed because of those thoughts
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- 29w ago
Hey I dealt with this a while back and it’s horrible but I managed to rid the guilt feeling (although I have the odd day where I get them and dwell on it, but mostly I’m able to just shrug them off now and recognise it for what it is). The best advice I was ever given is this: the clue is in the name INTRUSIVE. This means you don’t want it to be there. It has intruded into your mind thus you get the uncomfortable feelings of shame, guilt and anxiety - remember these feelings show you don’t like these thoughts and that proves you aren’t a bad person otherwise you wouldn’t be so worried about them as you are now.
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- 29w ago
@BoocaBecca But I remember before hearing this I dealt with this anxiety where I would have some good days but then some really bad days and it lasted just over 6 months but it will get better, but when I heard the advice above it helped massively- whenever I had a bad intrusive thought I greet that thought with the “oh well I hate the idea of that so that must make it intrusive and a sign of ocd not what I want to do”
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- 19w ago
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.
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- 15w ago
I’m sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you can’t relate and don’t think you’ll say anything helpful or kind pls don’t comment anything… I’ve been struggling with somethings that’s making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like I’m enjoying or even self pleasuring myself bc of the thought. Right after I immediately have an anxiety attack and my HEART drops bc it feels terrible I feel like a disgusting monster :( ppl have told me I haven’t done a bad bc of how intense my guilt and panic are but I keep thinking that MAYBE I made a horrible decision in the moment and the guilt is just realising that it’s just wrong this doesn’t make sense to me because I’ve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and I’ve been known that these things are wrong so I’m just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldn’t act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time I’m genuinely convinced that I’m a horrible and it’s even got into the point where I don’t wanna be here anymore and I don’t even think this is my OCD :( tbh
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- 14w ago
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with intrusive thoughts&images. At first i had intrusive thoughts around my partner, now it’s centred around me & I can’t be around window ledges or medication due to a story I read online(it’s too triggering for me) . Sometimes I feel like I can’t leave my bed due to the thoughts being so overwhelming I just break down and want to sleep. I aren’t taking any medication or therapy yet. I worry that if I don’t give my thoughts a reaction that my thoughts are true and not OCD. I’ve had these thoughts 24/7 for 2 months.
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