ivefailed.
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pocd intrusive images
Am I the only one who gets truly terrible and graphic intrusive images? They're too much.
Brooke cookieBrooke cookie
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Me and a lot of other people with pure ocd obsession have dark I intrusive thoughts and have graphic images of doing the intrusive thoughts. My are of hurting my family or myself and see I fast graphic images of me killing and it used to scare me. I have been working on my ocd , I am slowly getting better. I recommend looking up exposure response and what are compulsions and how not to do them. Ocd is hard and I hate the image they creep me out . Stay strong you can heal from ocd.
ocdJZwarriorocdJZwarrior
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One of my biggest fears is that Im the only one who has had these particular intrusive thoughts. They are disgusting and make me feel so guilty. I feel as if I need to hear that others have the same thoughts for me to forgive myself
regretfulrainregretfulrain
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I get this too, whenever I see a child (real or fictional) i get horrible intrusive thoughts and images.
ivefailed.ivefailed.
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when those intrusive images happen, I think, "intrusive images can't be that bad, so I must be a ****."
regretfulrainregretfulrain
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@Nameless000 Intrusive images can be ANYTHING that you’re afraid of. OCD is just a bully who likes to see you upset.
ivefailed.ivefailed.
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@regretfulrain But why does it have to be so graphic. it feels very real. i can't tolerate it. Even though it might not be my fault I feel guilty anyway for seeing such disgusting things in my head.
regretfulrainregretfulrain
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@Nameless000 It’s that graphic because you are afraid of it. The more you learn distress tolerance and exposures the easier it will become.
Wanttobefree09251975!Wanttobefree...
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I do and I hate them
NicaNica
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Nope, that’s POCD in a nutshell. You need to let them be without reacting to them and go about your day.
ivefailed.ivefailed.
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but that's impossible. Because ocd is quite literally forcing my brain to reproduce illegal things without my consent and forcing me to see it, be a spectator of it. I feel complicit. You can't not freak out. If a bad person showed you something illegal you would freak out. And that scenario already happened to me and it traumatized me till this day.
NicaNica
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@Nameless000 It’s definitely not impossible as thousands of people with OCD do it daily, all the time. Thoughts aren’t illegal. If you went to a police station and told them l, “Here’s a list of my intrusive thoughts” they will ask you if you’ve physically broken a law, and when you say no, then they will ask you to leave because you don’t break any law. You need to speak to your OCD therapist about this. You constantly seeking reassurance and reacting to your OCD is what’s making it worse. You have had many people say this same thing to you on here, not just me.
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