- Username
- Nameless000
- Date posted
- 33w ago
pocd intrusive images
Am I the only one who gets truly terrible and graphic intrusive images? They're too much.
- Username
- Brooke cookieBrooke cookie
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 33w ago
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.
- Username
- ocdJZwarriorocdJZwarrior
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 33w ago
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
- Username
- regretfulrainregretfulrain
- Date posted
- 33w ago
I get this too, whenever I see a child (real or fictional) i get horrible intrusive thoughts and images.
- Username
- Nameless000Nameless000
- Date posted
- 33w ago
when those intrusive images happen, I think, "intrusive images can't be that bad, so I must be a ****."
- Username
- regretfulrainregretfulrain
- Date posted
- 33w ago
@Nameless000 Intrusive images can be ANYTHING that you’re afraid of. OCD is just a bully who likes to see you upset.
- Username
- Nameless000Nameless000
- Date posted
- 33w ago
@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.
- Username
- regretfulrainregretfulrain
- Date posted
- 33w ago
@Nameless000 It’s that graphic because you are afraid of it. The more you learn distress tolerance and exposures the easier it will become.
- Username
- Wanttobefree09251975!Wanttobefree...
- Date posted
- 33w ago
I do and I hate them
- Username
- NicaNica
- Date posted
- 33w ago
Nope, that’s POCD in a nutshell. You need to let them be without reacting to them and go about your day.
- Username
- Nameless000Nameless000
- Date posted
- 33w ago
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.
- Username
- NicaNica
- Date posted
- 33w ago
@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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- Username
- asbl
- Date posted
- 23w ago
Sexual intrusive thoughts
I had gotten a lot better with my OCD, in general I had a real grasp over my relationship ocd and intrusive thoughts, I was able to comfort myself and see them as just thoughts. This is really embarrassing, but I was triggered a week or so ago when my boyfriend told me one of his key rings came from a girl he slept with 1 time but was friends with (this was 6years ago and has nothing to do with me!) This trigger has led to my sexual intrusive thoughts returning, I have this thing where if I’m having a bit of ‘me time’ my brain sends me images of people I don’t want to think about at that moment in time. Two nights ago it was my boyfriend’s stepdad and I’ve felt guilty ever since. If I’m honest with myself, I’ve always had this sort of issue but I convinced myself that if I didn’t climax whilst thinking of them then it didn’t count and I could let the thought go, I didn’t climax over his stepdad but the thought now isn’t leaving me and I just don’t know what to do. I feel really alone in this and like a weirdo, does anybody else experience this sort of thing ever?
- Username
- Nameless000
- Date posted
- 22w ago
no reaction to horrible intrusive image
I had a terrible graphic intrusive image. So why didn't I feel nothing? I should have been disgusted immediately. I was just passive, it didn't effect me as much. I'm currently obsessing about the fact that I didn't react. I don't know if I should be afraid of this. I know I didn't like that, but when things like these happen I feel like I never have enough confidence, like to simply say "no I was disgusted, I don't like this, I would never do that" end of the story, without any second guessing thoughts. I can never have that statement confidently without feeling that it might not be true. And sometimes when I try to answer to the "OCD question" my brain double downs and says "well what about this? how about that? would you like it that way? you've never thought about it that way!" My brain asks me "would you do it if it was like that? have you ever considered what would it be like? maybe you would like it?" What do I do? I think I know what should I do, but I don't know if it applies to this, if it applies to me at all, as sometimes I think that these are not OCD symptoms or it isn't OCD at all.
- Username
- Speckles
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 17w ago
Techniques
Does anyone have any tips they can share as to what they do to prevent intrusive images from coming into their brain? Or when it happens how to cope?
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