- Username
- Nameless000
- Date posted
- 28w 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
- 28w 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
- 28w 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
- 28w ago
I get this too, whenever I see a child (real or fictional) i get horrible intrusive thoughts and images.
- Username
- Nameless000Nameless000
- Date posted
- 28w ago
when those intrusive images happen, I think, "intrusive images can't be that bad, so I must be a ****."
- Username
- regretfulrainregretfulrain
- Date posted
- 28w 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
- 28w 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
- 28w 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
- 28w ago
I do and I hate them
- Username
- NicaNica
- Date posted
- 28w 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
- 28w 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
- 28w 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
- Travdart
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I have pure O and I have terrible images and thoughts in my head.Its so scary and I hate it .It has brought my life to a complete stand still.I feel like a bad person...
- Username
- Cupcakes82!
- Date posted
- 2y ago
please someone give me words of advice
i saw a picture of a pretty girl on instagram just now and the first intrusive thought that came to my mind was me saying i would love to *insert the most horrible sexual abusive thing* to her. i am absolutely disgusted with my brain and i want to throw up. why would i even get that thought. i’m not even sexually active and would never do ANYTHING to hurt anyone. i get the worst sexually intrusive thoughts and it makes me feel awful because that is just not me. but my ocd makes me feel like it is. i don’t want to think like this anymore. why does my ocd make me suffer in this way. i would take any other form of ocd over this. does anyone else get these intrusive thoughts or is it just me
- Username
- Heyoo
- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 48w ago
Intrusive images
Hey everyone so after having intrusive thoughts for about a year now my theme is changing to images. Does anyone else have super vivid intrusive images that are almost like experiencing a movie just in your head? Like I’ll be sitting in my bosses office and start thinking about snakes and then my mind is creating this whole movie. It’s not happening in reality it’s all in my head but it’s still scary af. Any tips on how to deal with the intrusive images?
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