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I’ve experienced this - sometimes I just can’t turn on the tv or news. Apart from ocd, a lot of entertainment and media actually is violent and depressing right now. I think it affects even mentally healthy people deeply.
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I felt the feeling like you cant esacpe part. I had suicidal OCD (a form of Harm OCD), and it feels like a constant thing. You are not alone, and I promise there is an end.
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Its hard to ignore Harm OCD thoughts
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Same here, just remember there just thoughts and ignoring them seems to help me when I get the thought I simply say “its just ocd this thought will pass and this thought does not define who I am”. Now some important things to remember are: do not focus or obsess over the thought it will make it worse now if you ignore it the thought will go away and eventually you will stop getting the thoughts as long as you don’t let it get to you don’t let it get to your head your stronger then this so remember to just ignore it and if your having trouble find something to distract you what I find helpful taking my mind of it is I talk to someone.Hope this helps
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np, if you need to talk I’m here for you
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@kyneum OCD can be really scary at times and it’s the worse when the thoughts begin to feel “real”. Trust me I have harm OCD and it’s a fucking pain in the ass. I would see a knife or any household object and just think what if I hurt myself with this lol. Trust me don’t avoid the tv or the media, the more exposure you have to the violence the less and less the anxiety will begin to creep up overtime. Stay strong and know that the worse of it is passing over you. Hope this helps.
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I used to be the same way, suicide and harm OCD are my main issues. It’s frustrating but I try to remain positive.
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Thank you so much!
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But what do you do if you have the thoughts in the situation with a person related to that person? Than talking doesn‘t help me so much :(
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@kyneum yes staying positive is super important and obviously it’s going to be frustrating at times but the best thing ab OCD is that over time u just get better at managing it so it really can’t get worse.
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Basically long story short, ive been dealing with anxiety for a very long time all my life I'm 23 now but about 5 months ago my anxiety started to get really and I overthink a ton and get worried to easily. So my chest hurt for a while from stress at work made me worry why it was hurting, then me worrying and thinking worse case scenarios was making it worse. So i and to go to the doctor and got diagnosed properly with anxiety and I have a med now that I take when I really need it called hydroxyzine but I also have another med that is Zoloft that I have been taking for a about a month now, to help with my intrusive thoughts I have sometimes i only get them when im stressed or when I'm by myself or when i just overthink in general, my loneliness depression is one of the reasons for my anxiety because I wish I had someone as in partner wise to love me and for me to love them. But anyways I've had intrusive thoughts about possibly hurting myself and family, or even my dog. Ive never acted on any of my thoughts in the past and I don't want to but I have had anxiety attacks when everything feels to real and really scares me. I constantly have the thought of am I crazy or am I becoming crazy and stuff and I've done a lot of looking stuff in the past about symptoms but most of them are identical to what anxiety is so it's hard to tell the difference. It's been probably 2 weeks since we last talked. I've been mostly doing good. But I just was wondering if had a little Harm OCD intrusive thought happen yesterday that targeted my Aunt at work she was complaining all day and when it got closer to the end of the shifts for us. I was already annoyed with a situation that happened earlier in the work day. But she came into my department and then went back over to hers and I said it out loud to myself and said you better get back over there or I'll, I tried to say something else because the word I was going to say was kill you. Obviously I don't but that's what my intrusive thought wanted me to say. And made me think thats why i got to hurt her to stop her complaing So the rest of the night I was saying she is safe I am safe I'm control, like this is just anxiety lying to you, it's just because I'm tired and got annoyed earlier. I can't tell if it was working or not because I was so tired and just wanted to go home. But after work her and I spent time together at our house she was on the one couch and I was on the other with a bunch of our dogs in the living room. I tried to keep my mind off of what happened, and I was fighting some stomach achyness already. But I obviously don't want to hurt her and we had conversations just fine. But I went to my other aunt house at night after work to go to bed because she has to watch my aunts dogs because my other aunt and family is on vacation. But anyways I'm trying to get over that word Kill, that word is what is scarring me and sticking. Like my anxiety is lying saying kill, or basically do harm. I don't want to do anything bad but I'm trying to shake that feeling and stickiness of that word. I'm just so scared and worried.
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Im sleeping over my boys house and im having bad thoughts to hurt him and it’s like I can see myself acting on it. I never want to hurt anyone… I hope someone can comment or give me advice as I lie in bed watching crime documentary. It messes with my OCD creates false fantasies
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i’m having a full on panic attack, i never used to be like this, what tf is happening to me, why am i like this, i’m so convinced i’m a horrible person and i deserve to be shut out forever because of my thoughts, i’m tired of struggling with harm ocd, i’m scared that because i have mental health issues i’m gonna end up ki!!ing someone someday or end up on the news, when i was at work earlier i kept thinking “how easy would it be to ki!! someone and get away with it” someone help, i don’t feel normal, am i crazy?… 😭😭i know that with ocd you’re not supposed to have reassurance and you have to be “okay” with the situation but.. how am i supposed to be okay with feeling like i could hurt someone…
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