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Panic attack?
My recent intrusive thoughts have been triggering bad panic attacks. Do you guys also get panic attacks or anxiety from your intrusive thoughts? š£
My recent intrusive thoughts have been triggering bad panic attacks. Do you guys also get panic attacks or anxiety from your intrusive thoughts? š£
Yes so many! The intrusive thoughts completely override my mind and I rather start to cry or panic. Usually panic attacks happen for me when we are doing enjoyable activities. I questioned medication too, but from other sources, medications seem to be less beneficial for ocd. Iām not sure tho either, but the panic attacks come on so suddenly that they are so hard to stop.
@Anais V Same! Itās like the SECOND I just want to do anything I enjoy, the thoughts ramp up š£
Yes! My intrusive thoughts trigger panic attacks for me thatās how I found out I have OCD.
@Lilly2442! Itās awful! I almost donāt know whatās worse, the panic attacks or the intrusive thoughts themselves š£
Yes. I had to check into a mental hospital because of them. I am on anxiety medication (Buspar and Zoloft) which is helping.
@Anonymous I think Iām going to invest in medication š£ the panic attacks are sometimes worse than the thoughts
@Anonymous Yes... I've been having them and I'll shake uncontrollably
Just got one last night itās terrible. Mine was from something I saw that triggered my anxiety. Do you feel like you have to recover from the panic attack the next day or days after? I feel like shit today
@Anonymous 25# Ugh yes! š itās like the panic does a number on my body and I have to recover from it š
@Anonymous Same my stomach and ribs are killing me the last like 5 days
Iām having a very bad evening with my intrusive thoughts. I was doing really good dealing with them but tonight one hit me hard. Iāve been having a lot of different intrusive thoughts but Iāll have one occasionally about hurting my mom or my dog who I love and theyāre the only family I have in my life. Theyāre 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 wouldnāt 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. Iām 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 theyāre hard for my mom to hear and I donāt 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 Iām 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 itās not but I feel like my mind is out to get me and hurt me. Iām working so hard and I thought I was doing so good but I need to know why I have these thoughts. Theyāre not ok. I need someone to help me make sense of why. I know we arenāt supposed to ruminate but I shouldnāt have thoughts like this about people I love and care about the most in the world.
Iām sharing this bc I need advice or even support from anyone who can relate. If you canāt relate and donāt think youāll say anything helpful or kind pls donāt comment anythingā¦ Iāve been struggling with somethings thatās making me question myself. There has been moments while self pleasuring when I get intrusive thoughts, in those moments it feels like Iām 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 havenāt 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 itās just wrong this doesnāt make sense to me because Iāve always told myself that I would never act on this in 1 million years and Iāve been known that these things are wrong so Iām just like constantly questioning myself these feelings and exact same situation has happened two times already I even promised myself that I wouldnāt act on anything beforehand and yeah, I still felt like I did act on my thought during my alone time Iām genuinely convinced that Iām a horrible and itās even got into the point where I donāt wanna be here anymore and I donāt even think this is my OCD :( tbh
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? š
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