Do others feel they've accidentally manifested uncontrollable magic through OCD?

Magic ocd

I know this is insane but please, PLEASE hear me out. I just need someone to tell me they relate in some way or something. Does anyone else feel like they have some sort of 'magic' that they accidentally manifested from 'wishing' too hard during a traumatic time and can't feel like you can control it now, which is pretty anxiety inducing since it feels like it would make people be able to feel or see your ocd thoughts? Or use your muscle tensing as part of your ocd? Like if you have an intrusive thought while tensing a muscle, you feel like it's going to come true so you have to 'correct' it by thinking a good thought then tense your muscles again? Because I have both of them. :(

Username: ScuderiaAlphaScuderiaAlpha

Date posted: 8w ago

I’m not a professional by ANY stretch but funny that you use the word “magic” because this is a subtype of OCD in itself called magical thinking OCD. People with this often get thoughts such as “if I think X, then Y will happen” or “If I don’t do X, then Y will happen” and truly these two things can be completely unrelated to each other, it doesn’t matter what they are. E.G in your case: “If I have an intrusive thought whilst tensing my muscles, it will or is more likely to happen”. The compulsive piece comes in as you said yourself. In order to ensure this intrusive thought doesn’t happen, you feel the need to tense your muscles again with a good thought in order to cancel out the bad one. This is pretty textbook OCD. Again I’m not a professional by ANY MEANS, so I would recommend bringing up with your therapist for a more expert opinion. Hope this helps :)

Username: MagicOCDMagicOCD

Date posted: 8w ago

Ooh okay! Thanks so much for your input ⭐️

Username: MagicOCDMagicOCD

Date posted: 8w ago

@MagicOCD It's just that I also do it in a superstitious way as well, so I couldn't tell if this was a normal kind of ocd or magic ocd since I've only just started to learn about ocd in general--oops, ahaha.

Username: peridot31peridot31

Date posted: 8w ago

You’re not alone in feeling like you have to do a compulsion to correct your intrusive thoughts. I struggle with that too, and it can get exhausting doing compulsions over and over to “correct” or cancel out the intrusive thoughts I get. I think practicing ERP and challenging ourselves not to do compulsions (like tensing muscles, in your case) is the best way to help feel less anxious/like we have to do something about the intrusive thoughts over time. Each time we refrain from doing a compulsion, we proving to ourselves that our intrusive thoughts are just thoughts. I try to compare intrusive to pesky flies that stick around no matter how hard you shoo them away, so it’s better to just ignore them until they “fly away”. It’s difficult, but we can do it :)

Username: peridot31peridot31

Date posted: 8w ago

@peridot31 I have a few typos, but hopefully you get what I mean 😅😭

Username: MagicOCDMagicOCD

Date posted: 8w ago

Ah I see, thank you for your comfort! 😄🌻

Username: ilohuiojh

Date posted: 5y ago

I’m confused. I don’t know how this is supposed to work. Can anyone relate to this??? I don’t have anyone who understands just what my ocd is. I barely understand it. No matter what I do and where, my thoughts hit me. I can be blinking the wrong way and I have to blink until it feels right.. same for swallowing, touching things, light switches and setting down cups. I have to sit and stand up multiple times until it feels right. Step on certain things like cracks in sidewalk as many times I feel is needed. Wash my hands multiple times. Even when texting, I can type out a whole paragraph and my mind tells me to delete it all and start again because it’s not right. When something isn’t right my mind tells me that someone I love is going to die or get hurt. And for some reason I obsess over certain days, like a day someone I love it born. I will sit there and flip a light switch with that date in my mind and a bad thought that something will happen and I can’t stop until I feel that person in my head is safe and everything is fine. In a way I feel that I am saving them and myself from something bad. Can anyone relate? And maybe share how you’re dealing with it all? Please and thank you.

Perfectionism OCD

Username: Anon17

Date posted: 2y ago

Can anyone relate?

Woke up this morning immediately looking for the thoughts that I’ve been having even though i don’t want to think about them. I feel like i ended up bringing them upon myself and then i had a super gruesome thought and have been worrying about it all morning. Is it possible to bring thoughts upon yourself? Is it ocd or is it just me? I’m just so scared of going “crazy” that i keep looking for thoughts deciding if it’s me or not if you know what i mean. It’s such a scary feeling When you feel like you don’t know who you are 😭 i literally am just petrified of completely losing sense of who i am and doing something bad and being locked away forever. Is it possible to just turn bad? Does anybody know what i mean by that? Like you secretly have a double ego and completely turn into somebody different? Does anyone else experience this? Is it ocd? I’m so scared i feel like i can never catch a break.

Harm OCD

Username: Gabrielle100%

Date posted: 40w ago

Magical Thinking OCD

Help! I’m having intrusive thoughts every two to three minutes. I learned about this things called manifesting and now I’m afraid my intrusive thoughts are manifesting horrible spells to make people do horrible things. Make it stop!

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