contrasting emotions while anxious, is it fake?

Do you guys also feel during a triggering episode when you feel anxiety and distress, you also feel like the opposite feeling? like a sense of excitement but not really, it feels like you secretely like it, I find those sensations to be in the muscles of my face, I don't know how to really explain it, like a flustering feeling but not really. I feel like it's the opposite emotions constrasting your genuine ones, the ones you don't want to feel and because you don't want to feel those emotions OCD borrows an emotional reaction that belongs to anxiety like akwardness and fluster and twists it into something false? Or is anxiousness often accompanied by this weird odd sensation in the face? Like an intrusive twitching for a unwanted smile? I don't know.

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Date posted: 45w

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Hen21

Date posted: 45w

@Jam&Butterfly Uhm well I feel like anxiety or awkwardness can make u smile when it’s unwanted. And it definitely wasn’t excitement.

ivefailed.

Date posted: 45w

do you also feel this malicious unwanted sensation-feeling over something you don't feel that way? like an intrusive implicit voice telling you that you secretely enjoy it, that you're lying when you feel triggered and disgusted, but it is not said in words but in sensations, it is implicit . Like when you see a trigger in rl or you have an intrusive image and you ruminate abt it and while you do that you feel this underlying malicious sensation of like temptation, enjoyment, that you know in a way that is not genuine, but because they feel real you still experience the unwanted maliciousness to a point that it feels like you are yourself, that is you actually feeling secretely malicious, like in denial, hiding your enjoyment behind being triggered and distressed. Like feeling the exact feeling you don't to be feeling. Like right now I can emulate being aroused, feeling enjoyment, feeling like a monster, but it feels so real and believable that it feels genuine, indistinguishable. I know what I did was not genuine but I feel like the emotions were still those even though independent from whatever context because I forced myself to feel those emotions, it's complicated. And I think this malicious external entity that uses our voice / borrows our emotions exploits the similarity in symptoms between anxiety and excitement and twists the anxiety into excitement to further cement and invest the narrative of this intrusive fungal voice

lu22

Date posted: 23w

Anyone else?

Has anyone else ever mistaken adrenaline or anxiety for ‘excitement’ or ‘happiness’ over a bad thought and then it made you feel like there is something wrong with you? Online it says adrenaline/anxiety/excitement can all feel the same and after going through ocd for so long I feel like I got use to the feeling of anxiety and I feel confused sometimes as to whether I actually feel anxious or not. I feel really worried I don’t know I don’t even know what I feel anymore I had this stabbing thought and then I had this feeling where it felt almost like I was happy or enjoying it or wanted it and had the urge feeling and. Now I’m worried there is something wrong with me because it felt like it was a real ‘desire’ and now I’m worried and I can’t forget about it or get over it

Anonymous

Date posted: 21w

Advice, pls?

So, yesterday while I was laying in bed, I was relaxing when suddenly I had an intrusive thought about someone, but the thing is that it brought me a sense of enjoyment or calmness for a few seconds before it went away. Once it did, it was only until hours later when I realized what had happened and I began to freak out because I'm reading everywhere that when someone experiences this type of thing, the anxiety happens shortly after the enjoyment or "false" enjoyment. Can OCD do this?

"Pure" OCD

hopefulxmess

Date posted: 20w

Can intrusive thoughts come with false emotions?

I’ve asked this before and got no response but can ocd try to make you feel a certain way that you don’t actually feel? Such as telling you you’re jealous or upset in a situation when you don’t even care or feel that way at all. Can ocd cause you to feel the emotion along with the intrusive thought even though it’s not your true feelings?

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