harm ocd

@L_e_d thank you so much for your words, I’ve read them and helped me so much, I still feel like maybe my thoughts are real and not ocd, that I am a terrible person in comparison to another harm ocd patients are I don’t know what to do anymore because I feel I will someday just do something horrible

@neverbear Check out this article & NOCDs other harm OCD articles, they are so helpful! https://www.treatmyocd.com/blog/what-is-harm-ocd-guide-to-ocd-subtype

@dspross thank you so much for your kind words, they mean the world to me rn thank you 😢💔

@Hayhay223 thank you for your words 😢💔

@SomaticSun🌤️ There’s not a perfect “how”! Let the intrusive thought be there and sit with the feelings. Know that by doing that and not rationalizing the fears away you are actually growing stronger. That’s an ERP technique. I highly recommend you seek out ERP therapy! It will help so much

@L_e_d Thank you for that. May I ask, if you are able to think of other things instead of the intrusive image, would that be a good way to go about it? Like when they say don’t think of a pink elephant. Of course you will picture it as soon as you hear it, but I also have the ability to no longer think of it or see it in my mind, if I choose to. The reason I’m asking this is because my brother (also OCD sufferer) tells me to just keep seeing the intrusive image and focusing on it until it doesn’t bother me anymore. When I do that, it just grows more and more powerful and to be honest, never goes away. And it always bothers me. There is never a time where I can say, Wow, it’s not interesting anymore and it doesn’t bother me. But if I purposely think of other things, or even nothing at all, it tends to slowly disappear and I fall asleep. It only creeps back in when I feel my mind go and fetch it, just to get me mad. This is where I always get confused because I don’t know if it is considered thought-blocking to purposely not think of it. These are not automatic images that I can’t control. These are images my mind keeps presenting to me, just to get a reaction. Really hard to believe a mind would do that, just to get on my own nerves.. but it does. 🫤

@SomaticSun🌤️ I totally understand you, I felt the same way at first but when you get used to picture them you will get more and more bored about them, we can go out of this !! I am proud of everyone