When I get a thought but it’s not specific I don’t understand it (part of the time), like I got a intrusive thought right now and it was not specific but I wanted to realise the thought. Like sometimes ocd gives me a thought that I don’t understand/realise(like I do but it’s weird to explain) and I feel like I have to overthink about the thought to realise her. Is that normal?
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@Anonymous Thank you, I will watch them
It is OCD normal, but not normal in the general sense. You need to just acknowledge it as a "dumb" or "fake" though, not react to it, and go to DO something more useful.
@hanysm@gmail.com It’s feel like I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s starting to annoying me at this point
@OrMsB Don't try to stop the thinking, just acknowledge it and that's it
The question "Is that normal?" is seeking for reassurance. If some of us on here said yes, you'd feel releave, but only for a short while, because OCD would not be satisfied. That would probably lead to you asking for reassurance again and/or you ruminating in order to figure it out once and for all. But as OCD is never satisfied, you'd very likely start the next cycle.
It seems like every time I feel that I have an understanding of my intrusive thoughts and an understanding on how to deal with them I’m hit with a new and weirder intrusive thoughts that send me spiraling on what it means. I constantly search up the intrusive thoughts that I have to see if anyone online had a similar thought and that usually works and I calm down but there are a few time where the thought just feels too unusual and idk how to deal with it.
Hi I am Aisha and I am not sure if I have ocd or not but I struggle with thoughts which I don't even know if they r intrusive or if I am thinking about them and they are usually about my family or friends. This time it was about my mom more specifically a sexual thought about my mom and my mind was thinking that this is what I want and when I was analyzing the thought I wasn't sure about my intention which made me feel really bad
Does anyone have any advice for how to know the difference between ocd and real feelings/thoughts? Sometimes an intrusive thought will come in and I immediately know it’s ridiculous and I can just leave it alone and it won’t bother me but other times I really really don’t know. It’s when ocd hijacks and twists my real feelings and thoughts and tries to manipulate me into believing they’re something they’re not or something that doesn’t align with my true morals or intentions. But since it’s twisting and mixing with real feelings I get so confused and scared. Everything gets jumbled and I feel like I can’t trust myself or my own mind. Yet other times and other topics I can laugh off and push away just fine. Make it make sense. And then I start to think well maybe I don’t have ocd at all and I’m just in denial because I don’t want to accept that these scary/concerning things are true about myself. Or maybe that’s just the ocd talking.
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