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I had this really bad a few months ago and the not checking accepting has really helped me, I just say ‘I shall accept the uncertainty that I may be crazy’ it has really worked, I was constantly in fear that I was gradually going crazy and always checking which made me hyper aware which just made it worse. I promise it can get better just stop checking. I still get it from time to to time and just let the thought breeze by.
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Thank you so much for the advice and taking the time to respond. I’m gonna work on the not checking if I’m crazy and ignore the intrusive thoughts.
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Talking about it to the right people is best, sometimes you confide in the wrong people and they make fun of you behind your back it’s all just a learning process of who you can trust and who you can’t in some cases at least here you know everything is confidential.
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Thank you all so much for responding. I appreciate all your advice! I was feeling so low. Like I’m gonna just lose everything. I have had this off and on for sure the past year and this time it came back full force. My mind like copies delusions I have seen or read before on forums. I just have to deal with the fact I might be because I really don’t know and just let it pass. You all are so strong and amazing. The fact that you guys just took the time to help me means so so much. We shall keep fighting???. You all are warriors!
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I had this, its just fear of losing your mind so you keep checking if you're sane. Obviously me telling you you're sane isn't going to stop the checking. Your brain needs to be taught theres nothing to fear by you stopping checking. Your brain; check if im not going crazy You: no Your brain; sbjsshbbs what, CHECK, what if im going crazy You: nope Your brain; WTFFFF you: :) Your brain; oh maybe its fine Recovered.
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Ye like Rachel said it's a difficult one to get rid of because you can never be 100% certain that you're not going insane and OCD loves playing on uncertainty. I'm having a bit of an episode today for the first time in a while and asking myself do i feel normal or like i used to, that somethings not right, could it be me losing my mind? I now know it's just my mind checking if i'm in danger and seeing if i'm reacting, aslong as i dont it will go but if i start checking then it will become a huge issue all over again.
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In some case you might not be going crazy sometimes people are straight up mean
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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? 😅
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Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
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I know I am going a bit cuckoo because my period is coming up, but lately it feels like every intrusive thought I have, I *like* it. Like I genuinely feel like I like it, and then I immediately panic because I start checking. Mentally, emotionally, whatever it is. And I know that is a compulsion. I *know* that. But it feels so real that I cannot stop myself. Every single time I check, it still feels like I like the thought, and it is driving me absolutely insane. It is especially the POCD thoughts. They feel so real. I feel like something is going on mentally, like some kind of confusion or glitch, because I swear I was not like this before. I would have intrusive thoughts, and they would feel real, but not *this* real. And I do not even know if this is normal. I know OCD is **supposed** to feel convincing. That is the whole thing. But I have never experienced it to this extreme. I have never gotten the same thought so many times and still felt like, “Oh my God, I did enjoy it,” even after checking a million times. It is like no matter how many times I check, it feels like I liked it. Especially during intimacy :( and it is making me lose it. Then I start thinking, “Well, I am in distress, so maybe that is proof it is not actually me.” But right after, I am like, “What if I am only panicking because I care about what society thinks and not because I actually have morals?” And then I spiral again, wondering if maybe I just care about how I am seen rather than who I am. I am panicking so much no today. I had to take my Xanax today for the first time in two months, and I needed three separate doses. I really need some support right now.
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