Can intrusive thoughts be very detailed and feel so real? Can they be about anything? Also can they hit out of nowhere? I was laying down trying to meditate when I was hit with a religious theme so badly. I have just felt like I am losing it and the guilt of having it is so strong. I keep thinking about having those thoughts over and over and I feel like something is wrong. Any advice would help. Couple days ago I was struggling with the theme of schizophrenia and now it’s like o have both themes at once.

Mars

Date posted: 5y

You can have intrusive thoughts about ANYTHING. This is all correct. The thoughts can feel real. They can hit you randomly. OCD just tortures us like that. The brain makes us think thousands and thousands of thoughts a day. We don’t speak about it but everyone even those without OCD have screwed up thoughts and such. It’s just us with OCD, are morals are so high and black and white that we obsess over why we thought them.

JanieTay

Date posted: 5y

Sounds good. Im hanging out with my bff today and looking foward to it. I feel that ocd has robbed me of joy some days. I'm happy I can chat here because i haven't really told anyone details of my ocd. It hard to go it alone. Give yourselves a hug.

hannie

Date posted: 5y

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. It’s just crazy how fast my brain came up with this random stuff. I think part of it has to do with pms too lol. It always gets way worse then and I feel like I’m losing it. Ifs so hard not to ruminate on it cause It feels so different from the intrusive thoughts I have had before. I’m just gonna push through. Thank you again. It means so much ?

Mars

Date posted: 5y

I understand. I’ve had every intrusive thought in the book and it’s a terrifying experience. Heck, I’m not even religious and I’ve had religious ocd plenty of times. OCD makes no sense. It has no logic. We can get from point a to point b. It can even make us physically feel things. (For example, it can make people feel pain and they may obsess that they have cancer, or people with pocd feel groinal responses due to anxiety and it can make them feel scared that they actually are aroused) I wish you luck, and just remember everyone on this app is so nice and supportive and we’re all here.

JanieTay

Date posted: 5y

Thank you for the reminder!!!!!

hannie

Date posted: 5y

You are so amazing and so nice for helping! I also think you’re so strong to fight this everyday. Everyone who fights this is so strong??. It’s crazy how deceiving OCD can be. Also how intense the intrusive thoughts feel. For now I’m gonna accept it for what it is, OCD. I’m tired of fighting my brain so I’m just gonna let it do what it wants and not play into it. Thank you so much again?

JanieTay

Date posted: 5y

Omg it's so easy to go down the rabbit hole of despair! But we are strong and can face our fears. I had a wonderful day with my friend. She treated me to an acupuncture treatment. Shoulders back, we can beat this! ❤

hannie

Date posted: 5y

I know what you mean when you say it can rob you or joy. I felt that way yesterday. It’s easy to just let the thoughts take over then to actually fight the compulsions and let the thoughts be. I don’t talk a lot about my OCD either. Only a couple people in my family know. It is so hard to feel like you are alone. If you ever need to chat about it I’m here! You can just come to this post and we can work it out together. Don’t forget how strong you are, OCD likes to tell you your not but you are so unbelievably strong. You wake up to fight this everyday. You’re amazing! Have fun with your BF and tell the intrusive thoughts to fuck off cause that’s what I’m gonna do today???

hannie

Date posted: 5y

BFF*

hannie

Date posted: 5y

That is so awesome to hear!??. We are strong and we will get through this. ???

Chels0212

Date posted: 24w

Intrusive thoughts

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? 😅

Young adults with OCD

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 22w

I don’t know what this is. Help please?

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?

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 21w

Advice please??? I’m CONFUSED

OK, this might sound really dumb, but when you guys get intrusive thoughts, do they just come once and then go away? I’ve heard that repeatedly thinking about an intrusive thought is considered ‘checking,’ but it doesn’t feel like I have any control over how many times it comes up in my head. It’s not like I’m trying to check anything—it just keeps showing up, almost like it’s terrorizing me every time. I can’t seem to stop it from looping, stop remembering it, or prevent it from coming up. Every time it does, I feel horrified, and I already know it’s going to horrify me. I don’t think I’m actively trying to see if my feelings have changed, so is this still considered checking? How do other people get an intrusive thought and just move on? Doesn’t it pop up a million times for them too? I always thought that was normal, but now I’m hearing this could be a compulsion, and I feel really confused, scared, and lost. Is this why my OCD feels so extreme? Because I really don’t feel like I can control how many times the thought pops up.

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