- Username
- hannie
- Date posted
- 5y ago
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.
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.
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 ?
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.
Thank you for the reminder!!!!!
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?
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! ❤
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???
BFF*
That is so awesome to hear!??. We are strong and we will get through this. ???
Does anyone else get intrusive thoughts while praying or thinking of God? It has been stressing me out so bad. I feel like I’m a bad Christian or somethings wrong with me cause sometimes I get flooded with intrusive thoughts when I try to focus my time on God.
Does anybody else’s intrusive thoughts come in the form of “delusional thoughts”? I’ve been in a terrible episode of hypochondria or ocd for the past 6 months where I have FULLY convinced myself I am developing schizophrenia, it started with becoming really easily overstimulated and not being able to concentrate and now it has spiraled out of control to where I am constantly getting intrusive thoughts center around demonic stuff, which i have never ever believed before, I have always been a skeptic. But now i get these thoughts all the time like “what if this song has hidden demonic meanings?” “What if your wife is a demon” “what if nobody is real and your just in hell” “what if this political figure is being controlled by the devil”, the typical kind of delusional thoughts you would expect from a schizophrenic. Keep in mind I am a literal atheist and all about facts, science and evidence, I am a skeptic. Not only does the fact that I’m even having these thoughts in the first place scare the life out of me, but I have to constantly battle with these thoughts in my head if I believe them or not. I feel like I have to constantly hold myself back from fully going off the deep end, I feel like I have to constantly disprove these thoughts and stop myself from believing them, but they feel so real and it’s scaring me so much. One part of me is like “why can’t we just stop worrying about this, this is delusional” and another part of me is like “what if I actually do need to worry about if these things are true or not, they FEEL true” and I’m just like “wtffff I shouldn’t have to worry about if things like this are true at all in the first Place!” I feel like I have fully lost my mind, and in no time I’m going to lose this little bit of insight I have. I hate these thoughts so much, I don’t want to think about them, but now that they are here, I feel like I can’t forget them. My dpdr is already making everything feel so off and weird and unreal and I feel like it’s only giving these thoughts more credibility and realness. I feel like this could also be partly a terrible form of existential ocd that’s being thrown into the mix with all these “what if thoughts”. Ugh I just want to be normal again ): but I don’t even know what normal feels like anymore because I’m constantly on the lookout for symptoms that I can’t even be normal anymore. Btw: yes I am seeing 2 therapists and a psychiatrist and all of them do not believe I am developing schizophrenia.
Does anybody else’s intrusive thoughts come in the form of “delusional thoughts”? I’ve been in a terrible episode of hypochondria or ocd for the past 6 months where I have FULLY convinced myself I am developing schizophrenia, it started with becoming really easily overstimulated and not being able to concentrate and now it has spiraled out of control to where I am constantly getting intrusive thoughts center around demonic stuff, which i have never ever believed before, I have always been a skeptic. But now i get these thoughts all the time like “what if this song has hidden demonic meanings?” “What if your wife is a demon” “what if nobody is real and your just in hell” “what if this political figure is being controlled by the devil”, the typical kind of delusional thoughts you would expect from a schizophrenic. Keep in mind I am a literal atheist and all about facts, science and evidence, I am a skeptic. Not only does the fact that I’m even having these thoughts in the first place scare the life out of me, but I have to constantly battle with these thoughts in my head if I believe them or not. I feel like I have to constantly hold myself back from fully going off the deep end, I feel like I have to constantly disprove these thoughts and stop myself from believing them, but they feel so real and it’s scaring me so much. One part of me is like “why can’t we just stop worrying about this, this is delusional” and another part of me is like “what if I actually do need to worry about if these things are true or not, they FEEL true” and I’m just like “wtffff I shouldn’t have to worry about if things like this are true at all in the first Place!” I feel like I have fully lost my mind, and in no time I’m going to lose this little bit of insight I have. I hate these thoughts so much, I don’t want to think about them, but now that they are here, I feel like I can’t forget them. My dpdr is already making everything feel so off and weird and unreal and I feel like it’s only giving these thoughts more credibility and realness. I feel like this could also be partly a terrible form of existential ocd that’s being thrown into the mix with all these “what if thoughts”. Ugh I just want to be normal again ): but I don’t even know what normal feels like anymore because I’m constantly on the lookout for symptoms that I can’t even be normal anymore. Btw: yes I am seeing 2 therapists and a psychiatrist and all of them do not believe I am developing schizophrenia.
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