Harm OCD

@TexasOCD41 How do I toss it out? Like not really pay attention to it ?

@Ericseal18 - its something you learn to do in time. its not that your not paying attention to it cuz its like ( don't think about a pink elephant) you just thought of a pink elephant right? when you TRY to not pay attention, you end up hyper focusing so what i mean by not paying attention, it just, don't RESPOND to it. don't try to make it go away, don't try to passify it, don't try to analyze why its there. Honestly, make it sing-song would even help. just say "kill mom" over and over and over and over like to "happy birthday" or something like that. kill kill mom mom mom kiiillll mooooommm ( happy birthday toooo yoooouu) its basically teaching your brain to stop seeing a thought as a threat ( because thoughts are not threats).

@TexasOCD41 Yeah the song thing sounds like a great idea but I feel like a bad person when I turn something like that into a song 😭. I’ll keep trying that though.

@Ericseal18 - " feel like a bad person" feelings are not facts. Thats OCD manipulating you're emotions. you might FEEL like a bad person, but that doesn't MEAN you ARE one. its nonsense. its like that meow mix commercial where the cats sings the whole song. its just mocking the words that mean nothing. like when you say a word in your head over and over and over and its starts to sound like a nonsense word that isn't real. that's how you can beat ocd. you replay it to death and it eventually becomes OBVIOUS that its nonsense.

@Ericseal18 - when you are able to step back a bit, you see its LITERALLY a phrase in your head.. nothing more. i just thought of it myself " kill mom" ok... lol, here, ill think it a few more times. ill even up the bet and insert " i WANT to" first. ohh.. i ACTUALLY just said it out loud..... guess what? .... I'm not going to lol,( i HAVE thought about it when I'm SUPER mad at her lol but not actually wanting to do it just i say " ughi could just KILL her" and then i tell her i love her and give her a hug and say ill talk to her later lol. its alllllllll just thoughts.

@TexasOCD41 Appreciate it, my mom know I have these thoughts which makes it easier and she actually came up with the lyrics and I did indeed laugh at it because how stupid it was

@TexasOCD41 I genuinely think you helped me recover so quickly. I’m gonna make that my go to when I get that thought.

@TexasOCD41 I genuinely think you helped me recover so quickly. I’m gonna make that my go to when I get that thought.

@Ericseal18 I’m happy to help :) it really can be easy if we let it.

@Ericseal18 I use humor on all my harm ocd thoughts. I went into a hardware store recently and saw this huuuge wrench in talking like 2 feet long. I immediately thought of how easily it would be to unalive someone with it and the damage it could do in a pretty vivid mental image. I just said “ wow what an EXCELLENT murder weapon… if I could even lift it… yeaaa I watch too many horror movies “ then bought the air filter I went in for and enjoyed the rest of my day lol.

@Deborah Ward Yeah march 5th, i hope this is normal for everyone

@Ericseal18 - As an OCD therapist, I can say that we hear about these type of thoughts often, so you are definitely not alone. I hope your appointment went well for you today and you can start seeing some relief! I know the first steps can seem like the scariest at times.

@Anonymous So I should be like “I want this” mentally ? I’m sorry, im just being crushed by it.

@Ericseal18 No no. You don’t have to be like that. By acceptance I mean accept that it’s just a thought in your head that you have no control over. Don’t push it away because that’ll only give it more energy. You got this. We’ll get through this!!