Intrusive emotions. Anyone else?

I posted about this the other day and a therapist responded that if it has the usual ocd tells, then it’s most likely ocd. I’m just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. They say even if it’s new for you chances are others have had the same or similar ocd experience. So, this is new for me and just like when I get an intrusive thought i’ve recently been getting what I call intrusive emotions. I will feel something like sad or jealous in a situation when in reality I don’t feel that way at all. For example, my ocd targets certain family members and if one of them is watching tv and thinks a woman is pretty i’ll suddenly feel sad or jealous when I don’t actually care or feel that way because that’s my family member and I don’t think about or feel for them in any inappropriate way. Also, sometimes when I have a harm intrusive thought my ocd will say that I want something horrible to happen to my family member and I will feel like I actually want it but that’s not what I want or how I feel at all. Is there anyone who has had this or something similar happen?

YouWillSurvive

Date posted: 3d ago

Thoughts, feelings, and sensations will always be temporary, they come and go. I had this realization last night...I was in a very negative headspace, but the feeling I felt was one that has come and gone many times before. It made me realize that while the feeling may or may not mean something deeper, the fact of its impermanence goes to show that it may not mean anything at all. I believe feelings can also be intrusive and ego-dystonic (things that go against your will and conscious).

Fat pigeon

Date posted: 3d ago

I do! It's a relief to see other people can understand this. The way I've explained it to myself is that if emotions are determined by the thoughts we have about a situation (as per appraisal theories), then wondering about having a certain thought might also engage the corresponding emotion...

Garrett Maguire

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 3d ago

Yeah for sure, OCD can create the feeling that you want or wish a bad thing would happenwhich is against your values.... I have had this many times over the years

Holl1

Date posted: 3d ago

Yeah I’ve had this, but I think it can be mistaken for anxiety if that makes sense. I’ve had harm ocd and I’ll have certain thoughts where OCD can try and convince me I was angry in the moment but I wasn’t it was just anxiety but it can be very convincing.

Anxiousaddie

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 3d ago

It makes me feel that I want my thoughts and makes me so confused

Uhhhh15

Date posted: 3d ago

@Anxiousaddie This is so real for me too, struggling with this rn

Uhhhh15

Date posted: 3d ago

I felt this, recently I read this drama, it was a romance drama and some of the scenes made my heart go fast cuz it was romantic and intense and yk, unfortunately my OCD decided to latch on to these feelings and now when I look at small ppl either that be TV or a show, or whatever I have that feeling, it freaks me out to my core and the only reason I can say this isn’t a real feeling is because I haven’t felt like this EVER so it’s just confusing and icky honestly

Chels0212

Date posted: 10w ago

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

hannah_77

Date posted: 4w ago

Can anyone please help?

I read a lot of other people’s posts where they deal with intrusive feelings, and sometimes even emotions? Would anyone care to further explain so i can understand this better? it would be very much appreciated.

Conquering_OCD

Date posted: 14d ago

Knowing the difference

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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